The Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay – Motion Picture is a Golden Globe Award first given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, now awarded by Dick Clark Productions since 2023.
| Golden Globe for Best Screenplay – Motion Picture |
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| Awarded for | Best Screenplay Writing (Original or Adapted) of a Motion Picture |
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| Location | United States |
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| Presented by | Dick Clark Productions |
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| Currently held by | Peter Straughan for Conclave (2024) |
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| Website | goldenglobes.com |
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Winners and nominees
† marks the winner of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Motion Picture Story
‡ marks the winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
1940s
| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 1947 | Miracle on 34th Street | George Seaton † |
| 1948 | The Search † | Richard Schweizer |
| 1949 | Battleground ‡ | Robert Pirosh |
| Rope of Sand | Walter Doniger |
1950s
| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 1950 | All About Eve † | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| The Asphalt Jungle | Ben Maddow and John Huston |
| Sunset Boulevard ‡ | Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D. M. Marshman Jr. |
| 1951 | Bright Victory | Robert Buckner |
| 1952 | 5 Fingers | Michael Wilson |
| High Noon | Carl Foreman |
| The Thief | Clarence Greene and Russell Rouse |
| 1953 | Lili | Helen Deutsch |
| 1954 | Sabrina | Billy Wilder, Ernest Lehman, and Samuel A. Taylor |
1960s
| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 1965 | Doctor Zhivago † | Robert Bolt |
| The Agony and the Ecstasy | Philip Dunne |
| The Collector | John Kohn and Stanley Mann |
| A Patch of Blue | Guy Green |
| The Slender Thread | Stirling Silliphant |
| 1966 | A Man for All Seasons † | Robert Bolt |
| Alfie | Bill Naughton |
| The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming | William Rose |
| The Sand Pebbles | Robert Anderson |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Ernest Lehman |
| 1967 | In the Heat of the Night † | Stirling Silliphant |
| Bonnie and Clyde | Robert Benton and David Newman |
| The Fox | Lewis John Carlino and Howard Koch |
| The Graduate | Buck Henry and Calder Willingham |
| Guess Who's Coming to Dinner ‡ | William Rose |
| 1968 | CHAЯLY | Stirling Silliphant |
| The Fixer | Dalton Trumbo |
| The Lion in Winter † | James Goldman |
| The Producers ‡ | Mel Brooks |
| Rosemary's Baby | Roman Polanski |
| 1969 | Anne of the Thousand Days | Bridget Boland, John Hale, and Richard Sokolove |
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ‡ | William Goldman |
| If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium | David Shaw |
| John and Mary | John Mortimer |
| Midnight Cowboy † | Waldo Salt |
1970s
| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 1970 | Love Story | Erich Segal |
| Five Easy Pieces | Carole Eastman and Bob Rafelson |
| Husbands | John Cassavetes |
| M*A*S*H † | Ring Lardner Jr. |
| Scrooge | Leslie Bricusse |
| 1971 | The Hospital ‡ | Paddy Chayefsky |
| The French Connection † | Ernest Tidyman |
| Klute | Andy and Dave Lewis |
| Kotch | John Paxton |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | John Hale |
| 1972 | The Godfather † | Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo |
| Avanti! | Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond |
| Cabaret | Jay Presson Allen |
| Deliverance | James Dickey |
| Frenzy | Anthony Shaffer |
| The Heartbreak Kid | Neil Simon |
| 1973 | The Exorcist † | William Peter Blatty |
| Cinderella Liberty | Darryl Ponicsan |
| The Day of the Jackal | Kenneth Ross |
| The Sting ‡ | David S. Ward |
| A Touch of Class | Melvin Frank and Jack Rose |
| 1974 | Chinatown ‡ | Robert Towne |
| The Conversation | Francis Ford Coppola |
| The Godfather Part II † | Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo |
| The Towering Inferno | Stirling Silliphant |
| A Woman Under the Influence | John Cassavetes |
| 1975 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest † | Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben |
