Want to know the best Best Original Screenplay Oscar Winning Movies? How about the worst Best Original Screenplay Oscar Winning Movies? Curious about Best Original Screenplay Oscar Winning Movies box office grosses or which Best Original Screenplay Oscar Winning Movies picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Best Original Screenplay Oscar Winning Movies got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which one got the worst reviews? Well, you have come to the right place because we have all of that information.
Since 1940, there have been over 80 Best Original Screenplay Oscar Winners. This page will rank all Best Original Screenplay Oscar Winning movies from Best to Worst in five different sortable columns of information. If you use the sort and search buttons the massive table becomes very interactive.
Best Original Screenplay Oscar Winning Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Year
Movie (Year)
Rating
S
Year Movie (Year) Rating S
1954
On the Waterfront (1954)
AA Best Picture Win
2010
The King's Speech (2010)
AA Best Picture Win
1970
Patton (1970)
AA Best Picture Win
1960
The Apartment (1960)
AA Best Picture Win
1977
Annie Hall (1977)
AA Best Picture Win
1973
The Sting (1973)
AA Best Picture Win
1982
Gandhi (1982)
AA Best Picture Win
1981
Chariots of Fire (1981)
AA Best Picture Win
1951
An American in Paris (1951)
AA Best Picture Win
1988
Rain Man (1988)
AA Best Picture Win
1976
Network (1976)
AA Best Picture Nom
1998
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
AA Best Picture Win
1999
American Beauty (1999)
AA Best Picture Win
1974
Chinatown (1974)
AA Best Picture Nom
1994
Pulp Fiction (1994)
AA Best Picture Nom
2025
Sinners (2025)
AA Best Picture Nom
1975
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
AA Best Picture Nom
1950
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
AA Best Picture Nom
2012
Django Unchained (2012)
AA Best Picture Nom
1985
Witness (1985)
AA Best Picture Nom
1997
Good Will Hunting (1997)
AA Best Picture Nom
2022
Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
AA Best Picture Win
1987
Moonstruck (1987)
AA Best Picture Nom
1969
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
AA Best Picture Nom
1992
The Crying Game (1992)
AA Best Picture Nom
2017
Get Out (2017)
AA Best Picture Nom
1949
Battleground (1949)
AA Best Picture Nom
1989
Dead Poets Society (1989)
AA Best Picture Nom
1962
How the West Was Won (1962)
AA Best Picture Nom
2007
Juno (2007)
AA Best Picture Nom
2018
Green Book (2018)
AA Best Picture Win
1941
Citizen Kane (1941)
AA Best Picture Nom
1944
Wilson (1944)
AA Best Picture Nom
1959
Pillow Talk (1959)
1967
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
AA Best Picture Nom
2014
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
AA Best Picture Win
2015
Spotlight (2015)
AA Best Picture Win
2019
Parasite (2019)
AA Best Picture Win
1961
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
1942
Woman of the Year (1942)
2004
Crash (2004)
AA Best Picture Win
1990
Ghost (1990)
AA Best Picture Nom
1958
The Defiant Ones (1958)
