Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Screenplay

The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Original and Adapted Screenplay (previously known as Critics' Choice Award for Best Writer) is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Broadcast Film Critics Association.

List of winners and nominees

Notes:

"†" indicates the winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
"‡" indicates the winner of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
"††" indicates a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
"‡‡" indicates a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
"§" indicates a Critics' Choice Award winner who was not nominated for the Academy Award

1995–1996 (Best Screenplay)

Year	Writer(s)	Film
1995	Emma Thompson ‡	Sense and Sensibility
1996	Anthony Minghella ‡‡	The English Patient

1997–2000 (Best Screenplay – Original / Adaptation)

Year	Screenplay, Original		Screenplay, Adaptation
Year	Writer(s)	Film	Writer(s)	Film
1997	Matt Damon and Ben Affleck †	Good Will Hunting	Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson ‡	L.A. Confidential
1998	Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard †	Shakespeare in Love	Scott Smith ‡‡	A Simple Plan
1999	Alan Ball †	American Beauty	Frank Darabont ‡‡	The Green Mile
2000	Cameron Crowe †	Almost Famous	Stephen Gaghan ‡	Traffic

2001–2008 (Best Writer)

Year	Writer(s)	Film
2001	Christopher Nolan ††	Memento
	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	The Man Who Wasn't There
	Akiva Goldsman ‡	A Beautiful Mind
2002	Charlie Kaufman	**Adaptation. ‡‡ and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind**
	Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor	About Schmidt
	Nia Vardalos ††	My Big Fat Greek Wedding
2003	Jim Sheridan, Naomi Sheridan, and Kirsten Sheridan ††	In America
	John August	Big Fish
	Sofia Coppola †	Lost in Translation
	Brian Helgeland ‡‡	Mystic River
	Gary Ross ‡‡	Seabiscuit
2004	Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor ‡	Sideways
	Bill Condon	Kinsey
	Charlie Kaufman †	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
	John Logan ††	The Aviator
	David Magee ‡‡	Finding Neverland
2005	Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco †	Crash
	Noah Baumbach ††	The Squid and the Whale
	George Clooney and Grant Heslov ††	Good Night, and Good Luck.
	Dan Futterman ‡‡	Capote
	Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana ‡	Brokeback Mountain
2006	Michael Arndt †	Little Miss Sunshine
	Guillermo Arriaga ††	Babel
	Todd Field and Tom Perrotta ‡‡	Little Children
	Zach Helm	Stranger than Fiction
	William Monahan ‡	The Departed
	Peter Morgan ††	The Queen
2007	Diablo Cody †	Juno
	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen ‡	No Country for Old Men
	Tony Gilroy ††	Michael Clayton
	Nancy Oliver ††	Lars and the Real Girl
	Sean Penn	Into the Wild
	Aaron Sorkin	Charlie Wilson's War
2008	Simon Beaufoy ‡	Slumdog Millionaire
	Dustin Lance Black †	Milk
	Peter Morgan ‡‡	Frost/Nixon
	Eric Roth ‡‡	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
	John Patrick Shanley ‡‡	Doubt

2009 / 2010s (Best Original Screenplay / Best Adapted Screenplay)

