Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay

Award

Golden Globe for Best Screenplay – Motion Picture

The 2023 recipients: Justine Triet & Arthur Harari

Awarded for| Best Screenplay Writing (Original or Adapted) of a Motion Picture
Location| United States
Presented by| Hollywood Foreign Press Association
Currently held by| Justine Triet & Arthur Harari for Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
Website| http://www.goldenglobes.com

The Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay – Motion Picture is a Golden Globe Award given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

## Winners and nominees

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### 1940s

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1947 | Miracle on 34th Street | George Seaton
1948 | The Search | Richard Schweizer
1949 | Battleground | Robert Pirosh
Rope of Sand | Walter Doniger

### 1950s

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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

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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

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Year  | Film  | Nominees

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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[1]
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[2]
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[3]
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[4]
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[5]
The Irishman | Steven Zaillian
Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach
Parasite | Bong Joon-Ho and Han Jin Won
The Two Popes | Anthony McCarten

### 2020s

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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

## Multiple wins and nominations

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### Multiple wins

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| Wins  | Screenwriter

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3  | Aaron Sorkin
Quentin Tarantino
2  | Woody Allen
Paddy Chayefsky
Alexander Payne
Stirling Silliphant

### Three or more nominations

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| Nominations  | Screenwriter

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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

## See also

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* Academy Award for Best Story
* BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
* BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
* Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
* Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
* AACTA International Award for Best Screenplay
* Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Screenplay
* Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay
* Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

## References

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1. ^ Golden Globes 2016: The winners list - CNN
2. ^ Golden Globes 2017: the full list of winners|Film|The Guardian
3. ^ Golden Globes winners 2018: Full list by category - CNN
4. ^ 2019 Golden Globes Winners|E! News
5. ^ Golden Globe winners 2020: See the full list - CNN

## External links

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1965–1975|

* Robert Bolt (1965)
* Robert Bolt (1966)
* Stirling Silliphant (1967)
* Stirling Silliphant (1968)
* Bridget Boland, John Hale and Richard Sokolove (1969)
* Erich Segal (1970)
* Paddy Chayefsky (1971)
* Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo (1972)
* William Peter Blatty (1973)
* Robert Towne (1974)
* Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben (1975)

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* Paddy Chayefsky (1976)
* Neil Simon (1977)
* Oliver Stone (1978)
* Robert Benton (1979)
* William Peter Blatty (1980)
* Ernest Thompson (1981)
* John Briley (1982)
* James L. Brooks (1983)
* Peter Shaffer (1984)
* Woody Allen (1985)
* Robert Bolt (1986)
* Bernardo Bertolucci, Mark Peploe, and Enzo Ungari (1987)
* Naomi Foner (1988)
* Oliver Stone and Ron Kovic (1989)
* Michael Blake (1990)
* Callie Khouri (1991)
* Bo Goldman (1992)
* Steven Zaillian (1993)
* Quentin Tarantino (1994)
* Emma Thompson (1995)
* Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (1996)
* Ben Affleck and Matt Damon (1997)
* Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard (1998)
* Alan Ball (1999)

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* Stephen Gaghan (2000)
* Akiva Goldsman (2001)
* Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2002)
* Sofia Coppola (2003)
* Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
* Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (2005)
* Peter Morgan (2006)
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007)
* Simon Beaufoy (2008)
* Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (2009)
* Aaron Sorkin (2010)
* Woody Allen (2011)
* Quentin Tarantino (2012)
* Spike Jonze (2013)
* Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo (2014)
* Aaron Sorkin (2015)
* Damien Chazelle (2016)
* Martin McDonagh (2017)
* Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, and Nick Vallelonga (2018)
* Quentin Tarantino (2019)
* Aaron Sorkin (2020)
* Kenneth Branagh (2021)
* Martin McDonagh (2022)
* Justine Triet and Arthur Harari (2023)

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