| Dog Day Afternoon ‡ | Frank Pierson |
| Jaws | Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb |
| Nashville | Joan Tewkesbury |
| The Sunshine Boys | Neil Simon |
| 1976 | Network ‡ | Paddy Chayefsky |
| All the President's Men † | William Goldman |
| Marathon Man | William Goldman |
| Rocky | Sylvester Stallone |
| Taxi Driver | Paul Schrader |
| Voyage of the Damned | David Butler and Steve Shagan |
| 1977 | The Goodbye Girl | Neil Simon |
| Annie Hall ‡ | Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Steven Spielberg |
| Julia † | Alvin Sargent |
| The Turning Point | Arthur Laurents |
| 1978 | Midnight Express † | Oliver Stone |
| Coming Home ‡ | Robert C. Jones and Waldo Salt |
| The Deer Hunter | Deric Washburn |
| Foul Play | Colin Higgins |
| Interiors | Woody Allen |
| An Unmarried Woman | Paul Mazursky |
| 1979 | Kramer vs. Kramer † | Robert Benton |
| Being There | Jerzy Kosinski |
| Breaking Away ‡ | Steve Tesich |
| The China Syndrome | James Bridges, T. S. Cook, and Mike Gray |
| Norma Rae | Harriet Frank, Jr. and Irving Ravetch |
1980s
| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 1980 | The Ninth Configuration | William Peter Blatty |
| The Elephant Man | Eric Bergren and Christopher De Vore |
| Ordinary People † | Alvin Sargent |
| Raging Bull | Mardik Martin and Paul Schrader |
| The Stunt Man | Lawrence B. Marcus |
| 1981 | On Golden Pond † | Ernest Thompson |
| Absence of Malice | Kurt Luedtke |
| The Four Seasons | Alan Alda |
| The French Lieutenant's Woman | Harold Pinter |
| Reds | Warren Beatty and Trevor Griffiths |
| 1982 | Gandhi ‡ | John Briley |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Melissa Mathison |
| Missing † | Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart |
| Tootsie | Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal |
| The Verdict | David Mamet |
| 1983 | Terms of Endearment † | James L. Brooks |
| The Big Chill | Barbara Benedek and Lawrence Kasdan |
| The Dresser | Ronald Harwood |
| Educating Rita | Willy Russell |
| Reuben, Reuben | Julius J. Epstein |
| 1984 | Amadeus † | Peter Shaffer |
| The Killing Fields | Bruce Robinson |
| A Passage to India | David Lean |
| Places in the Heart ‡ | Robert Benton |
| A Soldier's Story | Charles Fuller |
| 1985 | The Purple Rose of Cairo | Woody Allen |
| Back to the Future | Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale |
| Out of Africa † | Kurt Luedtke |
| Prizzi's Honor | Richard Condon and Janet Roach |
| Witness ‡ | William Kelley and Earl W. Wallace |
| 1986 | The Mission | Robert Bolt |
| Blue Velvet | David Lynch |
| Hannah and Her Sisters ‡ | Woody Allen |
| Mona Lisa | Neil Jordan and David Leland |
| Platoon | Oliver Stone |
| 1987 | The Last Emperor † | Bernardo Bertolucci, Mark Peploe, and Enzo Ungari |
| Broadcast News | James L. Brooks |
| Hope and Glory | John Boorman |
| House of Games | David Mamet |
| Moonstruck ‡ | John Patrick Shanley |
| 1988 | Running on Empty | Naomi Foner |
| A Cry in the Dark | Robert Caswell and Fred Schepisi |
| Mississippi Burning | Chris Gerolmo |
| Rain Man ‡ | Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow |
| Working Girl | Kevin Wade |
| 1989 | Born on the Fourth of July | Oliver Stone and Ron Kovic |
| Dead Poets Society ‡ | Tom Schulman |
| Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee |
| Glory | Kevin Jarre |
| Sex, Lies, and Videotape | Steven Soderbergh |
| When Harry Met Sally... | Nora Ephron |
1990s
| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 1990 | Dances with Wolves † | Michael Blake |
| Avalon | Barry Levinson |
| The Godfather Part III | Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo |
| Goodfellas | Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese |
| Reversal of Fortune | Nicholas Kazan |
| 1991 | Thelma & Louise ‡ | Callie Khouri |
| Bugsy | James Toback |
| Grand Canyon | Lawrence Kasdan and Meg Kasdan |
| JFK | Zachary Sklar and Oliver Stone |
| The Silence of the Lambs † | Ted Tally |
| 1992 | Scent of a Woman | Bo Goldman |
| A Few Good Men | Aaron Sorkin |
| Howards End † | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
| The Player | Michael Tolkin |
| Unforgiven | David Webb Peoples |
| 1993 | Schindler's List † | Steven Zaillian |
| Philadelphia | Ron Nyswaner |
| The Piano ‡ | Jane Campion |
| The Remains of the Day | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