AA Best Picture Nom
1979
Breaking Away (1979)
AA Best Picture Nom
1964
Father Goose (1964)
1978
Coming Home (1978)
AA Best Picture Nom
1971
The Hospital (1971)
1986
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
AA Best Picture Nom
1993
The Piano (1993)
AA Best Picture Nom
1945
The Seventh Veil (1945)
2008
The Hurt Locker (2008)
AA Best Picture Win
1984
Places in the Heart (1984)
AA Best Picture Nom
1947
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
2006
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
AA Best Picture Nom
2024
Anora (2024)
AA Best Picture Win
1991
Thelma & Louise (1991)
2001
Gosford Park (2001)
AA Best Picture Nom
1996
Fargo (1996)
AA Best Picture Nom
2011
Midnight in Paris (2011)
AA Best Picture Nom
1943
Princess O'Rourke (1943)
1953
Titanic (1953)
2003
Lost in Translation (2003)
1965
Darling (1965)
AA Best Picture Nom
2008
Milk (2008)
AA Best Picture Nom
2000
Almost Famous (2000)
1957
Designing Woman (1957)
2004
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
2016
Manchester By The Sea (2016)
AA Best Picture Nom
2013
Her (2013)
AA Best Picture Nom
1967
The Producers (1967)
1955
Interrupted Melody (1955)
1995
The Usual Suspects (1995)
1951
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
1940
The Great McGinty (1940)
1983
Tender Mercies (1983)
AA Best Picture Nom
1972
The Candidate (1972)
2023
Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
AA Best Picture Nom
2002
Talk to Her (2002)
2021
Belfast (2021)
AA Best Picture Nom
2020
Promising Young Woman (2020)
1961
Divorce Italian Style (1961)
1956
The Red Balloon (1956)
1966
A Man and a Woman (1966)
1980
Melvin and Howard (1980)
1945
Marie-Louise (1945)
Best Original Screenplay Oscar Winning Movies Can Be Ranked 5 Ways In The Table Below
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| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | UMR Score | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | S |
| 1 | On the Waterfront (1954) AA Best Picture Win |
Budd Schulberg | 12.0 | 326.1 | 326.10 | 20 | 92 | 12 / 08 | 100.0 | |
| 2 | The King's Speech (2010) AA Best Picture Win |
David Seidler | 138.8 | 219.9 | 656.20 | 18 | 93 | 12 / 04 | 100.0 | |
| 3 | Patton (1970) AA Best Picture Win |
Francis Ford Coppola & Edmund H. North |
61.7 | 498.0 | 498.00 | 4 | 90 | 10 / 07 | 100.0 | |
| 4 | The Apartment (1960) AA Best Picture Win |
I. A. L. Diamond & Billy Wilder |
19.0 | 344.2 | 344.20 | 8 | 87 | 10 / 05 | 99.9 | |
| 5 | Annie Hall (1977) AA Best Picture Win |
Woody Allen & Marshall Brickman |
48.9 | 274.1 | 274.10 | 11 | 92 | 05 / 04 | 99.9 | |
| 6 | The Sting (1973) AA Best Picture Win |
David S. Ward | 157.6 | 1,113.1 | 1,969.10 | 2 | 88 | 10 / 03 | 99.9 | |
| 7 | Gandhi (1982) AA Best Picture Win |
John Briley | 52.8 | 224.4 | 543.20 | 11 | 85 | 11 / 08 | 99.9 | |
| 8 | Chariots of Fire (1981) AA Best Picture Win |
Colin Welland | 59.0 | 265.2 | 265.20 | 7 | 82 | 07 / 04 | 99.8 | |
| 9 | An American in Paris (1951) AA Best Picture Win |
Alan Jay Lerner | 12.0 | 300.9 | 531.70 | 7 | 77 | 08 / 06 | 99.8 | |
