ACADEMY of MOTION PICTURE ARTS and SCIENCES Best Screenplays and Writers

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The Best Screenplay and Writing
Academy Awards - Winners

Year Adapted Screenplay Motion Picture Story Original Screenplay 1956 Around The World In 80 Days James Poe, John Farrow & S. J. Perelman The Brave One Dalton Trumbo (Robert Rich [alias]) The Red Balloon Albert Lamorisse Year Screenplay - Adaptation Motion Picture Story Story & Screenplay - Original 1955 Marty Paddy Chayefsky Love Me or Leave Me Daniel Fuchs Interrupted Melody William Ludwig, Sonya Levien 1954 The Country Girl George Seaton Broken Lance Philip Yordan On The Waterfront Budd Schulberg 1953 From Here To Eternity Daniel Taradash Roman Holiday Dalton Trumbo (Ian McLellan Hunter [alias]) Titanic Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch & Richard Breen 1952 The Bad and the Beautiful Charles Schnee The Greatest Show On Earth Frederic M. Frank, Theodore St. John, Frank Cavett The Lavender Hill Mob T. E. B. Clarke 1951 A Place In The Sun Michael Wilson & Harry Brown Seven Days To Noon Paul Dehn & James Bernard An American In Paris Alan Jay Lerner 1950 All About Eve Joseph L. Mankiewicz Panic In The Streets Edna Anhalt & Edward Anhalt Sunset Boulevard Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder & D. M. Marshman, Jr. 1949 A Letter To Three Wives Joseph L. Mankiewicz The Stratton Story Douglas Morrow Battleground Robert Pirosh Year Screenplay - Adaptation Motion Picture Story 1948 The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre John Huston The Search Richard Schweizer & David Wechsler Year Screenplay - Adaptation Motion Picture Story Original Screenplay 1947 Miracle on 34th Street George Seaton Miracle On 34th Street Valentine Davies The Bachelor And The Bobby-Soxer Sidney Sheldon Year Screenplay - Adaptation Original Motion Picture Story Original Screenplay 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives Robert E. Sherwood Vacation From Marriage Clemence Dane The Seventh Veil Muriel Box & Sydney Box 1945 The Lost Weekend Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder The House On 92nd Street Charles G. Booth Marie-Louise Richard Schweizer 1944 Going My Way Frank Butler, Frank Cavett Going My Way Leo McCarey Wilson Lamar Trotti 1943 Casablanca Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch The Human Comedy William Saroyan Princess O'Rourke Norman Krasna 1942 Mrs. Miniver Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel, James Hilton & Claudine West The Invaders (aka 49th Parallel) Emeric Pressburger Woman Of The Year Ring Lardner, Jr. & Michael Kanin 1941 Here Comes Mr. Jordan Sidney Buchman & Seton I. Miller Here Comes Mr. Jordan Harry Segall Citizen Kane Herman J. Mankiewicz & Orson Welles Year Screenplay - Adaptation Original Story Original Screenplay 1940 The Philadelphia Story Donald Ogden Stewart Arise, My Love Benjamin Glazer & John S. Toldy The Great McGinty Preston Sturges Year Screenplay - Adaptation Original Story 1939 Gone With The Wind Sidney Howard Mr. Smith Goes To Washington Lewis R. Foster 1938 Pygmalion Cecil Lewis, W. P. Lipscomb, & Ian Dalrymple George Bernard Shaw (Screenplay) Boys Town Dore Schary & Eleanore Griffin 1937 The Life Of Emile Zola Norman Reilly Raine, Heinz Herald, & Geza Herczeg A Star Is Born William A. Wellman & Robert Carson 1936 The Story Of Louis Pasteur Pierre Collings & Sheridan Gibney The Story Of Louis Pasteur Pierre Collings & Sheridan Gibney 1935 The Informer Dudley Nichols The Scoundrel Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur Year Writing - Adaptation Original Story 1934 It Happened One Night Robert Riskin Manhattan Melodrama Arthur Caesar 1932/33 Little Women Vistor Heerman & Sarah Y. Mason One Way Passage Robert Lord 1931/32 Bad Girl Edwin Burke The Champ Frances Marion 1930/31 Cimarron Howard Estabrook The Dawn Patrol John Monk Saunders Year Writing Achievement - Screenplay 1929/30 The Big House Frances Marion 1928/29 The Patriot Hans Kraly Year Adaptation Original Story Title Writing 1927/28 7th Heaven Benjamin Glazer Underworld Ben Hecht Joseph Farnham

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