List of Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay winners

The following is a list of Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture, one of the Edgar Awards awarded to authors and others by the Mystery Writers of America. The "Best Motion Picture" award was first presented in 1946 and was discontinued after 2009.

Winners[]

1940s[]

• 1946: Murder, My Sweet – John Paxton
• 1947: The Killers – Anthony Veiller
• 1948: Crossfire – John Paxton
• 1949: Call Northside 777 – Jerome Cady (posthumously), Jay Dratler, Leonard Hoffman, Quentin Reynolds

1950s[]

• 1950: The Window - Mel Dinelli; Cornell Woolrich
• 1951: The Asphalt Jungle – Ben Maddow
• 1952: Detective Story – Michael Wilson
• 1953: Five Fingers – Michael Wilson; Otto Lang
• 1954: The Big Heat – Sydney Boehm
• 1955: Rear Window – John Michael Hayes
• 1956: The Desperate Hours – Joseph Hayes
• 1957: No Award Presented
• 1958: 12 Angry Men – Reginald Rose
• 1959: The Defiant Ones – Nathan E. Douglas; Harold Jacob Smith

1960s[]

• 1960: North By Northwest - Ernest Lehman
• 1961: Psycho – Joseph Stefano
• 1962: The Innocents – William Archibald; Truman Capote
• 1963: No Award Presented
• 1964: Charade – Peter Stone
• 1965: Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte – Henry Farrell; Lukas Heller
• 1966: The Spy Who Came In From the Cold – Paul Dehn; Guy Trosper
• 1967: Harper – William Goldman
• 1968: In The Heat of the Night – Stirling Silliphant
• 1969: Bullitt – Harry Kleiner; Alan Trustman

1970s[]

• 1970: Z - Costa Gavras; Jorge Semprún
• 1971: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion – Elio Petri; Ugo Pirro
• 1972: The French Connection – Ernest Tidyman
• 1973: Sleuth – Anthony Shaffer
• 1974: The Last of Sheila – Anthony Perkins; Stephen Sondheim
• 1975: Chinatown – Robert Towne
• 1976: Three Days of the Condor – David Rayfiel; Lorenzo Semple, Jr.
• 1977: Family Plot – Ernest Lehman
• 1978: The Late Show – Robert Benton
• 1979: Magic – William Goldman

1980s[]

• 1980: The Great Train Robbery – Michael Crichton
• 1981: The Black Marble – Joseph Wambaugh
• 1982: Cutter's Way – Jeffrey Alan Fiskin
• 1983: The Long Good Friday – Barrie Keeffe
• 1984: Gorky Park – Dennis Potter
• 1985: A Soldier's Story – Charles Fuller
• 1986: Witness – William Kelley, Earl W. Wallace
• 1987: Something Wild – E. Max Frye
• 1988: Stakeout – Jim Kouf
• 1989: The Thin Blue Line – Errol Morris

1990s[]

• 1990: Heathers – Daniel Waters
• 1991: The Grifters – Donald E. Westlake
• 1992: The Silence of the Lambs – Ted Tally
• 1993: The Player – Michael Tolkin
• 1994: Falling Down – Ebbe Roe Smith
• 1995: Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarantino
• 1996: The Usual Suspects – Christopher McQuarrie
• 1997: Sling Blade – Billy Bob Thornton
• 1998: L.A. Confidential – Curtis Hanson; Brian Helgeland
• 1999: Out of Sight – Scott Frank (screenplay); Elmore Leonard (novel)

2000s[]

• 2000: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels – Guy Ritchie (screenplay)
• 2001: Traffic – Stephen Gaghan (screenplay); Simon Moore (original mini-series)
• 2002: Memento – Christopher Nolan
• 2003: Chicago – Bill Condon
• 2004: Dirty Pretty Things – Steven Knight
• 2005: A Very Long Engagement – Jean-Pierre Jeunet (screenplay); Sébastien Japrisot (novel)
• 2006: Syriana – Stephen Gaghan (screenplay); Robert Baer (book)
• 2007: The Departed – William Monahan
• 2008: Michael Clayton – Tony Gilroy^[1]
• 2009: In Bruges – Martin McDonagh^[2]

2010s[]

• 2010: No Award Presented

See also[]

• Category:Edgar Award winners
• Category:Edgar Award-winning works

References[]

External links[]

• Search the Edgar Award Winners And Nominees from the Edgar Awards website
• Edgar Allan Poe Awards from the Internet Movie Database