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-={ 2010's }=-
Precursor Category	Precursor Nominees	Oscar Nominees	Oscar Category
2010
Original Screenplay	Black Swan The Fighter {O} Inception {O} The Kids Are All Right {O} Please Give	Another Year The Fighter Inception {P} The Kids Are All Right The King's Speech	Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay	127 Hours {O} I Love You, Phillip Morris The Social Network {O} The Town True Grit {O}	127 Hours The Social Network {P} Toy Story 3 True Grit Winter's Bone	Adapted Screenplay

-={ 2000's }=-
Precursor Category	Precursor Nominees	Oscar Nominees	Oscar Category
2009
Original Screenplay	Avatar (500) Days of Summer The Hangover The Hurt Locker {O} A Serious Man {O}	The Hurt Locker {P} Inglourious Basterds The Messenger A Serious Man Up	Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay	Crazy Heart Julie & Julia Precious {O} Star Trek Up in the Air {O}	District 9 An Education In the Loop Precious Up in the Air {P}	Adapted Screenplay
2008
Original Screenplay	Burn After Reading Milk {O} Vicky Cristina Barcelona The Visitor The Wrestler	Frozen River Happy-Go-Lucky In Bruges Milk {P} WALL-E	Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button {O} The Dark Knight Doubt {O} Frost/Nixon {O} Slumdog Millionaire {O}	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Doubt Frost/Nixon The Reader Slumdog Millionaire {P}	Adapted Screenplay
2007
Original Screenplay	Juno {O} Knocked Up Lars and the Real Girl {O} Michael Clayton {O} The Savages {O}	Juno {P} Lars and the Real Girl Michael Clayton Ratatouille The Savages	Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly {O} Into the Wild No Country for Old Men {O} There Will Be Blood {O} Zodiac	Atonement Away from Her The Diving Bell and the Butterfly No Country for Old Men {P} There Will Be Blood	Adapted Screenplay
2006
Original Screenplay	Babel {O} Little Miss Sunshine {O} The Queen {O} Stranger Than Fiction United 93	Babel Letters from Iwo Jima Little Miss Sunshine {P} Pan's Labyrinth The Queen	Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay	Borat {O} The Departed {O} The Devil Wears Prada Little Children {O} Thank You for Smoking	Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan Children of Men The Departed {P} Little Children Notes on a Scandal	Adapted Screenplay
2005
Original Screenplay	Cinderella Man Crash {O} The 40 Year-Old Virgin Good Night, and Good Luck The Squid and the Whale {O}	Crash {P} Good Night, and Good Luck. Match Point The Squid and the Whale Syriana	Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay	Brokeback Mountain {O} Capote {O} The Constant Gardener {O} A History of Violence {O} Syriana	Brokeback Mountain {P} Capote The Constant Gardener A History of Violence Munich	Adapted Screenplay
2004
Original Screenplay	The Aviator {O} Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind {O} Garden State Hotel Rwanda {O} Kinsey	The Aviator Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind {P} Hotel Rwanda The Incredibles Vera Drake	Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay	Before Sunset {O} Mean Girls Million Dollar Baby {O} The Motorcycle Diaries {O} Sideways {O}	Before Sunset Finding Neverland Million Dollar Baby The Motorcycle Diaries Sideways {P}	Adapted Screenplay
2003
Original Screenplay	Bend It Like Beckham Dirty Pretty Things {O} In America {O} Lost in Translation {O} The Station Agent	The Barbarian Invasions Dirty Pretty Things Finding Nemo In America Lost in Translation {P}	Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay	American Splendor {O} Cold Mountain The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King {O} Mystic River {O} Seabiscuit {O}	American Splendor {P} City of God The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Mystic River Seabiscuit	Adapted Screenplay
2002
Original Screenplay	Antwone Fisher Bowling for Columbine Far From Heaven {O} Gangs of New York {O} My Big Fat Greek Wedding {O}	Far from Heaven Gangs of New York My Big Fat Greek Wedding Talk to Her Y Tu Mamá También	Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay	About a Boy {O} About Schmidt Adaptation {O} Chicago {O} The Hours {O}	About a Boy Adaptation Chicago The Hours {P} The Pianist	Adapted Screenplay
2001
Original Screenplay	Gosford Park {O} The Man Who Wasn't There Monster's Ball {O} Moulin Rouge The Royal Tenenbaums {O}	Amélie Gosford Park {P} Memento Monster's Ball The Royal Tenenbaums	Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay	A Beautiful Mind {O} Black Hawk Down Bridget Jones's Diary Ghost World {O} The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring {O}	A Beautiful Mind {P} Ghost World In the Bedroom The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Shrek	Adapted Screenplay
2000
Original Screenplay	Almost Famous {O} Best in Show Billy Elliot {O} Erin Brockovich {O} You Can Count on Me {O}	Almost Famous Billy Elliot Erin Brockovich Gladiator You Can Count on Me {P}	Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay	Chocolat {O} Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon {O} High Fidelity Traffic {O} Wonder Boys {O}	Chocolat Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon O Brother, Where Art Thou? Traffic {P} Wonder Boys	Adapted Screenplay

