Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay

The Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. Before 1940 there was an Academy Award for Best Story for writing. For 1940 it and the award in this article were separated into two awards. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957 the two categories were combined to honour only the screenplay.

1950s

• 1950 Sunset Boulevard - Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman, Billy Wilder
• 1951 An American in Paris - Alan Lerner
• 1952 The Lavender Hill Mob - T.E.B. Clarke
• 1953 Titanic - Charles Brackett, Richard Breen, Walter Reisch
• 1954 On the Waterfront - Budd Schulberg
• 1955 Interrupted Melody - Sonya Levien, William Ludwig
• 1956 The Red Balloon - Albert Lamorisse
• 1957 Designing Women - George Wells
• 1958 The Defiant Ones - Nathan Douglas, Harold Smith
• 1959 Pillow Talk - Clarence Greene, Maurice Richlin, Russell Rouse, Stanley Shapiro