| Short Cuts | Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt |
| 1994 | Pulp Fiction ‡ | Quentin Tarantino |
| Forrest Gump † | Eric Roth |
| Four Weddings and a Funeral | Richard Curtis |
| Quiz Show | Paul Attanasio |
| The Shawshank Redemption | Frank Darabont |
| 1995 | Sense and Sensibility † | Emma Thompson |
| The American President | Aaron Sorkin |
| Braveheart | Randall Wallace |
| Dead Man Walking | Tim Robbins |
| Get Shorty | Scott Frank |
| Mr. Holland's Opus | Patrick Sheane Duncan |
| 1996 | The People vs. Larry Flynt | Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski |
| The English Patient | Anthony Minghella |
| Fargo ‡ | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen |
| Lone Star | John Sayles |
| Shine | Jan Sardi |
| 1997 | Good Will Hunting ‡ | Matt Damon and Ben Affleck |
| As Good as It Gets | Mark Andrus and James L. Brooks |
| L.A. Confidential † | Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson |
| Titanic | James Cameron |
| Wag the Dog | Hilary Henkin and David Mamet |
| 1998 | Shakespeare in Love ‡ | Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard |
| Bulworth | Warren Beatty and Jeremy Pikser |
| Happiness | Todd Solondz |
| Saving Private Ryan | Robert Rodat |
| The Truman Show | Andrew Niccol |
| 1999 | American Beauty ‡ | Alan Ball |
| Being John Malkovich | Charlie Kaufman |
| The Cider House Rules † | John Irving |
| The Insider | Eric Roth and Michael Mann |
| The Sixth Sense | M. Night Shyamalan |
2000s
| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 2000 | Traffic † | Stephen Gaghan |
| Almost Famous ‡ | Cameron Crowe |
| Quills | Doug Wright |
| Wonder Boys | Steve Kloves |
| You Can Count on Me | Kenneth Lonergan |
| 2001 | A Beautiful Mind † | Akiva Goldsman |
| Gosford Park ‡ | Julian Fellowes |
| The Man Who Wasn't There | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen |
| Memento | Christopher Nolan |
| Mulholland Drive | David Lynch |
| 2002 | About Schmidt | Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor |
| Adaptation. | Charlie and Donald Kaufman |
| Chicago | Bill Condon |
| Far from Heaven | Todd Haynes |
| The Hours | David Hare |
| 2003 | Lost in Translation ‡ | Sofia Coppola |
| Cold Mountain | Anthony Minghella |
| In America | Jim Sheridan, Kirsten Sheridan, and Naomi Sheridan |
| Love Actually | Richard Curtis |
| Mystic River | Brian Helgeland |
| 2004 | Sideways † | Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor |
| The Aviator | John Logan |
| Closer | Patrick Marber |
| Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ‡ | Charlie Kaufman |
| Finding Neverland | David Magee |
| 2005 | Brokeback Mountain † | Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana |
| Crash ‡ | Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco |
| Good Night, and Good Luck. | George Clooney and Grant Heslov |
| Match Point | Woody Allen |
| Munich | Tony Kushner and Eric Roth |
| 2006 | The Queen | Peter Morgan |
| Babel | Guillermo Arriaga |
| The Departed † | William Monahan |
| Little Children | Todd Field and Tom Perrotta |
| Notes on a Scandal | Patrick Marber |
| 2007 | No Country for Old Men † | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen |
| Atonement | Christopher Hampton |
| Charlie Wilson's War | Aaron Sorkin |
| The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) | Ronald Harwood |
| Juno ‡ | Diablo Cody |
| 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire † | Simon Beaufoy |
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Eric Roth |
| Doubt | John Patrick Shanley |
| Frost/Nixon | Peter Morgan |
| The Reader | David Hare |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner |
| District 9 | Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell |
| The Hurt Locker ‡ | Mark Boal |
| Inglourious Basterds | Quentin Tarantino |
| It's Complicated | Nancy Meyers |
2010s
| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 2010 | The Social Network † | Aaron Sorkin |
| 127 Hours | Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle |
| Inception | Christopher Nolan |
| The Kids Are All Right | Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg |
| The King's Speech ‡ | David Seidler |
| 2011 | Midnight in Paris ‡ | Woody Allen |
| The Artist | Michel Hazanavicius |
| The Descendants † | Alexander Payne, Jim Rash, and Nat Faxon |