-={ 1990's }=-
Precursor Category	Precursor Nominees	Oscar Nominees	Oscar Category
1999
Original Screenplay	American Beauty {O} Being John Malkovich {O} Magnolia {O} The Sixth Sense {O} Three Kings	American Beauty Being John Malkovich Magnolia The Sixth Sense Topsy-Turvy	Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay	The Cider House Rules {O} Election {O} The Insider {O} October Sky The Talented Mr. Ripley {O}	The Cider House Rules Election {P} The Green Mile The Insider The Talented Mr. Ripley	Adapted Screenplay
1998
Original Screenplay	Bulworth {O} The Opposite of Sex Saving Private Ryan {O} Shakespeare in Love {O} The Truman Show {O}	Bulworth Life Is Beautiful Saving Private Ryan Shakespeare in Love {P} The Truman Show	Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay	A Civil Action Gods and Monsters {O} Out of Sight {O} Primary Colors {O} A Simple Plan {O}	Gods and Monsters Out of Sight {P} Primary Colors A Simple Plan The Thin Red Line	Adapted Screenplay
1997
Original Screenplay	As Good As It Gets {O} Boogie Nights {O} The Full Monty {O} Good Will Hunting {O} Titanic	As Good As It Gets {P} Boogie Nights Deconstructing Harry The Full Monty Good Will Hunting	Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay	Donnie Brasco {O} The Ice Storm L.A. Confidential {O} Wag the Dog {O} The Wings of the Dove {O}	Donnie Brasco L.A. Confidential {P} The Sweet Hereafter Wag the Dog The Wings of the Dove	Adapted Screenplay
1996
Original Screenplay	Fargo {O} Jerry Maguire {O} Lone Star {O} Secrets & Lies {O} Shine {O}	Fargo {P} Jerry Maguire Lone Star Secrets & Lies Shine	Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay	The Birdcage Emma The English Patient {O} Sling Blade {O} Trainspotting {O}	The Crucible The English Patient Hamlet Sling Blade {P} Trainspotting	Adapted Screenplay
1995
Original Screenplay	The American President Braveheart {O} Clueless Mighty Aphrodite {O} Muriel's Wedding	Braveheart {P} Mighty Aphrodite Nixon Toy Story The Usual Suspects	Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay	Apollo 13 {O} Babe {O} Get Shorty Leaving Las Vegas {O} Sense and Sensibility {O}	Apollo 13 Babe Leaving Las Vegas The Postman (Il Postino) Sense and Sensibility {P}	Adapted Screenplay
1994
Original Screenplay	The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Bullets Over Broadway {O} Ed Wood Four Weddings and a Funeral {O} Heavenly Creatures {O}	Bullets over Broadway Four Weddings and a Funeral {P} Heavenly Creatures Pulp Fiction Red	Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay	Forrest Gump {O} Little Women The Madness of King George {O} Quiz Show {O} The Shawshank Redemption {O}	Forrest Gump {P} The Madness of King George Nobody's Fool Quiz Show The Shawshank Redemption	Adapted Screenplay
1993
Original Screenplay	Dave {O} In the Line of Fire {O} Philadelphia {O} The Piano {O} Sleepless in Seattle {O}	Dave In the Line of Fire Philadelphia The Piano {P} Sleepless in Seattle	Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay	The Fugitive In the Name of the Fire {O} The Joy Luck Club The Remains of the Day {O} Schindler's List {O}	The Age of Innocence In the Name of the Father The Remains of the Day Schindler's List {P} Shadowlands	Adapted Screenplay
1992
Original Screenplay	The Crying Game {O} Husbands and Wives {O} Lorenzo's Oil {O} Passion Fish {O} Unforgiven {O}	The Crying Game {P} Husbands and Wives Lorenzo's Oil Passion Fish Unforgiven	Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay	Enchanted April {O} Glengarry Glen Ross Howards End {O} The Player {O} Scent of a Woman {O}	Enchanted April Howards End The Player {P} A River Runs Through It Scent of a Woman	Adapted Screenplay
1991
Original Screenplay	Boyz N the Hood {O} Bugsy {O} The Fisher King {O} Grand Canyon {O} Thelma & Louise {O}	Boyz N the Hood Bugsy The Fisher King Grand Canyon Thelma & Louise {P}	Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay	The Commitments Fried Green Tomatoes {O} JFK {O} The Prince of Tides {O} The Silence of the Lambs {O}	Europa Europa Fried Green Tomatoes JFK The Prince of Tides The Silence of the Lambs {P}	Adapted Screenplay
1990
Original Screenplay	Alice {O} Avalon {O} Ghost {O} Green Card {O} Pretty Woman	Alice Avalon {P} Ghost Green Card Metropolitan	Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay	Awakenings {O} Dances with Wolves {O} Good Fellas {O} The Grifters {O} Reversal of Fortune {O}	Awakenings Dances With Wolves {P} Good Fellas The Grifters Reversal of Fortune	Adapted Screenplay

