Best Original Screenplay Academy Award Winners Trivia Word Search

A freed slave turned bounty hunter seeks his wife in this writer-director's 2012 winner.

This comedy legend won his first Oscar in 1968 for writing 'The Producers.'

This writer's screenplay for the political satire 'The Candidate' won the 1972 Oscar.

This celebrated playwright co-wrote the 1998 winner 'Shakespeare in Love.'

This writer-director's script about a teen rock journalist, 'Almost Famous,' won the 2000 Oscar.

This French filmmaker's nearly wordless fantasy 'The Red Balloon' took the 1956 Oscar.

This longtime Billy Wilder collaborator won the 1960 Oscar for 'The Apartment.'

Decades before his hit TV shows, this writer won the 1947 Oscar for 'The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer.'

A fashion-world comedy, 'Designing Woman,' brought this writer the 1957 Original Screenplay Oscar.

A group of working-class friends chase belonging in this writer's 1979 winner, 'Breaking Away.'

The first-ever Best Original Screenplay Oscar, awarded in 1940, honored the satire 'The Great McGinty.'

An unconventional teacher inspires prep-school boys in this 1989 winner, 'Dead Poets Society.'

Best Original Screenplay's 1941 winner co-wrote and starred as the title tycoon in 'Citizen Kane.'

This anxious New York comedian won his first Oscar in 1977 for co-writing 'Annie Hall.'

A stripper's whirlwind marriage to a Russian oligarch's son unravels in this 2024 winner, 'Anora.'

A suburban dad's midlife unraveling drives this 1999 winning script, 'American Beauty.'

A Black pianist and his Italian-American driver tour the Deep South in this 2018 winner, 'Green Book.'

This actor-director's film about 1960s Northern Ireland, 'Belfast,' won the 2021 Oscar.

A grieving man becomes his nephew's guardian in this writer's 2016 winner, 'Manchester by the Sea.'

Filmmaking siblings won the 1996 Oscar for the snowy crime comedy 'Fargo.'

A British soldier and an IRA captive's bond drives this writer's 1992 winner, 'The Crying Game.'

A journalist embedded with an Iraq bomb squad informed this writer's 2009 winner, 'The Hurt Locker.'

This filmmaker's vampire-horror period piece 'Sinners' won the 2025 Original Screenplay Oscar.

This writer's screenplay for the London-set drama 'Darling' won the 1965 Oscar.

This French director's courtroom drama 'Anatomy of a Fall' won the 2023 Oscar.

This Spanish filmmaker won the 2002 Oscar for the drama 'Talk to Her.'

This British writer's Olympic drama 'Chariots of Fire' won the 1981 Oscar.

This New Zealand filmmaker's period drama 'The Piano' won the 1993 Oscar.

This Texas-born playwright won the 1983 Oscar for 'Tender Mercies.'

This writer's drama about a paralyzed veteran, 'Coming Home,' shared the 1978 Oscar.

A police lineup unravels into a legendary con in this writer's 1995 winner, 'The Usual Suspects.'

A nostalgic novelist time-travels each midnight to the 1920s in this Woody Allen-written 2011 Oscar winner.

Co-writing 'Good Will Hunting' with his friend Matt Damon won this actor the 1997 Oscar.

A dinner clash over interracial marriage anchors 1967's Oscar winner, 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.'

This writer-director's Texas family drama 'Places in the Heart' won the 1984 Oscar.

Two friends flee across the Southwest in this writer's 1991 winner, 'Thelma & Louise.'

Blacklisted and writing under a pseudonym, this Oscar winner scripted 1958's 'The Defiant Ones.'

This South Korean director's class-satire thriller 'Parasite' won the 2019 Oscar.

A Swiss neutrality drama, 'Marie-Louise,' brought this writer the 1945 Original Screenplay Oscar.

A dysfunctional family road-trips to a beauty pageant in this 2006 winner, 'Little Miss Sunshine.'

A savant and his brother's road trip inspired this 1988 Original Screenplay Oscar, 'Rain Man.'

