Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Screenplay

The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Screenplay is one of the annual awards given by the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association.

Winners and nominees

2000s

Year	Writer(s)	Film
2002	Nia Vardalos	My Big Fat Greek Wedding
2003	Sofia Coppola	Lost in Translation
	Bob Peterson, David Reynolds, and Andrew Stanton	Finding Nemo
	Guillermo Arriaga	21 Grams
	Steven Knight	Dirty Pretty Things
	Catherine Hardwicke and Nikki Reed	Thirteen
2004	Charlie Kaufman	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2005	Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco	Crash
	George Clooney and Grant Heslov	Good Night, and Good Luck.
	Craig Brewer	Hustle & Flow
	Angus MacLachlan	Junebug
	Noah Baumbach	The Squid and the Whale
2006	Michael Arndt	Little Miss Sunshine
2007	Diablo Cody	Juno
2008	Jenny Lumet	Rachel Getting Married
2009	Quentin Tarantino	Inglourious Basterds
	Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber	(500) Days of Summer
	Mark Boal	The Hurt Locker
	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	A Serious Man
	Bob Peterson and Pete Docter	Up

2010s

Year	Writer(s)	Film
2010	Christopher Nolan	Inception
	Mike Leigh	Another Year
	Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, and John McLaughlin	Black Swan
	Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg	The Kids Are All Right
	David Seidler	The King's Speech
2011	Will Reiser	50/50
	Michel Hazanavicius	The Artist
	Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig	Bridesmaids
	Woody Allen	Midnight in Paris
	Thomas McCarthy	Win Win
2012	Rian Johnson	Looper
	Quentin Tarantino	Django Unchained
	Paul Thomas Anderson	The Master
	Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola	Moonrise Kingdom
	Mark Boal	Zero Dark Thirty
2013	Spike Jonze	Her
	Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell	American Hustle
	Woody Allen	Blue Jasmine
	Nicole Holofcener	Enough Said
	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	Inside Llewyn Davis
2014	Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr., and Armando Bo	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
	Richard Linklater	Boyhood
	Wes Anderson	The Grand Budapest Hotel
	Phil Lord and Christopher Miller	The Lego Movie
	Damien Chazelle	Whiplash
2015	Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley, and Ronnie del Carmen	Inside Out
	Matt Charman, Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen	Bridge of Spies
	Alex Garland	Ex Machina
	Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer	Spotlight
	Amy Schumer	Trainwreck
2016	Damien Chazelle	La La Land
	Taylor Sheridan	Hell or High Water
	Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou	The Lobster
	Kenneth Lonergan	Manchester by the Sea
	Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney	Moonlight
2017	Jordan Peele	Get Out
	Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani	The Big Sick
	Greta Gerwig	Lady Bird
	Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor	The Shape of Water
	Martin McDonagh	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2018	Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara	The Favourite
	Bo Burnham	Eighth Grade
	Paul Schrader	First Reformed
	Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, and Nick Vallelonga	Green Book
	Alfonso Cuaron	Roma
2019	Noah Baumbach	Marriage Story
	Rian Johnson	Knives Out
	Quentin Tarantino	Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
	Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won	Parasite
	Jordan Peele	Us

2020s

Year	Writer(s)	Film
2020	Emerald Fennell	Promising Young Woman
	Lee Isaac Chung	Minari
	Abraham Marder and Darius Marder	Sound of Metal
	Andy Siara	Palm Springs
	Aaron Sorkin	The Trial of the Chicago 7
2021	Kenneth Branagh	Belfast
	Mike Mills	C'mon C'mon
	Zach Baylin	King Richard
	Paul Thomas Anderson	Licorice Pizza
	Fran Kranz	Mass
2022	Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert	Everything Everywhere All At Once
	Martin McDonagh	The Banshees of Inisherin
	Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner	The Fabelmans
	Jordan Peele	Nope
	Todd Field	Tár
2023	Celine Song	Past Lives
	Alex Convery	Air
	Justine Triet and Arthur Harari	Anatomy of a Fall
	Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach	Barbie
	David Hemingson	The Holdovers
2024	Jesse Eisenberg	A Real Pain
	Sean Baker	Anora
	Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold	The Brutalist
	Justin Kuritzkes	Challengers
	Coralie Fargeat	The Substance