Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay

The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay is an award given by the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association to honor the best achievements in filmmaking.

Winners

1990s

Year	Winner	Writer(s)	Source
1990	Dances with Wolves	Michael Blake	novel by Michael Blake
1991	Beauty and the Beast	Linda Woolverton	La Belle et la Bête by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
1992	The Player	Michael Tolkin	novel by Michael Tolkin
1993	Schindler's List	Steven Zaillian	Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
1994	Pulp Fiction	Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary
1995	The Usual Suspects	Christopher McQuarrie
1996	Fargo	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
1997	L.A. Confidential	Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson	novel by James Ellroy
1998	The Truman Show	Andrew Niccol
1999	American Beauty	Alan Ball

2000s

Year	Winner	Writer(s)	Source
2000	Almost Famous	Cameron Crowe
2001	A Beautiful Mind	Akiva Goldsman	book by Sylvia Nasar
2002	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair, and Peter Jackson	book by J.R.R. Tolkien
2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson	book by J.R.R. Tolkien
2004	Sideways	Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor	novel by Rex Pickett
2005	Brokeback Mountain	Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana	short story by Annie Proulx
2006	Little Miss Sunshine	Michael Arndt
2007	Juno	Diablo Cody
2008	Milk	Dustin Lance Black
2009	Up in the Air	Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner	novel by Walter Kirn

2010s

Year	Winner	Writer(s)	Source
2010	The Social Network	Aaron Sorkin	The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich
2011	The Descendants	Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash	The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings
2012	Zero Dark Thirty	Mark Boal
2013	12 Years a Slave	John Ridley	Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
2014	Birdman	Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr., and Armando Bo
2015	Spotlight	Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer

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