Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay explained

The following is a list of Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture, one of the Edgar Awards awarded to authors and others by the Mystery Writers of America. The "Best Motion Picture" award was first presented in 1946 and was discontinued after 2009.

Winners

1940s

Year	Writer(s)	Title
1946		Murder, My Sweet
1947
1948		Crossfire
1949	, Jay Dratler, Leonard Hoffman, and Quentin Reynolds	Call Northside 777

1950s

Year	Writer(s)	Title
1950	and Cornell Woolrich
1951
1952		Detective Story
1953	and Otto Lang	Five Fingers
1954
1955		Rear Window
1956
1957	No Award Presented
1958		12 Angry Men
1959	and Harold Jacob Smith

1960s

Year	Writer(s)	Title
1960		North By Northwest
1961		Psycho
1962	and Truman Capote
1963	No Award Presented
1964		Charade
1965	and Lukas Heller	Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1966	and Guy Trosper
1967		Harper
1968		In The Heat of the Night
1969	and Alan Trustman	Bullitt

1970s

Year	Writer(s)	Title
1970	and Jorge Semprún	Z
1971	and Ugo Pirro	Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
1972
1973		Sleuth
1974	and Stephen Sondheim
1975		Chinatown
1976	and Lorenzo Semple, Jr.	Three Days of the Condor
1977		Family Plot
1978
1979		Magic

1980s

Year	Writer(s)	Title
1980
1981
1982		Cutter's Way
1983
1984		Gorky Park
1985
1986	and Earl W. Wallace	Witness
1987		Something Wild
1988		Stakeout
1989

1990s

Year	Writer(s)	Title
1990		Heathers
1991
1992
1993
1994		Falling Down
1995		Pulp Fiction
1996
1997		Sling Blade
1998	and Brian Helgeland	L.A. Confidential
1999	(screenplay)Elmore Leonard (novel)	Out of Sight

2000s

Year	Writer(s)	Title	Ref.
2000	(screenplay)	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
2001	(screenplay)Simon Moore (original mini-series)	Traffic
2002		Memento
2003		Chicago
2004		Dirty Pretty Things
2005	(screenplay)Sébastien Japrisot (novel)
2006	(screenplay)Robert Baer (book)	Syriana	^[1]
2007			^[2]
2008		Michael Clayton	^[3] ^[4]
2009		In Bruges	^[5] ^[6]

References

1. Web site: 2006-05-01 . Prizes: The Edgar Winners . 2022-09-15 . Shelf Awareness.
2. Web site: 2007-04-30 . Awards: The Edgars; L.A. Times; Yale Drama Series . 2022-09-15 . Shelf Awareness .
3. Web site: 2008-05-02 . Awards: The Edgars; Arthur C. Clarke Prize . 2022-09-15 . Shelf Awareness.
4. Web site: 2008-05-01 . Mystery Writers of America Announces the 2008 Edgar Award Winners . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090429214524/http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=%2Fwww%2Fstory%2F05-01-2008%2F0004805000 . 2009-04-29 . 2009-05-02.
5. Web site: 2009-05-01 . Awards: Edgars; Arthur C. Clarke . 2022-09-15 . Shelf Awareness.
6. Web site: 2009-04-30 . Mystery Writers of America Announces the 2009 Edgar Award Winners . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120827143408/http://www.mysterywriters.org/files/2009_Edgar_Winners.pdf . 2012-08-27 . 2009-07-29.

External links

• Search the Edgar Award Winners And Nominees from the Edgar Awards website
• Edgar Allan Poe Awards from the Internet Movie Database