Satellite Award for Best Original Screenplay

The Satellite Award for Best Original Screenplay is an annual award given by the International Press Academy.

Satellite Award for Best Original Screenplay
Awarded for	Best Original Screenplay
Country	United States
Presented by	International Press Academy
First award	1996
Currently held by	Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain (2024)
Website	www.pressacademy.com

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
1996	Lone Star (TIE)	John Sayles
	The People vs. Larry Flynt (TIE)	Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski
	Fargo	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
	Shine	Scott Hicks and Jan Sardi
	Sling Blade	Billy Bob Thornton
1997	Good Will Hunting	Ben Affleck and Matt Damon
	Boogie Nights	Paul Thomas Anderson
	The Full Monty	Simon Beaufoy
	Mrs Brown	Jeremy Brock
	Titanic	James Cameron
1998	Pleasantville	Gary Ross
	American History X	David McKenna
	Central Station (Central do Brasil)	Walter Salles, João Emanuel Carneiro, and Marcos Bernstein
	Saving Private Ryan	Robert Rodat
	Shakespeare in Love	Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard
1999	The Sixth Sense	M. Night Shyamalan
	American Beauty	Alan Ball
	Being John Malkovich	Charlie Kaufman
	Magnolia	Paul Thomas Anderson
	Three Kings	David O. Russell and John Ridley
	A Walk on the Moon	Pamela Gray

2000s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
2000	You Can Count on Me	Kenneth Lonergan
	Almost Famous	Cameron Crowe
	Billy Elliot	Lee Hall
	Erin Brockovich	Susannah Grant
	State and Main	David Mamet
2001	Monster's Ball	Milo Addica and Will Rokos
	Memento	Christopher Nolan
	Moulin Rouge!	Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce
	The Others	Alejandro Amenábar
	Sexy Beast	Louis Mellis and David Scinto
2002	Talk to Her (Hable con ella)	Pedro Almodóvar
	All or Nothing	Mike Leigh
	Far from Heaven	Todd Haynes
	The Good Girl	Mike White
	Igby Goes Down	Burr Steers
	Lovely & Amazing	Nicole Holofcener
2003	Lost in Translation	Sofia Coppola
	21 Grams	Guillermo Arriaga
	The Cooler	Frank Hannah and Wayne Kramer
	Kill Bill: Volume 1	Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman
	The Station Agent	Tom McCarthy
	Thirteen	Catherine Hardwicke and Nikki Reed
2004	Ray	James L. White
	The Aviator	John Logan
	Hotel Rwanda	Keir Pearson and Terry George
	Kinsey	Bill Condon
	The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou	Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach
2005	Good Night, and Good Luck	George Clooney and Grant Heslov
	Crash	Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco
	Happy Endings	Don Roos
	Nine Lives	Rodrigo García
	The Squid and the Whale	Noah Baumbach
	The War Within	Ayad Akhtar, Joseph Castelo, and Tom Glynn
2006	The Queen	Peter Morgan
	Babel	Guillermo Arriaga
	Changing Times (Les temps qui changent)	Pascal Bonitzer, Laurent Guyot, and André Téchiné
	The House of Sand (Casa de areia)	Elena Soarez
	Volver	Pedro Almodóvar
	The Wind That Shakes the Barley	Paul Laverty
2007	Juno	Diablo Cody
	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead	Kelly Masterson
	Eastern Promises	Steven Knight
	Lars and the Real Girl	Nancy Oliver
	The Lookout	Scott Frank
	Michael Clayton	Tony Gilroy
2008	The Visitor	Tom McCarthy
	Australia	Baz Luhrmann
	Frozen River	Courtney Hunt
	Milk	Dustin Lance Black
	Seven Pounds	Grant Nieporte
2009	(500) Days of Summer	Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber
	Bright Star	Jane Campion
	The Hurt Locker	Mark Boal
	A Serious Man	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
	Up	Pete Docter and Bob Peterson

