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

2025

Brady Corbet / The Brutalist

Mona Fastvold / The Brutalist

Justin Kuritzkes / Challengers

Sean Baker / Anora

Jesse Eisenberg / A Real Pain

September 5

Tim Fehlbaum / September 5

Moritz Binder / September 5

Coralie Fargeat / The Substance

2024

Greta Gerwig / Barbie

Maestro

Celine Song / Past Lives

Samy Burch / May December

Noah Baumbach / Barbie

Air

The Holdovers

2023

Charlotte Wells / Aftersun

Daniel Scheinert / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Daniel Kwan / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Todd Field / TÁR

Martin McDonagh / The Banshees of Inisherin

The Fabelmans

2022

Paul Thomas Anderson / Licorice Pizza

Aaron Sorkin / Being the Ricardos

David Sirota / Don't Look Up

Kenneth Branagh / Belfast

Adam McKay / Don't Look Up

2021

Eliza Hittman / Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Aaron Sorkin / The Trial of the Chicago 7

Emerald Fennell / Promising Young Woman

Jack Fincher / Mank

Darius Marder / Sound of Metal

Lee Isaac Chung / Minari

Abraham Marder / Sound of Metal

2019

Scott Beck / A Quiet Place

Bryan Woods / A Quiet Place

John Krasinski / A Quiet Place

2018

Greta Gerwig / Lady Bird

2017

Damien Chazelle / La La Land

Kenneth Lonergan / Manchester by the Sea

2016

Inside Out

Tom McCarthy / Spotlight

Josh Singer / Spotlight

2014

Spike Jonze / Her

2012

Win Win

Tom McCarthy / Win Win

The Artist

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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