Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay

The Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture is one of the annual awards given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Main article: Golden Globe Awards

"†" indicates the winner of the Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
"‡" indicates the winner of the Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
"§" indicates a Golden Globe Award winner who was not nominated for the Academy Award

Winners and nominees

1940s

Year	Film	Nominees
1947	Miracle on 34th Street	George Seaton ‡
1948	The Search	Richard Schweizer
1949	Battleground	Robert Pirosh ‡
	Rope of Sand	Walter Doniger

1950s

Year	Film	Nominees
1950	All About Eve	Joseph L. Mankiewicz ‡
	The Asphalt Jungle	John Huston
	Sunset Boulevard	Charles Brackett
1951	Bright Victory	Robert Buckner §
1952	5 Fingers	Michael Wilson
	High Noon	Carl Foreman
	The Thief	Clarence Greene
1953	Lili	Helen Deutsch
1954	Sabrina	Ernest Lehman

1960s

Year	Film	Nominees
1965	Doctor Zhivago	Robert Bolt ‡
	The Agony and the Ecstasy	Philip Dunne
	The Collector	John Kohn and Stanley Mann
	A Patch of Blue	Guy Green
	The Slender Thread	Stirling Silliphant
1966	A Man for All Seasons	Robert Bolt ‡
	Alfie	Bill Naughton
	The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming	William Rose
	The Sand Pebbles	Robert Anderson
	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Ernest Lehman
1967	In the Heat of the Night	Stirling Silliphant ‡
	Bonnie and Clyde	Robert Benton and David Newman
	The Fox	Lewis John Carlino and Howard Koch
	The Graduate	Buck Henry and Calder Willingham
	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	William Rose †
1968	Charly	Stirling Silliphant §
	The Fixer	Dalton Trumbo
	The Lion in Winter	James Goldman ‡
	The Producers	Mel Brooks †
	Rosemary's Baby	Roman Polanski
1969	Anne of the Thousand Days	Bridget Boland, John Hale and Richard Sokolove
	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	William Goldman †
	If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium	David Shaw
	John and Mary	John Mortimer
	Midnight Cowboy	Waldo Salt ‡

1970s

Year	Film	Nominees
1970	Love Story	Erich Segal
	Five Easy Pieces	Carole Eastman and Bob Rafelson
	Husbands	John Cassavetes
	MASH	Ring Lardner, Jr. ‡
	Scrooge	Leslie Bricusse
1971	The Hospital	Paddy Chayefsky †
	The French Connection	Ernest Tidyman ‡
	Klute	Andy and David P. Lewis
	Kotch	John Paxton
	Mary, Queen of Scots	John Hale
1972	The Godfather	Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo ‡
	Avanti!	I.A.L. Diamond and Billy Wilder
	Cabaret	Jay Presson Allen
	Deliverance	James Dickey
	Frenzy	Anthony Shaffer
	The Heartbreak Kid	Neil Simon
1973	The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty ‡
	Cinderella Liberty	Darryl Ponicsan
	The Day of the Jackal	Kenneth Ross
	The Sting	David S. Ward †
	A Touch of Class	Melvin Frank and Jack Rose
1974	Chinatown	Robert Towne †
	The Conversation	Francis Ford Coppola
	The Godfather: Part II	Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo ‡
	The Towering Inferno	Stirling Silliphant
	A Woman Under the Influence	John Cassavetes
1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman ‡
	Dog Day Afternoon	Frank Pierson †
	Jaws	Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb
	Nashville	Joan Tewkesbury
	The Sunshine Boys	Neil Simon
1976	Network	Paddy Chayefsky †
	All the President's Men	William Goldman ‡
	Marathon Man	William Goldman
	Rocky	Sylvester Stallone
	Taxi Driver	Paul Schrader
	Voyage of the Damned	David Butler and Steve Shagan
1977	The Goodbye Girl	Neil Simon
	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Steven Spielberg
	Annie Hall	Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman †
	Julia	Alvin Sargent ‡
	The Turning Point	Arthur Laurents
1978	Midnight Express	Oliver Stone ‡
	Coming Home	Robert C. Jones and Waldo Salt †
	The Deer Hunter	Deric Washburn
	Foul Play	Colin Higgins
	Interiors	Woody Allen
	An Unmarried Woman	Paul Mazursky
1979	Kramer vs. Kramer	Robert Benton ‡
	Being There	Jerzy Kosinski
	Breaking Away	Steve Tesich †
	The China Syndrome	James Bridges, T.S. Cook and Mike Gray
	Norma Rae	Harriet Frank, Jr. and Irving Ravetch