2010s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
2010 [1]	The King's Speech	David Seidler
	Biutiful	Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, and Armando Bó
	The Eclipse	Conor McPherson and Billy Roche
	Get Low	Chris Provenzano and C. Gaby Mitchell
	Inception	Christopher Nolan
	The Kids Are All Right	Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg
	Toy Story 3	Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, and Lee Unkrich
2011 [2]	The Tree of Life	Terrence Malick
	The Artist	Michel Hazanavicius
	The Guard	John Michael McDonagh
	Mozart's Sister	René Féret
	Shame	Abi Morgan and Steve McQueen
	Tyrannosaur	Paddy Considine
2012 [3]	Zero Dark Thirty	Mark Boal
	Flight	John Gatins
	The Intouchables	Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano
	The Master	Paul Thomas Anderson
	Moonrise Kingdom	Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
	Pietà	Kim Ki-duk
2013 [4]	American Hustle	David O. Russell and Eric Warren Singer
	Blue Jasmine	Woody Allen
	Enough Said	Nicole Holofcener
	Her	Spike Jonze
	Inside Llewyn Davis	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
	Saving Mr. Banks	Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith
2014 [5]	Nightcrawler	Dan Gilroy
	Birdman	Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bó
	Boyhood	Richard Linklater
	The Lego Movie	Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
	Love Is Strange	Ira Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias
	Selma	Paul Webb
2015 [6]	Spotlight	Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer
	Bridge of Spies	Matt Charman, Ethan Coen, and Joel Coen
	Inside Out	Josh Cooley, Pete Docter, and Meg LeFauve
	Love & Mercy	Michael Alan Lerner and Oren Moverman
	Straight Outta Compton	Andrea Berloff and Jonathan Herman
	Suffragette	Abi Morgan
2016 [7]	Moonlight	Barry Jenkins
	Captain Fantastic	Matt Ross
	Hell or High Water	Taylor Sheridan
	La La Land	Damien Chazelle
	The Lobster	Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou
	Manchester by the Sea	Kenneth Lonergan
2017 [8]	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Martin McDonagh
	Dunkirk	Christopher Nolan
	The Florida Project	Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch
	Get Out	Jordan Peele
	Lady Bird	Greta Gerwig
	The Shape of Water	Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor
2018 [9]	Roma	Alfonso Cuarón
	Eighth Grade	Bo Burnham
	The Favourite	Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara
	First Reformed	Paul Schrader
	Green Book	Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, and Nick Vallelonga
	A Quiet Place	Scott Beck, John Krasinski, and Bryan Woods
2019 [10]	Marriage Story	Noah Baumbach
	The Farewell	Lulu Wang
	Ford v Ferrari	Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth, and Jason Keller
	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Quentin Tarantino
	Pain and Glory	Pedro Almodóvar
	Parasite	Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won

2020s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
2020 [11]	Promising Young Woman	Emerald Fennell
	Mank	Jack Fincher
	Minari	Lee Isaac Chung
	Palm Springs	Andy Siara
	Soul	Pete Docter, Mike Jones, and Kemp Powers
	The Trial of the Chicago 7	Aaron Sorkin
2021 [12]	Belfast	Kenneth Branagh
	C'mon C'mon	Mike Mills
	A Hero	Asghar Farhadi
	King Richard	Zach Baylin
	Licorice Pizza	Paul Thomas Anderson
	Parallel Mothers	Pedro Almodóvar
2022 [13]	The Banshees of Inisherin	Martin McDonagh
	Close	Lukas Dhont and Angelo Tijssens
	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
	The Fabelmans	Tony Kushner and Steven Spielberg
	Tár	Todd Field
	Triangle of Sadness	Ruben Östlund
2023 [14][15]	Maestro	Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer
	Anatomy of a Fall	Justine Triet and Arthur Harari
	Barbie	Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach
	The Holdovers	David Hemingson
	May December	Samy Burch
	Past Lives	Celine Song
Anora	Sean Baker
The Brutalist	Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold
Hard Truths	Mike Leigh
Seed of the Sacred Fig	Mohammad Rasoulof
The Substance	Coralie Fargeat