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

2025

Sean Baker / Anora

Brady Corbet / The Brutalist

Coralie Fargeat / The Substance

Justin Kuritzkes / Challengers

September 5

Tim Fehlbaum / September 5

Moritz Binder / September 5

Jesse Eisenberg / A Real Pain

Mona Fastvold / The Brutalist

2024

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Celine Song / Past Lives

Noah Baumbach / Barbie

Samy Burch / May December

The Holdovers

Greta Gerwig / Barbie

2023

Charlotte Wells / Aftersun

Daniel Kwan / Everything Everywhere All at Once

The Fabelmans

Daniel Scheinert / Everything Everywhere All at Once

Martin McDonagh / The Banshees of Inisherin

Todd Field / TÁR

2022

Paul Thomas Anderson / Licorice Pizza

Kenneth Branagh / Belfast

Adam McKay / Don't Look Up

David Sirota / Don't Look Up

Aaron Sorkin / Being the Ricardos

2021

Aaron Sorkin / The Trial of the Chicago 7

Jack Fincher / Mank

Darius Marder / Sound of Metal

Abraham Marder / Sound of Metal

Lee Isaac Chung / Minari

Emerald Fennell / Promising Young Woman

Eliza Hittman / Never Rarely Sometimes Always

2019

Scott Beck / A Quiet Place

Bryan Woods / A Quiet Place

John Krasinski / 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

Ethan Coen / Fargo

Joel Coen / Fargo

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