Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Original Screenplay

The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Original Screenplay is presented by the Critics Choice Association at the annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards.

Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Original Screenplay
2024 recipient: Coralie Fargeat
Awarded for	Best Original Screenwriting of a Motion Picture
Location	Los Angeles, California
Presented by	Critics Choice Association
First award	Emma Thompson for Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Currently held by	Coralie Fargeat for The Substance (2024)
Website	www.criticschoice.com

History

The categories for screenplays have gone through several changes since their inception in 1995:

• From 1995 to 1996, the category Best Screenplay was presented, with no official nominees being announced but instead only a winner.
• From 1997 to 2000, the category was split into two, divided into Best Original Screenplay and Best Screenplay Adaptation.
• In 2001, the categories were merged into Best Screenplay again. From 2002 to 2008, the category was renamed to Best Writer.

In 2009, the distinction between original and adapted was implemented again, with two categories presented ever since, Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Winners and nominees

Emma Thompson was the first recipient of this award originally titled, Best Screenplay in 1995

Tom Stoppard won for Shakespeare in Love (1998)

Christopher Nolan won for Memento (1999)

Cameron Crowe won for Almost Famous (2000)

Charlie Kaufman won for Adaptation (2002)

Alexander Payne won for Sideways (2004)

Diablo Cody won for Juno (2007)

Quentin Tarantino won twice for Inglorious Basterds (2009) and Django Unchained (2012)

Woody Allen won for Midnight in Paris (2011)

Spike Jonze won for Her (2013)

Alejandro González Iñárritu won for Birdman (2014)

Damien Chazelle won for La La Land (2016)

Kenneth Lonergan won for Manchester by the Sea (2016)

Jordan Peele won for Get Out (2017)

Paul Schrader won for First Reformed (2018)

Kenneth Branagh won for Belfast (2021)

Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan won for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

1990s

Best Screenplay

Year	Writer (s)	Film
1995 [1]	Emma Thompson	Sense and Sensibility
1996 [2]	Anthony Minghella	The English Patient

Best Original Screenplay

Year	Writer (s)	Film
1997	Matt Damon and Ben Affleck	Good Will Hunting
1998	Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard	Shakespeare in Love
1999	Alan Ball	American Beauty

2000s

Best Original Screenplay

Year	Writer (s)	Film
2000 [3]	Cameron Crowe	Almost Famous

Best Screenplay

Year	Writer (s)	Film
2001 [4]	Christopher Nolan	Memento
	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	The Man Who Wasn't There
	Akiva Goldsman	A Beautiful Mind

Best Writer

Year	Writer (s)	Film
2002	Charlie Kaufman	Adaptation. and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
	Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor	About Schmidt
	Nia Vardalos	My Big Fat Greek Wedding
2003	Jim Sheridan, Naomi Sheridan, and Kirsten Sheridan	In America
	John August	Big Fish
	Sofia Coppola	Lost in Translation
	Brian Helgeland	Mystic River
	Gary Ross	Seabiscuit
2004	Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor	Sideways
	Bill Condon	Kinsey
	Charlie Kaufman	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
	John Logan	The Aviator
	David Magee	Finding Neverland
2005	Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco	Crash
	Noah Baumbach	The Squid and the Whale
	George Clooney and Grant Heslov	Good Night, and Good Luck.
	Dan Futterman	Capote
	Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana	Brokeback Mountain
2006	Michael Arndt	Little Miss Sunshine
	Guillermo Arriaga	Babel
	Todd Field and Tom Perrotta	Little Children
	Zach Helm	Stranger than Fiction
	William Monahan	The Departed
	Peter Morgan	The Queen
2007	Diablo Cody	Juno
	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	No Country for Old Men
	Tony Gilroy	Michael Clayton
	Nancy Oliver	Lars and the Real Girl
	Sean Penn	Into the Wild
	Aaron Sorkin	Charlie Wilson's War
2008	Simon Beaufoy	Slumdog Millionaire
	Dustin Lance Black	Milk
	Peter Morgan	Frost/Nixon
	Eric Roth	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
	John Patrick Shanley	Doubt

