Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Screenplay

The Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Screenplay is an annual award given by the Detroit Film Critics Society to honor the best screenplays of that year. The awards was first given in 2011, at the body's fifth annual ceremony.

2010s

Year	Film	Writer(s)	Source
2011 [1]	Moneyball	Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian	Moneyball by Michael Lewis
	50/50	Will Reiser	-
	The Artist	Michel Hazanavicius	-
	Beginners	Mike Mills	-
	Take Shelter	Take Shelter	-
2012 [2]	Silver Linings Playbook	David O. Russell	The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
	The Cabin in the Woods	Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon	-
	Lincoln	Tony Kushner	Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
	The Perks of Being a Wallflower	Stephen Chbosky	Novel by Stephen Chbosky
	Take This Waltz	Sarah Polley	-
2013 [3]	Her	Spike Jonze	-[4]
	American Hustle	Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell	-
	Before Midnight	Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy	Characters by Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan
	Short Term 12	Destin Daniel Cretton	-
	The Wolf of Wall Street	Terence Winter	Memoir by Jordan Belfort
2014 [5]	Boyhood	Richard Linklater	-[6]
	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	Nicolás Giacobone and Alejandro G. Iñárritu	-
	Calvary	John Michael McDonagh	-
	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Wes Anderson	-
	Whiplash	Damien Chazelle	Short Film by Damien Chazelle
2015 [7]	Spotlight	Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer	-
	The Big Short	Charles Randolph and Adam McKay	The Big Short by Michael Lewis
	Brooklyn	Nick Hornby	Novel by Colm Tóibín
	The Hateful Eight	Quentin Tarantino	-
	Inside Out	Josh Cooley, Pete Docter, and Meg LeFauve	-
2016 [8]	La La Land	Damien Chazelle	-
	Arrival	Eric Heisserer	The Big Short by Ted Chiang
	Hell or High Water	Taylor Sheridan	-
	Manchester by the Sea	Kenneth Lonergan	-
	Moonlight	Barry Jenkins	In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney
2017 [9]	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Martin McDonagh	-
	The Big Sick	Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani	-
	Get Out	Jordan Peele	-
	Lady Bird	Greta Gerwig	-
	The Post	Liz Hannah and Josh Singer	-
	The Shape of Water	Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor	-
	Wind River	Taylor Sheridan	-
2018 [10]	Green Book	Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie and Peter Farrelly	-
	Vice	Adam McKay	-[11]
	Eighth Grade	Bo Burnham	-
	The Favourite	Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara	-
	First Reformed	Paul Schrader	-
2019 [12]	Marriage Story	Noah Baumbach	-
	The Irishman	Steven Zaillian	I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt
	The Lighthouse	Robert Eggers & Max Eggers	-
	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Quentin Tarantino	-
	Parasite	Bong Joon-ho & Han Jin-won	-

2020s

• Nomadland - Chloé Zhao (adapted)/Lee Isaac Chung, Minari (original)^[13]