-={ 1980's }=-
Precursor Category	Precursor Nominees	Oscar Nominees	Oscar Category
1989
Original Screenplay	Crimes and Misdemeanors {O} Dead Poets Society {O} The Fabulous Baker Boys Sex, Lies and Videotape {O} When Harry Met Sally {O}	Crimes and Misdemeanors {P} Dead Poets Society Do the Right Thing sex, lies, and videotape When Harry Met Sally...	Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay	Born on the Fourth of July {O} Driving Miss Daisy {O} Field of Dreams {O} Glory My Left Foot {O}	Born on the Fourth of July Driving Miss Daisy {P} Enemies, A Love Story Field of Dreams My Left Foot	Adapted Screenplay
1988
Original Screenplay	Big {O} Bull Durham {O} A Fish Called Wanda {O} Rain Man {O} Working Girl	Big Bull Durham {P} A Fish Called Wanda Rain Man Running on Empty	Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay	The Accidental Tourist {O} Dangerous Liaisons {O} Gorillas in the Mist {O} The Unbearable Lightness of Being {O} Who Framed Roger Rabbit	The Accidental Tourist Dangerous Liaisons {P} Gorillas in the Mist Little Dorrit The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Adapted Screenplay
1987
Original Screenplay	Broadcast News {O} Hope and Glory {O} The Last Emperor Moonstruck {O} Radio Days {O}	Au Revoir Les Enfants (Goodbye, Children) Broadcast News Hope and Glory Moonstruck {P} Radio Days	Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay	Fatal Attraction {O} Full Metal Jacket {O} The Princess Bride Roxanne The Untouchables	The Dead Fatal Attraction Full Metal Jacket The Last Emperor My Life As a Dog	Adapted Screenplay
1986
Original Screenplay	Blue Velvet Hannah and Her Sisters {O} Mona Lisa Platoon {O} Salvador {O}	'Crocodile' Dundee Hannah and Her Sisters {P} My Beautiful Laundrette Platoon Salvador	Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay	Children of a Lesser God {O} Down and Out in Beverly Hills Little Shop of Horrors A Room with a View {O} Stand by Me {O}	Children of a Lesser God The Color of Money Crimes of the Heart A Room with a View {P} Stand by Me	Adapted Screenplay
1985
Original Screenplay	Back to the Future {O} Cocoon Mask The Purple Rose of Cairo {O} Witness {O}	Back to the Future Brazil The Official Story The Purple Rose of Cairo Witness {P}	Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay	Agnes of God The Color Purple {O} Out of Africa {O} Prizzi's Honor {O} The Trip to Bountiful {O}	The Color Purple Kiss of the Spider Woman Out of Africa Prizzi's Honor {P} The Trip to Bountiful	Adapted Screenplay
1984
Original Screenplay	Broadway Danny Rose {O} El Norte {O} Places in the Heart {O} Romancing the Stone Splash {O}	Beverly Hills Cop Broadway Danny Rose {P} El Norte Places in the Heart Splash	Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay	Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes {O} The Killing Fields {O} The Natural A Passage to India {O} A Soldier's Story {O}	Amadeus Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes The Killing Fields {P} A Passage to India A Soldier's Story	Adapted Screenplay
1983
Original Comedy Screenplay	The Big Chill {O} Risky Business Zelig	The Big Chill {P} Fanny & Alexander Silkwood Tender Mercies {P} WarGames	Original Screenplay
Original Drama Screenplay	Silkwood {O} Tender Mercies {O} WarGames {O}		Original Screenplay
Adapted Comedy Screenplay	A Christmas Story Terms of Endearment {O} To Be or Not to Be	Betrayal The Dresser Educating Rita Reuben, Reuben {P} Terms of Endearment {P}	Adapted Screenplay
Adapted Drama Screenplay	Reuben, Reuben {O} The Right Stuff The Year of Living Dangerously		Adapted Screenplay
1982
Original Comedy Screenplay	Diner {O} My Favorite Year Tootsie {O}	Diner E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial {P} Gandhi An Officer and a Gentleman Tootsie {P}	Original Screenplay
Original Drama Screenplay	E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial {O} An Officer and a Gentleman {O} Shoot the Moon		Original Screenplay
Adapted Comedy Screenplay	Fast Times at Ridgemont High Victor/Victoria {O}	Das Boot Missing {P} Sophie's Choice The Verdict Victor/Victoria {P}	Adapted Screenplay
Adapted Drama Screenplay	Missing {O} Sophie's Choice {O} The Verdict {O} The World According to Garp		Adapted Screenplay
1981
Original Comedy Screenplay	Arthur {O} The Four Seasons Raiders of the Lost Ark S.O.B.	Absence of Malice Arthur {P} Atlantic City Chariots of Fire Reds {P}	Original Screenplay
Original Drama Screenplay	Absence of Malice {O} Atlantic City {O} Body Heat Reds {O}		Original Screenplay
Adapted Comedy Screenplay	First Monday in October For Your Eyes Only Rich and Famous	The French Lieutenant's Woman On Golden Pond {P} Pennies from Heaven Prince of the City Ragtime	Adapted Screenplay
Adapted Drama Screenplay	Cutter's Way On Golden Pond {O} Prince of the City {O} Ragtime {O}		Adapted Screenplay
1980
Original Comedy Screenplay	Nine to Five Private Benjamin {O} Return of the Secaucus 7 Stardust Memories	Brubaker Fame Melvin and Howard Mon Oncle D'Amerique Private Benjamin	Original Screenplay
Original Drama Screenplay	Fame {O} Melvin and Howard {O} My Bodyguard		Original Screenplay
Adapted Comedy Screenplay	Airplane! The Empire Strikes Back Hopscotch	Breaker Morant Coal Miner's Daughter The Elephant Man Ordinary People {P} The Stunt Man	Adapted Screenplay
Adapted Drama Screenplay	Coal Miner's Daughter {O} The Elephant Man {O} The Great Santini Ordinary People {O} The Stunt Man {O}		Adapted Screenplay

