Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay

The Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay is one of the three film writing awards given by the Writers Guild of America Award.

The WGA Awards have always been a good indicator for the Academy Awards. From 1984 onwards, only ten winners did not win the Academy Award:

in 1984 Broadway Danny Rose lost to Places in the Heart,

in 1988 Bull Durham lost to Rain Man,

in 1989 Crimes and Misdemeanors lost to Dead Poets Society,

in 1990 Avalon lost to Ghost,

in 1994 Four Weddings and a Funeral lost to Pulp Fiction (not nominated for a WGA Award),

in 1995 Braveheart lost to The Usual Suspects (not nominated for a WGA Award),

in 1997 As Good As It Gets lost to Good Will Hunting,

in 2000 You Can Count on Me lost to Almost Famous

in 2002 Bowling for Columbine lost to Talk to Her (not nominated for a WGA Award) and

in 2010 Inception lost to The King's Speech (not nominated for a WGA Award)

Winners

1980s

Year	Nominees	Writers
1984	Broadway Danny Rose	Woody Allen *
	El Norte	Gregory Nava and Anna Thomas
	Places in the Heart	Robert Benton
	Romancing the Stone	Diane Thomas
	Splash	Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Bruce Jay Friedman and Brian Grazer
1985	Witness	William Kelley and Earl W. Wallace
	Back to the Future	Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale
	Cocoon	Tom Benedek
	Mask	Anna Hamilton Phelan
	The Purple Rose of Cairo	Woody Allen
1986	Hannah and Her Sisters	Woody Allen
	Blue Velvet	David Lynch
	Mona Lisa	Neil Jordan and David Leland
	Platoon	Oliver Stone
	Salvador	Richard Boyle and Oliver Stone
1987	Moonstruck	John Patrick Shanley
	Broadcast News	James L. Brooks
	Hope and Glory	John Boorman
	The Last Emperor	Bernardo Bertolucci and Mark Peploe
	Radio Days	Woody Allen
1988	Bull Durham	Ron Shelton *
	Big	Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg
	A Fish Called Wanda	John Cleese and Charles Crichton
	Rain Man	Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow
	Working Girl	Kevin Wade
1989	Crimes and Misdemeanors	Woody Allen *
	Dead Poets Society	Tom Schulman
	The Fabulous Baker Boys	Steve Kloves
	sex, lies, and videotape	Steven Soderbergh
	When Harry Met Sally...	Nora Ephron

1990s

Year	Nominees	Writers
1990	Avalon	Barry Levinson *
	Alice	Woody Allen
	Ghost	Bruce Joel Rubin
	Green Card	Peter Weir
	Pretty Woman	J.F. Lawton
1991	Thelma & Louise	Callie Khouri
	Boyz n the Hood	John Singleton
	Bugsy	James Toback
	The Fisher King	Richard LaGravenese
	Grand Canyon	Lawrence and Meg Kasdan
1992	The Crying Game	Neil Jordan
	Husbands and Wives	Woody Allen
	Lorenzo's Oil	Nick Enright and George Miller
	Passion Fish	John Sayles
	Unforgiven	David Webb Peoples
1993	The Piano	Jane Campion
	Dave	Gary Ross
	In the Line of Fire	Jeff Maguire
	Philadelphia	Ron Nyswaner
	Sleepless in Seattle	Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron and David S. Ward
1994	Four Weddings and a Funeral	Richard Curtis *
	The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert	Stephan Elliott
	Bullets Over Broadway	Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath
	Ed Wood	Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski
	Heavenly Creatures	Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh
1995	Braveheart	Randall Wallace *
	The American President	Aaron Sorkin
	Clueless	Amy Heckerling
	Mighty Aphrodite	Woody Allen
	Muriel's Wedding	P.J. Hogan
1996	Fargo	Ethan and Joel Coen
	Jerry Maguire	Cameron Crowe
	Lone Star	John Sayles
	Secrets & Lies	Mike Leigh
	Shine	Scott Hicks and Jan Sardi
1997	As Good as It Gets	Mark Andrus and James L. Brooks *
	Boogie Nights	Paul Thomas Anderson
	The Full Monty	Simon Beaufoy
	Good Will Hunting	Ben Affleck and Matt Damon
	Titanic	James Cameron
1998	Shakespeare in Love	Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard
	Bulworth	Warren Beatty and Jeremy Pikser
	The Opposite of Sex	Don Roos
	Saving Private Ryan	Robert Rodat
	The Truman Show	Andrew Niccol
1999	American Beauty	Alan Ball
	Being John Malkovich	Charlie Kaufman
	Magnolia	Paul Thomas Anderson
	The Sixth Sense	M. Night Shyamalan
	Three Kings	John Ridley and David O. Russell

