

Paddy Chayefsky and Billy Wilder have also won three screenwriting Oscars: Chayefsky won two for Original Screenplay ( The Hospital and Network) and one for Adapted Screenplay ( Marty), while Wilder won one for Adapted Screenplay ( The Lost Weekend, shared with Charles Brackett), and two for Original Screenplay ( Sunset Boulevard, shared with Brackett and D.M. Woody Allen has the most nominations in this category with 16, and the most awards with 3 (for Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, and Midnight in Paris). However, 2008's Frozen River, which similarly had a proof-of-concept short film screened at film festivals, was nominated as an original screenplay. Similarly, Whiplash was considered an adapted screenplay at the 87th Academy Awards despite being written as an original screenplay because a scene from the script was produced as a proof-of-concept short film. For the 89th Academy Awards, Moonlight was campaigned as an original screenplay, being based on an unpublished play, but was ultimately placed in the adapted screenplay category, which it won. Screenplays are eligible if they are not based on "previously published material." The Writer’s Branch of the academy determines if a screenplay is adapted or original and sometimes places screenplays in a different category than the Writers Guild of America. See also the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, a similar award for screenplays that are adaptations of pre-existing material. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the screenplay. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story. The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert are the most recent winners of this award, winning for their film Everything Everywhere All at OnceĪcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)Įverything Everywhere All at Once ( 2022)
