Critics' Choice Awards, Best Original Screenplay - TheTVDB.com

2026

Ryan Coogler / Sinners

2025

Jesse Eisenberg / A Real Pain

Coralie Fargeat / The Substance

Brady Corbet / The Brutalist

Mona Fastvold / The Brutalist

Justin Kuritzkes / Challengers

September 5

Tim Fehlbaum / September 5

Moritz Binder / September 5

Sean Baker / Anora

2024

The Holdovers

Celine Song / Past Lives

Maestro

Air

Samy Burch / May December

Noah Baumbach / Barbie

Greta Gerwig / Barbie

2023

Todd Field / TÁR

Martin McDonagh / The Banshees of Inisherin

Charlotte Wells / Aftersun

The Fabelmans

Daniel Kwan / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Daniel Scheinert / Everything Everywhere All at Once

2022

Kenneth Branagh / Belfast

Paul Thomas Anderson / Licorice Pizza

Adam McKay / Don't Look Up

Aaron Sorkin / Being the Ricardos

David Sirota / Don't Look Up

2021

Aaron Sorkin / The Trial of the Chicago 7

Eliza Hittman / Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Darius Marder / Sound of Metal

Jack Fincher / Mank

Abraham Marder / Sound of Metal

Emerald Fennell / Promising Young Woman

Lee Isaac Chung / Minari

2019

John Krasinski / A Quiet Place

Bryan Woods / A Quiet Place

Scott Beck / A Quiet Place

2018

Greta Gerwig / Lady Bird

2017

Kenneth Lonergan / Manchester by the Sea

Damien Chazelle / La La Land

2016

Tom McCarthy / Spotlight

Inside Out

Josh Singer / Spotlight

2014

Spike Jonze / Her

2012

The Artist

Win Win

Tom McCarthy / Win Win

Diablo Cody / Young Adult

2010

Joel Coen / A Serious Man

Ethan Coen / A Serious Man

2001

Cameron Crowe / Almost Famous

1997

Joel Coen / Fargo

Ethan Coen / Fargo

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