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2019 National Board of Review – Best Original Screenplay
![Uncut Gems Josh Safdie](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/uncut-gems-image.jpg)
Uncut Gems
Josh Safdie
2018 National Board of Review – Best Original Screenplay
![First Reformed Paul Schrader](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/first-reformed-paul-schrader-image.jpg)
First Reformed
Paul Schrader
2017 National Board of Review – Best Original Screenplay
![Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/phantom-thread-paul-thomas-anderson-image.jpg)
Phantom Thread
Paul Thomas Anderson
2016 National Board of Review – Best Original Screenplay
![Manchester by the Sea Kenneth Lonergan](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/manchester-by-the-sea-kenneth-lonergan-image.jpg)
Manchester by the Sea
Kenneth Lonergan
2015 National Board of Review – Best Original Screenplay
![The Hateful Eight Quentin Tarantino](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-hateful-eight-quentin-tarantino-image.jpg)
The Hateful Eight
Quentin Tarantino
2014 National Board of Review – Best Original Screenplay
![The Lego Movie Phil Lord](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-lego-movie-christopher-miller-phil-lord-image.jpg)
The Lego Movie
Phil Lord
2013 National Board of Review – Best Original Screenplay
![Inside Llewyn Davis Joel Coen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/inside-llewyn-davis-ethan-coen-joel-coen-image.jpg)
Inside Llewyn Davis
Joel Coen
2012 National Board of Review – Best Original Screenplay
![Looper Rian Johnson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/looper-rian-johnson-image.jpg)
Looper
Rian Johnson
2011 National Board of Review – Best Original Screenplay
![50/50 Will Reiser](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/5050-jonathan-levine-image.jpg)
50/50
Will Reiser
2010 National Board of Review – Best Original Screenplay
![Buried Chris Sparling](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/buried-rodrigo-cortes-image.jpg)
Buried
Chris Sparling
2009 National Board of Review – Best Original Screenplay
![A Serious Man Joel Coen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-serious-man-ethan-coen-joel-coen-image.jpg)
A Serious Man
Joel Coen
2008 National Board of Review – Best Original Screenplay
![Gran Torino Nick Schenk](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/gran-torino-clint-eastwood-image.jpg)
Gran Torino
Nick Schenk
2007 National Board of Review – Best Original Screenplay
![Juno Diablo Cody](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/juno-jason-reitman-image.jpg)
Juno
Diablo Cody
2007 National Board of Review – Best Original Screenplay
![Lars and the Real Girl Nancy Oliver](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/lars-and-the-real-girl-craig-gillespie-image.jpg)
Lars and the Real Girl
Nancy Oliver
2006 National Board of Review – Best Original Screenplay
![Stranger Than Fiction Zach Helm](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/stranger-than-fiction-marc-forster-image.jpg)
Stranger Than Fiction
Zach Helm
2005 National Board of Review – Best Original Screenplay
![The Squid and the Whale Noah Baumbach](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-squid-and-the-whale-noah-baumbach-image.jpg)
The Squid and the Whale
Noah Baumbach
2004 National Board of Review – Best Original Screenplay
![Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Charlie Kaufman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-mind-michel-gondry-image.jpg)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Charlie Kaufman
2003 National Board of Review – Best Original Screenplay
![In America Jim Sheridan](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/in-america-jim-sheridan-image.jpg)