| 10 | Rain Man (1988) AA Best Picture Win |
Ronald Bass & Barry Morrow |
177.8 | 540.8 | 1,094.40 | 1 | 79 | 08 / 04 | 99.8 | |
| 11 | Network (1976) AA Best Picture Nom |
Paddy Chayefsky | 42.2 | 247.6 | 247.60 | 13 | 91 | 10 / 04 | 99.7 | |
| 12 | Shakespeare in Love (1998) AA Best Picture Win |
Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard |
100.3 | 267.4 | 771.10 | 17 | 70 | 13 / 07 | 99.7 | |
| 13 | American Beauty (1999) AA Best Picture Win |
Alan Ball | 130.1 | 321.4 | 880.20 | 13 | 71 | 08 / 05 | 99.7 | |
| 14 | Chinatown (1974) AA Best Picture Nom |
Robert Towne | 29.2 | 195.2 | 195.20 | 17 | 94 | 11 / 01 | 99.7 | |
| 15 | Pulp Fiction (1994) AA Best Picture Nom |
Quentin Tarantino | 107.9 | 330.7 | 655.40 | 10 | 94 | 07 / 01 | 99.7 | |
| 16 | Sinners (2025) AA Best Picture Nom |
Ryan Coogler | 278.6 | 278.6 | 365.80 | 8 | 84 | 16 / 04 | 99.6 | |
| 17 | Dog Day Afternoon (1975) AA Best Picture Nom |
Frank Pierson | 68.2 | 415.7 | 415.70 | 4 | 89 | 06 / 01 | 99.5 | |
| 18 | Sunset Blvd. (1950) AA Best Picture Nom |
Brackett, Marshman Jr. & Billy Wilder |
6.7 | 174.9 | 174.90 | 24 | 90 | 11 / 03 | 99.5 | |
| 19 | Django Unchained (2012) AA Best Picture Nom |
Quentin Tarantino | 162.8 | 255.7 | 664.00 | 15 | 88 | 05 / 02 | 99.5 | |
| 20 | Witness (1985) AA Best Picture Nom |
Kelley, Wallace, & Wallace |
68.7 | 241.9 | 241.90 | 8 | 85 | 08 / 02 | 99.4 | |
| 21 | Good Will Hunting (1997) AA Best Picture Nom |
Matt Damon & Ben Affleck |
138.4 | 377.0 | 615.30 | 7 | 83 | 09 / 02 | 99.4 | |
| 22 | Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) AA Best Picture Win |
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert |
76.9 | 91.2 | 131.70 | 25 | 91 | 11 / 07 | 99.3 | |
| 23 | Moonstruck (1987) AA Best Picture Nom |
John Patrick Shanley | 80.6 | 257.8 | 257.80 | 5 | 84 | 06 / 03 | 99.3 | |
| 24 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) AA Best Picture Nom |
William Goldman | 100.1 | 881.3 | 1,080.00 | 1 | 79 | 07 / 04 | 99.2 | |
| 25 | The Crying Game (1992) AA Best Picture Nom |
Neil Jordan | 62.5 | 188.4 | 188.40 | 20 | 87 | 06 / 01 | 99.1 | |
| 26 | Get Out (2017) AA Best Picture Nom |
Jordan Peele | 176.2 | 245.5 | 352.80 | 15 | 84 | 04 / 01 | 99.1 | |
| 27 | Battleground (1949) AA Best Picture Nom |
Robert Pirosh | 13.1 | 381.3 | 506.20 | 4 | 80 | 06 / 02 | 99.0 | |
| 28 | Dead Poets Society (1989) AA Best Picture Nom |
Tom Schulman | 95.9 | 301.8 | 742.60 | 11 | 84 | 04 / 01 | 99.0 | |
| 29 | How the West Was Won (1962) AA Best Picture Nom |
James R. Webb | 36.1 | 601.5 | 1,434.90 | 2 | 76 | 08 / 03 | 99.0 | |
| 30 | Juno (2007) AA Best Picture Nom |
Diablo Cody | 143.5 | 260.7 | 420.40 | 14 | 81 | 04 / 01 | 98.9 | |
| 31 | Green Book (2018) AA Best Picture Win |
Currie, Farrelly & Vallelonga |
85.1 | 116.1 | 434.10 | 36 | 83 | 05 / 03 | 98.9 | |
| 32 | Citizen Kane (1941) AA Best Picture Nom |
Herman J. Mankiewicz & Orson Welles |
3.2 | 142.6 | 185.80 | 76 | 93 | 09 / 01 | 98.8 | |
| 33 | Wilson (1944) AA Best Picture Nom |
Lamar Trotti | 6.5 | 252.0 | 252.00 | 37 | 69 | 10 / 05 | 98.7 | |
