New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay

The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay is an annual film award given by the New York Film Critics Circle.

The most successful in this category were Woody Allen, Robert Benton, Ingmar Bergman, Kenneth Lonergan, Paul Mazursky, Quentin Tarantino and the author duo Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, who each won the award twice. The Film Critics Association was able to present the Oscar winners in advance 20 times (13 times original screenplays, seven times adaptations).[citation needed]

Winners

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1950s

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Year Winner Writer(s) Source
1956 Around the World in 80 Days James Poe, John Farrow, and S. J. Perelman novel by Jules Verne
1957 No award given
1958 The Defiant Ones Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith
1959 Anatomy of a Murder Wendell Mayes novel by Robert Traver

1960s

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Year Winner Writer(s) Source
1960 The Apartment I. A. L. Diamond and Billy Wilder
1961 Judgment at Nuremberg Abby Mann teleplay by Abby Mann
1962 No award given (newspaper strike)
1963 Hud Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr. novel by Larry McMurtry
1964 The Servant Harold Pinter novel by Robin Maugham
1965 No award given
1966 A Man for All Seasons Robert Bolt play by Robert Bolt
1967 Bonnie and Clyde David Newman and Robert Benton
1968 Pretty Poison Lorenzo Semple Jr. novel by Stephen Geller
1969 Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker

1970s

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Year Winner Writer(s) Source
1970 My Night at Maud's (Ma nuit chez Maud) Éric Rohmer
1971 The Last Picture Show Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich novel by Larry McMurtry
Sunday Bloody Sunday Penelope Gilliatt
1972 Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop) Ingmar Bergman
1973 American Graffiti George Lucas, Gloria Katz, and Willard Huyck
1974 Scenes from a Marriage (Scener ur ett äktenskap) Ingmar Bergman
1975 The Story of Adele H. (L'Histoire d'Adèle H.) François Truffaut, Suzanne Schiffman, and Jean Gruault diaries by Adèle Hugo
1976 Network Paddy Chayefsky
1977 Annie Hall Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
1978 An Unmarried Woman Paul Mazursky
1979 Breaking Away Steve Tesich

1980s

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Year Winner Writer(s) Source
1980 Melvin and Howard Bo Goldman
1981 Atlantic City John Guare
1982 Tootsie Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal
1983 Local Hero Bill Forsyth
1984 Places in the Heart Robert Benton
1985 The Purple Rose of Cairo Woody Allen
1986 My Beautiful Laundrette Hanif Kureishi
1987 Broadcast News James L. Brooks
1988 Bull Durham Ron Shelton
1989 Drugstore Cowboy Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost

1990s

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Year Winner Writer(s) Source
1990 Mr. & Mrs. Bridge Ruth Prawer Jhabvala novels by Evan S. Connell
1991 Naked Lunch David Cronenberg novel by William S. Burroughs
1992 The Crying Game Neil Jordan
1993 The Piano Jane Campion
1994 Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary
1995 Sense and Sensibility Emma Thompson novel by Jane Austen
1996 Mother Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson
1997 L.A. Confidential Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland novel by James Ellroy
1998 Shakespeare in Love Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard
1999 Election Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor novel by Tom Perrotta

2000s

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Year Winner Writer(s) Source
2000 You Can Count on Me Kenneth Lonergan
2001 Gosford Park Julian Fellowes
2002 Adaptation. Charlie and Donald Kaufman novel by Susan Orlean
2003 The Secret Lives of Dentists Craig Lucas novel by Jane Smiley
2004 Sideways Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor novel by Rex Pickett
2005 The Squid and the Whale Noah Baumbach
2006 The Queen Peter Morgan
2007 No Country for Old Men Joel Coen and Ethan Coen novel by Cormac McCarthy
2008 Rachel Getting Married Jenny Lumet
2009 In the Loop Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, and Tony Roche

2010s

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Year Winner Writer(s) Source
2010 The Kids Are All Right Stuart Blumberg and Lisa Cholodenko
2011 Moneyball Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, and Stan Chervin novel by Michael Lewis
2012 Lincoln Tony Kushner novel by Doris Kearns Goodwin
2013 American Hustle Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel Wes Anderson
2015 Carol Phyllis Nagy novel by Patricia Highsmith
2016 Manchester by the Sea Kenneth Lonergan
2017 Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson[1]
2018 First Reformed Paul Schrader[2]
2019 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Quentin Tarantino[3]

2020s

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Year Winner Writer(s) Source
2020 Never Rarely Sometimes Always Eliza Hittman[4]
2021 Licorice Pizza Paul Thomas Anderson[5]
2022 The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh
2023 May December Samy Burch -

References

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