Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Original Screenplay

Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Original Screenplay
Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Original Screenplay
	2024 recipient: Coralie Fargeat
Awarded for	Best Original Screenwriting of a Motion Picture
Location	Los Angeles, California
Presented by	Critics Choice Association
First award	Emma Thompson for Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Currently held by	Coralie Fargeat for The Substance (2024)
Website	www.criticschoice.com

Last updated February 16, 2025

The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Original Screenplay is presented by the Critics Choice Association at the annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards.

History

The categories for screenplays have gone through several changes since their inception in 1995:

From 1995 to 1996, the category Best Screenplay was presented, with no official nominees being announced but instead only a winner.
From 1997 to 2000, the category was split into two, divided into Best Original Screenplay and Best Screenplay Adaptation.
In 2001, the categories were merged into Best Screenplay again. From 2002 to 2008, the category was renamed to Best Writer.

In 2009, the distinction between original and adapted was implemented again, with two categories presented ever since, Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Winners and nominees

Cameron Crowe won for Almost Famous (2000) CameronCrowe.jpg — Cameron Crowe won for *Almost Famous* (2000)

Kenneth Branagh won for Belfast (2021) KennethBranaghApr2011.jpg — Kenneth Branagh won for *Belfast* (2021)

1990s

Best Screenplay

Year	Writer (s)	Film
1995 ^[1]	Emma Thompson	Sense and Sensibility
1996 ^[2]	Anthony Minghella	The English Patient

Best Original Screenplay

Year	Writer (s)	Film
1997	Matt Damon and Ben Affleck	Good Will Hunting
1998	Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard	Shakespeare in Love
1999	Alan Ball	American Beauty

2000s

Best Original Screenplay

Year	Writer (s)	Film
2000 ^[3]	Cameron Crowe	Almost Famous

Best Screenplay

Year	Writer (s)	Film
2001 ^[4]	Christopher Nolan	Memento
	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	The Man Who Wasn't There
	Akiva Goldsman	A Beautiful Mind

Best Writer

Year	Writer (s)	Film
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

Best Original Screenplay

Year	Writer (s)	Film
2009 ^[5]	Quentin Tarantino	Inglourious Basterds
	Mark Boal	The Hurt Locker
	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	A Serious Man
	Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber	(500) Days of Summer
	Bob Peterson and Pete Docter	Up

2010s

Year	Writer (s)	Film
2010 ^[6]	David Seidler	The King's Speech
	Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg	The Kids Are All Right
	Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, and John McLaughlin	Black Swan
	Mike Leigh	Another Year
	Christopher Nolan	Inception
	Scott Silver, Eric Johnson, Paul Tamasy, and Keith Dorrington	The Fighter
2011 ^[7]	Woody Allen	Midnight in Paris
	Diablo Cody	Young Adult
	Michel Hazanavicius	The Artist
	Tom McCarthy and Joe Tiboni	Win Win
	Will Reiser	50/50
2012 ^[8]	Quentin Tarantino	Django Unchained
	Paul Thomas Anderson	The Master
	Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola	Moonrise Kingdom
	Mark Boal	Zero Dark Thirty
	John Gatins	Flight
	Rian Johnson	Looper
2013 ^[9]	Spike Jonze	Her
	Woody Allen	Blue Jasmine
	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	Inside Llewyn Davis
	Bob Nelson	Nebraska
	Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell	American Hustle
2014 ^[10]	Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bó	Birdman
	Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness	The Grand Budapest Hotel
	Damien Chazelle	Whiplash
	Dan Gilroy	Nightcrawler
	Richard Linklater	Boyhood
2015 ^[11]	Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer	Spotlight
	Matt Charman, Ethan Coen, and Joel Coen	Bridge of Spies
	Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, and Josh Cooley	Inside Out
	Alex Garland	Ex Machina
	Quentin Tarantino	The Hateful Eight
2016 ^[12]	Damien Chazelle (TIE)	La La Land
	Kenneth Lonergan (TIE)	Manchester by the Sea
	Efthimis Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos	The Lobster
	Barry Jenkins	Moonlight
	Jeff Nichols	Loving
	Taylor Sheridan	Hell or High Water
2017 ^[13]	Jordan Peele	Get Out
	Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor	The Shape of Water
	Greta Gerwig	Lady Bird
	Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani	The Big Sick
	Liz Hannah and Josh Singer	The Post
	Martin McDonagh	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2018 ^[14]	Paul Schrader	First Reformed
	Bo Burnham	Eighth Grade
	Alfonso Cuarón	Roma
	Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara	The Favourite
	Adam McKay	Vice
	Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, and Peter Farrelly	Green Book
	Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, and John Krasinski	A Quiet Place
2019 ^[15]	Quentin Tarantino	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
	Noah Baumbach	Marriage Story
	Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won	Parasite
	Rian Johnson	Knives Out
	Lulu Wang	The Farewell

