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Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

Best screenplay not based upon previously published material / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the screenplay.

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Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
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Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert are the most recent winners of this award, winning for their film Everything Everywhere All at Once
CountryUnited States
Presented byAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
First awarded1940
Most recent winnerDaniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Websiteoscars.org
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See also the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, a similar award for screenplays that are adaptations of pre-existing material.