Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

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These are the winners only. The Best Original Screenplay award didn't exist until 1940 (when Best Story was split into two categories).

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  1. 1 -

    The Great McGinty

    1940, in 4 top lists Check
  2. 2 -

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
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    Woman of the Year

    1942, in 7 top lists Check
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    Princess O'Rourke

    1943, in 0 top lists Check
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    Wilson

    1944, in 2 top lists Check
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    Marie-Louise

    1944, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Seventh Veil

    1945, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer

    1947 — a.k.a. Bachelor Knight, in 0 top lists Check
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    Battleground

    1949, in 3 top lists Check
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    Sunset Blvd.

    1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard, in 35 top lists Check
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    An American in Paris

    1951, in 18 top lists Check
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    The Lavender Hill Mob

    1951, in 9 top lists Check
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    Titanic

    1953, in 0 top lists Check
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    On the Waterfront

    1954, in 32 top lists Check
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    Interrupted Melody

    1955, in 0 top lists Check
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    Le ballon rouge

    1956 — a.k.a. The Red Balloon, in 11 top lists Check
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    Designing Woman

    1957, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Defiant Ones

    1958, in 7 top lists Check
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    Pillow Talk

    1959, in 6 top lists Check
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    The Apartment

    1960, in 28 top lists Check
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    Splendor in the Grass

    1961, in 7 top lists Check
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    Divorzio all'italiana

    1961 — a.k.a. Divorce Italian Style, in 7 top lists Check
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    How the West Was Won

    1962, in 2 top lists Check
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    Father Goose

    1964, in 0 top lists Check
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    Darling

    1965, in 7 top lists Check
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    Un homme et une femme

    1966 — a.k.a. A Man and a Woman, in 8 top lists Check
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    Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

    1967, in 7 top lists Check
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    The Producers

    1967, in 14 top lists Check
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    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

    1969, in 21 top lists Check
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    Patton

    1970, in 13 top lists Check
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    The Hospital

    1971, in 3 top lists Check
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    The Candidate

    1972, in 2 top lists Check
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    The Sting

    1973, in 17 top lists Check
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    Chinatown

    1974, in 32 top lists Check
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    Dog Day Afternoon

    1975, in 23 top lists Check
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    Network

    1976, in 14 top lists Check
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    Annie Hall

    1977, in 34 top lists Check
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    Coming Home

    1978, in 4 top lists Check
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    Breaking Away

    1979, in 7 top lists Check
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    Melvin and Howard

    1980, in 4 top lists Check
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    Chariots of Fire

    1981, in 14 top lists Check
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    Gandhi

    1982, in 15 top lists Check
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    Tender Mercies

    1983, in 4 top lists Check
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    Places in the Heart

    1984, in 4 top lists Check
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    Witness

    1985, in 8 top lists Check
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    Hannah and Her Sisters

    1986, in 8 top lists Check
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    Moonstruck

    1987, in 10 top lists Check
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    Rain Man

    1988, in 14 top lists Check
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    Dead Poets Society

    1989, in 12 top lists Check
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    Ghost

    1990, in 9 top lists Check
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