2020s

Year	Writer (s)	Film
2020 ^[16]	Emerald Fennell	Promising Young Woman
	Lee Isaac Chung	Minari
	Jack Fincher (posthumous)	Mank
	Eliza Hittman	Never Rarely Sometimes Always
	Darius Marder and Abraham Marder	Sound of Metal
	Aaron Sorkin	The Trial of the Chicago 7
2021 ^[17]	Kenneth Branagh	Belfast
	Paul Thomas Anderson	Licorice Pizza
	Zach Baylin	King Richard
	Adam McKay and David Sirota	Don't Look Up
	Aaron Sorkin	Being the Ricardos
2022 ^[18]	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert	Everything Everywhere All at Once
	Todd Field	Tár
	Martin McDonagh	The Banshees of Inisherin
	Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner	The Fabelmans
	Charlotte Wells	Aftersun
2023 ^[19]	Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach	Barbie
	Samy Burch	May December
	Alex Convery	Air
	Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer	Maestro
	David Hemingson	The Holdovers
	Celine Song	Past Lives
2024 ^[20]	Coralie Fargeat	The Substance
	Sean Baker	Anora
	Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, and Alex David	September 5
	Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold	The Brutalist
	Jesse Eisenberg	A Real Pain
	Justin Kuritzkes	Challengers

