Best Original Screenplay

1975 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay WinnerChinatownRobert TowneA private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.Amazon1975 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay NomineesA Woman Under the InfluenceJohn CassavetesAmazonAlice Doesn't Live Here AnymoreRobert GetchellAmazonHarry and TontoPaul MazurskyAmazonThe ConversationFrancis Ford CoppolaAmazon

1974 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay WinnerSave the TigerSteve ShaganA disillusioned aging decent man and once proud WWII veteran is dealing with midlife crisis as well as a tough moral dilemma. If he wants his small near-bankrupt clothing company to survive, he has two days to let go of his shaken morals.Amazon1974 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay NomineesMean StreetsMartin ScorseseAmazonPaydayDon CarpenterAmazonThe StingDavid S. WardAmazonThe Way We WereArthur LaurentsAmazon

1973 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay WinnerThe CandidateJeremy LarnerBill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.Amazon1973 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay NomineesBad CompanyDavid NewmanAmazonImagesRobert AltmanAmazonThe Culpepper Cattle Co.Eric BercoviciAmazonThe Great Northfield Minnesota RaidPhilip KaufmanAmazon

1972 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay WinnerSunday Bloody SundayPenelope GilliattDivorced working woman Alex and well-to-do Jewish family doctor Daniel Hirsh share not only the same answering service but also the favours of young Bob Elkin who bed-hops between them as ...Amazon1972 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay NomineesKluteAndy LewisAmazonSummer of '42Herman RaucherAmazonThe Hellstrom ChronicleDavid SeltzerAmazon

1971 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay WinnerPattonFrancis Ford CoppolaThe World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.Amazon1971 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay NomineesFive Easy PiecesCarole EastmanAmazonLove StoryErich SegalAmazon

1970 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay WinnerButch Cassidy and the Sundance KidWilliam GoldmanWyoming, early 1900s. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. After a train robbery goes wrong they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. Their solution - escape to Bolivia.Amazon1970 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay NomineesAlice's RestaurantVenable HerndonAmazonDownhill RacerJames SalterAmazonEasy RiderPeter FondaAmazonMe, NatalieA. Martin ZweibackAmazon

2007 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay WinnerLittle Miss SunshineMichael ArndtA family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.Amazon2007 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay NomineesBabelGuillermo ArriagaAmazonStranger Than FictionZach HelmAmazonThe QueenPeter MorganAmazonUnited 93Paul GreengrassAmazon

2019 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay WinnerEighth GradeBo BurnhamAn introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.Amazon2019 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay NomineesA Quiet PlaceBryan WoodsAmazonGreen BookNick VallelongaAmazonRomaAlfonso CuarónAmazonViceAdam McKayAmazon

2018 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay WinnerGet OutJordan PeeleA young African-American visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.Amazon2018 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay NomineesI, TonyaSteven RogersAmazonLady BirdGreta GerwigAmazonThe Big SickKumail NanjianiAmazonThe Shape of WaterGuillermo del ToroAmazon

2017 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay WinnerMoonlightBarry JenkinsA young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood.Amazon2017 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Original Screenplay NomineesHell or High WaterTaylor SheridanAmazonLa La LandDamien ChazelleAmazonLovingJeff NicholsAmazonManchester by the SeaKenneth LonerganAmazon