1980s

Year	Film	Nominees
1980	The Ninth Configuration	William Peter Blatty §
	The Elephant Man	Eric Bergren and Christopher De Vore
	Ordinary People	Alvin Sargent ‡
	Raging Bull	Mardik Martin and Paul Schrader
	The Stunt Man	Lawrence B. Marcus
1981	On Golden Pond	Ernest Thompson ‡
	Absence of Malice	Kurt Luedtke
	The Four Seasons	Alan Alda
	The French Lieutenant's Woman	Harold Pinter
	Reds	Warren Beatty and Trevor Griffiths
1982	Gandhi	John Briley †
	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Melissa Mathison
	Missing	Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart ‡
	Tootsie	Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal
	The Verdict	David Mamet
1983	Terms of Endearment	James L. Brooks ‡
	The Big Chill	Barbara Benedek and Lawrence Kasdan
	The Dresser	Ronald Harwood
	Educating Rita	Willy Russell
	Reuben, Reuben	Julius J. Epstein
1984	Amadeus	Peter Shaffer ‡
	The Killing Fields	Bruce Robinson
	A Passage to India	David Lean
	Places in the Heart	Robert Benton †
	A Soldier's Story	Charles Fuller
1985	The Purple Rose of Cairo	Woody Allen
	Back to the Future	Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis
	Out of Africa	Kurt Luedtke ‡
	Prizzi's Honor	Richard Condon and Janet Roach
	Witness	William Kelley and Earl W. Wallace †
1986	The Mission	Robert Bolt §
	Blue Velvet	David Lynch
	Hannah and Her Sisters	Woody Allen †
	Mona Lisa	Neil Jordan and David Leland
	Platoon	Oliver Stone
1987	The Last Emperor	Bernardo Bertolucci, Mark Peploe and Enzo Ungari ‡
	Broadcast News	James L. Brooks
	Hope and Glory	John Boorman
	House of Games	David Mamet
	Moonstruck	John Patrick Shanley †
1988	Running on Empty	Naomi Foner
	A Cry in the Dark	Robert Caswell and Fred Schepisi
	Mississippi Burning	Chris Gerolmo
	Rain Man	Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow †
	Working Girl	Kevin Wade
1989	Born on the Fourth of July	Oliver Stone and Ron Kovic
	Dead Poets Society	Tom Schulman †
	Do the Right Thing	Spike Lee
	Glory	Kevin Jarre
	sex, lies, and videotape	Steven Soderbergh
	When Harry Met Sally...	Nora Ephron