References

↑ "The BFCA Critics' Choice Awards :: 1995". Critics Choice Association. Archived from the original on December 12, 2008.
↑ "The BFCA Critics' Choice Awards :: 1996". Critics Choice Association. Archived from the original on December 12, 2008.
↑ Armstrong, Mark (December 19, 2000). "Broadcast Critics Eat Crowe". E! Online . Retrieved November 18, 2021.
↑ "Critics make it a 'Beautiful' night for Crowe". The New Zealand Herald . January 12, 2002. Retrieved January 12, 2002.
↑ Finke, Nikki (January 16, 2010). "Broadcast Film Critics Award 'Hurt Locker'". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved January 16, 2010.
↑ The Deadline Team (January 14, 2011). "Critics' Choice Awards Spread The Gold: 'Social Network', Fincher, Firth, Portman". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved January 14, 2011.
↑ The Deadline Team (January 12, 2012). "'The Artist' Best Pic, George Clooney, Viola Davis Top Actors At Critics Choice Awards". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved January 12, 2012.
↑ The Deadline Team (January 10, 2013). "Critics' Choice Movie Awards: 'Argo' Best Picture, Director; Daniel Day-Lewis, Jessica Chastain Take Acting Honors". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved January 10, 2013.
↑ The Deadline Team (January 16, 2014). "Critics' Choice Movie Awards: '12 Years A Slave' Named Best Picture; 'Gravity' Leads Field With 7 Wins". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved January 16, 2014.
↑ Pedersen, Erik (January 15, 2015). "Critics' Choice Awards: 'Boyhood' Wins Best Picture; 'Birdman' Leads With 7 Nods". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved January 15, 2015.
↑ Hipes, Patrick (January 17, 2016). "Critics' Choice Awards: 'Spotlight' Wins Best Picture; 'Mr. Robot' Best Drama Series". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved January 17, 2016.
↑ Lincoln, Ross A.; Grobar, Matt (December 11, 2016). "2016 Critics' Choice Awards: 'La La Land' Leads With 8 Wins Including Best Picture; Donald Glover Unveils Lando Calrissian 'Stache". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved December 11, 2016.
↑ Hayes, Dade; Hipes, Patrick (January 11, 2018). "Critics' Choice Awards: 'The Shape Of Water' Wins Best Picture, 'Big Little Lies' Dominates – Full Winners List". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved January 11, 2018.
↑ de Moraes, Lisa; Blyth, Antonia; Hipes, Patrick (January 13, 2019). "Critics' Choice Awards: 'Roma' Wins Best Picture To Lead Night; 'The Americans' & 'Mrs. Maisel' Top TV – The Complete Winners List". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved January 13, 2019.
↑ Ramos, Dino-Ray; Boucher, Geoff (January 12, 2020). "Critics' Choice Awards: 'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood' Wins Best Picture, Netflix And HBO Among Top Honorees – Full Winners List". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved January 12, 2020.
↑ Ramos, Dino-Ray (March 7, 2021). "Critics Choice Awards: 'Nomadland', 'The Crown' Among Top Honorees – Complete Winners List". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved March 7, 2021.
↑ Jackson, Angelique; Shanfeld, Ethan (March 13, 2022). "Critics Choice Awards 2022: 'The Power of the Dog,' 'Ted Lasso,' 'Succession' Win Big (Full Winners List)". Variety . Retrieved January 16, 2023.
↑ Panaligan, EJ; Earl, William (January 15, 2023). "Critics' Choice Awards 2023 Full Winners List: 'Everything Everywhere All at Once,' 'Abbott Elementary' and 'Better Call Saul' Take Top Honors". Variety . Retrieved January 16, 2023.
↑ Shanfeld, Ethan (January 14, 2024). "'Oppenheimer' Leads Critics Choice Awards with 8 wins, 'Barbie' Scores 6 — Full Winners List". Variety . Retrieved January 15, 2024.
↑ Davis, Clayton (December 12, 2024). "Critics Choice Awards Nominations: 'Conclave' and 'Wicked' Lead With 11 Nods Each". Variety . Retrieved December 12, 2024.

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[1] "The BFCA Critics' Choice Awards :: 1995". Critics Choice Association. Archived from the original on December 12, 2008.

[2] "The BFCA Critics' Choice Awards :: 1996". Critics Choice Association. Archived from the original on December 12, 2008.

[3] Armstrong, Mark (December 19, 2000). "Broadcast Critics Eat Crowe". E! Online . Retrieved November 18, 2021.

[4] "Critics make it a 'Beautiful' night for Crowe". The New Zealand Herald . January 12, 2002. Retrieved January 12, 2002.

[5] Finke, Nikki (January 16, 2010). "Broadcast Film Critics Award 'Hurt Locker'". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved January 16, 2010.

[6] The Deadline Team (January 14, 2011). "Critics' Choice Awards Spread The Gold: 'Social Network', Fincher, Firth, Portman". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved January 14, 2011.

[7] The Deadline Team (January 12, 2012). "'The Artist' Best Pic, George Clooney, Viola Davis Top Actors At Critics Choice Awards". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved January 12, 2012.

[8] The Deadline Team (January 10, 2013). "Critics' Choice Movie Awards: 'Argo' Best Picture, Director; Daniel Day-Lewis, Jessica Chastain Take Acting Honors". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved January 10, 2013.

[9] The Deadline Team (January 16, 2014). "Critics' Choice Movie Awards: '12 Years A Slave' Named Best Picture; 'Gravity' Leads Field With 7 Wins". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved January 16, 2014.

[10] Pedersen, Erik (January 15, 2015). "Critics' Choice Awards: 'Boyhood' Wins Best Picture; 'Birdman' Leads With 7 Nods". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved January 15, 2015.

[11] Hipes, Patrick (January 17, 2016). "Critics' Choice Awards: 'Spotlight' Wins Best Picture; 'Mr. Robot' Best Drama Series". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved January 17, 2016.

