Academy Awards
Best Original Story
179 nominations · 37 winners · 27 years
The Brave One
Robert Rich (Dalton Trumbo)
Umberto D.
Cesare Zavattini
High Society
Edward Bernds High Society
Elwood Ullman
The Proud and the Beautiful
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Eddy Duchin Story
Leo Katcher
Strategic Air Command
Beirne Lay Jr.
The Private War of Major Benson
Bob Mosher
The Sheep Has Five Legs
Henri Troyat
The Sheep Has Five Legs
Henri Verneuil The Sheep Has Five Legs
Jacques Perret
The Sheep Has Five Legs
Jean Marsan The Private War of Major Benson
Joe Connelly
Rebel Without a Cause
Nicholas Ray The Sheep Has Five Legs
Raoul Ploquin
Bread, Love and Dreams
Ettore Maria Margadonna
Forbidden Games
François Boyer
Night People
Jed Harris
There's No Business Like Show Business
Lamar Trotti Night People
Tom Reed
Roman Holiday
Ian McLellan Hunter (Dalton Trumbo)
The Captain's Paradise
Alec Coppel
Above and Beyond
Beirne Lay Jr.
Hondo
Louis L'Amour
Little Fugitive
Morris Engel Little Fugitive
Ray Ashley Little Fugitive
Ruth Orkin
The Greatest Show on Earth
Frederic M. Frank
The Sniper
Edna
The Sniper
Edward Anhalt
The Pride of St. Louis
Guy Trosper
The Narrow Margin
Jack Leonard
My Son John
Leo McCarey The Narrow Margin
Martin Goldsmith
Teresa
Alfred Hayes
Bullfighter and the Lady
Budd Boetticher
Here Comes the Groom
Liam O'Brien
The Frogmen
Oscar Millard Bullfighter and the Lady
Ray Nazarro
Here Comes the Groom
Robert Riskin Teresa
Stewart Stern
Panic in the Streets
Edna
The Gunfighter
André de Toth
Bitter Rice
Carlo Lizzani Bitter Rice
Giuseppe De Santis
Mystery Street
Leonard Spiegelglass
When Willie Comes Marching Home
Sy Gomberg The Gunfighter
William Bowers
Come to the Stable
Clare Boothe Luce
Sands of Iwo Jima
Harry Brown
It Happens Every Spring
Shirley W. Smith
It Happens Every Spring
Valentine Davies
White Heat
Virginia Kellogg
The Search
David Wechsler
Red River
Borden Chase
The Red Shoes
Emeric Pressburger
Louisiana Story
Frances Flaherty
The Naked City
Malvin Wald Louisiana Story
Robert
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
Dorothy Parker
Kiss of Death
Eleazar Lipsky Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman
Frank Cavett
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Frederick Stephani
A Cage of Nightingales
Georges Chaperot
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Herbert Clyde Lewis A Cage of Nightingales
René Wheeler
To Each His Own
Charles Brackett
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Jack Patrick
The Stranger
Victor Trivas
The Dark Mirror
Vladimir Pozner
Objective, Burma!
Alvah Bessie
A Song to Remember
Ernst Marischka
A Medal for Benny
Jack Wagner A Medal for Benny
John Steinbeck
The Affairs of Susan
László Görög The Affairs of Susan
Thomas Monroe
None Shall Escape
Alfred Neumann
A Guy Named Joe
Chandler Sprague A Guy Named Joe
David Boehm
The Fighting Sullivans
Edward Doherty
Lifeboat
John Steinbeck None Shall Escape
Joseph Than
The Fighting Sullivans
Jules Schermer
The Human Comedy
William Saroyan
The More the Merrier
Frank Ross
Action in the North Atlantic
Guy Gilpatric The More the Merrier
Robert Russell
Destination Tokyo
Steve Fisher
Shadow of a Doubt
Thornton Wilder
Holiday Inn
Irving Berlin
The Pride of the Yankees
Paul Gallico
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Robert Buckner
The Talk of the Town
Sidney Harman
Ball of Fire
Billy Wilder
Night Train to Munich
Gordon Wellesley
The Lady Eve
Monckton Hoffe
Meet John Doe
Richard Connell Meet John Doe
Robert Presnell Sr. Ball of Fire
Thomas Monroe
Arise, My Love
John Toldy
My Favorite Wife
Bella Spewack
Edison, the Man
Dore Schary Edison, the Man
Hugo Butler My Favorite Wife
Leo McCarey My Favorite Wife
Samuel Spewack
The Westerner
Stuart N. Lake
Comrade X
Walter Reisch
Bachelor Mother
Felix Jackson
Young Mr. Lincoln
Lamar Trotti
Love Affair
Leo McCarey
Ninotchka
Melchior Lengyel Love Affair
Mildred Cram
Test Pilot
Frank Wead
Mad About Music
Frederick Kohner
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Irving Berlin
Blockade
John Howard Lawson Mad About Music
Marcella Burke
Angels with Dirty Faces
Rowland Brown
A Star Is Born
William Wellman
The Life of Emile Zola
Geza Herczeg
One Hundred Men and a Girl
Hans Kraly
The Life of Emile Zola
Heinz Herald
In Old Chicago
Niven Busch
Black Legion
Robert Lord
Three Smart Girls
Adele Comandini
Fury
Norman Krasna
San Francisco
Robert Hopkins
The Great Ziegfeld
William Anthony McGuire
The Gay Deception
Don Hartman
'G' Men
Gregory Rogers (Darryl F. Zanuck)
Broadway Melody of 1936
Moss Hart The Gay Deception
Stephen Morehouse Avery
Hide-Out
Maur Grashin
The Richest Girl in the World
Norman Krasna
Rasputin and the Empress
Charles MacArthur
The Prizefighter and the Lady
Frances Marion
What Price Hollywood?
Adela Rogers St. Johns
Lady and Gent
Grover Jones What Price Hollywood?
Jane Murfin
The Star Witness
Lucien Hubbard Lady and Gent
William Slavens McNutt
Laughter
Donald Stewart
Laughter
Douglas Doty
Laughter
Harry d'Arrast
The Public Enemy
John Bright
Smart Money
Joseph Jackson The Public Enemy
Kubec Glasmon Smart Money
Lucien Hubbard
The Doorway to Hell
Rowland Brown
The Last Command
Lajos Biró