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- Sideways — Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
- Brokeback Mountain — Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana
- The Cider House Rules — John Irving
- No Country for Old Men — Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
- The Descendants — Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
- A Beautiful Mind — Akiva Goldsman
- Traffic — Stephen Gaghan
- A Letter to Three Wives — Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Kramer vs. Kramer — Robert Benton
- Terms of Endearment — James L. Brooks
- L.A. Confidential — Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson
- The Imitation Game — Graham Moore
- The Exorcist — William Peter Blatty
- The Pianist — Ronald Harwood
- The Departed — William Monahan
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King — Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson
- The Social Network — Aaron Sorkin
- Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire — Geoffrey Fletcher
- Argo — Chris Terrio
- The Philadelphia Story — Donald Ogden Stewart
- The Lost Weekend — Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder
- In the Heat of the Night — Stirling Silliphant
- Little Women — Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason
- The Life of Emile Zola — Norman Reilly Raine, Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg
- A Man for All Seasons — Robert Bolt
- A Room with a View — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- All About Eve — Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- All the President's Men — William Goldman
- Amadeus — Peter Shaffer
- Bad Girl — Edwin Burke
- Becket — Edward Anhalt
- Cimarron — Howard Estabrook
- Dances With Wolves — Michael Blake
- Dangerous Liaisons — Christopher Hampton
- Doctor Zhivago — Robert Bolt
- Driving Miss Daisy — Alfred Uhry
- Elmer Gantry — Richard Brooks
- Forrest Gump — Eric Roth
- From Here to Eternity — Daniel Taradash
- Gigi — Alan Jay Lerner
- Gods and Monsters — Bill Condon
- Going My Way — Frank Butler, Frank Cavett
- Gone with the Wind — Sidney Howard
- Howard's End — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- It Happened One Night — Robert Riskin
- Judgment at Nuremberg — Abby Mann
- Julia — Alvin Sargent
- M*A*S*H — Ring Lardner, Jr.
- Marty — Paddy Chayefsky
- Midnight Cowboy — Waldo Salt
- Midnight Express — Oliver Stone
- Miracle on 34th Street — George Seaton
- Missing — Costa-Gavras, Donald Stewart
- On Golden Pond — Ernest Thompson
- Ordinary People — Alvin Sargent
- Out of Africa — Kurt Luedtke
- Room at the Top — Neil Paterson
- Schindler's List — Steven Zaillian
- Sense and Sensibility — Emma Thompson
- Sling Blade — Billy Bob Thornton
- Slumdog Millionaire — Simon Beaufoy
- The Bad and the Beautiful — Charles Schnee
- The Big House — Frances Marion
- The Country Girl — Daniel Taradash
- The French Connection — Ernest Tidyman
- The Informer — Dudley Nichols
- The Lion in Winter — James Goldman
- The Patriot — Hans Kraly
- The Silence of the Lambs — Ted Tally
- The Treasure of Sierra Madre — John Huston
- To Kill a Mockingbird — Horton Foote
- Tom Jones — John Osborne
- The Bridge on the River Kwai — Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman, Pierre Boulle
- The Best Years of Our Lives — Robert E. Sherwood
- The Story of Louis Pasteur — Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney
- Casablanca — Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch
- Around the World in 80 Days — James Poe, John Farrow, S.J. Perelman
- The Godfather Part II — Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo
- Here Comes Mr. Jordan — Sidney Buchman, Seton I. Miller
- Mrs. Miniver — Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West
- A Place in the Sun — Michael Wilson, Harry Brown
- Pygmalion — George Bernard Shaw, W. P. Lipscomb, Cecil Lewis, Ian Dalrymple
- The Last Emperor — Mark Peploe, Bernardo Bertolucci
- The Godfather — Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola
- One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest — Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman
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