Best Original Screenplay

Year	Writer (s)	Film
2009 [5]	Quentin Tarantino	Inglourious Basterds
	Mark Boal	The Hurt Locker
	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	A Serious Man
	Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber	(500) Days of Summer
	Bob Peterson and Pete Docter	Up

2010s

Year	Writer (s)	Film
2010 [6]	David Seidler	The King's Speech
	Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg	The Kids Are All Right
	Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, and John McLaughlin	Black Swan
	Mike Leigh	Another Year
	Christopher Nolan	Inception
	Scott Silver, Eric Johnson, Paul Tamasy, and Keith Dorrington	The Fighter
2011 [7]	Woody Allen	Midnight in Paris
	Diablo Cody	Young Adult
	Michel Hazanavicius	The Artist
	Tom McCarthy and Joe Tiboni	Win Win
	Will Reiser	50/50
2012 [8]	Quentin Tarantino	Django Unchained
	Paul Thomas Anderson	The Master
	Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola	Moonrise Kingdom
	Mark Boal	Zero Dark Thirty
	John Gatins	Flight
	Rian Johnson	Looper
2013 [9]	Spike Jonze	Her
	Woody Allen	Blue Jasmine
	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	Inside Llewyn Davis
	Bob Nelson	Nebraska
	Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell	American Hustle
2014 [10]	Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bó	Birdman
	Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness	The Grand Budapest Hotel
	Damien Chazelle	Whiplash
	Dan Gilroy	Nightcrawler
	Richard Linklater	Boyhood
2015 [11]	Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer	Spotlight
	Matt Charman, Ethan Coen, and Joel Coen	Bridge of Spies
	Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, and Josh Cooley	Inside Out
	Alex Garland	Ex Machina
	Quentin Tarantino	The Hateful Eight
2016 [12]	Damien Chazelle (TIE)	La La Land
	Kenneth Lonergan (TIE)	Manchester by the Sea
	Efthimis Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos	The Lobster
	Barry Jenkins	Moonlight
	Jeff Nichols	Loving
	Taylor Sheridan	Hell or High Water
2017 [13]	Jordan Peele	Get Out
	Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor	The Shape of Water
	Greta Gerwig	Lady Bird
	Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani	The Big Sick
	Liz Hannah and Josh Singer	The Post
	Martin McDonagh	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2018 [14]	Paul Schrader	First Reformed
	Bo Burnham	Eighth Grade
	Alfonso Cuarón	Roma
	Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara	The Favourite
	Adam McKay	Vice
	Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, and Peter Farrelly	Green Book
	Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, and John Krasinski	A Quiet Place
2019 [15]	Quentin Tarantino	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
	Noah Baumbach	Marriage Story
	Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won	Parasite
	Rian Johnson	Knives Out
	Lulu Wang	The Farewell

2020s

Year	Writer (s)	Film
2020 [16]	Emerald Fennell	Promising Young Woman
	Lee Isaac Chung	Minari
	Jack Fincher (posthumous)	Mank
	Eliza Hittman	Never Rarely Sometimes Always
	Darius Marder and Abraham Marder	Sound of Metal
	Aaron Sorkin	The Trial of the Chicago 7
2021 [17]	Kenneth Branagh	Belfast
	Paul Thomas Anderson	Licorice Pizza
	Zach Baylin	King Richard
	Adam McKay and David Sirota	Don't Look Up
	Aaron Sorkin	Being the Ricardos
2022 [18]	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert	Everything Everywhere All at Once
	Todd Field	Tár
	Martin McDonagh	The Banshees of Inisherin
	Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner	The Fabelmans
	Charlotte Wells	Aftersun
2023 [19]	Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach	Barbie
	Samy Burch	May December
	Alex Convery	Air
	Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer	Maestro
	David Hemingson	The Holdovers
	Celine Song	Past Lives
2024 [20]	Coralie Fargeat	The Substance
	Sean Baker	Anora
	Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, and Alex David	September 5
	Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold	The Brutalist
	Jesse Eisenberg	A Real Pain
	Justin Kuritzkes	Challengers

See also

• Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay
• BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
• Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
• Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay
• AACTA International Award for Best Screenplay
• Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay