Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay

Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay
Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay
	The 2024 recipient: Azazel Jacobs
Country	United States
Presented by	The Gotham Film & Media Institute
First award	2015
Currently held by	Azazel Jacobs for His Three Daughters (2023)
Website	awards.thegotham.org

The Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay is one of the annual Gotham Independent Film Awards. It was first presented in 2015 with Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer being the first recipients of the award for their work in Spotlight.

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Year	Screenwriter(s)	Film	Ref.
2015	Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer	Spotlight	^[1]
	Noah Baumbach	While We're Young
	Marielle Heller	The Diary of a Teenage Girl
	Michael Alan Lerner and Oren Moverman	Love & Mercy
	Phyllis Nagy	Carol
2016	Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney	Moonlight	^[2]
	Jim Jarmusch	Paterson
	Kenneth Lonergan	Manchester by the Sea
	Taylor Sheridan	Hell or High Water
	Whit Stillman	Love & Friendship
2017	Jordan Peele	Get Out	^[3]
	Greta Gerwig	Lady Bird
	Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani	The Big Sick
	James Ivory	Call Me by Your Name
	Kogonada	Columbus
	Mike White	Brad's Status
2018	Paul Schrader	First Reformed	^[4]
	Andrew Bujalski	Support the Girls
	Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara	The Favourite
	Cory Finley	Thoroughbreds
	Tamara Jenkins	Private Life
2019	Noah Baumbach	Marriage Story	^[5]
	Ari Aster	Midsommar
	Jimmie Fails, Joe Talbot and Robert Richert	The Last Black Man in San Francisco
	Tarell Alvin McCraney	High Flying Bird
	Lulu Wang	The Farewell

Year	Screenwriter(s)	Film	Ref.
2020	Radha Blank	The Forty-Year-Old Version	^[6]
	Dan Sallitt	Fourteen
	Mike Makowsky	Bad Education
	James Montague and Craig W. Sander	The Vast of Night
	Jon Raymond and Kelly Reichardt	First Cow
2021	Maggie Gyllenhaal	The Lost Daughter	^[7]^[8]
	Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch	Red Rocket
	Rebecca Hall	Passing
	David Lowery	The Green Knight
	Paul Schrader	The Card Counter
	Amalia Ulman	El Planeta
2022	Todd Field	Tár	^[9]
	Lena Dunham	Catherine Called Birdy
	James Gray	Armageddon Time
	Kogonada	After Yang
	Sarah Polley	Women Talking
2023	Justine Triet and Arthur Harari	Anatomy of a Fall	^[10]
	Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik	May December
	Jonathan Glazer	The Zone of Interest
	Andrew Haigh	All of Us Strangers
	Cristian Mungiu	R.M.N.
2024	Azazel Jacobs	His Three Daughters	^[11]
	Annie Baker	Janet Planet
	Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping	Femme
	Ryusuke Hamaguchi	Evil Does Not Exist
	Nathan Silver and C. Mason Wells	Between the Temples

Winners and nominees