| Writers Guild of America Award for Original Screenplay | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding Writing for a Film Written Directly for the Screen |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Writers Guild of America |
| First awarded | 1970 |
| Currently held by | David Hemingson - The Holdovers (2024) |
| Website | http://www.wga.org/ |
The Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay is one of the three film writing awards given by the Writers Guild of America.
Woody Allen holds the record for most wins and nominations for the award, with five wins out of twenty nominations.
| Year | Film | Writer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1969 (22nd) [1] | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen | |
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | William Goldman | |
| Alice's Restaurant | Venable Herndon and Arthur Penn | |
| Downhill Racer | James Salter | |
| Easy Rider | Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern | |
| Me, Natalie | A. Martin Zwelback | |
| Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen | ||
| Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice | Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker | |
| If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium | David Shaw | |
| Popi | Tina Pine and Lester Pine | |
| Support Your Local Sheriff | William Bowers | |
| Take the Money and Run | Woody Allen and Mickey Rose | |
| Year | Film | Writer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 (73rd) [54] | Promising Young Woman | Emerald Fennell |
| Judas and the Black Messiah | Will Berson & Shaka King and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas | |
| Palm Springs | Andy Siara & Max Barbakow | |
| Sound of Metal | Darius Marder & Abraham Marder & Derek Cianfrance | |
| The Trial of the Chicago 7 | Aaron Sorkin | |
| 2021 (74th) [55] | Don't Look Up | Adam McKay & David Sirota |
| Being the Ricardos | Aaron Sorkin | |
| The French Dispatch | Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola & Hugo Guinness & Jason Schwartzman | |
| King Richard | Zach Baylin | |
| Licorice Pizza | Paul Thomas Anderson | |
| 2022 (75th) [56] | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert |
| The Fabelmans | Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner | |
| The Menu | Seth Reiss & Will Tracy | |
| Nope | Jordan Peele | |
| Tár | Todd Field | |
| 2023 (76th) [57] | The Holdovers | David Hemingson |
| Air | Alex Convery | |
| Barbie | Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach | |
| May December | Samy Burch & Alex Mechanik | |
| Past Lives | Celine Song |
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