-={ 1970's }=-
Precursor Category	Precursor Nominees	Oscar Nominees	Oscar Category
1979
Original Comedy Screenplay	10 Breaking Away {O} Manhattan	Apocalypse Now The China Syndrome {O}	Original Screenplay
Original Drama Screenplay	All That Jazz ...And Justice for All Breaking Away {P} The China Syndrome {P} Manhattan	Apocalypse Now The China Syndrome {O}	Original Screenplay
Adapted Comedy Screenplay	Being There A Little Romance {O} Starting Over	Apocalypse Now La Cage aux Folles Kramer vs. Kramer {P} A Little Romance Norma Rae	Adapted Screenplay
Adapted Drama Screenplay	Kramer vs. Kramer {O} Norma Rae {O}		Adapted Screenplay
1978
Original Comedy Screenplay	Animal House House Calls Movie Movie Once in Paris… A Wedding	Autumn Sonata Coming Home {P} The Deer Hunter Interiors An Unmarried Woman	Original Screenplay
Original Drama Screenplay	Coming Home {O} Days of Heaven The Deer Hunter {O} Interiors {O} An Unmarried Woman {O}		Original Screenplay
Adapted Comedy Screenplay	California Suite {O} Heaven Can Wait {O} Same Time, Next Year {O} Superman Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?	Bloodbrothers California Suite Heaven Can Wait {P} Midnight Express {P} Same Time, Next Year	Adapted Screenplay
Adapted Drama Screenplay	Bloodbrothers {O} Go Tell the Spartans Invasions of the Body Snatchers Midnight Express {O} Who'll Stop the Rain		Adapted Screenplay
1977
Original Comedy Screenplay	Annie Hall {O} The Goodbye Girl {O} Slap Shot Star Wars {O}	Annie Hall {P} The Goodbye Girl The Late Show Star Wars The Turning Point {P}	Original Screenplay
Original Drama Screenplay	Close Encounters of the Third Kind The Late Show {O} Saturday Night Fever The Turning Point {O}		Original Screenplay
Adapted Comedy Screenplay	Oh, God! {O} Semi-Tough The Spy Who Loved Me	Equus I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Julia {P} Oh, God! {P} That Obscure Object of Desire	Adapted Screenplay
Adapted Drama Screenplay	I Never Promised You a Rose Garden {O} Islands in the Stream Julia {O} Looking for Mr. Goodbar		Adapted Screenplay
1976
Original Comedy Screenplay	The Bad News Bears Murder by Death Next Stop, Greenwich Village Silent Movie Silver Streak	Cousin, Cousine The Front Network {P} Rocky Seven Beauties	Original Screenplay
Original Drama Screenplay	The Front {O} Network {O} The Omen Rocky {O} Taxi Driver		Original Screenplay
Adapted Comedy Screenplay	The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings Family Plot The Pink Panther Strikes Again The Ritz Stay Hungry	All the President's Men {P} Bound for Glory Fellini's Casanova The Seven-Per-Cent Solution Voyage of the Damned	Adapted Screenplay
Adapted Drama Screenplay	All the President's Men {O} Bound for Glory {O} Marathone Man The Seven-Per-Cent Solution {O} The Shootist		Adapted Screenplay
1975
Original Comedy Screenplay	Hearts of the West The Return of the Pink Panther Shampoo {O} Smile	Amarcord And Now My Love Dog Day Afternoon {P} Lies My Father Told Me Shampoo {P}	Original Screenplay
Original Drama Screenplay	Dog Day Afternoon {O} French Connection II Nashville The Wind and the Lion		Original Screenplay
Adapted Comedy Screenplay	Hester Street The Prisoner of Second Avenue The Sunshine Boys {O}	Barry Lyndon The Man Who Would Be King One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest {P} Scent of a Woman The Sunshine Boys {P}	Adapted Screenplay
Adapted Drama Screenplay	Barry Lyndon {O} Jaws The Man in the Glass Booth The Man Who Would Be King {O} One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest {O}		Adapted Screenplay
1974
