Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Screenplay

The Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Screenplay is an annual award given by the Houston Film Critics Society.

Year	Winner	Writer(s)
2007	Juno	Diablo Cody
	Atonement	Christopher Hampton
	Michael Clayton	Tony Gilroy
	No Country for Old Men	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
	The Savages	Tamara Jenkins
2008	Slumdog Millionaire	Simon Beaufoy
	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Eric Roth
	The Dark Knight	Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan
	Doubt	John Patrick Shanley
	Milk	Dustin Lance Black
2009	Up in the Air	Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
	The Hurt Locker	Mark Boal
	Inglourious Basterds	Quentin Tarantino
	In the Loop	Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, and Tony Roche
	Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire	Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Year	Winner	Writer(s)
2010	The Social Network	Aaron Sorkin
	Inception	Christopher Nolan
	The Kids Are All Right	Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg
	Toy Story 3	John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich, and Michael Arndt
	Winter's Bone	Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini
2011	The Descendants	Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash
	50/50	Will Reiser
	The Artist	Michel Hazanavicius
	Midnight in Paris	Woody Allen
	Win Win	Tom McCarthy
2012	Lincoln	Tony Kushner
	Argo	Chris Terrio
	Looper	Rian Johnson
	Silver Linings Playbook	David O. Russell
	Zero Dark Thirty	Mark Boal
2013	12 Years a Slave	John Ridley
	American Hustle	Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
	Before Midnight	Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, and Ethan Hawke
	Her	Spike Jonze
	Inside Llewyn Davis	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
2014	Boyhood	Richard Linklater
	Birdman	Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo
	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness
	Nightcrawler	Dan Gilroy
	Whiplash	Damien Chazelle
2015	Spotlight	Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer
	The Hateful Eight	Quentin Tarantino
	The Martian	Drew Goddard
	Room	Emma Donoghue
	Steve Jobs	Aaron Sorkin
2016	Hell or High Water	Taylor Sheridan
	Arrival	Eric Heisserer
	La La Land	Damien Chazelle
	Manchester by the Sea	Kenneth Lonergan
	Moonlight	Barry Jenkins
2017	Lady Bird	Greta Gerwig
	The Big Sick	Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani
	Get Out	Jordan Peele
	The Post	Liz Hannah and Josh Singer
	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Martin McDonagh
2018	The Favourite	Deborah Davis & Tony McNamara
	Eighth Grade	Bo Burnham
	First Reformed	Paul Schrader
	If Beale Street Could Talk	Barry Jenkins
	Vice	Adam McKay
2019	Knives Out	Rian Johnson
	The Farewell	Lulu Wang
	Marriage Story	Noah Baumbach
	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Quentin Tarantino
	Parasite	Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won

Year	Winner	Writer(s)
2020	Promising Young Woman	Emerald Fennell
	Minari	Lee Isaac Chung
	Nomadland	Chloé Zhao
	One Night in Miami...	Kemp Powers
	Sound of Metal	Derek Cianfrance, Abraham Marder and Darius Marder
	The Trial of the Chicago 7	Aaron Sorkin
2021	The Power of the Dog	Jane Campion
	Belfast	Kenneth Branagh
	CODA	Sian Heder
	Don't Look Up	Adam McKay
	Licorice Pizza	Paul Thomas Anderson
2022	The Banshees of Inisherin	Martin McDonagh
	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Daniel Kwan Daniel Scheinert
	The Fabelmans	Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner
	Tár	Todd Field
	Women Talking	Sarah Polley and Miriam Toews
2023	American Fiction	Cord Jefferson
	Barbie	Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach
	The Holdovers	David Hemingson
	Oppenheimer	Christopher Nolan
	Past Lives	Celine Song
	Poor Things	Tony McNamara
2024	Anora	Sean Baker
	The Brutalist	Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold
	Conclave	Peter Straughan
	Nickel Boys	RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes
	A Real Pain	Jesse Eisenberg
	Sing Sing	Clint Bently and Greg Kwedar

v t e Houston Film Critics Society
Awards	Best Picture Best Director Best Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress Best Cinematography Best Original Score Best Screenplay
Ceremonies	2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Screenplay

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