This writer's biopic about India's independence leader, 'Gandhi,' won the 1982 Oscar.

This writer's 1944 winning script chronicled Woodrow Wilson's presidency in the biopic 'Wilson.'

This 1942 winner (with Michael Kanin) scripted the Tracy-Hepburn comedy 'Woman of the Year.'

A woman avenges her friend by targeting predatory men in this 2020 winner, 'Promising Young Woman.'

A washed-up superhero actor stages a Broadway comeback in this 2014 winner, 'Birdman.'

This writer's noir mystery set in 1930s Los Angeles, 'Chinatown,' won the 1974 Oscar.

Co-writing Billy Wilder's 'Sunset Boulevard' earned this producer-writer the 1950 Oscar.

Two lonely Americans connect in this Japanese capital in the 2003 winning script, 'Lost in Translation.'

A murdered man's ghost tries to protect his love in this 1990 winning script, 'Ghost.'

This comedian-turned-filmmaker's social thriller 'Get Out' won the 2017 Oscar.

Its script coined the line 'I'm mad as hell,' and this 1976 satire about TV news won the Oscar.

A playwright by trade, this writer won the 1961 Oscar for 'Splendor in the Grass.'

King George VI's stutter is the subject of this 2010 winning script, 'The King's Speech.'

A botched bank robbery inspired this writer's 1975 winning script, 'Dog Day Afternoon.'

A WWII beachcomber turned coastwatcher meets a French teacher and her pupils in 1964's winning script, 'Father Goose.'

Co-writing the Doris Day-Rock Hudson comedy 'Pillow Talk' earned this writer the 1959 Oscar.

This French director's romance 'A Man and a Woman' won the 1966 Original Screenplay Oscar.

Adapting a sprawling Western saga into 'How the West Was Won' won this writer the 1963 Oscar.

This writer's screenplay for 'On the Waterfront' won the 1954 Oscar and features 'I coulda been a contender.'

An English country-house murder mystery, 'Gosford Park,' won this writer the 2001 Oscar.

A Brooklyn baker falls for her fiance's brother in this writer's 1987 winner, 'Moonstruck.'

Woody Allen's ensemble comedy-drama about three sisters in New York won the 1986 Oscar.

A pair of grifters running a long con drives this writer's 1973 winner, 'The Sting.'

Co-writing the war biopic 'Patton' earned this filmmaker (before his 'Godfather' fame) the 1970 Oscar.

This 1980 Oscar-winning script tells of a gas-station owner who claimed Howard Hughes left him a fortune.

Half of the directing duo known as 'the Daniels' won the 2022 Oscar for 'Everything Everywhere All at Once.'

Interlocking Los Angeles storylines about race won this writer's script the 2005 Oscar, 'Crash.'

Adapting an opera singer's true story for 'Interrupted Melody' won this co-writer the 1955 Oscar.

A suicidal chief of medicine faces a spate of mysterious deaths in this writer's 1971 winning satire, 'The Hospital.'

A pregnant teenager's story won this former stripper-turned-writer the 2007 Oscar for 'Juno.'

This director's nonlinear crime saga 'Pulp Fiction' won the 1994 Original Screenplay Oscar.

One of three credited writers on 1953's 'Titanic' script, sharing that year's Oscar.

A husband-and-wife writing duo, Muriel and Sydney _ _ _, won the 1946 Oscar for the psychological drama 'The Seventh Veil.'

A lonely man falls for his AI operating system in this writer-director's 2013 winner, 'Her.'

A couple erases each other from memory in this 2004 winner, 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.'

This lyricist-screenwriter won the 1951 Oscar for the Gene Kelly musical 'An American in Paris.'

This Italian director-writer won the 1962 Oscar for the farce 'Divorce Italian Style.'

A comic bank-heist caper, 'The Lavender Hill Mob,' won this British writer the 1952 Oscar.

This writer's tale of two outlaws, 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,' won the 1969 Oscar.