Original Comedy Screenplay	Blazing Saddles California Split Claudine Phantom of Paradise The Sugarland Express	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Chinatown {P} The Conversation Day for Night Harry and Tonto	Original Screenplay
Original Drama Screenplay	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore {O} Chinatown {O} The Conversation {O} Harry and Tonto {O} A Woman Under the Influence		Original Screenplay
Adapted Comedy Screenplay	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz {O} The Front Page Young Frankenstein {O}	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz {P} The Godfather Part II {P} Lenny Murder on the Orient Express Young Frankenstein	Adapted Screenplay
Adapted Drama Screenplay	Conrack The Godfather, Part II {O} Lenny {O} The Parallax View The Taking of Pelham One Two Three		Adapted Screenplay
1973
Original Comedy Screenplay	American Graffiti {O} Blume in Love Sleeper Slither A Touch of Class {O}	American Graffiti Cries and Whispers Save the Tiger The Sting A Touch of Class	Original Screenplay
Original Drama Screenplay	Mean Streets Payday Save the Tiger {O} The Sting {O} The Way We Were		Original Screenplay
Adapted Comedy Screenplay	40 Carats Godspell Paper Moon {O}	The Exorcist The Last Detail The Paper Chase Paper Moon {P} Serpico {P}	Adapted Screenplay
Adapted Drama Screenplay	Cinderella Liberty The Exorcist {O} The Last Detail {O} The Paper Chase {O} Serpico {O}		Adapted Screenplay
1972
Original Comedy Screenplay	Get to Know Your Rabbit Hammersmith Is Out Minnie and Moskowitz The War Between Men and Women What's Up, Doc?	The Candidate {P} The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Lady Sings the Blues Murmur of the Heart Young Winston	Original Screenplay
Original Drama Screenplay	Bad Company The Candidate {O} The Culpepper Cattle Company The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid Images		Original Screenplay
Adapted Comedy Screenplay	Avanti! Butterflies Are Free Cabaret {O} The Heartbreak Kid Travels with My Aunt	Cabaret {P} The Emigrants The Godfather {P} Pete 'n' Tillie Sounder	Adapted Screenplay
Adapted Drama Screenplay	The Godfather {O} Deliverance Pete 'n' Tillie {O} Slaughterhouse-Five Sounder {O}		Adapted Screenplay
1971
Original Comedy Screenplay	Bananas Carnal Knowledge The Hospital {O} Made for Each Other Taking Off	The Hospital {P} Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion Klute Summer of '42 Sunday Bloody Sunday {P}	Original Screenplay
Original Drama Screenplay	The Hellstrom Chronicle Klute {O} Summer of '42 {O} Sunday Bloody Sunday {O}		Original Screenplay
Adapted Comedy Screenplay	The Boy Friend Fiddler on the Roof Kotch Little Murders A New Leaf	A Clockwork Orange The Conformist The French Connection {P} The Garden of the Finzi Continis The Last Picture Show	Adapted Screenplay
Adapted Drama Screenplay	A Clockwork Orange {O} The French Connection {O} Johnny Got His Gun The Last Picture Show {O} McCabe & Mrs. Miller		Adapted Screenplay
1970
Original Comedy Screenplay	The Cheyenne Social Club The Out-of-Towners The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx Start the Revolution Without Me	Five Easy Pieces Joe Love Story My Night at Maud's Patton {P}	Original Screenplay
Original Drama Screenplay	Five Easy Pieces {O} Love Story {O} Patton {O}		Original Screenplay
Adapted Comedy Screenplay	MASH {O}* Lovers and Other Strangers {O} The Owl and the Pussycat The Twelve Chairs Where's Poppa?	Airport I Never Sang for My Father {P} Lovers and Other Strangers MASH {P}* Women in Love	Adapted Screenplay
Adapted Drama Screenplay	Airport {O} Catch-22 The Great White Hope I Never Sang for My Father {O} Little Big Man		Adapted Screenplay

