Satellite Awards / Film / Best Original Screenplay

The Satellite Award Best Original Screenplay honors an outstanding script for the implementation of a film that is not based on any other previously published publication.

statistics
Most frequently honored screenwriters	Tom McCarthy (two awards)
Most frequently nominated screenwriters	Ethan and Joel Coen (four nominations)
Most nominated screenwriters without a win	Ethan and Joel Coen (four nominations)

The scriptwriters of a film from the previous year are always honored.

Nominations and winners

1996-1999

year	Award winners	Movie	Nominations
1996	John Sayles Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski	Lone Star Larry Flynt - The Naked Truth	Ethan and Joel Coen for Fargo Jan Sardi for Shine - The Path into Light Billy Bob Thornton for Sling Blade - On a Knife's Edge
1997	Ben Affleck and Matt Damon	Good Will Hunting	Paul Thomas Anderson for Boogie Nights Simon Beaufoy for All Or Not At All Jeremy Brock for Her Majesty Mrs. Brown James Cameron for Titanic
1998	Gary Ross	Pleasantville - Too good to be true	David McKenna for American History X Marcos Bernstein and João Emanuel Carneiro for Central Station Robert Rodat for Saving Private Ryan Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard for Shakespeare in Love
1999	M. Night Shyamalan	The Sixth Sense	Alan Ball for American Beauty Charlie Kaufman for Being John Malkovich Paul Thomas Anderson for Magnolia David O. Russell and John Ridley for Three Kings Pamela Gray for A Walk on the Moon

2000-2009

year	Award winners	Movie	Nominations
2000	Kenneth Lonergan	You Can Count on Me	Cameron Crowe for Almost Famous - Almost Famous Lee Hall for Billy Elliot - I Will Dance Susannah Grant for Erin Brockovich David Mamet for State and Main
2001	Milo Addica and Will Rokos	Monster's Ball	Christopher Nolan for Memento Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pierce for Moulin Rouge Alejandro Amenábar for The Others Louis Mellis and David Scinto for Sexy Beast
2002	Pedro Almodovar	Talk to her	Mike Leigh for All or Nothing Todd Haynes for Dem Himmel so Fern Mike White for The Good Girl Burr Steers for Igby Nicole Holofcener for Lovely & Amazing
2003	Sofia Coppola	Lost in Translation	Guillermo Arriaga for 21 grams Frank Hannah and Wayne Kramer for The Cooler - Alles auf Liebe Catherine Hardwicke and Nikki Reed for Thirteen Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman for Kill Bill - Volume 1 Tom McCarthy for Station Agent
2004	James L. White	Ray	John Logan for Aviator Stuart Beattie for Collateral Terry George and Keir Pearson for Hotel Rwanda Bill Condon for Kinsey - The Truth About Sex Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach for The Deep Sea Divers
2005	George Clooney and Grant Heslov	Good Night, and Good Luck.	Don Roos for Happy Endings Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco for LA Crash Rodrigo García for Nine Lives Noah Baumbach for The Squid and the Whale Ayad Akhtar , Joseph Castelo and Tom Glynn for The War Within
2006	Peter Morgan	The Queen	Guillermo Arriaga and Alejandro González Iñárritu for Babel Pascal Bonitzer , Laurent Guyot and André Téchiné for Changing Times Luiz Carlos Barreto , Elena Soarez and Andrucha Waddington for The House of Sand Pedro Almodóvar for Volver - Returning Paul Laverty for The Wind That Shakes the Barley
2007	Diablo Cody	Juno	Nancy Oliver for Lars and the Women Steven Knight for Deadly Promises - Eastern Promises Scott Frank for The Rules of Violence Kelly Masterson for Deadly Decision - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton
2008	Tom McCarthy	A summer in New York - The Visitor	Baz Luhrmann for Australia Courtney Hunt for Frozen River Dustin Lance Black for Milk Grant Nieporte for Seven Life
2009	Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber	(500) Days of Summer	Ethan and Joel Coen for A Serious Man Jane Campion for Bright Star Mark Boal for Deadly Command - The Hurt Locker Pete Docter and Bob Peterson for Above

2010-2019

year	Award winners	Movie	Nominations
2010	David Seidler	The King's Speech	Chris Provenzano and C. Gaby Mitchell for At the End of the Path - A True Lies Story Alejandro González Iñárritu , Armando Bó and Nicolás Giacobone for Biutiful Conor McPherson and Billy Roche for The Eclipse Christopher Nolan for Inception Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg for The Kids Are All Right Michael Arndt , Andrew Stanton , Lee Unkrich and John Lasseter for Toy Story 3
2011	Terrence Malick	The Tree of Life	Michel Hazanavicius for The Artist John Michael McDonagh for The Guard - An Irishman Sees Black René Féret for Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart Abi Morgan and Steve McQueen for Shame Paddy Considine for Tyrannosaur - A Love Story
2012	Mark Boal	Zero Dark Thirty	John Gatins for Flight Paul Thomas Anderson for The Master Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola for Moonrise Kingdom Kim Ki-duk for Pieta Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache for Pretty Best Friends
2013	Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell	American hustle	Woody Allen for Blue Jasmine Nicole Holofcener for Enough Said Spike Jonze for Her Ethan and Joel Coen for Inside Llewyn Davis Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith for Saving Mr. Banks
2014	Dan Gilroy	Nightcrawler	Alejandro González Iñárritu , Nicolás Giacobone , Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bó for Birdman or (The Unexpected Power of Cluelessness) Richard Linklater for Boyhood Phil Lord and Christopher Miller for The LEGO Movie Ira Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias for Love goes strange ways Ava DuVernay and Paul Webb for Selma
2015	Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy	Spotlight	Josh Cooley , Meg LeFauve and Pete Docter for Everything is Head Matt Charman , Ethan and Joel Coen for Bridge of Spies - The Negotiator Michael A. Lerner and Oren Moverman for Love & Mercy Andrea Berloff , Jonathan Herman for Straight Outta Compton Abi Morgan for Suffragette - Actions instead of words
2016	Barry Jenkins	Moonlight	Matt Ross for Captain Fantastic - once wilderness and back Taylor Sheridan for Hell or High Water Damien Chazelle for La La Land Giorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou for The Lobster Kenneth Lonergan for Manchester by the Sea
2017	Martin McDonagh	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch - The Florida Project Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird Christopher Nolan for Dunkirk Jordan Peele for Get Out Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor for Shape of Water - The Whispering of Water
2018	Alfonso Cuarón	Roma	Bo Burnham for Eighth Grade Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara for The Favorite - Intrigue and Insanity Paul Schrader for First Reformed Nick Vallelonga , Brian Hayes Currie and Peter Farrelly for Green Book - A Special Friendship John Krasinski , Scott Beck and Bryan Woods for A Quiet Place
2019	Noah Baumbach	Marriage story	Lulu Wang for The Farewell Jez Butterworth , John-Henry Butterworth and Jason Keller for Le Mans 66 - Against Any Chance Quentin Tarantino for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Pedro Almodóvar for Sorrow and Glory Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won for Parasite