Year
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Film
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Writer(s)
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1970 (23rd) [2]
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Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen
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Patton
|
Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North
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Five Easy Pieces
|
Carole Eastman (as Adrien Joyce)
|
Love Story
|
Erich Segal
|
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
|
The Out-of-Towners
|
Neil Simon
|
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
|
Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond
|
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronk
|
Gabriel Walsh
|
Start the Revolution Without Me
|
Fred Freeman and Lawrence J. Cohen
|
The Cheyenne Social Club
|
James Lee Barrett
|
1971 (24th) [3]
|
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen
|
Sunday Bloody Sunday
|
Penelope Gilliatt
|
Klute
|
Andy Lewis and David E. Lewis
|
Summer of '42
|
Hernan Raucher
|
The Hellstrom Chronicle
|
David Seltzer
|
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
|
The Hospital
|
Paddy Chayefsky
|
Bananas
|
Woody Allen and Mickey Rose
|
Carnal Knowledge
|
Jules Feiffer
|
Made for Each Other
|
Renée Taylor and Joseph Bologna
|
Taking Off
|
Miloṡ Forman, Jean-Claude Carrière, John Guare, and Jon Klein
|
1972 (25th) [4]
|
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen
|
The Candidate
|
Jeremy Larner
|
Bad Company
|
David Newman and Robert Benton
|
Images
|
Robert Altman
|
The Culpepper Cattle Co.
|
Eric Bercovici and Gregory Prentiss
|
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
|
Philip Kaufman
|
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
|
What’s Up, Doc?
|
Peter Bogdanovich, Buck Henry, David Newman, and Robert Benton
|
Get to Know Your Rabbit
|
Jordan Crittenden
|
Hammersmith Is Out
|
Stanford Whitmore
|
Minnie and Moskowitz
|
John Cassavetes
|
The War Between Men and Women
|
Melville Shavelson and Danny Arnold
|
1973 (26th) [5]
|
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen
|
Save the Tiger
|
Steve Shagan
|
Mean Streets
|
Martin Scorsese and Mardik Martin
|
Payday
|
Don Carpenter
|
The Sting
|
David S. Ward
|
The Way We Were
|
Arthur Laurents
|
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
|
A Touch of Class
|
Melvin Frank and Jack Rose
|
American Graffiti
|
George Lucas, Gloria Katz, and Willard Huyck
|
Blume in Love
|
Paul Mazursky
|
Sleeper
|
Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
|
Slither
|
W.D. Richter
|
1974 (27th) [6]
|
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen
|
Chinatown
|
Robert Towne
|
A Woman Under the Influence
|
John Cassavetes
|
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
|
Robert Getchell
|
Harry and Tonto
|
Paul Mazursky and Josh Greenfeld
|
The Conversation
|
Francis Ford Coppola
|
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
|
Blazing Saddles
|
Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, and Alan Uger
|
California Split
|
Joseph Walsh
|
Claudine
|
Tina Pine and Lester Pine
|
Phantom of the Paradise
|
Brian de Palma
|
The Sugarland Express
|
Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins, and Steven Spielberg
|
1975 (28th) [7]
|
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen
|
Dog Day Afternoon
|
Frank Pierson
|
French Connection II
|
Alexander Jacobs, Robert Dillon, and Laurie Dillon
|
Nashville
|
Joan Twekesbury
|
The Wind and the Lion
|
John Milius
|
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
|
Shampoo
|
Robert Towne and Warren Beatty
|
Heats of the West
|
Rob Thompson
|
Smile
|
Jerry Belson
|
The Return of the Pink Panther
|
Frank Waldman and Blake Edwards
|
1976 (29th) [8]
|
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen
|
Network
|
Paddy Chayefsky
|
The Omen
|
David Seltzer
|
Rocky
|
Sylvester Stallone
|
Taxi Driver
|
Paul Schrader
|
The Front
|
Walter Bernstein
|
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
|
The Bad News Bears
|
Bill Lancaster
|
Murder by Death
|
Neil Simon
|
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
|
Paul Mazursky
|
Silent Movie
|
Mel Brooks, Ron Clark, Rudy De Luca, and Barry Levinson
|
Silver Streak
|
Colin Higgins
|
1977 (30th) [9]
|
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen
|
The Turning Point
|
Arthur Laurents
|
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
|
Steven Spielberg
|
Saturday Night Fever
|
Norman Wexler
|
The Late Show
|
Robert Benton
|
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
|
Annie Hall
|
Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
|
Star Wars
|
George Lucas
|
Slap Shot
|
Nancy Dowd
|
The Goodbye Girl
|
Neil Simon
|
1978 (31st) [10]
|
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen
|
Coming Home
|
Nancy Dowd, Robert C. Jones, and Waldo Salt
|
An Unmarried Woman
|
Paul Mazursky
|
Days of Heaven
|
Terrence Malick
|
Interiors
|
Woody Allen
|
The Deer Hunter
|
Deric Washburn, Michael Cimino, Louis Garfinkle, and Quinn K. Redeker
|
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
|
Movie Movie
|
Larry Gelbart and Sheldon Keller
|
A Wedding
|
John Considine, Patricia Resnick, Allan F. Nicholls, and Robert Altman
|
Animal House
|
Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney, and Chris Miller
|
House Calls
|
Max Shulman, Julius J. Epstein, Alan Mandel, and Charles Shyer
|
Once in Paris...
|
Frank D. Gilroy
|
1979 (32nd) [11]
|
Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen
|
The China Syndrome
|
Mike Gray, T. S. Cook, and James Bridges
|
Apocalypse Now
|
John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola
|
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen
|
Breaking Away
|
Steve Tesich
|
10
|
Blake Edwards
|
Manhattan
|
Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
|