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2022 Best Original Screenplay

Martin McDonagh 

The Banshees of Inisherin 

2021 Best Original Screenplay

Asghar Farhadi 

A Hero 

2020 Best Original Screenplay

Lee Isaac Chung 

Minari 

2019 Best Original Screenplay

Josh Safdie  Benny Safdie  Ronald Bronstein 

Uncut Gems 

2018 Best Original Screenplay

Paul Schrader 

First Reformed 

2017 Best Original Screenplay

Paul Thomas Anderson 

Phantom Thread 

2016 Best Original Screenplay

Kenneth Lonergan 

Manchester by the Sea 

2015 Best Original Screenplay

Quentin Tarantino 

The Hateful Eight 

2014 Best Original Screenplay

Phil Lord & Christopher Miller 

The Lego Movie 

2013 Best Original Screenplay

Joel Coen  Ethan Coen 

Inside Llewyn Davis 

2012 Best Original Screenplay

Rian Johnson 

Looper 

2011 Best Original Screenplay

Will Reiser 

50/50 

2010 Best Original Screenplay

Chris Sparling 

Buried 

2009 Best Original Screenplay

Joel Coen  Ethan Coen 

A Serious Man  

2008 Best Original Screenplay

Nick Schenk 

Gran Torino 

2007 Best Original Screenplay

Diablo Cody  Nancy Oliver 

Juno  Lars and the Real Girl 

2006 Best Original Screenplay

Zach Helm 

Stranger Than Fiction 

2005 Best Original Screenplay

Noah Baumbach 

The Squid and the Whale 

2004 Best Original Screenplay

Charlie Kaufman 

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 

2003 Best Original Screenplay

Jim Sheridan  Naomi Sheridan  Kirsten Sheridan 

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