Best Original Screenplay (51 titles)

Films winning the best Oscar for Best (Original) Screenplay since 1957 (when the awards for writing and for screenplay were combined).

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Designing Woman (1957)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray
Director: Vincente Minnelli
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A classic comedy of mistaken identities
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The Defiant Ones on DVD (1958)
Starring: King Donovan, Lawrence Dobkin, Tony Curtis
Director: Stanley Kramer
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Convicts Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier escape from a chain gang. Curtis' character, John Joker Jackson, hates blacks, while Poitier's character, Noah Cullen, hates whites. However, the men are manacled together, forced to rely on each other to survive. Captured at one point by a lynch-happy mob, ..read more »
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Pillow Talk (1959)
Starring: Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall
Director: Michael Gordon
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The uninhibited story of a carefree bachelor and a carefree career girl and the hilarious things that happen when they tangle. Rock Hudson is Brad Allen a songwriter and notorious playboy. Doris Day is Jan Morrow, a "pert" interior decorator. Together they share a party line over which they develop ..read more »
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The Apartment on DVD (1960)
Starring: Naomi Stevens, Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine
Director: Billy Wilder
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Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine star in this acclaimed satire from writer-director Billy Wilder. Insurance clerk C.C. Baxter (Lemmon) lets his superiors use his apartment as a secret love nest and as a result begins to make his way up in the company. Things go awry when director Mr. Sheldrake (..read more »
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William Inge's Splendor in the Grass was Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly For The Screen in 1961

Natalie Wood Collection (6 discs) on DVD
Starring: James Garner, Pat Hingle, Christopher Plummer
Director: Mervyn Le, Mervyn LeRoy, Elia Ka
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Six films starring the late screen icon, Natalie Wood. Warren Beatty made his screen debut opposite Wood in 'Splendor in the Grass' (1961), a tale of adolescent love gone awry directed by Elia Kazan. Set in depression-era Kansas in 1925, the film tells the story of two teenage lovers full of angst ..read more »
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Divorce Italian Style (1961)
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli
Director: Pietro Germi
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Director Pietro Germi's hilarious and pointed satire of Italian marital conventions is the prototypical Italian sex comedy. Ferdinando Cefalu, a handsome Sicilian nobleman, longs to marry his beautiful nubile cousin Angela. There's only one problem: he's already married. Living in a society that ..read more »
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How The West Was Won on DVD (1963)
Starring: Debbie Reynolds, Carolyn Jones, Lee J. Cobb
Director: Henry Hathaway, John Ford, George Marshall
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Filmed in panoramic Cinerama, this star-studded, epic Western adventure is a true cinematic classic. Three legendary directors (Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall) combine their skills to tell the story of three families and their travels from the Erie Canal to California between 1839 ..read more »
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Father Goose on DVD (1964)
Starring: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron
Director: Ralph Nelson
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During WW2, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.
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Darling on DVD (1965)
Starring: Laurence Harvey, Pat Phoenix, Tom Bell
Director: Bryan Forbes, John Schlesinger
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Diana Scott (Julie Christie in an Oscar winning performance) is an ambitious model determined to make it to the top. Using her sexuality, she manipulates powerful men, but in so doing becomes a prisoner of the jet-setting lifestyle she once yearned for. Dirk Bogarde co-stars as Diana's long-..read more »
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Un Homme Et Une Femme (1966)
Starring: Pierre Barouh, Anouk Aimee, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Director: Claude LeLouch, Claude Lelouch
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Racing driver Jean-Louis Duroc (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is distraught when his wife commits suicide. During a visit to his son's boarding school, Duroc meets another widowed parent - script girl Anne Gauthier (Anouk Amie). A love affair develops after Duroc gives Anne a lift home, although the ..read more »
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