-={ 1960's }=-
Precursor Category	Precursor Nominees	Oscar Nominees	Oscar Category
1969
Original Comedy Screenplay	Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice {O} If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium Popi Support Your Local Sheriff! Take the Money and Run	Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice {P} Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid {P} The Damned Easy Rider The Wild Bunch	Original Screenplay
Original Drama Screenplay	Alice's Restaurant Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid {O} Downhill Racer Easy Rider {O} Me, Natalie		Original Screenplay
Adapted Comedy Screenplay	Cactus Flower Gaily, Gaily Goodbye, Columbus {O} John and Mary The Reivers	Anne of the Thousand Days Goodbye, Columbus {P} Midnight Cowboy {P} They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Z	Adapted Screenplay
Adapted Drama Screenplay	Anne of the Thousand Days {O} Midnight Cowboy {O} The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie They Shoot Horses, Don't They? {O} True Grit		Adapted Screenplay
1968
Original Screenplay	Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell Faces {O} I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! The Brotherhood The Producers {O}	The Battle of Algiers Faces Hot Millions The Producers {P} 2001: A Space Odyssey	Original Screenplay
Comedy Screenplay	Hot Millions {O} I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! The Odd Couple {O} The Producers Yours, Mine and Ours	The Lion in Winter {P} The Odd Couple {P} Oliver! Rachel, Rachel Rosemary's Baby	Adapted Screenplay
Drama Screenplay	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter The Lion in Winter {O} Petulia Rachel, Rachel {O} Rosemary's Baby {O}
Musical Screenplay	Finian's Rainbow Funny Girl Star!
1967
Original Screenplay	Bonnie and Clyde {O} Guess Who's Coming to Dinner {O} The President's Analyst	Bonnie and Clyde {P} Divorce American Style La Guerre Est Finie Guess Who's Coming to Dinner {P} Two for the Road	Original Screenplay
Comedy Screenplay	Barefoot in the Park Divorce American Style {O} The Flim-Flam Man The Graduate {O} A Guide for the Married Man	Cool Hand Luke The Graduate {P} In Cold Blood In the Heat of the Night Ulysses	Adapted Screenplay
Drama Screenplay	Bonnie and Clyde {O} Guess Who's Coming to Dinner {O} In Cold Blood {O} In the Heat of the Night {O} Up the Down Staircase
Musical Screenplay	Camelot Doctor Dolittle How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Thoroughly Modern Millie
1966
Comedy Screenplay	The Fortune Cookie {O} How to Steal a Million Our Man Flint The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming {O} You're a Big Boy Now	Blow-Up The Fortune Cookie Khartoum A Man and a Woman The Naked Prey	Original Screenplay
Drama Screenplay	Harper The Professionals {O} The Sand Pebbles Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? {O}	Alfie A Man for All Seasons The Professionals The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming {P} Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? {P}	Adapted Screenplay
1965
Comedy Screenplay	Cat Ballou {O} The Great Race That Darn Cat! A Thousand Clowns {O} What's New, Pussycat	Casanova '70 Darling Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines The Train The Umbrellas of Cherbourg	Original Screenplay
Comedy Screenplay
Drama Screenplay	The Collector {O} A Patch of Blue The Pawnbroker Ship of Fools {O} The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Drama Screenplay		Cat Ballou The Collector Doctor Zhivago Ship of Fools A Thousand Clowns {P}	Adapted Screenplay
Musical Screenplay	The Sound of Music
Musical Screenplay	The Sound of Music
1964
Comedy Screenplay	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb {O} Father Goose {O} The Pink Panther Topkapi The World of Henry Orient	Father Goose A Hard Day's Night One Potato, Two Potato The Organizer That Man from Rio	Original Screenplay
Comedy Screenplay
Drama Screenplay	Becket {O} The Best Man The Night of the Iguana One Potato, Two Potato {O} Seven Days in May
Drama Screenplay		Becket {P} Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb {P} Mary Poppins {P} My Fair Lady Zorba the Greek	Adapted Screenplay
Musical Screenplay	Kissin' Cousins Mary Poppins {O} My Fair Lady {O} Robin and the 7 Hoods Roustabout The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Musical Screenplay
1963
Comedy Screenplay	Charade Irma La Douce Lilies of the Field {O} Love with the Proper Stranger {O} The Thrill of It All	America America Federico Fellini's 8-1/2 The Four Days of Naples How the West Was Won Love with the Proper Stranger	Original Screenplay
Drama Screenplay	America, America {O} The Balcony Captain Newman, M.D. The Great Escape Hud {O} The Ugly American	Captain Newman, M.D. Hud {P} Lilies of the Field {P} Sundays and Cybele Tom Jones	Adapted Screenplay
1962
Comedy Screenplay	Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation The Notorious Landlady Period of Adjustment The Pigeon That Took Rome That Touch of Mink {O}	Divorce--Italian Style Freud Last Year at Marienbad That Touch of Mink {P} Through a Glass Darkly	Original Screenplay
Comedy Screenplay
Drama Screenplay	Billy Budd Birdman of Alcatraz Freud {O} The Miracle Worker {O} To Kill a Mockingbird {O}
Drama Screenplay		David and Lisa Lawrence of Arabia Lolita The Miracle Worker To Kill a Mockingbird {P}	Adapted Screenplay
Musical Screenplay	Billy Rose's Jumbo Gypsy Hey, Let's Twist Meredith Willson's The Music Man State Fair
Musical Screenplay
1961
Comedy Screenplay	The Absent Minded Professor Breakfast at Tiffany's {O} A Majority of One One, Two, Three The Parent Trap	Ballad of a Soldier La Dolce Vita General Della Rovere Lover Come Back Splendor in the Grass	Original Screenplay
Comedy Screenplay
Drama Screenplay	Fanny The Hustler {O} The Innocents Judgment at Nuremberg {O} A Raisin in the Sun
Drama Screenplay		Breakfast at Tiffany's {P} The Guns of Navarone The Hustler {P} Judgment at Nuremberg West Side Story {P}	Adapted Screenplay
Musical Screenplay	Babes in Toyland Blue Hawaii Flower Drum Song Snow White and the Three Stooges West Side Story {O}
Musical Screenplay
1960
Comedy Screenplay	The Apartment {O} The Facts of Life {O} North to Alaska Ocean's Eleven Please Don't Eat the Daisies	The Angry Silence The Apartment {P} The Facts of Life Hiroshima, Mon Amour Never on Sunday	Original Screenplay
Comedy Screenplay
Drama Screenplay	Elmer Gantry {O} Psycho Sons and Lovers {O} Spartacus The Sundowners {O}
Drama Screenplay		Elmer Gantry {P} Inherit the Wind Sons and Lovers The Sundowners Tunes of Glory	Adapted Screenplay
Musical Screenplay	Bells Are Ringing Can-Can G.I. Blues Let's Make Love
Musical Screenplay	Bells Are Ringing Can-Can G.I. Blues Let's Make Love

