Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Original Screenplay explained

Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Original Screenplay
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Awarded For:	Best Original Screenwriting of a Motion Picture
Presenter:	Critics Choice Association
Location:	Los Angeles, California
Year:	Emma Thompson for Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Holder:	Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach for Barbie (2023)
Website:	www.criticschoice.com

The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Original Screenplay is presented by the Critics Choice Association at the annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards.

The categories for screenplays have gone through several changes since their inception in 1995:

From 1995 to 1996, the category Best Screenplay was presented, with no official nominees being announced but instead only a winner.
From 1997 to 2000, the category was split into two, divided into Best Original Screenplay and Best Screenplay Adaptation.
In 2001, the categories were merged into Best Screenplay again. From 2002 to 2008, the category was renamed to Best Writer.

In 2009, the distinction between original and adapted was implemented again, with two categories presented ever since, Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Best Screenplay

Year	Writer (s)	Film
1995 ^[1]	Emma Thompson	*Sense and Sensibility*
1996 ^[2]	Anthony Minghella	*The English Patient*

Best Original Screenplay

Year	Writer (s)	Film
	Matt Damon and Ben Affleck	*Good Will Hunting*
	Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard	*Shakespeare in Love*
	Alan Ball	*American Beauty*

2000s

Best Original Screenplay

Best Screenplay

Year	Writer (s)	Film
2001 ^[4]	Christopher Nolan	*Memento*
		The Man Who Wasn't There
		A Beautiful Mind

Best Writer

Year	Writer (s)	Film
	Charlie Kaufman	**Adaptation. and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind**
		About Schmidt
		My Big Fat Greek Wedding
	Jim Sheridan, Naomi Sheridan, and Kirsten Sheridan	*In America*
		Big Fish
		Lost in Translation
		Mystic River
		Seabiscuit
	Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor	*Sideways*
		Kinsey
		Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
		The Aviator
		Finding Neverland
	Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco	*Crash*
		The Squid and the Whale
		Good Night, and Good Luck.
		Capote
		Brokeback Mountain
	Michael Arndt	*Little Miss Sunshine*
		Babel
		Little Children
		Stranger than Fiction
		The Departed
		The Queen
	Diablo Cody	*Juno*
		No Country for Old Men
		Michael Clayton
		Lars and the Real Girl
		Into the Wild
		Charlie Wilson's War
	Simon Beaufoy	*Slumdog Millionaire*
		Milk
		Frost/Nixon
		The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
		Doubt

Best Original Screenplay

Year	Writer (s)	Film
2009 ^[5]	Quentin Tarantino	*Inglourious Basterds*
		The Hurt Locker
		A Serious Man
		(500) Days of Summer
		Up

2010s

Year	Writer (s)	Film
2010 ^[6]	David Seidler	*The King's Speech*
		The Kids Are All Right
	Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, and John McLaughlin	Black Swan
		Another Year
		Inception
	Scott Silver, Eric Johnson, Paul Tamasy, and Keith Dorrington	The Fighter
2011 ^[7]	Woody Allen	*Midnight in Paris*
		Young Adult
		The Artist
	Tom McCarthy and Joe Tiboni	Win Win
		50/50
2012 ^[8]	Quentin Tarantino	*Django Unchained*
		The Master
		Moonrise Kingdom
		Zero Dark Thirty
		Flight
		Looper
2013 ^[9]	Spike Jonze	*Her*
		Blue Jasmine
		Inside Llewyn Davis
		Nebraska
		American Hustle
2014 ^[10]	Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bó	*Birdman*
		The Grand Budapest Hotel
		Whiplash
		Nightcrawler
		Boyhood
2015 ^[11]	Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer	*Spotlight*
		Bridge of Spies
		Inside Out
		Ex Machina
		The Hateful Eight
2016 ^[12]	Damien Chazelle (TIE)	*La La Land*
	Kenneth Lonergan (TIE)	*Manchester by the Sea*
		The Lobster
		Moonlight
		Loving
		Hell or High Water
2017 ^[13]	Jordan Peele	*Get Out*
		The Shape of Water
		Lady Bird
		The Big Sick
		The Post
		Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2018 ^[14]	Paul Schrader	*First Reformed*
		Eighth Grade
		Roma
		The Favourite
		Vice
		Green Book
		A Quiet Place
2019 ^[15]	Quentin Tarantino	*Once Upon a Time in Hollywood*
		Marriage Story
		Parasite
		Knives Out
		The Farewell

