| Year |
Nominated Film / Series |
Screenwriter |
Result |
Ref |
|---|
| 2011 |
American Horror Story: Murder House (Season 1, Episode 12: "Afterbirth") |
Jessica Sharzer |
Won |
[9] |
| The Adjustment Bureau |
George Nolfi |
Nominated |
[9] |
| Priest |
Cory Goodman |
| True Blood (Season 4, Episode 8: "Spellbound") |
Alan Ball |
| The Walking Dead (Season 2, Episode 7: "Pretty Much Dead Already") |
Scott M. Gimple |
| The Walking Dead (Season 2, Episode 3: "Save the Last One") |
Scott M. Gimple |
| 2012 |
The Cabin in the Woods |
Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard |
Won |
[10] |
| American Horror Story: Asylum (Season 2, Episode 7: "Dark Cousin") |
Tim Minear |
Nominated |
[10] |
| The Hunger Games |
Gary Ross, Suzanne Collins, and Billy Ray |
| The Walking Dead (Season 3, Episode 4: "Killer Within") |
Sang Kyu Kim |
| The Woman in Black |
Jane Goldman |
| 2013 |
The Walking Dead (Season 3, Episode 16: "Welcome to the Tombs") |
Glen Mazzara |
Won |
[11] |
| American Horror Story: Asylum (Season 2, Episode 11: "Spilt Milk") |
Brad Falchuk |
Nominated |
[11] |
| Dracula (Episode: "A Whiff of Sulfur") |
Daniel Knauf |
| Hannibal (Episode: "Apéritif") |
Bryan Fuller |
| The Returned (Season 1, Episode 8: "The Horde") |
Frédéric Adda and Fabrice Gobert |
| 2014 |
The Babadook |
Jennifer Kent |
Won |
[12] |
| American Horror Story: Coven (Season 3, Episode 10: "The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks") |
James Wong |
Nominated |
[12] |
| Doctor Who (Series 8, Episode 4: "Listen") |
Steven Moffat |
| Penny Dreadful (Season 1, Episode 2: "Séance") |
John Logan |
| The Walking Dead (Season 4, Episode 14: "The Grove") |
Scott M. Gimple |
| 2015 |
It Follows |
David Robert Mitchell |
Won |
[13] |
| Crimson Peak |
Guillermo del Toro and Matthew Robbins |
Nominated |
[13] |
| Penny Dreadful (Season 2, Episode 9: "And Hell Itself My Only Foe") |
John Logan |
| Penny Dreadful (Season 2, Episode 3: "The Nightcomers") |
John Logan |
| What We Do in the Shadows |
Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi |
| 2016 |
The Witch |
Robert Eggers |
Won |
[14] |
| 10 Cloverfield Lane |
Josh Campbell, Damien Chazelle, and Matthew Stuecken |
Nominated |
[14] |
| Penny Dreadful (Season 3, Episode 4: "A Blade of Grass") |
John Logan |
| Stranger Things (Season 1, Episode 1: "Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers") |
The Duffer Brothers |
| Stranger Things (Season 1, Episode 8: "Chapter Eight: The Upside Down") |
The Duffer Brothers |
| 2017 |
Get Out |
Jordan Peele |
Won |
[15] |
| It |
Chase Palmer, Cary Fukunaga, and Gary Dauberman |
Nominated |
[15] |
| The Shape of Water |
Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor |
| Stranger Things (Season 2, Episode 1: "Chapter One: MADMAX") |
The Duffer Brothers |
| Twin Peaks (Season 3, Episode 8: "Part 8") |
Mark Frost and David Lynch |
| 2018 |
The Haunting of Hill House (Season 1, Episode 5: "The Bent-Neck Lady") |
Meredith Averill |
Won |
[16] |
| Annihilation |
Alex Garland |
Nominated |
[16] |
| Bird Box |
Eric Heisserer |
| Hereditary |
Ari Aster |
| A Quiet Place |
Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, and John Krasinski |
| 2019 |
Us |
Jordan Peele |
Won |
[17] |
| Doctor Sleep |
Mike Flanagan |
Nominated |
[17] |
| The Lighthouse |
Robert Eggers and Max Eggers |
| Midsommar |
Ari Aster |
| Stranger Things (Season 3, Episode 8: "Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt") |
Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer |
| 2020 |
The Invisible Man |
Leigh Whannell
(Universal Pictures, Blumhouse Productions, Goalpost Pictures, Nervous Tick Productions) |
Won |
[18] |
| Color Out of Space |
Scarlett Amaris and Richard Stanley
(SpectreVision) |
Nominated |
[18] |
| Lovecraft Country (Season 1, Episode 1: "Sundown") |
Misha Green
(Affeme, Monkeypaw Productions, Bad Robot Productions, Warner Bros. Television Studios) |
| Lovecraft Country (Season 1, Episode 8: "Jig-a-Bobo") |
Misha Green and Ihuoma Ofordire
(Affeme, Monkeypaw Productions, Bad Robot Productions, Warner Bros. Television Studios) |
| The Haunting of Bly Manor (Season 1, Episode 5: "The Altar of the Dead") |
Angela LaManna
(Intrepid Pictures, Amblin Television, Paramount Television Studios) |
| 2021 |
Midnight Mass (Season 1, Episode 6: "Book VI: Acts of the Apostles") |
Mike Flanagan, James Flanagan, and Jeff Howard
(Intrepid Pictures) |
Won |
[19] |
| Antlers |
C. Henry Chaisson, Nick Antosca, and Scott Cooper
(Searchlight Pictures) |
Nominated |
[19] |
| Candyman |
Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld, and Nia DaCosta
(Universal Pictures) |
| Fear Street: Part One – 1994 |
Phil Graziadei and Leigh Janiak
(Chernin Entertainment) |
| Squid Game (Season 1, Episode 1: "Red Light, Green Light") |
Hwang Dong-hyuk
(Siren Pictures) |
| 2022 |
The Black Phone |
Scott Derrickson & C. Robert Cargill |
Won (tie) |
[20] |
| Stranger Things (Season 4, Episode 1: "Chapter One: The Hellfire Club") |
The Duffer Brothers |
| The Pale Blue Eye |
Scott Cooper |
Nominated |
[20] |
| Men |
Alex Garland |
| Pearl |
Mia Goth & Ti West |
| 2023 |
Godzilla Minus One |
Takashi Yamazaki |
Won |
[21] |
| Black Mirror (Season 6, Episode 3: "Beyond the Sea") |
Charlie Brooker |
Nominated |
[21] |
| Huesera: The Bone Woman |
Michelle Garza Cervera & Abia Castillo |
| No One Will Save You |
Brian Duffield |
| When Evil Lurks |
Demián Rugna |
|
| 2024 |
The Substance |
Coralie Fargeat |
Winner |
[22] |
| Nosferatu |
Robert Eggers, Henrik Galeen, & Bram Stoker |
Nominated |
[23] |
| Heretic |
Scott Beck & Bryan Wood |
| Longlegs |
Osgood Perkins |
| I Saw the TV Glow |
Jane Schoenbrun |
| 2025 |
Sinners |
Ryan Coogler |
TBA |
[24] |
| Weapons |
Zach Cregger |
| 28 Years Later |
Alex Garland |
| Companion |
Drew Hancock |
| Bring Her Back |
Danny Philippou & Bill Hinzman |