Academy Award for Best Story

1928 Underworld - Ben Hecht

• The Last Command - Lajos Biro
• The Patent Leather Kid - Rupert Hughes

1929 None given

1930 None given

1931 The Dawn Patrol - John Saunders

• Doorway to Hell - Rowland Brown
• Laughter - Harry D'Arrast, Douglas Doty, Donald Stewart
• The Public Enemy - John Bright, Kubec Glasmon
• Smart Money - Lucien Hubbard, Joseph Jackson

1932 The Champ - Frances Marion

• Lady and Gent - Grover Jones, William McNutt
• Star Witness - Lucien Hubbard
• What Price Hollywood - Adela St. John

1933 One Way Passage - Robert Lord

• The Prizefighter and the Lady - Frances Marion
• Rasputin and the Empress - Charles MacArthur

1934 Manhattan Melodrama - Arthur Caesar

• Hide Out - Mauri Grashin
• The Richest Girl in the World - Norman Krasna

1935 The Scoundrel - Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur

• Broadway Melody of 1936 - Moss Hart
• The Gay Deception - Stephen Avery, Don Hartman

1936 The Story of Louis Pasteur - Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney

• Fury - Norman Krasna
• The Great Ziegfield - William McGuire
• San Francisco - Robert Hopkins
• Three Smart Girls - Adele Commandini

1937 A Star Is Born - Robert Carson, William Wellman

• 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

1938 Boys Town - Eleanore Griffin, Dore Schary

• Alexander's Ragtime Band - Irving Berlin
• Angels with Dirty Faces - Rowland Brown
• Blockade - John Lawson
• Mad About Music - Marcella Burke, Frederick Kohner
• Test Pilot - Frank Wead

1939 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Lewis Foster

• Bachelor Mother - Felix Jackson
• Love Affair - Mildred Cram, Leo McCarey
• Ninotchka - Melchior Lengyel
• Young Mr. Lincoln - Lamar Trotti

1940 Arise, My Love - Benjamin Glazer, John Toldy

• Comrade X - Walter Reisch
• Edison, The Man - Hugo Butler, Dore Schary
• My Favorite Wife - Leo McCarey, Bella Spewack, Samuel Spewack
• The Westerner - Stuart Lake

1941 Here Comes Mr. Jordan - Harry Segall

• Ball of Fire - Thomas Monroe, Billy Wilder
• The Lady Eve - Monckton Hoffe
• Meet John Doe - Richard Connell, Robert Presnell
• Night Train to Munich - Gordon Wellesley

1942 The Invaders (The 49th Parallel) - Emeric Pressburger

• Holiday Inn - Irving Berlin
• The Pride of the Yankees - Paul Gallico
• The Talk of the Town - Sidney Harmon
• Yankee Doodle Dandy - Robert Buckner

1943 The Human Comedy - William Saroyan

• Action in the North Atlantic - Guy Gilpatric
• Destination Tokyo - Steve Fisher
• The More the Merrier - Frank Ross, Robert Russell
• Shadow of a Doubt - Gordon McDonell

1944 Going My Way - Leo McCarey

• A Guy Named Joe - David Boehm, Chandler Sprague
• Lifeboat - John Steinbeck
• None Shall Escape - Alfred Neumann, Joseph Than
• The Sullivans - Edward Doherty, Jules Schermer

1945 The House on 92nd St. - Charles Booth

• The Affairs of Susan - Laszlo Gorog, Thomas Monroe
• A Medal for Benny - John Steinbeck, Jack Wagner
• Objective, Burma! - Alvah Bessie
• A Song to Remember - Ernst Marischka

1946 Vacation from Marriage - Clemence Dane

• The Dark Mirror - Vladimir Pozner
• The Strange Love of Martha Ivers -Jack Patrick
• The Stranger ? Victor Trivas
• To Each His Own -Charles Brackett

1947 Miracle on 34th Street - Valentine Davies

• A Cage of Nightingales - Georges Chaperot, Rene Wheeler
• It Happened on Fifth Avenue - Herbert Lewis, Frederick Stephani
• Kiss of Death - Eleazar Lipsky
• Smash Up - The Story of a Woman - Frank Cavett, Dorothy Parker

1948 The Search - Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler

• The Louisiana Story ? Robert Flaherty, Francis Flaherty
• the Naked City - Marvin Wald
• Red River - Borden Chase
• The Red Shoes - Emeric Pressburger

1949 Stratton Story - Douglas Morrow

• Come to the Stable ? Clare Luce
• It Happens Every Spring - Valentine Davies, Shirley Smith
• Sands of Iwo Jima - Harry Brown
• White Heat - Virginia Kellog

1950 Panic in the Streets - Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt

• Bitter Rice - Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani
• The Gunfighter - William Bowers, Andre de Toth
• Mystery Street - Leonard Spigelglass
• When Willie Comes Marching Home - Sy Gomberg

1951 Seven Days to Noon - James Bernard, Paul Dehn

• The Bullfighter and the Lady - Bud Boetticher, Ray Nazarro
• The Frogmen - Oscar Millard
• Here Comes the Groom - Liam O'Brian, Robert Riskin
• Teresa -Alfred Hayes, Stewart Stern

1952 The Greatest Show on Earth - Frank Cavett, Frederic Frank, Theodore St. John

• My Son John - Leo McCarey
• The Narrow Margin - Martin Goldsmith, Jack Leonard
• The Pride of Saint Louis ? Guy Trosper
• The Sniper - Edward Anhalt, Edna Anhalt

1953 Roman Holiday - Ian McLellan Hunter, Dalton Trumbo

• Above and Beyond - Beirne Lay
• The Captain's Paradise - Alec Coppel
• Hondo - Louis L'Amour
• Little Fugitive - Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin

1954 Broken Lance - Philip Yordan

• Bread, Love and Dreams - Ettore Margadonna
• Forbidden Games - François Boyer
• Night People - Jed Harris, Tom Reed
• There's No Business Like Show Business - Lamar Trotti

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, Jacques Perret, Raoul Ploquin, Henry Troyat, Henri Verneuil
• Strategic Air Command - Beirne Lay

1956 The Brave One - Dalton Trumbo

• The Eddie Dutcher Story - Leo Katcher
• High Society - Edward Burnds, Elwood Ullman
• The Proud and the Beautiful - Jean-Paul Sartre
• Umberto D - Cesare Zavattini

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