Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay

Check all the winners of Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay.
Year Winner Winner Work
2009 Martin McDonagh In Bruges
2008 Tony Gilroy Michael Clayton
2007 William Monahan The Departed
2006 Stephen Gaghan Syriana
2005 Jean-Pierre Jeunet A Very Long Engagement
(based on the Novel by Sebastien Japrisot)
2004 Steven Knight Dirty Pretty Things
2003 Bill Condon Chicago
2002 Christopher Nolan Memento
2001 Stephen Gaghan Traffic
2000 Guy Ritchie Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1999 Scott Frank Out of Sight
1998 Brian Helgeland L.A. Confidential
Curtis Hanson L.A. Confidential
1997 Billy Bob Thornton Sling Blade
1996 Christopher McQuarrie The Usual Suspects
1995 Quentin Tarantino Pulp Fiction
1994 Ebbe Roe Smith Falling Down
1993 Michael Tolkin The Player
1992 Ted Tally The Silence of the Lambs
1991 Donald E. Westlake The Grifters
1990 Daniel Waters Heathers
1989 Errol Morris The Thin Blue Line
1988 Jim Kouf Stakeout
1987 E. Max Frye Something Wild
1986 William Kelley Witness
Earl W. Wallace Witness
1985 Charles Fuller A Soldier's Story
1984 Dennis Potter Gorky Park
1983 Barrie Keeffe The Long Good Friday
1982 Jeffrey Alan Fiskin Cutter's Way
1981 Joseph Wambaugh Black Marble, The
1980 Michael Crichton The Great Train Robbery
1979 William Goldman Magic
1978 Robert Benton The Late Show
1977 Ernest Lehman Family Plot
1976 David Rayfiel Three Days of the Condor
Lorenzo Semple Jr. Three Days of the Condor
1975 Robert Towne Chinatown
1974 Anthony Perkins The Last of Sheila
Stephen Sondheim The Last of Sheila
1973 Anthony Shaffer Sleuth
1972 Ernest Tidyman The French Connection
1971 Ugo Pirro Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Elio Petri Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
1970 Costa-Gavras Z
Jorge Semprún Z
1969 Robert L. Fish Bullitt
Harry Kleiner Bullitt
Alan Trustman Bullitt
1968 Stirling Silliphant In the Heat of the Night
1967 William Goldman Harper
1966 Paul Dehn The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Guy Trosper The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
1965 Henry Farrell Hush\u2026 Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Lukas Heller Hush\u2026 Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1964 Peter Stone Charade
1962 Truman Capote The Innocents
William Archibald The Innocents
1961 Robert Bloch Psycho
Joseph Stefano Psycho
1960 Ernest Lehman North by Northwest
1959 Nedrick Young The Defiant Ones
Harold Jacob Smith The Defiant Ones
1958 Reginald Rose 12 Angry Men
1956 Joseph Hayes The Desperate Hours
1955 John Michael Hayes Rear Window
1954 William P. McGivern The Big Heat
Sydney Boehm The Big Heat
1953 Otto Lang 5 Fingers
Michael G. Wilson 5 Fingers
1952 Sidney Kingsley Detective Story
Robert Wyler Detective Story
Philip Yordan Detective Story
1951 St. Clair McKelway Mister 880
1951 Ben Maddow The Asphalt Jungle
1950 Mel Dinelli The Window
Cornell Woolrich The Window
1949 Jerome Cady Call Northside 777
Jay Dratler Call Northside 777
Henry Hathaway Call Northside 777
Leonard Hoffman Call Northside 777
Otto Lang Call Northside 777
Quentin Reynolds Call Northside 777
1948 John Paxton Crossfire
(based on the novel The Brick Fox-Hole by Richard Brooks/Dore Schary)
1947 Anthony Veiller The Killers
1946 John Paxton Murder, My Sweet