Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Screenplay

The Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Screenplay is one of the annual awards given by the Chicago Film Critics Association.

Year	Winner	Writer(s)
2006	The Queen	Peter Morgan
	Babel	Guillermo Arriaga
	Letters from Iwo Jima	Iris Yamashita
	Little Miss Sunshine	Michael Arndt
	United 93	Paul Greengrass
2007	Juno	Diablo Cody
	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead	Kelly Masterson
	Michael Clayton	Tony Gilroy
	Ratatouille	Brad Bird
	The Savages	Tamara Jenkins
2008	WALL-E	Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon
	In Bruges	Martin McDonagh
	Milk	Dustin Lance Black
	Rachel Getting Married	Jenny Lumet
	Synecdoche, New York	Charlie Kaufman
2009	The Hurt Locker	Mark Boal
	A Serious Man	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
	Away We Go	Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida
	Inglourious Basterds	Quentin Tarantino
	Up	Bob Peterson

Year	Winner	Writer(s)
2010	Inception	Christopher Nolan
	Black Swan	Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, and John McLaughlin
	Four Lions	Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, and Chris Morris
	The Kids Are All Right	Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg
	The King's Speech	David Seidler
2011	The Artist	Michel Hazanavicius
	Martha Marcy May Marlene	Sean Durkin
	Midnight in Paris	Woody Allen
	A Separation	Asghar Farhadi
	The Tree of Life	Terrence Malick
2012	Zero Dark Thirty	Mark Boal
	Django Unchained	Quentin Tarantino
	Looper	Rian Johnson
	The Master	Paul Thomas Anderson
	Moonrise Kingdom	Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
2013	Her	Spike Jonze
	American Hustle	Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
	Blue Jasmine	Woody Allen
	Inside Llewyn Davis	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
	Nebraska	Bob Nelson
2014	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Wes Anderson
	Birdman	Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo
	Boyhood	Richard Linklater
	Calvary	John Michael McDonagh
	Whiplash	Damien Chazelle
2015	Spotlight	Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer
	Bridge of Spies	Matt Charman, Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen
	Ex Machina	Alex Garland
	The Hateful Eight	Quentin Tarantino
	Inside Out	Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, and Josh Cooley
2016	Manchester by the Sea	Kenneth Lonergan
	Hell or High Water	Taylor Sheridan
	Jackie	Noah Oppenheim
	The Lobster	Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou
	Moonlight	Barry Jenkins
2017	Get Out	Jordan Peele
	The Big Sick	Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani
	Lady Bird	Greta Gerwig
	Phantom Thread	Paul Thomas Anderson
	The Shape of Water	Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor
	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Martin McDonagh
2018	First Reformed	Paul Schrader
	Eighth Grade	Bo Burnham
	The Favourite	Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara
	Roma	Alfonso Cuarón
	Vice	Adam McKay
2019	Parasite	Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won
	The Farewell	Lulu Wang
	Knives Out	Rian Johnson
	Marriage Story	Noah Baumbach
	Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood	Quentin Tarantino

Year	Winner	Writer(s)
2020	Never Rarely Sometimes Always	Eliza Hittman
	Da 5 Bloods	Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo, Spike Lee and Kevin Willmott
	Promising Young Woman	Emerald Fennell
	Soul	Pete Docter, Mike Jones and Kemp Powers
	The Trial of the Chicago 7	Aaron Sorkin
2021	Licorice Pizza	Paul Thomas Anderson
	The Card Counter	Paul Schrader
	The French Dispatch	Wes Anderson
	Pig	Michael Sarnoski
	Red Rocket	Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch
2022	The Banshees of Inisherin	Martin McDonagh
	Aftersun	Charlotte Wells
	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
	The Fabelmans	Tony Kushner and Steven Spielberg
	Tár	Todd Field
2023	May December	Samy Burch
	Anatomy of a Fall	Arthur Harari and Justine Triet
	Barbie	Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach
	The Holdovers	David Hemingson
	Past Lives	Celine Song
2024	A Real Pain	Jesse Eisenberg
	Anora	Sean Baker
	The Brutalist	Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold
	Challengers	Justin Kuritzkes
	The Substance	Coralie Fargeat

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