| The Ides of March | George Clooney, Grant Heslov, and Beau Willimon |
| Moneyball | Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin |
| 2012 | Django Unchained ‡ | Quentin Tarantino |
| Argo † | Chris Terrio |
| Lincoln | Tony Kushner |
| Silver Linings Playbook | David O. Russell |
| Zero Dark Thirty | Mark Boal |
| 2013 | Her ‡ | Spike Jonze |
| 12 Years a Slave † | John Ridley |
| American Hustle | Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell |
| Nebraska | Bob Nelson |
| Philomena | Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope |
| 2014 | Birdman ‡ | Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo |
| Boyhood | Richard Linklater |
| Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn |
| The Grand Budapest Hotel | Wes Anderson |
| The Imitation Game † | Graham Moore |
| 2015 | Steve Jobs | Aaron Sorkin |
| The Big Short † | Adam McKay and Charles Randolph |
| The Hateful Eight | Quentin Tarantino |
| Room | Emma Donoghue |
| Spotlight ‡ | Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer |
| 2016 | La La Land | Damien Chazelle |
| Hell or High Water | Taylor Sheridan |
| Manchester by the Sea ‡ | Kenneth Lonergan |
| Moonlight † | Barry Jenkins |
| Nocturnal Animals | Tom Ford |
| 2017 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Martin McDonagh |
| Lady Bird | Greta Gerwig |
| Molly's Game | Aaron Sorkin |
| The Post | Liz Hannah and Josh Singer |
| The Shape of Water | Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor |
| 2018 | Green Book ‡ | Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, and Peter Farrelly |
| The Favourite | Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara |
| If Beale Street Could Talk | Barry Jenkins |
| Roma | Alfonso Cuarón |
| Vice | Adam McKay |
| 2019 | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Quentin Tarantino |
| The Irishman | Steven Zaillian |
| Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach |
| Parasite ‡ | Bong Joon-Ho and Han Jin Won |
| The Two Popes | Anthony McCarten |
2020s
| Year | Film | Nominees |
| 2020 | The Trial of the Chicago 7 | Aaron Sorkin |
| Promising Young Woman ‡ | Emerald Fennell |
| Mank | Jack Fincher (posthumous) |
| The Father † | Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton |
| Nomadland | Chloé Zhao |
| 2021 | Belfast ‡ | Kenneth Branagh |
| Licorice Pizza | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion |
| Don't Look Up | Adam McKay |
| Being the Ricardos | Aaron Sorkin |
| 2022 | The Banshees of Inisherin | Martin McDonagh |
| Tár | Todd Field |
| Everything Everywhere All at Once ‡ | Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert |
| Women Talking† | Sarah Polley |
| The Fabelmans | Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner |
| 2023 | Anatomy of a Fall ‡ | Justine Triet and Arthur Harari |
| Barbie | Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach |
| Oppenheimer | Christopher Nolan |
| Killers of the Flower Moon | Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese |
| Past Lives | Celine Song |
| Poor Things | Tony McNamara |
| 2024 | Conclave † | Peter Straughan |
| Emilia Pérez | Jacques Audiard |
| Anora ‡ | Sean Baker |
| The Brutalist | Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold |
| A Real Pain | Jesse Eisenberg |
| The Substance | Coralie Fargeat |
| 2025 | One Battle After Another | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| Marty Supreme | Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie |
| Sinners | Ryan Coogler |
| It Was Just an Accident | Jafar Panahi |
| Sentimental Value | Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier |
| Hamnet | Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell |
Multiple wins and nominations
Multiple wins | Wins | Screenwriter | | 3 | Aaron Sorkin | | Quentin Tarantino | | 2 | Woody Allen | | Paddy Chayefsky | | Martin McDonagh | | Alexander Payne | | Stirling Silliphant | | Three or more nominations | Nominations | Screenwriter | | 9 | Aaron Sorkin | | 6 | Woody Allen | | 5 | Eric Roth | | Quentin Tarantino | | 4 | Francis Ford Coppola | | Stirling Silliphant | | Oliver Stone | | 3 | Robert Benton | | James L. Brooks | | Ethan Coen | | Joel Coen | | William Goldman | | Tony Kushner | | David Mamet | | Adam McKay | | Christopher Nolan | | Alexander Payne | | Mario Puzo | | Neil Simon | | Steven Zaillian | |
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