NYFCC – Best Screenplay

List of winners and nominees for the New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Screenplay!

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2019 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

Quentin Tarantino

2018 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

First Reformed

Paul Schrader

2017 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Phantom Thread

Paul Thomas Anderson

2016 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Manchester by the Sea

Kenneth Lonergan

2015 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Carol

Phyllis Nagy

2014 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Wes Anderson

2013 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

American Hustle

David O. Russell

2012 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Lincoln

Tony Kushner

2011 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Moneyball

Steven Zaillian

2010 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

The Kids Are All Right

Lisa Cholodenko

2009 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

In the Loop

Simon Blackwell

2008 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Rachel Getting Married

Jenny Lumet

2007 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

No Country for Old Men

Joel Coen

2006 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

The Queen

Peter Morgan

2005 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

The Squid and the Whale

Noah Baumbach

2004 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Sideways

Alexander Payne

2003 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

The Secret Lives of Dentists

Craig Lucas

2002 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Adaptation.

Charlie Kaufman

2001 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Gosford Park

Julian Fellowes

2000 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

You Can Count on Me

Kenneth Lonergan

1999 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Election

Alexander Payne

1998 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Shakespeare in Love

Marc Norman

1997 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

L.A. Confidential

Curtis Hanson

1996 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Mother

Albert Brooks

1995 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Sense and Sensibility

Emma Thompson

1994 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Pulp Fiction

Quentin Tarantino

1993 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

The Piano

Jane Campion

1992 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

The Crying Game

Neil Jordan

1991 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Naked Lunch

David Cronenberg

1990 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

1989 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Drugstore Cowboy

Gus Van Sant

1988 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Bull Durham

Ron Shelton

1987 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Broadcast News

James L. Brooks

1986 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

My Beautiful Laundrette

Hanif Kureishi

1985 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

The Purple Rose of Cairo

Woody Allen

1984 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Places in the Heart

Robert Benton

1983 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Local Hero

Bill Forsyth

1982 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Tootsie

Murray Schisgal

1981 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Atlantic City

John Guare

1980 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Melvin and Howard

Bo Goldman

1979 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Breaking Away

Steve Tesich

1978 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

An Unmarried Woman

Paul Mazursky

1977 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Annie Hall

Woody Allen

1976 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Network

Paddy Chayefsky

1975 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

The Story of Adele H

François Truffaut

1974 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Scenes from a Marriage

Ingmar Bergman

1973 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

American Graffiti

George Lucas

1972 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Cries & Whispers

Ingmar Bergman

1971 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Penelope Gilliatt

1971 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

The Last Picture Show

Peter Bogdanovich

1970 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

My Night at Maud’s

Éric Rohmer

1969 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Paul Mazursky

1968 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Pretty Poison

Lorenzo Semple Jr.

1967 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Bonnie and Clyde

David Newman

1966 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

A Man for All Seasons

Robert Bolt

1964 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

The Servant

Harold Pinter

1963 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Hud

Irving Ravetch

1961 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Judgment at Nuremberg

Abby Mann

1960 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

The Apartment

Billy Wilder

1959 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Anatomy of a Murder

Wendell Mayes

1958 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

The Defiant Ones

Nedrick Young

1956 New York Film Critics Circle Awards – Best Screenplay

Around the World in 80 Days

S.J. Perelman