| 34 | Pillow Talk (1959) | Shapiro, Richlin; Greene & Rouse |
22.2 | 463.1 | 463.10 | 6 | 83 | 05 / 01 | 98.6 | |
| 35 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) AA Best Picture Nom |
William Rose | 52.5 | 542.4 | 542.40 | 4 | 71 | 10 / 02 | 98.5 | |
| 36 | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) AA Best Picture Win |
Bo, Dinelaris Jr., Giacobone & Iñárritu |
42.3 | 64.8 | 157.90 | 81 | 91 | 09 / 04 | 98.4 | |
| 37 | Spotlight (2015) AA Best Picture Win |
Tom McCarthy & Josh Singer |
45.1 | 66.8 | 131.00 | 59 | 94 | 06 / 02 | 98.3 | |
| 38 | Parasite (2019) AA Best Picture Win |
Bong Joon-ho & Han Jin-won |
53.4 | 72.8 | 363.00 | 53 | 89 | 06 / 04 | 98.2 | |
| 39 | Splendor in the Grass (1961) | William Inge | 12.0 | 202.7 | 202.70 | 16 | 82 | 02 / 01 | 98.1 | |
| 40 | Woman of the Year (1942) | Ring Lardner Jr. & Michael Kanin |
5.5 | 238.3 | 333.50 | 32 | 81 | 02 / 01 | 98.0 | |
| 41 | Crash (2004) AA Best Picture Win |
Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco |
54.6 | 109.9 | 198.10 | 58 | 78 | 06 / 03 | 97.9 | |
| 42 | Ghost (1990) AA Best Picture Nom |
Bruce Joel Rubin | 217.6 | 643.1 | 1,494.40 | 2 | 70 | 05 / 02 | 97.8 | |
| 43 | The Defiant Ones (1958) AA Best Picture Nom |
Nedrick Young & Harold Jacob Smith |
7.9 | 163.7 | 163.70 | 27 | 77 | 09 / 02 | 97.4 | |
| 44 | Breaking Away (1979) AA Best Picture Nom |
Steve Tesich | 27.1 | 135.0 | 135.00 | 34 | 90 | 05 / 01 | 97.3 | |
| 45 | Father Goose (1964) | Stone, Tarloff, & Barnett |
17.1 | 228.0 | 228.00 | 8 | 77 | 03 / 01 | 97.3 | |
| 46 | Coming Home (1978) AA Best Picture Nom |
Jones, Salt, & Dowd |
29.6 | 157.9 | 157.90 | 20 | 77 | 08 / 03 | 97.1 | |
| 47 | The Hospital (1971) | Paddy Chayefsky | 27.3 | 207.2 | 207.20 | 12 | 76 | 02 / 01 | 96.9 | |
| 48 | Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) AA Best Picture Nom |
Woody Allen | 35.4 | 119.2 | 119.20 | 30 | 90 | 07 / 03 | 96.9 | |
| 49 | The Piano (1993) AA Best Picture Nom |
Jane Campion | 40.2 | 121.2 | 121.40 | 37 | 88 | 08 / 03 | 96.8 | |
| 50 | The Seventh Veil (1945) | Muriel Box & Sydney Box |
5.6 | 204.2 | 204.20 | 60 | 74 | 01 / 01 | 96.2 | |
| 51 | The Hurt Locker (2008) AA Best Picture Win |
Mark Boal | 17.0 | 29.6 | 85.70 | 124 | 90 | 09 / 06 | 96.2 | |
| 52 | Places in the Heart (1984) AA Best Picture Nom |
Robert Benton | 34.9 | 129.8 | 129.80 | 25 | 84 | 07 / 02 | 96.0 | |
| 53 | The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) | Sidney Sheldon | 13.2 | 447.4 | 570.70 | 6 | 73 | 01 / 01 | 95.9 | |
| 54 | Little Miss Sunshine (2006) AA Best Picture Nom |
Michael Arndt | 59.9 | 113.8 | 191.00 | 51 | 88 | 04 / 02 | 95.3 | |
| 55 | Anora (2024) AA Best Picture Win |
Sean Baker | 19.9 | 19.9 | 51.90 | 62 | 88 | 06 / 05 | 94.1 | |
| 56 | Thelma & Louise (1991) | Callie Khouri | 45.4 | 134.7 | 134.70 | 27 | 82 | 06 / 01 | 93.5 | |
| 57 | Gosford Park (2001) AA Best Picture Nom |
Julian Fellowes | 41.3 | 91.4 | 194.10 | 59 | 86 | 07 / 01 | 92.9 | |
| 58 | Fargo (1996) AA Best Picture Nom |
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen |
24.6 | 69.6 | 171.40 | 66 | 91 | 07 / 02 | 92.4 | |
