Year | Film | Writer(s) |
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1970 (23rd) [2] | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
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Patton | Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North |
Five Easy Pieces | Carole Eastman (as Adrien Joyce) |
Love Story | Erich Segal |
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen |
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The Out-of-Towners | Neil Simon |
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes | Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond |
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronk | Gabriel Walsh |
Start the Revolution Without Me | Fred Freeman and Lawrence J. Cohen |
The Cheyenne Social Club | James Lee Barrett |
1971 (24th) [3] | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
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Sunday Bloody Sunday | Penelope Gilliatt |
Klute | Andy Lewis and David E. Lewis |
Summer of '42 | Hernan Raucher |
The Hellstrom Chronicle | David Seltzer |
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen |
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The Hospital | Paddy Chayefsky |
Bananas | Woody Allen and Mickey Rose |
Carnal Knowledge | Jules Feiffer |
Made for Each Other | Renée Taylor and Joseph Bologna |
Taking Off | Miloṡ Forman, Jean-Claude Carrière, John Guare, and Jon Klein |
1972 (25th) [4] | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
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The Candidate | Jeremy Larner |
Bad Company | David Newman and Robert Benton |
Images | Robert Altman |
The Culpepper Cattle Co. | Eric Bercovici and Gregory Prentiss |
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid | Philip Kaufman |
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen |
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What’s Up, Doc? | Peter Bogdanovich, Buck Henry, David Newman, and Robert Benton |
Get to Know Your Rabbit | Jordan Crittenden |
Hammersmith Is Out | Stanford Whitmore |
Minnie and Moskowitz | John Cassavetes |
The War Between Men and Women | Melville Shavelson and Danny Arnold |
1973 (26th) [5] | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
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Save the Tiger | Steve Shagan |
Mean Streets | Martin Scorsese and Mardik Martin |
Payday | Don Carpenter |
The Sting | David S. Ward |
The Way We Were | Arthur Laurents |
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen |
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A Touch of Class | Melvin Frank and Jack Rose |
American Graffiti | George Lucas, Gloria Katz, and Willard Huyck |
Blume in Love | Paul Mazursky |
Sleeper | Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman |
Slither | W.D. Richter |
1974 (27th) [6] | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
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Chinatown | Robert Towne |
A Woman Under the Influence | John Cassavetes |
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Robert Getchell |
Harry and Tonto | Paul Mazursky and Josh Greenfeld |
The Conversation | Francis Ford Coppola |
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen |
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Blazing Saddles | Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, and Alan Uger |
California Split | Joseph Walsh |
Claudine | Tina Pine and Lester Pine |
Phantom of the Paradise | Brian de Palma |
The Sugarland Express | Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins, and Steven Spielberg |
1975 (28th) [7] | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
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Dog Day Afternoon | Frank Pierson |
French Connection II | Alexander Jacobs, Robert Dillon, and Laurie Dillon |
Nashville | Joan Twekesbury |
The Wind and the Lion | John Milius |
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen |
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Shampoo | Robert Towne and Warren Beatty |
Heats of the West | Rob Thompson |
Smile | Jerry Belson |
The Return of the Pink Panther | Frank Waldman and Blake Edwards |
1976 (29th) [8] | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
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Network | Paddy Chayefsky |
The Omen | David Seltzer |
Rocky | Sylvester Stallone |
Taxi Driver | Paul Schrader |
The Front | Walter Bernstein |
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen |
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The Bad News Bears | Bill Lancaster |
Murder by Death | Neil Simon |
Next Stop, Greenwich Village | Paul Mazursky |
Silent Movie | Mel Brooks, Ron Clark, Rudy De Luca, and Barry Levinson |
Silver Streak | Colin Higgins |
1977 (30th) [9] | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
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The Turning Point | Arthur Laurents |
Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Steven Spielberg |
Saturday Night Fever | Norman Wexler |
The Late Show | Robert Benton |
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen |
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Annie Hall | Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman |
Star Wars | George Lucas |
Slap Shot | Nancy Dowd |
The Goodbye Girl | Neil Simon |
1978 (31st) [10] | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
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Coming Home | Nancy Dowd, Robert C. Jones, and Waldo Salt |
An Unmarried Woman | Paul Mazursky |
Days of Heaven | Terrence Malick |
Interiors | Woody Allen |
The Deer Hunter | Deric Washburn, Michael Cimino, Louis Garfinkle, and Quinn K. Redeker |
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen |
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Movie Movie | Larry Gelbart and Sheldon Keller |
A Wedding | John Considine, Patricia Resnick, Allan F. Nicholls, and Robert Altman |
Animal House | Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney, and Chris Miller |
House Calls | Max Shulman, Julius J. Epstein, Alan Mandel, and Charles Shyer |
Once in Paris... | Frank D. Gilroy |
1979 (32nd) [11] | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
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The China Syndrome | Mike Gray, T. S. Cook, and James Bridges |
Apocalypse Now | John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola |
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen |
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Breaking Away | Steve Tesich |
10 | Blake Edwards |
Manhattan | Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman |
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