Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Screenplay

The Critics' Choice Award for Best Original and Adapted Screenplay (previously known as Awards for Best Writer) is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Broadcast Film Critics Association.

List of winners and nominees

1995–1996 (Best Screenplay)

Year	Writer(s)	Film
1995	Emma Thompson	Sense and Sensibility
1996	Anthony Minghella	The English Patient

1997–2000 (Best Screenplay, Original & Adaptation)

Year	Screenplay, Original		Screenplay, Adaptation
	Writer(s)	Film	Writer(s)	Film
1997	Matt Damon and Ben Affleck	Good Will Hunting	Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson	L.A. Confidential
1998	Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard	Shakespeare in Love	Scott Smith	A Simple Plan
1999	Alan Ball	American Beauty	Frank Darabont	The Green Mile
2000	Cameron Crowe	Almost Famous	Stephen Gaghan	Traffic

2001–2008 (Best Writer)

Year	Writer(s)	Film
2001	Christopher Nolan	Memento
	Joel and Ethan Coen	The Man Who Wasn't There
	Akiva Goldsman	A Beautiful Mind
2002	Charlie Kaufman	Adaptation. and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
	Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor	About Schmidt
	Nia Vardalos	My Big Fat Greek Wedding
2003	Jim Sheridan, Naomi Sheridan, and Kirsten Sheridan	In America
	John August	Big Fish
	Sofia Coppola	Lost in Translation
	Brian Helgeland	Mystic River
	Gary Ross	Seabiscuit
2004	Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor	Sideways
	Bill Condon	Kinsey
	Charlie Kaufman	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
	John Logan	The Aviator
	David Magee	Finding Neverland
2005	Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco	Crash
	Noah Baumbach	The Squid and the Whale
	George Clooney and Grant Heslov	Good Night, and Good Luck.
	Dan Futterman	Capote
	Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana	Brokeback Mountain
2006	Michael Arndt	Little Miss Sunshine
	Guillermo Arriaga	Babel
	Todd Field and Tom Perrotta	Little Children
	Zach Helm	Stranger than Fiction
	William Monahan	The Departed
	Peter Morgan	The Queen
2007	Diablo Cody	Juno
	Joel and Ethan Coen	No Country for Old Men
	Tony Gilroy	Michael Clayton
	Nancy Oliver	Lars and the Real Girl
	Sean Penn	Into the Wild
	Aaron Sorkin	Charlie Wilson's War
2008	Simon Beaufoy	Slumdog Millionaire
	Dustin Lance Black	Milk
	Peter Morgan	Frost/Nixon
	Eric Roth	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
	John Patrick Shanley	Doubt

2009 & 2010s (Best Original & Adapted Screenplay)

Year	Original Screenplay		Adapted Screenplay
	Writer(s)	Film	Writer(s)	Film
2009	Quentin Tarantino	Inglourious Basterds	Sheldon Turner and Jason Reitman	Up in the Air
	Mark Boal	The Hurt Locker	Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach	Fantastic Mr. Fox
	Joel and Ethan Coen	A Serious Man	Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell	District 9
	Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber	(500) Days of Summer	Geoffrey Fletcher	Precious
	Bob Peterson and Pete Docter (story by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, and Tom McCarthy)	Up	Tom Ford and David Scearce	A Single Man
			Nick Hornby	An Education
2010	David Seidler	The King's Speech	Aaron Sorkin	The Social Network
	Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg	The Kids Are All Right	Michael Arndt (story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, and Lee Unkrich)	Toy Story 3
	Andres Heinz, Mark Heyman, and John McLaughlin (story by Andres Heinz)	Black Swan	Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy	127 Hours
	Mike Leigh	Another Year	Joel and Ethan Coen	True Grit
	Christopher Nolan	Inception	Peter Craig, Ben Affleck, and Aaron Stockard	The Town
	Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson, and Scott Silver (story by Keith Dorrington, Paul Tamasy, and Eric Johnson)	The Fighter	Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini	Winter's Bone
2011	Woody Allen	Midnight in Paris	Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin (story by Stan Chervin)	Moneyball
	Diablo Cody	Young Adult	John Logan	Hugo
	Michel Hazanavicius	The Artist	Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash	The Descendants
	Thomas McCarthy (story by Thomas McCarthy and Joe Tiboni)	Win Win	Eric Roth	Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
	Will Reiser	50/50	Tate Taylor	The Help
2012	Quentin Tarantino	Django Unchained	Tony Kushner	Lincoln
	Paul Thomas Anderson	The Master	Stephen Chbosky	The Perks of Being a Wallflower
	Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola	Moonrise Kingdom	David Magee	Life of Pi
	Mark Boal	Zero Dark Thirty	David O. Russell	Silver Linings Playbook
	John Gatins	Flight	Chris Terrio	Argo
	Rian Johnson	Looper
2013	Spike Jonze	Her	John Ridley	12 Years a Slave
	Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell	American Hustle	Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope	Philomena
	Woody Allen	Blue Jasmine	Tracy Letts	August: Osage County
	Joel and Ethan Coen	Inside Llewyn Davis	Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy	Before Midnight
	Bob Nelson	Nebraska	Billy Ray	Captain Phillips
			Terence Winter	The Wolf of Wall Street
2014	Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo	Birdman	Gillian Flynn	Gone Girl
	Wes Anderson (story by Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness)	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Paul Thomas Anderson	Inherent Vice
	Damien Chazelle	Whiplash	Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Richard LaGravenese, and William Nicholson	Unbroken
	Dan Gilroy	Nightcrawler	Nick Hornby	Wild
	Richard Linklater	Boyhood	Anthony McCarten	The Theory of Everything
			Graham Moore	The Imitation Game
2015	Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer	Spotlight	Adam McKay and Charles Randolph	The Big Short
	Matt Charman, Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen	Bridge of Spies	Emma Donoghue	Room
	Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, and Josh Cooley (story by Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen)	Inside Out	Drew Goddard	The Martian
	Alex Garland	Ex Machina	Nick Hornby	Brooklyn
	Quentin Tarantino	The Hateful Eight	Aaron Sorkin	Steve Jobs