| 59 | Midnight in Paris (2011) AA Best Picture Nom |
Woody Allen | 56.8 | 89.6 | 256.20 | 59 | 88 | 04 / 01 | 92.3 | |
| 60 | Princess O'Rourke (1943) | Norman Krasna | 6.4 | 268.7 | 368.90 | 37 | 60 | 01 / 01 | 92.0 | |
| 61 | Titanic (1953) | Brackett, Breen & Reisch |
6.8 | 142.0 | 142.00 | 39 | 77 | 02 / 01 | 91.7 | |
| 62 | Lost in Translation (2003) | Sofia Coppola | 44.6 | 92.4 | 248.20 | 65 | 91 | 04 / 01 | 91.4 | |
| 63 | Darling (1965) AA Best Picture Nom |
Frederic Raphael | 9.9 | 121.2 | 121.20 | 25 | 71 | 05 / 03 | 91.0 | |
| 64 | Milk (2008) AA Best Picture Nom |
Dustin Lance Black | 31.8 | 55.4 | 95.00 | 89 | 89 | 08 / 02 | 90.5 | |
| 65 | Almost Famous (2000) | Cameron Crowe | 32.5 | 75.5 | 109.90 | 78 | 89 | 04 / 01 | 89.0 | |
| 66 | Designing Woman (1957) | George Wells | 6.4 | 143.5 | 243.90 | 35 | 69 | 01 / 01 | 88.9 | |
| 67 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) | Kaufman, Bismuth, & Gondry |
34.4 | 69.2 | 145.40 | 80 | 92 | 02 / 01 | 88.7 | |
| 68 | Manchester By The Sea (2016) AA Best Picture Nom |
Kenneth Lonergan | 47.7 | 68.9 | 112.10 | 70 | 81 | 06 / 02 | 88.4 | |
| 69 | Her (2013) AA Best Picture Nom |
Spike Jonze | 25.6 | 39.3 | 72.80 | 100 | 91 | 05 / 01 | 88.2 | |
| 70 | The Producers (1967) | Mel Brooks | 6.7 | 69.3 | 69.30 | 42 | 88 | 02 / 01 | 87.4 | |
| 71 | Interrupted Melody (1955) | Sonya Levien & William Ludwig |
5.1 | 123.6 | 276.60 | 66 | 69 | 03 / 01 | 87.2 | |
| 72 | The Usual Suspects (1995) | Christopher McQuarrie | 23.3 | 67.1 | 99.00 | 76 | 87 | 02 / 00 | 86.4 | |
| 73 | The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) | T. E. B. Clarke | 2.4 | 60.7 | 60.70 | 138 | 85 | 02 / 01 | 85.1 | |
| 74 | The Great McGinty (1940) | Preston Sturges | 2.2 | 97.3 | 97.30 | 91 | 73 | 01 / 01 | 84.8 | |
| 75 | Tender Mercies (1983) AA Best Picture Nom |
Horton Foote | 8.4 | 33.5 | 33.50 | 70 | 79 | 05 / 02 | 83.2 | |
| 76 | The Candidate (1972) | Jeremy Larner | 7.6 | 55.7 | 55.70 | 49 | 78 | 02 / 01 | 81.4 | |
| 77 | Anatomy of a Fall (2023) AA Best Picture Nom |
Justine Triet & Arthur Harari |
4.4 | 5.1 | 14.00 | 125 | 84 | 05 / 01 | 80.6 | |
| 78 | Talk to Her (2002) | Pedro Almodóvar | 9.3 | 20.0 | 20.00 | 143 | 89 | 02 / 00 | 80.3 | |
| 79 | Belfast (2021) AA Best Picture Nom |
Kenneth Branagh | 9.0 | 11.0 | 49.20 | 67 | 79 | 07 / 01 | 79.5 | |
| 80 | Promising Young Woman (2020) | Emerald Fennell | 6.4 | 8.8 | 18.10 | 35 | 75 | 05 / 02 | 76.1 | |
| 81 | Divorce Italian Style (1961) | de Concini, Germi & Giannetti |
0.4 | 7.3 | 7.30 | 134 | 83 | 03 / 01 | 75.0 | |
| 82 | The Red Balloon (1956) | Albert Lamorisse SEE RANK Albert Lamorisse | 0.4 | 9.8 | 9.80 | 202 | 81 | 00 / 00 | 70.3 | |
| 83 | A Man and a Woman (1966) | Claude Lelouch & Pierre Uytterhoeven |
0.6 | 7.1 | 7.10 | 131 | 75 | 04 / 02 | 69.6 | |
| 84 | Melvin and Howard (1980) | Bo Goldman | 4.3 | 20.7 | 20.70 | 108 | 71 | 03 / 02 | 68.9 | |
| 85 | Marie-Louise (1945) | Richard Schweizer | 0.1 | 5.2 | 5.20 | 170 | 65 | 00 / 00 | 42.9 |
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