| 2024 | Conclave IMDB | Screenplay by Peter Straughan |
| 2023 | American Fiction IMDB | Written for the screen by Cord Jefferson |
| 2022 | Women Talking IMDB | Screenplay by Sarah Polley |
| 2021 | CODA IMDB | Screenplay by Siân Heder |
| 2020 | The Father IMDB | Screenplay by Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller |
| 2019 | Jojo Rabbit IMDB | Screenplay by Taika Waititi |
| 2018 | BlacKkKlansman IMDB | Written by Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee |
| 2017 | Call Me by Your Name IMDB | Screenplay by James Ivory |
| 2016 | Moonlight IMDB | Screenplay by Barry Jenkins; Story by Tarell Alvin McCraney |
| 2015 | The Big Short IMDB | Screenplay by Charles Randolph and Adam McKay |
| 2014 | The Imitation Game IMDB | Written by Graham Moore |
| 2013 | 12 Years a Slave IMDB | Screenplay by John Ridley |
| 2012 | Argo IMDB | Screenplay by Chris Terrio |
| 2011 | The Descendants IMDB | Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash |
| 2010 | The Social Network IMDB | Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin |
| 2009 | Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire IMDB | Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher |
| 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire IMDB | Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy |
| 2007 | No Country for Old Men IMDB | Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen |
| 2006 | The Departed IMDB | Screenplay by William Monahan |
| 2005 | Brokeback Mountain IMDB | Screenplay by Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana |
| 2004 | Sideways IMDB | Screenplay by Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King IMDB | Screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson |
| 2002 | The Pianist IMDB | Screenplay by Ronald Harwood |
| 2001 | A Beautiful Mind IMDB | Written by Akiva Goldsman |
| 2000 | Traffic IMDB | Screenplay by Stephen Gaghan |
| 1999 | The Cider House Rules IMDB | John Irving |
| 1998 | Gods and Monsters IMDB | Bill Condon |
| 1997 | L.A. Confidential IMDB | Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson |
| 1996 | Sling Blade IMDB | Billy Bob Thornton |
| 1995 | Sense and Sensibility IMDB | Emma Thompson |
| 1994 | Forrest Gump IMDB | Eric Roth |
| 1993 | Schindler's List IMDB | Steven Zaillian |
| 1992 | Howards End IMDB | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
| 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs IMDB | Ted Tally |
| 1990 | Dances With Wolves IMDB | Michael Blake |
| 1989 | Driving Miss Daisy IMDB | Alfred Uhry |
| 1988 | Dangerous Liaisons IMDB | Christopher Hampton |
| 1987 | The Last Emperor IMDB | Mark Peploe, Bernardo Bertolucci |
| 1986 | A Room with a View IMDB | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
| 1985 | Out of Africa IMDB | Kurt Luedtke |
| 1984 | Amadeus IMDB | Peter Shaffer |
| 1983 | Terms of Endearment IMDB | James L. Brooks |
| 1982 | Missing IMDB | Costa-Gavras, Donald Stewart |
| 1981 | On Golden Pond IMDB | Ernest Thompson |
| 1980 | Ordinary People IMDB | Alvin Sargent |
| 1979 | Kramer vs. Kramer IMDB | Robert Benton |
| 1978 | Midnight Express IMDB | Oliver Stone |
| 1977 | Julia IMDB | Alvin Sargent |
| 1976 | All the President's Men IMDB | William Goldman |
| 1975 | One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest IMDB | Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman |
| 1974 | The Godfather Part II IMDB | Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo |
| 1973 | The Exorcist IMDB | William Peter Blatty |
| 1972 | The Godfather IMDB | Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola |
| 1971 | The French Connection IMDB | Ernest Tidyman |
| 1970 | M*A*S*H IMDB | Ring Lardner, Jr. |
| 1969 | Midnight Cowboy IMDB | Waldo Salt |
| 1968 | The Lion in Winter IMDB | James Goldman |
| 1967 | In the Heat of the Night IMDB | Stirling Silliphant |
| 1966 | A Man for All Seasons IMDB | Robert Bolt |
| 1965 | Doctor Zhivago IMDB | Robert Bolt |
| 1964 | Becket IMDB | Edward Anhalt |
| 1963 | Tom Jones IMDB | John Osborne |
| 1962 | To Kill a Mockingbird IMDB | Horton Foote |
| 1961 | Judgment at Nuremberg IMDB | Abby Mann |
| 1960 | Elmer Gantry IMDB | Richard Brooks |
| 1959 | Room at the Top IMDB | Neil Paterson |
| 1958 | Gigi IMDB | Alan Jay Lerner |
| 1957 | The Bridge on the River Kwai IMDB | Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman, Pierre Boulle |
| 1956 | Around the World in 80 Days IMDB | James Poe, John Farrow, S.J. Perelman |
| 1955 | Marty IMDB | Paddy Chayefsky |
| 1954 | The Country Girl IMDB | George Seaton |
| 1953 | From Here to Eternity IMDB | Daniel Taradash |
| 1952 | The Bad and the Beautiful IMDB | Charles Schnee |
| 1951 | A Place in the Sun IMDB | Michael Wilson, Harry Brown |
| 1950 | All about Eve IMDB | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 1949 | A Letter to Three Wives IMDB | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 1948 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre IMDB | John Huston |
| 1947 | Miracle on 34th Street IMDB | George Seaton |
| 1946 | The Best Years of Our Lives IMDB | Robert E. Sherwood |
| 1945 | The Lost Weekend IMDB | Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder |
| 1944 | Going My Way IMDB | Frank Butler, Frank Cavett |
| 1943 | Casablanca IMDB | Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch |
| 1942 | Mrs. Miniver IMDB | Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West |
| 1941 | Here Comes Mr. Jordan IMDB | Sidney Buchman, Seton I. Miller |
| 1940 | The Philadelphia Story IMDB | Donald Ogden Stewart |
| 1939 | Gone with the Wind IMDB | Sidney Howard |
| 1938 | Pygmalion IMDB | Screenplay and Dialogue by George Bernard Shaw; Adaptation by W. P. Lipscomb, Cecil Lewis, Ian Dalrymple |
| 1937 | The Life of Emile Zola IMDB | Norman Reilly Raine, Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg |
| 1936 | The Story of Louis Pasteur IMDB | Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney |
| 1935 | The Informer IMDB | Dudley Nichols |
| 1934 | It Happened One Night IMDB | Robert Riskin |
| 1932/33 | Little Women IMDB | Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason |
| 1931/32 | Bad Girl IMDB | Edwin Burke |
| 1930/31 | Cimarron IMDB | Howard Estabrook |
| 1929/30 | The Big House IMDB | Frances Marion |
| 1928/29 | The Patriot IMDB | Hans Kraly |
| 1927/28 | 7th Heaven IMDB | Benjamin Glazer |