Winner
| - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind — Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, Pierre Bismuth
- Crash — Paul Haggis, Bobby Moresco
- American Beauty — Alan Ball
- Juno — Diablo Cody
- Midnight in Paris — Woody Allen
- Gosford Park — Julian Fellowes
- Almost Famous — Cameron Crowe
- Hannah and Her Sisters — Woody Allen
- Lost in Translation — Sofia Coppola
- Places in the Heart — Robert Benton
- Talk to Her — Pedro Almodóvar
- The Crying Game — Neil Jordan
- The Piano — Jane Campion
- Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) — Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr., Armando Bo
- Pulp Fiction — Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary
- Titanic (1953) — Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, Richard Breen
- Patton — Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North
- Divorce, Italian Style — Ennio de Concini, Alfredo Giannetti, Petro Germi
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid — William Goldman
- An American in Paris — Alan Jay Lerner
- Annie Hall — Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
- Battleground — Robert Pirosh
- Breaking Away — Steve Tesich
- Chariots of Fire — Colin Welland
- Chinatown — Robert Towne
- Darling — Frederic Raphael
- Dead Poets Society — Tom Schulman
- Designing Women — George Wells
- Django Unchained — Quentin Tarantino
- Dog Day Afternoon — Frank Pierson
- Fargo — Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- Gandhi — John Briley
- Ghost — Bruce Joel Rubin
- Good Will Hunting — Ben Affleck, Matt Damon
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner — William Rose
- Her — Spike Jonze
- How the West Was Won — James R. Webb
- Little Miss Sunshine — Michael Arndt
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer — Sidney Sheldon
- Marie-Louise — Richard Schweizer
- Melvin and Howard — Bo Goldman
- Milk — Dustin Lance Black
- Moonstruck — John Patrick Shanley
- Network — Paddy Chayefsky
- On the Waterfront — Budd Schulberg
- Princess O'Rourke — Norman Krasna
- Rain Man — Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow
- The Apartment — Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
- Splendor in the Grass — William Inge
- Tender Mercies — Horton Foote
- The Candidate — Jeremy Larner
- The Great McGinty — Preston Sturges
- The Hospital — Paddy Chayefsky
- The Hurt Locker — Mark Boal
- The King's Speech — David Seidler
- The Lavender Hill Mob — T. E. B. Clarke
- The Producers — Mel Brooks
- The Red Balloon — Albert Lamorisse
- The Seventh Veil — Muriel Box, Sydney Box
- The Sting — David S. Ward
- The Usual Suspects — Christopher McQuarrie
- Thelma & Louise — Callie Khouri
- Wilson — Lamar Trotti
- Citizen Kane — Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles
- Pillow Talk — Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene, Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin
- A Man and Woman — Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven
- Father Goose — S. H. Barnett, Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff
- Witness — William Kelley, Pamela Wallace, arl W. Wallace
- Sunset Blvd. — Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D. M. Marshman, Jr.
- Woman of the Year — Ring Lardner, Jr., Michael Kanin
- Coming Home — Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones
- Shakespeare in Love — Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard
- Interrupted Melody — William Ludwig, Sonya Levien
- The Defiant Ones — Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith
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nominee
| - 2001(xsd:integer)
- Hotel Rwanda — Keir Pearson, Terry George
- The Aviator — John Logan
- The Incredibles — Brad Bird
- Vera Drake — Mike Leigh
- Good Night, and Good Luck. — George Clooney, Grant Heslov
- Match Point — Woody Allen
- Syriana — Stephen Gaghan
- The Squid and the Whale — Noah Baumbach
- Being John Malkovich — Charlie Kaufman
- Magnolia — Paul Thomas Anderson
- The Sixth Sense — M. Night Shyamalan
- Topsy-Turvy — Mike Leigh
- Lars and the Real Girl — Nancy Oliver
- Michael Clayton — Tony Gilroy
- The Savages — Tamara Jenkins
- Ratatouille — Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco
- A Separation — Asghar Farhadi
- Bridesmaids — Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig
- Margin Call — J.C. Chandor
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