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Precursor Category	Precursor Nominees	Oscar Nominees	Oscar Category
1959
Comedy Screenplay	A Hole in the Head North by Northwest {O} Operation Petticoat {O} Pillow Talk {O} Some Like It Hot {O}	The 400 Blows North by Northwest Operation Petticoat Pillow Talk Wild Strawberries	Original Screenplay
Comedy Screenplay
Drama Screenplay	Anatomy of a Murder {O} Ben-Hur {O} Compulsion The Diary of Anne Frank The Nun's Story {O}
Drama Screenplay		Anatomy of a Murder Ben-Hur The Nun's Story Room at the Top Some Like It Hot {P}	Adapted Screenplay
Musical Screenplay	The Five Pennies Li'l Abner Never Steal Anything Small Porgy and Bess A Private's Affair Say One for Me
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1958
Comedy Screenplay	Hosueboat {O} Indiscreet Me and the Colonel The Reluctant Debutante Teacher's Pet {O}	The Defiant Ones {P} The Goddess Houseboat The Sheepman Teacher's Pet	Original Screenplay
Comedy Screenplay
Drama Screenplay	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof {O} The Defiant Ones {O} I Want to Live! {O} The Long, Hot Summer Separate Tables {O}
Drama Screenplay		Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Gigi {P} The Horse's Mouth I Want To Live! Separate Tables	Adapted Screenplay
Musical Screenplay	Damn Yankees! Gigi {O} The Girl Most Likely South Pacific tom thumb
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1957
Comedy Screenplay	Designing Woman {O} Don't Go Near the Water Love in the Afternoon Operation Mad Ball Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?	Designing Woman Funny Face Man of a Thousand Faces The Tin Star Vitelloni	Original Screenplay
Comedy Screenplay
Drama Screenplay	12 Angry Men {O} Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison {O} Paths of Glory Peyton Place {O} Sayonara {O}
Drama Screenplay		The Bridge on the River Kwai Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison Peyton Place Sayonara 12 Angry Men {P}	Adapted Screenplay
Musical Screenplay	Funny Face {O} Les Girls The Joker Is Wild The Pajama Game Pal Joey
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1956
Comedy Screenplay	Around the World in 80 Days {O} Bus Stop Full of Life The Solid Gold Cadillac The Teahouse of the August Moon	The Bold and the Brave Julie The Ladykillers The Red Balloon La Strada	Original Screenplay
Drama Screenplay	Baby Doll {O} Friendly Persuasion {O} Giant {O} The Rainmaker Somebody Up There Likes Me	Around the World in 80 Days {P} Baby Doll Friendly Persuasion {P} Giant Lust for Life	Adapted Screenplay
Musical Screenplay	Carousel The Eddy Duchin Story High Society The King and I Meet Me in Las Vegas	The Brave One The Eddy Duchin Story High Society The Proud and the Beautiful Umberto D.	Motion Picture Screenplay
1955
Comedy Screenplay	Mister Roberts Phffft! The Seven Year Itch The Tender Trap To Catch a Thief	Love Me or Leave Me The Private War of Major Benson Rebel without a Cause The Sheep Has Five Legs Strategic Air Command	Motion Picture Screenplay
Drama Screenplay	Bad Day at Black Rock {O} Blackboard Jungle {O} East of Eden {O} Marty {O} Picnic	The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell Interrupted Melody It's Always Fair Weather Mr. Hulot's Holiday The Seven Little Foys	Story and Screenplay
Musical Screenplay	Daddy Long Legs Guys and Dolls It's Always Fair Weather {O} Love Me or Leave Me {O} Oklahoma!	Bad Day at Black Rock Blackboard Jungle East of Eden Love Me or Leave Me {P} Marty {P}	Screenplay
1954
Comedy Screenplay	It Should Happen to You Knock on Wood {O} The Long, Long Trailer Sabrina {O} Susan Slept Here	Bread, Love and Dreams Broken Lance Forbidden Games Night People There's No Business Like Show Business	Motion Picture Screenplay
Drama Screenplay	The Barefoot Contessa {O} The Country Girl {O} Executive Suite On the Waterfront {O} Rear Window {O}	The Barefoot Contessa Genevieve The Glenn Miller Story Knock on Wood On the Waterfront {P}	Story and Screenplay
Musical Screenplay	Carmen Jones The Glenn Miller Story {O} Seven Brides for Seven Brothers {O} A Star Is Born There's No Business Like Show Business {O}	The Caine Mutiny The Country Girl Rear Window Sabrina {P} Seven Brides for Seven Brothers {P}	Screenplay
1953
Comedy Screenplay	The Actress How to Marry a Millionaire The Moon Is Blue Roman Holiday {O} Stalag 17	Above and Beyond The Captain's Paradise Hondo Little Fugitive Roman Holiday {P}	Motion Picture Screenplay
Drama Screenplay	Above and Beyond {O} From Here to Eternity {O} Little Fugitive {O} Martin Luther Shane {O}	The Band Wagon The Desert Rats The Naked Spur Take the High Ground Titanic	Story and Screenplay
Musical Screenplay	The Band Wagon {O} Call Me Madam Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Kiss Me Kate Lili {O}	The Cruel Sea From Here to Eternity {P} Lili {P} Roman Holiday {P} Shane	Screenplay
1952
Comedy Screenplay	The Happy Time The Marrying Kind The Quiet Man {O} Pat and Mike {O} Room for One More	The Greatest Show on Earth My Son John The Narrow Margin The Pride of St. Louis The Sniper	Motion Picture Screenplay
Drama Screenplay	The Bad and the Beautiful {O} Come Back, Little Sheba Five Fingers {O} High Noon {O} Moulin Rouge	The Atomic City Breaking the Sound Barrier The Lavender Hill Mob Pat and Mike Viva Zapata!	Story and Screenplay
Musical Screenplay	Hans Christian Andersen I'll See You in My Dreams Singin' in the Rain Where's Charley With a Song in My Heart	The Bad and the Beautiful Five Fingers High Noon {P} The Man in the White Suit The Quiet Man {P}	Screenplay
1951
Comedy Screenplay			Motion Picture Story


