Gotham Award / Best Screenwriter

The Gotham Award for Best Screenwriter (Writer Award) was presented from 1991 to 1998. The so-called Gotham Writer Award honored the work of local (film) scriptwriters. Since 2015 there is a new category for Best Screenplay (Best Screenplay) , which declare it the winner of five nominees screenplays.

• 1991: Richard Price
• 1992: Jay Presson Allen
• 1993: John Guare
• 1994: Terry Southern
• 1995: Pauline Kael
• 1996: Walter Bernstein
• 1997: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
• 1998: Richard LaGravenese