[12] Lincoln, Ross A.; Grobar, Matt (December 11, 2016). "2016 Critics' Choice Awards: 'La La Land' Leads With 8 Wins Including Best Picture; Donald Glover Unveils Lando Calrissian 'Stache". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved December 11, 2016.

[13] Hayes, Dade; Hipes, Patrick (January 11, 2018). "Critics' Choice Awards: 'The Shape Of Water' Wins Best Picture, 'Big Little Lies' Dominates – Full Winners List". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved January 11, 2018.

[14] Moraes, Lisa; Blyth, Antonia; Hipes, Patrick (January 13, 2019). "Critics' Choice Awards: 'Roma' Wins Best Picture To Lead Night; 'The Americans' & 'Mrs. Maisel' Top TV – The Complete Winners List". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved January 13, 2019.

[15] Ramos, Dino-Ray; Boucher, Geoff (January 12, 2020). "Critics' Choice Awards: 'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood' Wins Best Picture, Netflix And HBO Among Top Honorees – Full Winners List". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved January 12, 2020.

[16] Ramos, Dino-Ray (March 7, 2021). "Critics Choice Awards: 'Nomadland', 'The Crown' Among Top Honorees – Complete Winners List". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved March 7, 2021.

[17] Jackson, Angelique; Shanfeld, Ethan (March 13, 2022). "Critics Choice Awards 2022: 'The Power of the Dog,' 'Ted Lasso,' 'Succession' Win Big (Full Winners List)". Variety . Retrieved January 16, 2023.

[18] Panaligan, EJ; Earl, William (January 15, 2023). "Critics' Choice Awards 2023 Full Winners List: 'Everything Everywhere All at Once,' 'Abbott Elementary' and 'Better Call Saul' Take Top Honors". Variety . Retrieved January 16, 2023.

[Winners1-19] Shanfeld, Ethan (January 14, 2024). "'Oppenheimer' Leads Critics Choice Awards with 8 wins, 'Barbie' Scores 6 — Full Winners List". Variety . Retrieved January 15, 2024.

[20] Davis, Clayton (December 12, 2024). "Critics Choice Awards Nominations: 'Conclave' and 'Wicked' Lead With 11 Nods Each". Variety . Retrieved December 12, 2024.

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v t e Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Screenplay
Best Screenplay (1995–1996, 2001)	Emma Thompson (1995) Anthony Minghella (1996) Christopher Nolan (2001)
Best Writer (2002–2008)	Charlie Kaufman (2002) Jim Sheridan, Naomi Sheridan, and Kirsten Sheridan (2003) Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004) Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco (2005) Michael Arndt (2006) Diablo Cody (2007) Simon Beaufoy (2008)
Best Original Screenplay (1997–2000, 2009–present)	Ben Affleck and Matt Damon (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 Bó (2014) Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (2015) Damien Chazelle / Kenneth Lonergan (2016) Jordan Peele (2017) Paul Schrader (2018) Quentin Tarantino (2019) Emerald Fennell (2020) Kenneth Branagh (2021) Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022) Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach (2023) Coralie Fargeat (2024)
Best Adapted Screenplay (1997–2000, 2009–present)	Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (1997) Scott Smith (1998) Frank Darabont (1999) Stephen Gaghan / Steve Kloves (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) Barry Jenkins (2018) Greta Gerwig (2019) Chloé Zhao (2020) Jane Campion (2021) Sarah Polley (2022) Cord Jefferson (2023) Peter Straughan (2024)

v t e Critics' Choice Movie Awards
Critics Choice Association (CCA)
Awards	Acting Ensemble Actor Actress Adapted Screenplay Animated Feature Cinematography Comedy Costume Design Director Editing Foreign Language Film Hair and Makeup Original Screenplay Picture Production Design Score Song Supporting Actor Supporting Actress Visual Effects Young Performer
Retired	Action Movie (2008–2019) Actor in an Action Movie (2012–2016) Actress in an Action Movie (2012–2016) Actor in a Comedy (2012–2018) Actress in a Comedy (2012–2018) Documentary Feature (1995–2015) Family Film (1995–2007) Sci-Fi/Horror Movie (2012–2019) 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 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 (years are of film release; ceremonies are the next year)