Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

[3] Woody Allen has the most nominations in this category with 16, and the most awards with 3 (for Annie Hall (1977), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), and Midnight in Paris (2011)).

Other winners for a non-English screenplay include Albert Lamorisse (The Red Balloon; French), Pietro Germi (Divorce Italian Style; Italian), Claude Lelouch (A Man and A Woman; French), Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her; Spanish), Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won (Parasite, Korean), and Justine Triet and Arthur Harari (Anatomy of a Fall, French).

[8] The Lucas Bros are the only African-American siblings to receive a nomination in this category (Judas and the Black Messiah, 2021).

[9] Preston Sturges was nominated for two different films in the same year (1944): Hail the Conquering Hero and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek.

Maurice Richlin and Stanley Shapiro were nominated in 1959 for both Operation Petticoat and Pillow Talk and won for the latter.

[10] Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won became the first Asian writers to win either Screenplay award, for 2019's Parasite.

Woody Allen has received the most Oscar nominations in this category with 16, winning three times: for Annie Hall , Hannah and Her Sisters and Midnight in Paris
Black-and-white portrait of Orson Welles by photographer Carl Van Vechten in 1937.
Orson Welles co-won the award for Citizen Kane in 1942.
Black-and-white photo of Herman J. Mankiewicz in 1943.
Herman J. Mankiewicz , co-winner of the second award in this category (for Citizen Kane ).
Photograph of Billy Wilder with actress Gloria Swanson during filming of Sunset Boulevard.
Screenwriter and director Billy Wilder received two awards in this category in collaboration with others—one for Sunset Boulevard and one for The Apartment .
Black-and-white photo of Alan Jay Lerner in 1962
Alan Jay Lerner won for An American in Paris (1951)
Budd Schulberg won for On the Waterfront (1954)
Black-and-white photo of William Inge in 1954.
William Inge earned this award in 1961 for Splendor in the Grass .
Claude Lelouch won for A Man and a Woman (1966)
Photograph of screenwriter William Rose on his wedding day in 1944, along with his wife and guests.
William Rose ( center right ) won for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1968)
Mel Brooks in 2010 at a ceremony to give him a star on the Walk of Fame.
Mel Brooks won in 1969 for 1968's The Producers .
William Goldman in November 2008.
William Goldman , winner in 1969 for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid .
Francis Ford Coppola in 2011.
Francis Ford Coppola , co-winner of the 1970 award for Patton .
A young Paddy Chayefsky in 1958.
Paddy Chayefsky garnered two solo wins The Hospital (1971) and Network (1976)
Robert Towne smoking in a cigar from a still of the movie that bears his name.
The screenwriter of Chinatown , Robert Towne , received this award.
Woody Allen in 2006.
Woody Allen earned three Original Screenplay Oscars, for Annie Hall (along with Marshall Brickman ), Hannah and Her Sisters , and Midnight in Paris . He has received sixteen nominations total, the most of any writer.
Steve Tesich outside on a snowy day in 1990.
Steve Tesich received the award in 1979 for Breaking Away .
Black-and-white portrait of Bo Goldman.
Bo Goldman won for Melvin and Howard (1980).
Portrait of John Patrick Shanley in 2015.
John Patrick Shanley won for Moonstruck (1987).
Jane Campion in 2014.
Jane Campion won for The Piano in 1993.
Tarantino at the San Diego Comic-Con International.
Quentin Tarantino won twice for Pulp Fiction (1994), and Django Unchained (2012)
The Coen brothers at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015.
Writer-director pair the Coen brothers won for Fargo (1996)
Ben Affleck at ComicCon 2017.
Ben Affleck , co-winner for Good Will Hunting (1997)
Matt Damon at the world premiere of The Martian at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.
Matt Damon also received the award for Good Will Hunting .
Pedro Almodóvar won for Talk to Her (2002)
Coppola in 2003.
Sofia Coppola won for 2003's Lost in Translation .
Charlie Kaufman won for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Cody, January 2008.
Diablo Cody won for 2007's Juno .
Dustin Lance Black at the 81st Academy Awards.
Dustin Lance Black won for 2008's Milk .
Mark Boal in 2012.
Mark Boal won for 2009's The Hurt Locker .
Jonze at the 2013 New York Film Festival.
Spike Jonze won for Her (2013).
Iñárritu with a camera in production.
Alejandro G. Iñárritu won for Birdman (2014).
Tom McCarthy.
Tom McCarthy won for Spotlight (2015).
Kenneth Lonergan in Vienna, 2016.
Kenneth Lonergan won for Manchester by the Sea (2016).
Peele at the May 2014 Peabody Awards
Jordan Peele became the first African-American to win with Get Out (2017).
Bong Joon Ho in 2017 at the Japan premiere of Okja.
Bong Joon-ho won for Parasite (2019), co-written with Han Jin-won .
Emereld Fennell reading from a book in 2013.
Emerald Fennell won for Promising Young Woman (2020).
Kenneth Branagh won for Belfast (2021).
Daniels won for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022).
Justine Triet co-won for Anatomy of a Fall (2023).
Arthur Harari co-won for Anatomy of a Fall (2023).