2000s

Year	Nominees	Writers
2000	You Can Count on Me	Kenneth Lonergan *
	Almost Famous	Cameron Crowe
	Best in Show	Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy
	Billy Elliot	Lee Hall
	Erin Brockovich	Susannah Grant
2001	Gosford Park	Julian Fellowes
	The Man Who Wasn't There	Ethan and Joel Coen
	Monster's Ball	Milo Addica and Will Rokos
	Moulin Rouge!	Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce
	The Royal Tenenbaums	Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson
2002	Bowling for Columbine	Michael Moore **
	Antwone Fisher	Antwone Fisher
	Far from Heaven	Todd Haynes
	Gangs of New York	Jay Cocks, Kenneth Lonergan and Steven Zaillian
	My Big Fat Greek Wedding	Nia Vardalos
2003	Lost in Translation	Sofia Coppola
	Bend It Like Beckham	Paul Mayeda Berges, Guljit Bindra and Gurinder Chadha
	Dirty Pretty Things	Steven Knight
	In America	Jim, Kirsten and Naomi Sheridan
	The Station Agent	Thomas McCarthy
2004	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Charlie Kaufman
	The Aviator	John Logan
	Garden State	Zach Braff
	Hotel Rwanda	Terry George and Keir Pearson
	Kinsey	Bill Condon
2005	Crash	Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco
	The 40-Year-Old Virgin	Judd Apatow and Steve Carell
	Cinderella Man	Akiva Goldsman and Cliff Hollingsworth
	Good Night, and Good Luck.	George Clooney and Grant Heslov
	The Squid and the Whale	Noah Baumbach
2006	Little Miss Sunshine	Michael Arndt
	Babel	Guillermo Arriaga
	The Queen	Peter Morgan
	Stranger than Fiction	Zach Helm
	United 93	Paul Greengrass
2007	Juno	Diablo Cody
	Knocked Up	Judd Apatow
	Lars and the Real Girl	Nancy Oliver
	Michael Clayton	Tony Gilroy
	The Savages	Tamara Jenkins
2008	Milk	Dustin Lance Black
	Burn After Reading	Ethan and Joel Coen
	Vicky Cristina Barcelona	Woody Allen
	The Visitor	Tom McCarthy
	The Wrestler	Robert Siegel
2009	The Hurt Locker	Mark Boal
	(500) Days of Summer	Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber
	Avatar	James Cameron
	The Hangover	Jon Lucas and Scott Moore
	A Serious Man	Ethan and Joel Coen

2010s

Year	Nominees	Writers
2010	Inception	Christopher Nolan*
	Black Swan	Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin
	The Fighter	Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson and Keith Dorrington
	The Kids Are All Right	Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg
	Please Give	Nicole Holofcener
2011	Midnight in Paris	Woody Allen
	50/50	Will Resier
	Bridesmaids	Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig
	Young Adult	Diablo Cody
	Win Win	Tom McCarthy

* - Writer(s) did not win the Academy Award.

** - Writer(s) was not nominated for the Academy Award.

See also

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