Golden Globe Award / Best Screenplay

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Winners and nominees of the Golden Globe Award in the category Best Screenplay (Best Screenplay - Motion Picture) , which rewards the most outstanding achievements of writers in the previous calendar year. The category was launched in 1948.

In contrast to the Oscars , there is no subdivision according to the original script and adaptation . The winner was later awarded an Oscar 40 times, most recently in 2019 when the award was given to Green Book - A Special Friendship . The rare honor of being nominated for two different scripts in one year was given to the American Francis Ford Coppola ( The Dialogue , The Godfather ) in 1975 and his compatriot William Goldman ( The Marathon Man , The Untouchables ) in 1977 .

A screenwriter from German-speaking countries was able to join the list of winners for the first time in 1949, when Richard Schweizer from Zurich ( The Drawn ) received the award.

statistics	Surname	number	year
Most frequent awards	Robert Bolt	3	1966, 1967, 1987
Most frequent awards	Quentin Tarantino	3	1995, 2013, 2020
Most frequent nominations (* = victory)	Woody Allen	6th	1978, 1979, 1986 , 1987, 2006, 2012
Most frequent nominations without a win	Eric Roth	4th	1995, 2000, 2006, 2009

The films listed below are given with their German distribution title (if this can be determined), followed by the foreign-language original title in brackets in italics. The original title is not mentioned if the German and foreign-language film titles are identical. The winners are highlighted first.

1940s

1948

George Seaton - The Miracle of Manhattan (Miracle on 34th Street)

1949

Richard Schweizer - The Marked (The Search)

1950s

1950

Robert Pirosh - Kesselschlacht (Battleground)

Walter Doniger - Bloody Diamonds (Rope of Sand)

1951

Joseph L. Mankiewicz - All About Eve (All About Eve)

Charles Brackett , DM Marshman Jr. and Billy Wilder - Sunset Boulevard (Sunset Boulevard)
John Huston and Ben Maddow - Asphalt Jungle (The Asphalt Jungle)

1952

Robert Buckner - Victory over the Dark (Bright Victory)

1953

Michael Wilson - The Cicero Case (Five Fingers)

Carl Foreman - Twelve Noon (High Noon)
Clarence Greene and Russell Rouse - I'm a Nuclear Spy (The Thief)

1954

Helen German - Lili

1955

Ernest Lehman , Samuel A. Taylor and Billy Wilder - Sabrina

1956 - 1959

Prize not awarded

1960s

1960 - 1965

Prize not awarded

1966

Robert Bolt - Doctor Zhivago ( Doctor Zhivago )

Guy Green - Dreaming Lips (A Patch of Blue)
Philip Dunne - Michelangelo - Inferno and Ecstasy (The Agony and the Ecstasy)
John Kohn and Stanley Mann - The Catcher (The Collector)
Stirling Silliphant - Voice on the Phone (The Slender Thread)

(Sourced from John Melson , Milton Sperling and Philip Yordan wrote screenplay for The Last Battle (Battle of the Bulge) was nominated because of an error, but was later Agony and the Ecstasy replaced.)

1967

Robert Bolt - A Man for All Seasons (A Man for All Seasons)