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

2025

Brady Corbet / The Brutalist

Mona Fastvold / The Brutalist

Coralie Fargeat / The Substance

Justin Kuritzkes / Challengers

September 5

Tim Fehlbaum / September 5

Moritz Binder / September 5

Jesse Eisenberg / A Real Pain

Sean Baker / Anora

2024

Maestro

Samy Burch / May December

Noah Baumbach / Barbie

Celine Song / Past Lives

The Holdovers

Greta Gerwig / Barbie

Air

2023

The Fabelmans

Charlotte Wells / Aftersun

Martin McDonagh / The Banshees of Inisherin

Todd Field / TÁR

Daniel Scheinert / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Daniel Kwan / Everything Everywhere All at Once

2022

Kenneth Branagh / Belfast

Adam McKay / Don't Look Up

Paul Thomas Anderson / Licorice Pizza

David Sirota / Don't Look Up

Aaron Sorkin / Being the Ricardos

2021

Aaron Sorkin / The Trial of the Chicago 7

Eliza Hittman / Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Lee Isaac Chung / Minari

Jack Fincher / Mank

Abraham Marder / Sound of Metal

Emerald Fennell / Promising Young Woman

Darius Marder / Sound of Metal

2019

Scott Beck / A Quiet Place

John Krasinski / A Quiet Place

Bryan Woods / A Quiet Place

2018

Greta Gerwig / Lady Bird

2017

Kenneth Lonergan / Manchester by the Sea

Damien Chazelle / La La Land

2016

Tom McCarthy / Spotlight

Josh Singer / Spotlight

Inside Out

2014

Spike Jonze / Her

2012

The Artist

Diablo Cody / Young Adult

Win Win

Tom McCarthy / Win Win

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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