HAMILTON AWARDS
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY WINNERS
1916D.W. Griffith for Intolerance
1917no award given
1918Charles Chaplin for Shoulder Arms
1919Charles Chaplin for Sunnyside
1920Carl Mayer, Hans Janowitz for Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari
1921Charles Chaplin for The Kid
1922Benjamin Christensen for Witchcraft Through the Ages (Häxan)
1923Hal Roach, Sam Taylor, Tim Whelan for Safety Last
1924Clyde Bruckman, Joseph Mitchell, Jean Havez for The Navigator
1925Charles Chaplin for The Gold Rush
1926Abel Gance for Napoléon
1927Tod Browning, Waldemar Young for London After Midnight
1928Charles Chaplin for The Circus
1929Clyde Bruckman, Lex Neal, Felix Adler for Welcome Danger
1930Jean Cocteau for The Blood of a Poet
1931Charles Chaplin for City Lights
1932Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, S.J. Perelman, Will Johnstone forHorse Feathers
1933James Creelman, Ruth Rose for King Kong
1934Ralph Graves for Born to Be Bad
1935George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind for A Night at the Opera
1936Charles Chaplin for Modern Times
1937Charles Spaak, Jean Renoir for Grand Illusion
1938 Norman Reilly Raine, Seton I. Miller for The Adventures of Robin Hood
1939 Jules Furthman, Howard Hawks for Only Angels Have Wings
1940Charles Chaplin for The Great Dictator
1941Orson Welles for Citizen Kane
1942Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger for One of Our Aircraft is Missing
1943Thornton Wilder, Alma Reville, Sally Benson for Shadow of a Doubt
1944Preston Sturges for The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
1945John V. Baines, Angus Macphail, T.E.B. Clarke for Dead of Night
1946Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger for A Matter of Life and Death
1947Charles Chaplin for Monsieur Verdoux
1948Preston Sturges for Unfaithfully Yours
1949Graham Greene for The Third Man
1950Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman, Jr. for Sunset Boulevard
1951Samuel Fuller for The Steel Helmet
1952John Steinbeck for Viva Zapata!
1953Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), Allan Scott forThe 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
1954Budd Schulberg for On the Waterfront
1955Stewart Stern, Nicholas Ray for Rebel without a Cause
1956Dalton Trumbo, Harry S. Franklin, Merrill G. White for The Brave One
1957Budd Schulberg for A Face in the Crowd
1958Nathan E. Douglas, Harold Jacob Smith for The Defiant Ones
1959Ernest Lehman for North by Northwest
1960Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond for The Apartment
1961Ryuzo Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa for Yojimbo
1962 Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Kuba Goldberg for Knife in the Water
1963Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pineeli, Brunello Rondi for 8½
1964Jacques Demy for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1965Roman Polanski,Gérard Brach for Repulsion
1966Roman Polanski,Gérard Brach for Cul-De-Sac
1967David Newman, Robert Benton for Bonnie and Clyde
1968Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke for 2001: A Space Odyssey
1969William Goldman for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid / 1970Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North for Patton
1971Paddy Chayefsky for The Hospital
1972Jeremy Larner for The Candidate
1973Anthony Shaffer for The Wicker Man
1974Robert Towne for Chinatown
1975Woody Allen for Love and Death
1976Paddy Chayefsky for Network
1977Steven Spielberg for Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1978 Mario Puzo, David Newman, Leslie Newman, Robert Benton forSuperman
1979Dan O’Bannon, Ron Shusett for Alien
1980Lawrence Kasdan, Leigh Brackett for
Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
1981Lawrence Kasdan for Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982Melissa Matheson for E.T. the Extraterrestrial
1983Paul D. Zimmerman for The King of Comedy
1984Joel Coen, Ethan Coen for Blood Simple
1985Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard and Charles McKeown for Brazil
1986David Lynch for Blue Velvet
1987David Mamet for House of Games
1988Ron Shelton for Bull Durham
1989Steven Soderbergh for sex, lies, and videotape
1990Joel Coen, Ethan Coen for Miller’s Crossing
1991Richard LaGravenese for The Fisher King
1992Quentin Tarantino for Reservoir Dogs
1993Richard Linklater for Dazed and Confused
1994Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary for Pulp Fiction
1995Christopher McQuarrie for The Usual Suspects
1996 Joel Coen, Ethan Coen for Fargo
1997 Paul Thomas Anderson for Boogie Nights
1998 Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard for Shakespeare in Love
1999 Kevin Smith for Dogma
2000 Christopher McQuarrie for The Way of the Gun
2001David Lynch for Mulholland Drive
2002Pedro Almodóvar for Talk to Her(Hable con ella)
2003Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation
2004Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2005Woody Allen for Match Point
2006Guillermo del Toro for Pan's Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno)
2007Diablo Cody for Juno
2008Nick Schenk for Gran Torino
2009Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds
2010Christopher Nolan for Inception
2011Woody Allen for Midnight in Paris
2012Quentin Tarantino for Django Unchained
2013Woody Allen for Blue Jasmine
2014Wes Anderson for The Grand Budapest Hotel
2015Quentin Tarantino for The Hateful Eight
2016Taylor Sheridan for Hell or High Water
2017Martin McDonagh forThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri