| Year | Winners and nominees | Screenwriter(s) |
| 2010 | The King's Speech | David Seidler |
| Biutiful | Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, and Armando Bo |
| The Eclipse | Conor McPherson and Billy Roche |
| Get Low | Chris Provenzano and C. Gaby Mitchell |
| The Kids Are All Right | Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg |
| Inception | Christopher Nolan |
| Toy Story 3 | Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, and Lee Unkrich |
| 2011 | 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 | 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 | American Hustle | Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell |
| 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 | Nightcrawler | Dan Gilroy |
| Birdman | Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo |
| Boyhood | Richard Linklater |
| The Lego Movie | Phil Lord and Christopher Miller |
| Love Is Strange | Ira Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias |
| Selma | Paul Webb |
| 2015[1] | Spotlight | Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer |
| Bridge of Spies | Matt Charman, Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen |
| Inside Out | Pete Docter, Josh Cooley, and Meg LeFauve |
| Love & Mercy | Michael Alan Lerner and Oren Moverman |
| Straight Outta Compton | Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff |
| Suffragette | Abi Morgan |
| 2016[2] | 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[3] | 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 | Roma | Alfonso Cuarón |
| Eighth Grade | Bo Burnham |
| The Favourite | Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara |
| First Reformed | Paul Schrader |
| Green Book | Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie and Peter Farrelly |
| A Quiet Place | Scott Beck, John Krasinski and Bryan Woods |
| 2019 | 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 |