Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) — Every Winner and Nominee

Every film recognised in the Oscars Writing (Story and Screenplay--written directly for the screen) category in CineRoll's records: 60 films across 12 years, 12 of them winners.

The most recent winner is The Producers (1969); the earliest on record is Designing Woman (1958).

The last three winners were The Producers (1969), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1968) and A Man and a Woman (1967).

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

1969

The Producers(1968)
Mel Brooks
Winner
2001: A Space Odyssey(1968)
Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke
Faces(1968)
John Cassavetes
Hot Millions(1968)
Ira Wallach, Peter Ustinov
The Battle of Algiers(1966)
Franco Solinas, Gillo Pontecorvo

1968

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner(1967)
William Rose
Winner
Bonnie and Clyde(1967)
David Newman, Robert Benton
Divorce American Style(1967)
Story by Robert Kaufman; Screenplay by Norman Lear
The War Is Over (La Guerre Est Finie)(1966)
Jorge Semprun
Two for the Road(1967)
Frederic Raphael

1967

A Man and a Woman(1966)
Story by Claude Lelouch; Screenplay by Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven
Winner
Blow-Up(1966)
Story by Michelangelo Antonioni; Screenplay by Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, Edward Bond
Khartoum(1966)
Robert Ardrey
The Fortune Cookie(1966)
Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
The Naked Prey(1965)
Clint Johnston, Don Peters

1966

Darling(1965)
Frederic Raphael
Winner
Casanova '70(1965)
Age, Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli, Tonino Guerra, Giorgio Salvioni, Suso Cecchi D'Amico
The Train(1964)
Franklin Coen, Frank Davis
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg(1964)
Jacques Demy
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines(1965)
Jack Davies, Ken Annakin

1965

Father Goose(1964)
Story by S. H. Barnett; Screenplay by Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff
Winner
A Hard Day's Night(1964)
Alun Owen
One Potato, Two Potato(1964)
Story by Orville H. Hampton; Screenplay by Raphael Hayes, Orville H. Hampton
That Man from Rio(1964)
Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Ariane Mnouchkine, Daniel Boulanger, Philippe De Broca
The Organizer(1963)
Age, Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli

1964

How the West Was Won(1962)
James R. Webb
Winner
8½(1963)
Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi
America America(1963)
Elia Kazan
Love with the Proper Stranger(1963)
Arnold Schulman
The Four Days of Naples(1962)
Story by Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Nanni Loy, Vasco Pratolini; Screenplay by Carlo Bernari, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Nanni Loy

1963

Divorce Italian Style(1961)
Ennio de Concini, Alfredo Giannetti, Pietro Germi
Winner
Freud: The Secret Passion(1962)
Story by Charles Kaufman; Screenplay by Charles Kaufman, Wolfgang Reinhardt
Last Year at Marienbad(1961)
Alain Robbe-Grillet
That Touch of Mink(1962)
Stanley Shapiro, Nate Monaster
Through a Glass Darkly(1961)
Ingmar Bergman

1962

Splendor in the Grass(1961)
William Inge
Winner
Ballad of a Soldier(1959)
Valentin Yoshov, Grigori Chukhrai
General Della Rovere(1959)
Sergio Amidei, Diego Fabbri, Indro Montanelli
La Dolce Vita(1960)
Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, Brunello Rondi
Lover Come Back(1961)
Stanley Shapiro, Paul Henning

1961

The Apartment(1960)
Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
Winner
Hiroshima Mon Amour(1959)
Marguerite Duras
Never on Sunday(1960)
Jules Dassin
The Angry Silence(1960)
Story by Richard Gregson, Michael Craig; Screenplay by Bryan Forbes
The Facts of Life(1960)
Norman Panama, Melvin Frank

1960

Pillow Talk(1959)
Story by Russell Rouse, Clarence Greene; Screenplay by Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin
Winner
North by Northwest(1959)
Ernest Lehman
Operation Petticoat(1959)
Story by Paul King, Joseph Stone; Screenplay by Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin
The 400 Blows(1959)
Francois Truffaut, Marcel Moussy
Wild Strawberries(1957)
Ingmar Bergman

1959

The Defiant Ones(1958)
Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith
Winner
Houseboat(1958)
Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose
Teacher's Pet(1958)
Fay Kanin, Michael Kanin
The Goddess(1958)
Paddy Chayefsky
The Sheepman(1958)
Story by James Edward Grant; Screenplay by William Bowers, James Edward Grant

1958

Designing Woman(1957)
George Wells
Winner
Funny Face(1957)
Leonard Gershe
I Vitelloni (Vitelloni)(1953)
Story by Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli; Screenplay by Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano
Man of a Thousand Faces(1957)
Story by Ralph Wheelwright; Screenplay by R. Wright Campbell, Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts
The Tin Star(1957)
Story by Barney Slater, Joel Kane; Screenplay by Dudley Nichols