Year	Original Screenplay		Adapted Screenplay
Year	Writer(s)	Film	Writer(s)	Film
2009	Quentin Tarantino ††	Inglourious Basterds	Sheldon Turner and Jason Reitman ‡‡	Up in the Air
	Mark Boal †	The Hurt Locker	Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach	Fantastic Mr. Fox
	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen ††	A Serious Man	Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell ‡‡	District 9
	Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber	(500) Days of Summer	Geoffrey Fletcher ‡	Precious
	Bob Peterson and Pete Docter ††	Up	Tom Ford and David Scearce	A Single Man
			Nick Hornby ‡‡	An Education
2010	David Seidler †	The King's Speech	Aaron Sorkin ‡	The Social Network
	Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg ††	The Kids Are All Right	Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, and Lee Unkrich ‡‡	Toy Story 3
	Andres Heinz, Mark Heyman, and John McLaughlin	Black Swan	Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy ‡‡	127 Hours
	Mike Leigh ††	Another Year	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen ‡‡	True Grit
	Christopher Nolan ††	Inception	Ben Affleck, Peter Craig, and Aaron Stockard	The Town
	Keith Dorrington, Eric Johnson, Scott Silver, and Paul Tamasy ††	The Fighter	Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini ‡‡	Winter's Bone
2011	Woody Allen †	Midnight in Paris	Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, and Stan Chervin ‡‡	Moneyball
	Diablo Cody	Young Adult	John Logan ‡‡	Hugo
	Michel Hazanavicius ††	The Artist	Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash ‡	The Descendants
	Tom McCarthy and Joe Tiboni	Win Win	Eric Roth	Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
	Will Reiser	50/50	Tate Taylor	The Help
2012	Quentin Tarantino †	Django Unchained	Tony Kushner ‡‡	Lincoln
	Paul Thomas Anderson	The Master	Stephen Chbosky	The Perks of Being a Wallflower
	Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola ††	Moonrise Kingdom	David Magee ‡‡	Life of Pi
	Mark Boal ††	Zero Dark Thirty	David O. Russell ‡‡	Silver Linings Playbook
	John Gatins ††	Flight	Chris Terrio ‡	Argo
	Rian Johnson	Looper
2013	Spike Jonze †	Her	John Ridley ‡	12 Years a Slave
	Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell ††	American Hustle	Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope ‡‡	Philomena
	Woody Allen ††	Blue Jasmine	Tracy Letts	August: Osage County
	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	Inside Llewyn Davis	Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy ‡‡	Before Midnight
	Bob Nelson ††	Nebraska	Billy Ray ‡‡	Captain Phillips
			Terence Winter ‡‡	The Wolf of Wall Street
2014	Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo †	Birdman	Gillian Flynn	Gone Girl
	Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness ††	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Paul Thomas Anderson ‡‡	Inherent Vice
	Damien Chazelle ‡‡	Whiplash	Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Richard LaGravenese, and William Nicholson	Unbroken
	Dan Gilroy ††	Nightcrawler	Nick Hornby	Wild
	Richard Linklater ††	Boyhood	Anthony McCarten ‡‡	The Theory of Everything
			Graham Moore ‡	The Imitation Game
2015	Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer †	Spotlight	Adam McKay and Charles Randolph ‡	The Big Short
	Matt Charman, Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen ††	Bridge of Spies	Emma Donoghue ‡‡	Room
	Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, and Josh Cooley ††	Inside Out	Drew Goddard ‡‡	The Martian
	Alex Garland ††	Ex Machina	Nick Hornby ‡‡	Brooklyn
	Quentin Tarantino	The Hateful Eight	Aaron Sorkin	Steve Jobs
2016	Damien Chazelle ††	La La Land	Eric Heisserer ‡‡	Arrival
	Kenneth Lonergan †	Manchester by the Sea	Luke Davies ‡‡	Lion
	Barry Jenkins ‡	Moonlight	Tom Ford	Nocturnal Animals
	Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou ††	The Lobster	Todd Komarnicki	Sully
	Jeff Nichols	Loving	Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi ‡‡	Hidden Figures
	Taylor Sheridan ††	Hell or High Water	August Wilson ‡‡	Fences
2017	Jordan Peele †	Get Out	James Ivory ‡	Call Me by Your Name
	Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor ††	The Shape of Water	Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber ‡‡	The Disaster Artist
	Greta Gerwig ††	Lady Bird	Dee Rees and Virgil Williams ‡‡	Mudbound
	Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani ††	The Big Sick	Aaron Sorkin ‡‡	Molly's Game
	Liz Hannah and Josh Singer	The Post	Jack Thorne, Steven Conrad, and Stephen Chbosky	Wonder
	Martin McDonagh ††	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Screenplay
Screenplay (1995–1996, 2001–2008, retired)	Emma Thompson (1995) Anthony Minghella (1996) Christopher Nolan (2001) Charlie Kaufman (2002) Jim Sheridan, Kirsten Sheridan, and Naomi Sheridan (2003) Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004) Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco (2005) Michael Arndt (2006) Diablo Cody (2007) Simon Beaufoy (2008)
Screenplay, Original (1997–2000, 2009–present)	Matt Damon and Ben Affleck (1997) Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman (1998) Alan Ball (1999) Cameron Crowe (2000) Quentin Tarantino (2009) David Seidler (2010) Woody Allen (2011) Quentin Tarantino (2012) Spike Jonze (2013) Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo (2014) Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015) Damien Chazelle / Kenneth Lonergan (2016) Jordan Peele (2017)
Screenplay, Adapted (1997–2000, 2009–present)	Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997) Scott Smith (1998) Frank Darabont (1999) Stephen Gaghan (2000) Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (2009) Aaron Sorkin (2010) Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, and Stan Chervin (2011) Tony Kushner (2012) John Ridley (2013) Gillian Flynn (2014) Adam McKay and Charles Randolph (2015) Eric Heisserer (2016) James Ivory (2017)

Critics' Choice Movie Awards
Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA)
Awards	Acting Ensemble Action Movie Actor Actor in a Comedy Actress Actress in a Comedy Animated Feature Art Direction Cinematography Comedy Costume Design Director Documentary Feature Editing Foreign Language Film Makeup Picture Sci-Fi/Horror Movie Score Screenplay (Adapted / Original) Song Supporting Actor Supporting Actress Visual Effects Young Performer
Retired	Actor in an Action Movie (2012–2016) Actress in an Action Movie (2012–2016) Family Film (1995–2007) Sound (2009–2011)
Ceremonies	1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 (years are of film release; ceremonies are the next year)