Chicago Film Critics Association Award / Best Screenplay

Winner and nominee for the Chicago Film Critics Association Awards in the former Best Screenplay category . Every year in mid-December, the American Film Critics Association announces its awards for the best film productions and filmmakers of the current calendar year. As in the case of the Oscar or Golden Globe awards, these are selected from five nominees. The Best Screenplay category existed between 1990 and 2005. Today, prizes are awarded in the categories Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay .

Award winners

1990s

• 1990: GoodFellas - Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese (Based on Nicholas Pileggi's book Wise Guy - The Mob Inside )
• 1993: Schindler's List - Steven Zaillian (Based on the novel Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally )
• 1994: Pulp Fiction - Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino (original script)
• 1995: The Usual Suspects - Christopher McQuarrie (original script)
• 1996: Fargo - Ethan and Joel Coen (original screenplay)
• 1997: LA Confidential - Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (Based on the novel City of Devils by James Ellroy)
• 1998: Shakespeare in Love - Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard (original screenplay)
  • Bulworth - Warren Beatty and Jeremy Pikser (original script)
  • Happiness - Todd Solondz (original screenplay )
  • A Simple Plan - Scott Smith (Based on the novel A Simple Plan by Scott Smith )
  • The Truman Show - Andrew Niccol (original script)
• 1999: Being John Malkovich - Charlie Kaufman (original script)
  • American Beauty - Alan Ball (original script)
  • Magnolia - Paul Thomas Anderson (original screenplay)
  • The Sixth Sense - M. Night Shyamalan (Original Screenplay)
  • Topsy Turvy-- Upside Down - Mike Leigh (Original Screenplay)

2000s

• 2000: Almost Famous - Cameron Crowe (original script)
  • State and Main - David Mamet (Original Screenplay)
  • Traffic - Power of the Cartel - Stephen Gaghan (based on the British miniseries of the same name)
  • The WonderBoys - Steve Kloves (based on the novel The WonderBoys by Michael Chabon )
  • You Can Count on Me - Kenneth Lonergan (Original Screenplay)
• 2001: Memento - Christopher Nolan (based on the short story Memento mori by Jonathan Nolan )
  • A Beautiful Mind - Genius and Madness - Akiva Goldsman (based on the biography of Sylvia Nasar )
  • Ghost World - Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff (based on the comic Ghost World by Daniel Clowes)
  • Gosford Park - Julian Fellowes (Original Screenplay )
  • The Royal Tenenbaums - Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson (original script)
• 2002: Adaptation - The Orchid Thief - Charlie and Donald Kaufman (original script)
  • About a Boy or: The Day of the Dead Duck - Peter Hedges , Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz (based on the novel About a Boy by Nick Hornby )
  • About Schmidt - Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (based on the novel Schmidt by Louis Begley )
  • So Far From Heaven - Todd Haynes (Original Screenplay)
  • Punch-Drunk Love - Paul Thomas Anderson (original script)
• 2003: Lost in Translation - Sofia Coppola (original screenplay)
• 2004: Sideways - Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (Based on the novel Sideways by Rex Pickett)
• 2005: Crash - Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco (Based on the novel Crash by James Graham Ballard )
  • Brokeback Mountain - Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (Based on the short story Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx )
  • Capote - Dan Futterman (based on the biography Capote: A Biography by Gerald Clarke )
  • Good Night, and Good Luck. - George Clooney and Grant Heslov (original script)
  • A History of Violence - Josh Olson (based on the graphic novel A History of Violence by John Wagner and Vince Locke)

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• http://www.chicagofilmcritics.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49&Itemid=59
• http://www.chicagofilmcritics.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=58
• Chicago Film Critics Awards - 2008- ( Memento January 3, 2009 on the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Official website of the Chicago Film Critics Association Awards ( english )
• List of 1989 winners on IMDB
• 1990 list of winners on IMDB
• List of 1991 winners on IMDB
• 1992 list of winners on IMDB
• List of 1993 winners on IMDB
• List of 1994 winners on IMDB
• List of 1995 winners on IMDB
• List of 1996 winners on IMDB
• List of 1997 winners on IMDB
• List of 1998 winners on IMDB
• List of 1999 winners on IMDB
• List of winners 2000 on IMDB
• List of 2001 winners on IMDB
• List of 2002 winners on IMDB
• List of 2003 winners on IMDB
• List of 2004 winners on IMDB
• List of 2005 winners on IMDB