1990s

Year	Film	Nominees
1990	Dances with Wolves	Michael Blake ‡
	Avalon	Barry Levinson
	The Godfather: Part III	Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo
	Goodfellas	Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese
	Reversal of Fortune	Nicholas Kazan
1991	Thelma & Louise	Callie Khouri †
	Bugsy	James Toback
	Grand Canyon	Lawrence Kasdan and Meg Kasdan
	JFK	Zachary Sklar and Oliver Stone
	The Silence of the Lambs	Ted Tally ‡
1992	Scent of a Woman	Bo Goldman
	A Few Good Men	Aaron Sorkin
	Howards End	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ‡
	The Player	Michael Tolkin
	Unforgiven	David Webb Peoples
1993	Schindler's List	Steven Zaillian ‡
	Philadelphia	Ron Nyswaner
	The Piano	Jane Campion †
	The Remains of the Day	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
	Short Cuts	Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt
1994	Pulp Fiction	Quentin Tarantino †
	Forrest Gump	Eric Roth ‡
	Four Weddings and a Funeral	Richard Curtis
	Quiz Show	Paul Attanasio
	The Shawshank Redemption	Frank Darabont
1995	Sense and Sensibility	Emma Thompson ‡
	The American President	Aaron Sorkin
	Braveheart	Randall Wallace
	Dead Man Walking	Tim Robbins
	Get Shorty	Scott Frank
	Mr. Holland's Opus	Patrick Sheane Duncan
1996	The People vs. Larry Flynt	Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski §
	The English Patient	Anthony Minghella
	Fargo	Ethan and Joel Coen †
	Lone Star	John Sayles
	Shine	Jan Sardi
1997	Good Will Hunting	Ben Affleck and Matt Damon †
	As Good as It Gets	Mark Andrus and James L. Brooks
	L.A. Confidential	Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland ‡
	Titanic	James Cameron
	Wag the Dog	Hilary Henkin and David Mamet
1998	Shakespeare in Love	Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard †
	Bulworth	Warren Beatty and Jeremy Pikser
	Happiness	Todd Solondz
	Saving Private Ryan	Robert Rodat
	The Truman Show	Andrew Niccol
1999	American Beauty	Alan Ball †
	Being John Malkovich	Charlie Kaufman
	The Cider House Rules	John Irving ‡
	The Insider	Michael Mann and Eric Roth
	The Sixth Sense	M. Night Shyamalan

2000s

Year	Film	Nominees
2000	Traffic	Stephen Gaghan ‡
	Almost Famous	Cameron Crowe †
	Quills	Doug Wright
	Wonder Boys	Steve Kloves
	You Can Count on Me	Kenneth Lonergan
2001	A Beautiful Mind	Akiva Goldsman ‡
	Gosford Park	Julian Fellowes †
	The Man Who Wasn't There	Ethan and Joel Coen
	Memento	Christopher Nolan
	Mulholland Dr.	David Lynch
2002	About Schmidt	Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor §
	Adaptation.	Charlie and Donald Kaufman
	Chicago	Bill Condon
	Far from Heaven	Todd Haynes
	The Hours	David Hare
2003	Lost in Translation	Sofia Coppola †
	Cold Mountain	Anthony Minghella
	In America	Jim, Kirsten and Naomi Sheridan
	Love Actually	Richard Curtis
	Mystic River	Brian Helgeland
2004	Sideways	Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor ‡
	The Aviator	John Logan
	Closer	Patrick Marber
	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Charlie Kaufman †
	Finding Neverland	David Magee
2005	Brokeback Mountain	Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana ‡
	Crash	Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco †
	Good Night, and Good Luck	George Clooney and Grant Heslov
	Match Point	Woody Allen
	Munich	Tony Kushner and Eric Roth
2006	The Queen	Peter Morgan
	Babel	Guillermo Arriaga
	The Departed	William Monahan ‡
	Little Children	Todd Field and Tom Perrotta
	Notes on a Scandal	Patrick Marber
2007	No Country for Old Men	Ethan and Joel Coen ‡
	Atonement	Christopher Hampton
	Charlie Wilson's War	Aaron Sorkin
	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)	Ronald Harwood
	Juno	Diablo Cody †
2008	Slumdog Millionaire	Simon Beaufoy ‡
	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Eric Roth
	Doubt	John Patrick Shanley
	Frost/Nixon	Peter Morgan
	The Reader	David Hare
2009	Up in the Air	Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
	District 9	Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
	The Hurt Locker	Mark Boal †
	Inglourious Basterds	Quentin Tarantino
	It's Complicated	Nancy Meyers

2010s

Year	Film	Nominees
2010	The Social Network	Aaron Sorkin ‡
	127 Hours	Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle
	Inception	Christopher Nolan
	The Kids Are All Right	Stuart Blumberg and Lisa Cholodenko
	The King's Speech	David Seidler †
2011	Midnight in Paris	Woody Allen
	The Artist	Michel Hazanavicius
	The Descendants	Alexander Payne, Jim Rash and Nat Faxon
	The Ides of March	George Clooney, Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
	Moneyball	Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin

See also

• Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
• Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
• BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
• BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

References

• Nominees/Winners of Best Screenplay Award