2020s

Year	Writer (s)	Film
2020 ^[16]	Emerald Fennell	*Promising Young Woman*
		Minari
	Jack Fincher (posthumous)	Mank
		Never Rarely Sometimes Always
	Darius Marder and Abraham Marder	Sound of Metal
		The Trial of the Chicago 7
2021 ^[17]	Kenneth Branagh	*Belfast*
		Licorice Pizza
	Zach Baylin	King Richard
		Don't Look Up
		Being the Ricardos
2022 ^[18]	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert	*Everything Everywhere All at Once*
		Tár
		The Banshees of Inisherin
		The Fabelmans
		Aftersun
2023 ^[19]	Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach	*Barbie*
		May December
	Alex Convery	Air
		Maestro
		The Holdovers
		Past Lives

Notes and References

Web site: The BFCA Critics' Choice Awards :: 1995 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20081212034353/http://www.bfca.org/ccawards/1995.php . dead . December 12, 2008.
Web site: The BFCA Critics' Choice Awards :: 1996 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20081212034358/http://www.bfca.org/ccawards/1996.php . dead . December 12, 2008.
Web site: Broadcast Critics Eat Crowe . Armstrong . Mark . December 19, 2000 . . November 18, 2021.
Web site: Critics make it a 'Beautiful' night for Crowe . January 12, 2002 . . January 12, 2002.
Web site: Broadcast Film Critics Award 'Hurt Locker' . Finke . Nikki . January 16, 2010 . . January 16, 2010.
Web site: Critics' Choice Awards Spread The Gold: 'Social Network', Fincher, Firth, Portman . The Deadline Team . January 14, 2011 . . January 14, 2011.
Web site: 'The Artist' Best Pic, George Clooney, Viola Davis Top Actors At Critics Choice Awards . The Deadline Team . January 12, 2012 . . January 12, 2012.
Web site: Critics' Choice Movie Awards: 'Argo' Best Picture, Director; Daniel Day-Lewis, Jessica Chastain Take Acting Honors . The Deadline Team . January 10, 2013 . . January 10, 2013.
Web site: Critics' Choice Movie Awards: '12 Years A Slave' Named Best Picture; 'Gravity' Leads Field With 7 Wins . The Deadline Team . January 16, 2014 . . January 16, 2014.
Web site: Critics' Choice Awards: 'Boyhood' Wins Best Picture; 'Birdman' Leads With 7 Nods . Pedersen . Erik . January 15, 2015 . . January 15, 2015.
Web site: Critics' Choice Awards: 'Spotlight' Wins Best Picture; 'Mr. Robot' Best Drama Series . Hipes . Patrick . January 17, 2016 . . January 17, 2016.
Web site: 2016 Critics' Choice Awards: 'La La Land' Leads With 8 Wins Including Best Picture; Donald Glover Unveils Lando Calrissian 'Stache . Grobar . Matt . Lincoln . Ross A. . December 11, 2016 . . December 11, 2016.
Web site: Critics' Choice Awards: 'The Shape Of Water' Wins Best Picture, 'Big Little Lies' Dominates – Full Winners List . Hipes . Patrick . Hayes . Dade . January 11, 2018 . . January 11, 2018.
Web site: Critics' Choice Awards: 'Roma' Wins Best Picture To Lead Night; 'The Americans' & 'Mrs. Maisel' Top TV – The Complete Winners List . Hipes . Patrick . Blyth . Antonia . de Moraes . Lisa . January 13, 2019 . . January 13, 2019.
Web site: Critics' Choice Awards: 'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood' Wins Best Picture, Netflix And HBO Among Top Honorees – Full Winners List . Boucher . Ramos . Geoff . Dino-Ray . January 12, 2020 . . January 12, 2020.
Web site: Critics Choice Awards: 'Nomadland', 'The Crown' Among Top Honorees – Complete Winners List . Ramos . Dino-Ray . March 7, 2021 . . March 7, 2021.
Web site: Critics Choice Awards 2022: ‘The Power of the Dog,’ ‘Ted Lasso,’ ‘Succession’ Win Big (Full Winners List) . Jackson . Angelique . Shanfeld . Ethan . March 13, 2022 . . January 16, 2023.
Web site: Critics‘ Choice Awards 2023 Full Winners List: ’Everything Everywhere All at Once,‘ ’Abbott Elementary‘ and ‘Better Call Saul’ Take Top Honors . Panaligan . EJ . Earl . William . January 15, 2023 . . January 16, 2023.
Web site: 'Oppenheimer' Leads Critics Choice Awards with 8 wins, 'Barbie' Scores 6 — Full Winners List . Shanfeld . Ethan . . January 14, 2024 . January 15, 2024.