Films with Only Screenplay Nominations Since 1970

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Here is the list of films that only got nominated for screenplay since 1970:

1970
Joe – Norman Wexler (original)
My Night at Maud’s – Eric Rohmer (original)

1971
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion – Elio Petri and Ugo Prior (Original)
The Conformist – Bernardo Bertolucci (adapted)

1972
Murmur of the Heart – Louis Male (original)

1974
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz – Mordecai Richler and Lionel Chetwynd (adapted)

1975
And Now My Love – Claude Leblouh and Pierre Interwoven (original)
Lies My Father Told Me – Ted Allan (original)

1976
The Front – Walter Bernstein (original)

1977
The Late Show – Robert Benton (original)
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden – Gavin Lambert and Lewis John Carlina (adapted)
Oh, God! – Larry Gelbart (adapted)

1978
Blood Brothers – Walter Newman (adapted)

1980
Brubaker – Screenplay by W. D. Richter; Story by W. D. Richter and Arthur Ross (original)
Mon Once Ameriques – Jean Rouault (original)
Breaker Morant – Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens and Bruce Beresford (adapted)

1981
Prince of the City – Jay Persson Allen and Sidney Lumet (adapted)

1982
Diner – Barry Levinson (original)

1983
Betrayal – Harold Pinter (adapted)

1984
Beverly Hills Cop – Screenplay by Daniel Petrie Jr.; Story by Danilo Bach and Daniel Petrie Jr. (original)
The North – Gregory Nava and Anna Thomas (original)
Splash – Screenplay by Lowell Ganz, Babalawo Mandel and Bruce Jay Friedman; Screen Story by Bruce Jay Friedman based on a story by Brian Grazer (original)
1985
The Purple Rose of Cairo – Woody Allen (original)

1986
Crocodile Dundee – Screenplay by Paul Hogan, Ken Shadier, and John Cornell; Story by Paul Hogan (original)
My Beautiful Launderette – Hanif Krishi (original)
Stand by Me – Reynold Gideon and Bruce A. Evans (adapted)

1987
Full Metal Jacket – Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, and Gustav Hansford (adapted)

1988
Bull Durham – Ron Shelton (original)

1989
Sex, Lies, and Videotape – Steven Soderbergh (original)
When Harry Met Sally… – Nora Ephron (original)

1990
Alice – Woody Allen (original)
Green Card – Peter Weir (original)
Metropolitan – Whit Stillman (original)

1991
Grand Canyon – Lawrence Kashan and Meg Kashan (original)
Europa Europa – Agnieszka Holland (adapted)

1993
Dave – Gary Ross (original)

1994
Heavenly Creatures – Peter Jackson and Frances Walsh (original)

1996
Lone Star – John Sayles (original)
Trainspotting – John Hodge (adapted)

1997
Deconstructing Harry – Woody Allen (original)
Donnie Brasco – Paul Attanasio (adapted)

1998
Bulworth – Warren Beatty and Jeremy Pikser (original)

1999
Election – Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (adapted)

2001
The Royal Tenenbaums – Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson (original)
Ghost World – Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff (adapted)

2002
My Big Fat Greek Wedding – Nia Vardalos (original)
Y Tu Mamá También – Carlos Cuarón and Alfonso Cuarón (original)
About a Boy – Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz, and Paul Weitz (adapted)

2003
Dirty Pretty Things – Steven Knight (original)
American Splendor – Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (adapted)

2004
Before Sunset – Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke and Kim Krizan (adapted)

2005
Match Point – Woody Allen (original)
The Squid and the Whale – Noah Baumbach (original)

2006
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan – Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Peter Bainham, Dan Mazer and Todd Phillips (adapted)

2007
Lars and the Real Girl – Nancy Oliver (original)

2008
Happy-Go-Lucky – Mike Leigh (original)
In Bruges – Martin McDonagh (original)

2009
In the Loop – Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche (adapted)

2010
Another Year – Mike Leigh (original)

2011
Margin Call – J. C. Chandor (original)
The Ides of March – George Clooney, Grant Heslov, and Beau Willimon (adapted)

2012
Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola (original)

2013
Before Midnight – Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, and Ethan Hawke (adapted)

2014
Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy (original)

2015
Straight Outta Compton – Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; Story by S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus and Andrea Berloff (original)

2016
20th Century Women – Mike Mills (original)
The Lobster – Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou (original)

2017
The Big Sick – Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani (original)
The Disaster Artist – Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (adapted)
Logan – Scott Frank, James Mangold and Michael Green; Story by James Mangold (adapted)
Molly’s Game – Aaron Sorkin (adapted)

2018
First Reformed – Paul Schrader (original)

2019
Knives Out – Rian Johnson (original)

What screenplays this year could potentially get in even though the film gets nothing else?

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[Cordell Martin Joined: Jul 9th, 2014 Topics: 5 Posts: 393 View Predictions]

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Rooting for he forty-year-old version

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[Cordell Martin Joined: Jul 9th, 2014 Topics: 5 Posts: 393 View Predictions]

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Rooting for the forty-year-old version

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[markwahlbird Joined: Feb 15th, 2019 Topics: 17 Posts: 106 View Predictions]

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https://letterboxd.com/fxckitdude/list/films-with-a-screenplay-nomination-as-their/

For anyone interested, I went through a while back and found this for every year going back to the first Oscars!

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[DCurrie Joined: Sep 18th, 2011 Topics: 26 Posts: 1593 View Predictions]

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Interesting stats…

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[mateil Joined: Aug 23rd, 2017 Topics: 5 Posts: 68 View Predictions]

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Sam K wrote:

What screenplays this year could potentially get in even though the film gets nothing else?

Minari, Da 5 Bloods (maybe just maybe Kajillionaire) in Original
I’m Thinking of Ending Things in Adapted.

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