Drama Screenplay	Death of a Salesman Detective Story {O} Fourteen Hours A Place in the Sun {O} A Streetcar Named Desire {O}

		An American in Paris {P} The Big Carnival David and Bathsheba Go For Broke! The Well	Story and Screenplay
Low-Budget Screenplay	The First Legion Five Little Big Horn Pickup The Steel Helmet


Musical Screenplay	An American in Paris {O} The Great Caruso Here Comes the Groom {O} On the Riviera Show Boat
		The African Queen Detective Story A Place in the Sun {P} La Ronde A Streetcar Named Desire	Screenplay

Screenplay Dealing Most Ably with Problems of the American Scene	Bright Victory Death of a Salesman A Place in the Sun {O} Saturday's Hero The Well


1950
Comedy Screenplay	Adam's Rib {O} All About Eve {O} Born Yesterday {O} Father of the Bride {O} The Jackpot	Bitter Rice The Gunfighter Mystery Street Panic in the Streets When Willie Comes Marching Home	Motion Picture Story


Drama Screenplay	All About Eve {O} The Asphalt Jungle {O} The Men {O} Panic in the Streets {O} Sunset Blvd. {O}

		Adam's Rib Caged The Men {P} No Way Out Sunset Blvd. {P}	Story and Screenplay
Musical Screenplay	Annie Get Your Gun My Blue Heaven Summer Stock Three Little Words The West Point Story


Screenplay Dealing Most Ably with Problems of the American Scene	The Asphalt Jungle {O} Broken Arrow {O} The Men {O} No Way Out {O} Panic in the Streets {O}
		All about Eve {P} The Asphalt Jungle Born Yesterday Broken Arrow {P} Father of the Bride	Screenplay

Western Screenplay	Broken Arrow {O} Devil's Doorway The Gunfighter {O} Rio Grande A Ticket to Tomahawk Winchester '73

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Precursor Category	Precursor Nominees	Oscar Nominees	Oscar Category
1949
Comedy Screenplay	Adam's Rib Come to the Stable {O} Every Girl Should Be Married I Was a Male War Bride It Happens Every Spring {O} A Letter to Three Wives {O}	Come to the Stable It Happens Every Spring Sands of Iwo Jima The Stratton Story White Heat	Motion Picture Story


Drama Screenplay	All the Kings {O} Battleground {O} Champion {O} The Hasty Heart The Heiress Intruder in the Dust The Window

		Battleground Jolson Sings Again Paisan Passport to Pimlico The Quiet One	Story and Screenplay
Musical Screenplay	The Barkleys of Broadway In the Good Old Summertime On the Town Take Me Out to the Ball Game Jolson Sings Again {O} You're My Everything


Screenplay Dealing Most Ably with Problems of the American Scene	All the King's Men {O} Home of the Brave Intruder in the Dust Lost Boundaries Pinky
		All the King's Men {P} The Bicycle Thief Champion The Fallen Idol A Letter to Three Wives {P}	Screenplay

Western Screenplay	The Gal Who Took the West She Wore a Yellow Ribbon Streets of Loredo Whispering Smith Yellow Sky


1948
Comedy Screenplay	Apartment for Peggy A Foreign Affair {O} I Remember Mama June Bride The Mating of Millie Miss Tatlock's Millions Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House No Minor Vices The Paleface Sitting Pretty	Louisiana Story The Naked City Red River The Red Shoes The Search	Motion Picture Story
Comedy Screenplay
Drama Screenplay	All My Sons Another Part of the Forest Berlin Express Call Northside 777 Command Decision I Remember Mama Johnny Belinda {O} Key Largo The Naked City {O} The Snake Pit {O} Sorry, Wrong Number The Treasure of the Sierra Madre {O}
Drama Screenplay
Musical Screenplay	Easter Parade The Emperor Waltz Luxury Liner On an Island with You That Lady in Ermine When My Baby Smiles at Me You Were Meant for Me
Musical Screenplay		A Foreign Affair Johnny Belinda The Search The Snake Pit {P} The Treasure of the Sierra Madre {P}	Screenplay
Screenplay Dealing Most Ably with Problems of the American Scene	All My Sons Another Part of the Forest Apartment for Peggy Call Northside 777 Command Decision Cry of the City I Remember Mama Louisiana Sky The Naked City {O} The Snake Pit {O} The Street with No Name

Western Screenplay	Fort Apache Four Faces West Fury at Furnace Creek Green Grass of Wyoming The Man from Colorado The Paleface Rachel and the Stranger Red River {O} Station West The Treasure of the Sierra Madre {O}

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