1940–1975
Preston Sturges (1940)
Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles (1941)
Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner Jr. (1942)
Norman Krasna (1943)
Lamar Trotti (1944)
Richard Schweizer (1945)
Muriel Box and Sydney Box (1946)
Sidney Sheldon (1947)
No award (1948)
Robert Pirosh (1949)
Charles Brackett , D. M. Marshman Jr. , and Billy Wilder (1950)
Alan Jay Lerner (1951)
T. E. B. Clarke (1952)
Charles Brackett , Richard L. Breen , and Walter Reisch (1953)
Budd Schulberg (1954)
Sonya Levien and William Ludwig (1955)
Albert Lamorisse (1956)
George Wells (1957)
Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith (1958)
Clarence Greene , Maurice Richlin , Russell Rouse , and Stanley Shapiro (1959)
I. A. L. Diamond and Billy Wilder (1960)
William Inge (1961)
Ennio de Concini , Pietro Germi , and Alfredo Giannetti (1962)
James Webb (1963)
S. H. Barnett, Peter Stone and Frank Tarloff (1964)
Frederic Raphael (1965)
Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven (1966)
William Rose (1967)
Mel Brooks (1968)
William Goldman (1969)
Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North (1970)
Paddy Chayefsky (1971)
Jeremy Larner (1972)
David S. Ward (1973)
Robert Towne (1974)
Frank Pierson (1975)
1976–2000 2001–present
1960s
Song Without End – George Cukor , Charles Vidor , and William Goetz / The Apartment – Billy Wilder (1960)
West Side Story – Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise / A Majority of One – Mervyn LeRoy (1961)
The Music Man – Morton DaCosta / That Touch of Mink – Delbert Mann , Robert Arthur , Martin Melcher , Edward Muhl , and Stanley Shapiro (1962)
Tom Jones – Tony Richardson , Michael Balcon , Michael Holden, and Oscar Lewenstein (1963)
My Fair Lady – George Cukor and Jack L. Warner (1964)
The Sound of Music – Robert Wise (1965)
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming – Norman Jewison (1966)
The Graduate – Mike Nichols , Joseph E. Levine , and Lawrence Turman (1967)
Oliver! – Carol Reed and John Woolf (1968)
The Secret of Santa Vittoria – Stanley Kramer and George Glass (1969)
1990s
Green Card – Peter Weir (1990)
Beauty and the Beast – Gary Trousdale , Kirk Wise , and Don Hahn (1991)
The Player – Robert Altman , David Brown , Michael Tolkin , and Nick Wechsler (1992)
Mrs. Doubtfire – Chris Columbus , Marsha Garces , Mark Radcliffe, and Robin Williams (1993)
The Lion King – Roger Allers , Rob Minkoff , and Don Hahn (1994)
Babe – Chris Noonan , Catherine Barber, Philip Hearnshaw , Bill Miller , George Miller , Doug Mitchell , and Daphne Paris (1995)
Evita – Alan Parker and Robert Stigwood (1996)
As Good as It Gets – James L. Brooks , Bridget Johnson, and Kristi Zea (1997)
Shakespeare in Love – John Madden , Donna Gigliotti , Marc Norman , David Parfitt , Harvey Weinstein , and Edward Zwick (1998)
Toy Story 2 – John Lasseter , Karen Robert Jackson, and Helene Plotkin (1999)
2000s
Almost Famous – Cameron Crowe and Ian Bryce (2000)
Moulin Rouge! – Baz Luhrmann , Fred Baron , and Martin Brown (2001)
Chicago – Rob Marshall , Meryl Poster , Martin Richards , Bob Weinstein , Harvey Weinstein , and Craig Zadan (2002)
Lost in Translation – Sofia Coppola and Ross Katz (2003)
Sideways – Alexander Payne and Michael London (2004)
Walk the Line – James Mangold , James Keach , and Cathy Konrad (2005)
Dreamgirls – Bill Condon and Laurence Mark (2006)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Tim Burton , John Logan , Laurie MacDonald , Walter F. Parkes , and Richard D. Zanuck (2007)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona – Woody Allen , Letty Aronson , Jaume Roures , Stephen Tenenbaum , and Gareth Wiley (2008)
The Hangover – Todd Phillips and Daniel Goldberg (2009)
2010s
The Kids Are All Right – Lisa Cholodenko , Gary Gilbert , Jeff Levy-Hinte , and Celine Rattray (2010)
The Artist – Michel Hazanavicius and Thomas Langmann (2011)
Les Misérables – Tom Hooper , Tim Bevan , Eric Fellner , Debra Hayward , and Cameron Mackintosh (2012)
American Hustle – David O. Russell , Charles Roven , Megan Ellison , Richard Suckle , and Jonathan Gordon (2013)
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson , Jeremy Dawson , Steven Rales , and Scott Rudin (2014)
The Martian – Ridley Scott , Simon Kinberg , Michael Schaefer , Aditya Sood, and Mark Huffam (2015)
La La Land – Damien Chazelle , Fred Berger , Gary Gilbert , Jordan Horowitz , and Marc Platt (2016)
Lady Bird – Greta Gerwig , Eli Bush , Evelyn O'Neill , and Scott Rudin (2017)
Green Book – Peter Farrelly , Jim Burke , Charles B. Wessler , Brian Hayes Currie, and Nick Vallelonga (2018)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino , David Heyman , and Shannon McIntosh (2019)
1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s