Best Screenplay - Motion Picture — Every Winner and Nominee

Every film recognised in the Golden Globes Best Screenplay - Motion Picture category in CineRoll's records: 325 films across 69 years, 70 of them winners.

The most recent winner is One Battle After Another (2026); the earliest on record is Miracle on 34th Street (1948).

The last three winners were One Battle After Another (2026), Conclave (2025) and Anatomy of a Fall (2024).

The list is newest first. Each year shows the winner at the top, then the other nominees; a year with enough nominees links to its own page.

Last updated August 12, 2026

2026

One Battle After Another(2025)
Paul Thomas Anderson
Winner
Hamnet(2025)
Chloé Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell
It Was Just an Accident(2025)
Jafar Panahi
Marty Supreme(2025)
Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie
Sentimental Value(2025)
Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt
Sinners(2025)
Ryan Coogler

2025

Conclave(2024)
Peter Straughan
Winner
A Real Pain(2024)
Jesse Eisenberg
Anora(2024)
Sean Baker
Emilia Pérez(2024)
Jacques Audiard
The Brutalist(2024)
Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold
The Substance(2024)
Coralie Fargeat

2024

Anatomy of a Fall(2023)
Justine Triet, Arthur Harari
Winner
Barbie(2023)
Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach
Killers of the Flower Moon(2023)
Eric Roth, Martin Scorsese
Oppenheimer(2023)
Christopher Nolan
Past Lives(2023)
Celine Song
Poor Things(2023)
Tony McNamara

2023

The Banshees of Inisherin(2022)
Winner
Everything Everywhere All at Once(2022)
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
TÁR(2022)
Todd Field
The Fabelmans(2022)
Women Talking(2022)
Sarah Polley

2022

Belfast(2021)
Kenneth Branagh
Winner
Being the Ricardos(2021)
Aaron Sorkin
Don't Look Up(2021)
Adam McKay
Licorice Pizza(2021)
Paul Thomas Anderson
The Power of the Dog(2021)

2021

The Trial of the Chicago 7(2020)
Winner
Mank(2020)
Jack Fincher
Nomadland(2021)
Chloé Zhao
Promising Young Woman(2020)
Emerald Fennell
The Father(2020)

2020

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood(2019)
Quentin Tarantino
Winner
Marriage Story(2019)
Noah Baumbach
Parasite(2019)
Bong Joon Ho, Han Won
The Irishman(2019)
The Two Popes(2019)

2019

Green Book(2018)
Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly
Winner
If Beale Street Could Talk(2018)
Barry Jenkins
Roma(2018)
Alfonso Cuarón
The Favourite(2018)
Vice(2018)
Adam McKay

2018

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri(2017)
Martin McDonagh
Winner
Lady Bird(2017)
Greta Gerwig
Molly's Game(2017)
Aaron Sorkin
The Post(2017)
Liz Hannah, Josh Singer
The Shape of Water(2017)
Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor

2017

La La Land(2016)
Damien Chazelle
Winner
Hell or High Water(2016)
Taylor Sheridan
Manchester by the Sea(2016)
Kenneth Lonergan
Moonlight(2016)
Barry Jenkins
Nocturnal Animals(2016)
Tom Ford

2016

Steve Jobs(2015)
Aaron Sorkin
Winner
Room(2015)
Emma Donoghue
Spotlight(2015)
Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer
The Big Short(2015)
The Hateful Eight(2015)
Quentin Tarantino

2015

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)(2014)
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bó
Winner
Boyhood(2014)
Richard Linklater
Gone Girl(2014)
Gillian Flynn
The Grand Budapest Hotel(2014)
The Imitation Game(2014)
Graham Moore