Best Screenplay

2000 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Screenplay WinnerYou Can Count on MeKenneth LonerganA single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely seen younger brother returns to town.Amazon

1999 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Screenplay WinnerElectionAlexander PayneA high school teacher's personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections, particularly with an obsessive overachiever determined to become student body president.Amazon1999 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Screenplay NomineesTopsy-TurvyMike LeighAmazon

1998 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Screenplay WinnerShakespeare in LoveMarc NormanThe world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.Amazon1998 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Screenplay NomineesHappinessTodd SolondzAmazonRushmoreWes AndersonAmazon

1997 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Screenplay WinnerL.A. ConfidentialCurtis HansonAs corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen -- one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy -- investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.Amazon

1996 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Screenplay WinnerMotherAlbert BrooksA neurotic, twice-divorced sci-fi writer moves back in with his mother to solve his personal problems.Amazon

1995 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Screenplay WinnerSense and SensibilityEmma ThompsonRich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the titular opposites.Amazon1995 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Screenplay NomineesCluelessAmy HeckerlingAmazon

1994 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Screenplay WinnerPulp FictionQuentin TarantinoThe lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.Amazon1994 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Screenplay NomineesQuiz ShowPaul AttanasioAmazon

1993 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Screenplay WinnerThe PianoJane CampionIn the mid-19th century, a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.Amazon1993 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Screenplay NomineesGroundhog DayDanny RubinAmazonSchindler's ListSteven ZaillianAmazon

1992 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Screenplay WinnerThe Crying GameNeil JordanA British soldier kidnapped by IRA terrorists soon befriends one of his captors, who then becomes drawn into the soldier's world.Amazon1992 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Screenplay NomineesThe PlayerMichael TolkinAmazonUnforgivenDavid Webb PeoplesAmazon

1991 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Screenplay WinnerNaked LunchDavid CronenbergAfter developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife, and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.Amazon1991 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Screenplay NomineesThelma & LouiseCallie KhouriAmazon