The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay is one the annual film awards given by the New York Film Critics Circle.
Winners
1950s
| Year | Winner | Writer(s) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | Around the World in 80 Days | James Poe, John Farrow, and S. J. Perelman | novel by Jules Verne |
| 1957 | No award given | ||
| 1958 | The Defiant Ones | Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith | — |
| 1959 | Anatomy of a Murder | Wendell Mayes | novel by Robert Traver |
1960s
| Year | Winner | Writer(s) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | The Apartment | I. A. L. Diamond and Billy Wilder | — |
| 1961 | Judgment at Nuremberg | Abby Mann | teleplay by Abby Mann |
| 1962 | No award given (newspaper strike) | ||
| 1963 | Hud | Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr. | novel by Larry McMurtry |
| 1964 | The Servant | Harold Pinter | novel by Robin Maugham |
| 1965 | No award given | ||
| 1966 | A Man for All Seasons | Robert Bolt | play by Robert Bolt |
| 1967 | Bonnie and Clyde | David Newman and Robert Benton | — |
| 1968 | Pretty Poison | Lorenzo Semple Jr. | novel by Stephen Geller |
| 1969 | Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice | Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker | — |
1970s
| Year | Winner | Writer(s) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | My Night at Maud's (Ma nuit chez Maud) | Éric Rohmer | — |
| 1971 | The Last Picture Show | Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich | novel by Larry McMurtry |
| Sunday Bloody Sunday | Penelope Gilliatt | — | |
| 1972 | Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop) | Ingmar Bergman | — |
| 1973 | American Graffiti | George Lucas, Gloria Katz, and Willard Huyck | — |
| 1974 | Scenes from a Marriage (Scener ur ett äktenskap) | Ingmar Bergman | — |
| 1975 | The Story of Adele H. (L'Histoire d'Adèle H.) | François Truffaut, Suzanne Schiffman, and Jean Gruault | diaries by Adèle Hugo |
| 1976 | Network | Paddy Chayefsky | — |
| 1977 | Annie Hall | Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman | — |
| 1978 | An Unmarried Woman | Paul Mazursky | — |
| 1979 | Breaking Away | Steve Tesich | — |
1980s
| Year | Winner | Writer(s) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Melvin and Howard | Bo Goldman | — |
| 1981 | Atlantic City | John Guare | — |
| 1982 | Tootsie | Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal | — |
| 1983 | Local Hero | Bill Forsyth | — |
| 1984 | Places in the Heart | Robert Benton | — |
| 1985 | The Purple Rose of Cairo | Woody Allen | — |
| 1986 | My Beautiful Laundrette | Hanif Kureishi | — |
| 1987 | Broadcast News | James L. Brooks | — |
| 1988 | Bull Durham | Ron Shelton | — |
| 1989 | Drugstore Cowboy | Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost | — |
1990s
| Year | Winner | Writer(s) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Mr. and Mrs. Bridge | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | novels by Evan S. Connell |
| 1991 | Naked Lunch | David Cronenberg | novel by William S. Burroughs |
| 1992 | The Crying Game | Neil Jordan | — |
| 1993 | The Piano | Jane Campion | — |
| 1994 | Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary | — |
| 1995 | Sense and Sensibility | Emma Thompson | novel by Jane Austen |
| 1996 | Mother | Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson | — |
| 1997 | L.A. Confidential | Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland | novel by James Ellroy |
| 1998 | Shakespeare in Love | Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard | — |
| 1999 | Election | Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor | novel by Tom Perrotta |
2000s
| Year | Winner | Writer(s) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | You Can Count On Me | Kenneth Lonergan | — |
| 2001 | Gosford Park | Julian Fellowes | — |
| 2002 | Adaptation. | Charlie and Donald Kaufman | novel by Susan Orlean |
| 2003 | The Secret Lives of Dentists | Craig Lucas | novel by Jane Smiley |
| 2004 | Sideways | Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor | novel by Rex Pickett |
| 2005 | The Squid and the Whale | Noah Baumbach | — |
| 2006 | The Queen | Peter Morgan | — |
| 2007 | No Country for Old Men | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | novel by Cormac McCarthy |
| 2008 | Rachel Getting Married | Jenny Lumet | — |
| 2009 | In the Loop | Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, and Tony Roche | — |
2010s
| Year | Winner | Writer(s) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | The Kids Are All Right | Stuart Blumberg and Lisa Cholodenko | — |
| 2011 | Moneyball | Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, and Stan Chervin | novel by Michael Lewis |
| 2012 | Lincoln | Tony Kushner | novel by Doris Kearns Goodwin |
| 2013 | American Hustle | Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell | — |
| 2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Wes Anderson | novels by Stefan Zweig |
| 2015 | Carol | Phyllis Nagy | novel by Patricia Highsmith |
| 2016 | Manchester by the Sea | Kenneth Lonergan | — |
| 2017 | Phantom Thread | Paul Thomas Anderson[1] | — |
| 2018 | First Reformed | Paul Schrader[2] | — |
| 2019 | Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | Quentin Tarantino[3] | - |
2020s
| Year | Winner | Writer(s) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Never Rarely Sometimes Always | Eliza Hittman[4] | - |