Nominees and winners (bold font) of the Academy Awards for Best Writing (Story):

• 1956
  • The Brave One - Dalton Trumbo
  • The Eddy Duchin Story - Leo Katcher
  • High Society (Allied Artists) - Edward Bernds, Elwood Ullman,
  • The Proud and the Beautiful - Jean Paul Sartre
  • Umberto D. - Cesare Zavattini
• 1955
  • Love Me or Leave Me - Daniel Fuchs
  • The Private War of Major Benson - Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher,
  • Rebel without a Cause - Nicholas Ray
  • The Sheep Has Five Legs - Jean Marsan, Henry Troyat, Jacques Perret, Raoul Ploquin, Raoul Ploquin
  • Strategic Air Command - Beirne Lay, Jr.
• 1954
  • Bread, Love and Dreams - Ettore Margadonna
  • Broken Lance - Philip Yordan
  • Forbidden Games - François Boyer
  • Night People - Jed Harris, Tom Reed,
  • There's No Business Like Show Business - Lamar Trotti
• 1953
  • Above and Beyond - Beirne Lay, Jr.
  • The Captain's Paradise - Alec Coppel
  • Hondo - Louis L'Amour
  • Little Fugitive - Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin,
  • Roman Holiday - Dalton Trumbo, Ian McLellan Hunter,
• 1952
  • The Greatest Show on Earth - Frederic M. Frank, Theodore St. John, Frank Cavett,
  • My Son John - Leo McCarey
  • The Narrow Margin - Martin Goldsmith, Jack Leonard,
  • The Pride of St. Louis - Guy Trosper
  • The Sniper - Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt,
• 1951
  • Bullfighter and the Lady - Budd Boetticher, Ray Nazarro,
  • The Frogmen - Oscar Millard
  • Here Comes the Groom - Robert Riskin, Liam O'Brien,
  • Seven Days to Noon - Paul Dehn, James Bernard,
  • Teresa - Alfred Hayes, Stewart Stern,
• 1950
  • Bitter Rice - Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani,
  • The Gunfighter - William Bowers, Andre de Toth,
  • Mystery Street - Leonard Spigelgass
  • Panic in the Streets - Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt,
  • When Willie Comes Marching Home - Sy Gomberg
• 1949
  • Come to the Stable - Clare Boothe Luce
  • It Happens Every Spring - Shirley W. Smith, Valentine Davies,
  • Sands of Iwo Jima - Harry Brown
  • The Stratton Story - Douglas Morrow
  • White Heat - Virginia Kellogg
• 1948
  • Louisiana Story - Frances Flaherty, Robert Flaherty,
  • The Naked City - Malvin Wald
  • Red River - Borden Chase
  • The Red Shoes - Emeric Pressburger
  • The Search - Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler,
• 1947
  • A Cage of Nightingales - Georges Chaperot, Rene Wheeler,
  • It Happened on Fifth Avenue - Herbert Clyde Lewis, Frederick Stephani,
  • Kiss of Death - Eleazar Lipsky
  • Miracle on 34th Street - Valentine Davies
  • Smash-Up--The Story of a Woman - Dorothy Parker, Frank Cavett,
• 1946
  • The Dark Mirror - Vladimir Pozner
  • The Strange Love of Martha Ivers - Jack Patrick
  • The Stranger - Victor Trivas
  • To Each His Own - Charles Brackett
  • Vacation from Marriage - Clemence Dane
• 1945
  • The Affairs of Susan - Thomas Monroe, Laszlo Gorog,
  • The House on 92nd Street - Charles G. Booth
  • A Medal for Benny - John Steinbeck, Jack Wagner,
  • Objective, Burma! - Alvah Bessie
  • A Song To Remember - Ernst Marischka
• 1944
  • Going My Way - Leo McCarey
  • A Guy Named Joe - Chandler Sprague, David Boehm,
  • Lifeboat - John Steinbeck
  • None Shall Escape - Alfred Neumann, Joseph Than,
  • The Sullivans - Edward Doherty, Jules Schermer,
• 1943
  • Action in the North Atlantic - Guy Gilpatric
  • Destination Tokyo - Steve Fisher
  • The Human Comedy - William Saroyan
  • The More the Merrier - Robert Russell, Frank Ross,
  • Shadow of a Doubt - Gordon McDonell
• 1942
  • Holiday Inn - Irving Berlin
  • The Invaders - Emeric Pressburger
  • The Pride of the Yankees - Paul Gallico
  • The Talk of the Town - Sidney Harmon
  • Yankee Doodle Dandy - Robert Buckner
• 1941
  • Ball of Fire - Billy Wilder, Thomas Monroe,
  • Here Comes Mr. Jordan - Harry Segall
  • The Lady Eve - Monckton Hoffe
  • Meet John Doe - Richard Connell, Robert Presnell,
  • Night Train - Gordon Wellesley
• 1940
  • Arise, My Love - Benjamin Glazer, John S. Toldy,
  • Comrade X - Walter Reisch
  • Edison, the Man - Dore Schary, Hugo Butler,
  • My Favorite Wife - Bella Spewack, Samuel Spewack, Leo McCarey,
  • The Westerner - Stuart N. Lake
• 1939
  • Bachelor Mother - Felix Jackson
  • Love Affair - Mildred Cram, Leo McCarey,
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Lewis R. Foster
  • Ninotchka - Melchior Lengyel
  • Young Mr. Lincoln - Lamar Trotti
• 1938
  • Alexander's Ragtime Band - Irving Berlin
  • Angels with Dirty Faces - Rowland Brown
  • Blockade - John Howard Lawson
  • Boys Town - Dore Schary, Eleanore Griffin,
  • Mad about Music - Marcella Burke, Frederick Kohner,
  • Test Pilot - Frank Wead
• 1937
  • Black Legion - Robert Lord
  • In Old Chicago - Niven Busch
  • The Life of Emile Zola - Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg,
  • One Hundred Men and a Girl - Hans Kraly
  • A Star Is Born (1937) - William A. Wellman, Robert Carson,
• 1936
  • Fury - Norman Krasna
  • The Great Ziegfeld - William Anthony McGuire
  • San Francisco - Robert Hopkins
  • The Story of Louis Pasteur - Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney,
  • Three Smart Girls - Adele Comandini
• 1935
  • Broadway Melody of 1936 - Moss Hart
  • G-Men - Gregory Rogers
  • The Gay Deception - Don Hartman, Stephen Avery,
  • The Scoundrel - Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur,
• 1934
  • Hide-Out - Mauri Grashin
  • Manhattan Melodrama - Arthur Caesar
  • The Richest Girl in the World - Norman Krasna
• 1932/1933
  • One Way Passage - Robert Lord
  • The Prizefighter and the Lady - Frances Marion
  • Rasputin and the Empress - Charles MacArthur
• 1931/1932
  • The Champ (1931/32) - Frances Marion
  • Lady and Gent - Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt,
  • The Star Witness - Lucien Hubbard
  • What Price Hollywood? - Adela Rogers St. Johns, Jane Murfin,
• 1930/1931
  • The Dawn Patrol - John Monk Saunders
  • The Doorway to Hell - Rowland Brown
  • Laughter - Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast, Douglas Doty, Donald Ogden Stewart,
  • The Public Enemy - John Bright (writer), Kubec Glasmon,
  • Smart Money - Lucien Hubbard, Joseph Jackson,
• 1927/1928
  • The Last Command - Lajos Biro
  • Underworld - Ben Hecht