National Society of Film Critics Award / Best Screenplay
Winner of the National Society of Film Critics in the category Best Screenplay (Best Screenplay) . The awards are presented every year at the beginning of January for the best film productions and filmmakers of the past calendar year. In 1975 and 1977 there were two awards ceremonies in January and December, after which the National Society of Film Critics Award in 1976 and 1978 was not awarded.
The most successful in this category were the Swede Ingmar Bergman , the American author duo Albert Brooks and Monica McGowan Johnson , as well as their compatriots Kenneth Lonergan and Paul Mazursky , who each won the award twice. The film critics' association was able to present an Oscar- winning film script 13 times in advance . In contrast to the Academy Award ceremony, the National Society of Film Critics makes no distinction between a script that is not based on a previously published publication (original screenplay) and an already published literary model (adapted screenplay).
At the last award ceremony in 2020, the later Oscar winners Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won ( Parasite ) won three points ahead of Quentin Tarantino ( Once Upon a Time in Hollywood , 34 points) and Greta Gerwig ( Little Women , 33 points).
* = Screenwriters, whose film script to later Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and Original Screenplay won