Read and Download the Academy Award Nominated Screenplays from 1999-Present

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Read and download the best screenplays of the last decade.

Over the last decade, there have been so many amazing screenplays, and it’s really incredible to see the breadth of talent we’ve experienced. While the winners of awards live on in infamy, there are dozens if not hundreds of lessons you can learn about the craft of writing just by reading your favorite screenplays from certain years.

I compiled PDFs of scripts over the last decade, focusing on Oscar-nominated and Oscar-winning films, as well as other hot titles those years. Check them out, learn what you can, and then get back to writing.

Some of these links lead to articles about the screenplays – we will try to update them, as PDFs are published.

Some of these links will go away quickly, so make sure you download the PDFs if you can. These are all for educational purposes only.

2022 Oscar Contending Screenplays

2021 Oscar Contending Screenplays

WINNER

THE FATHER – Screenplay by Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller

NOMINEES

NOMADLAND – Written for the screen by Chloé Zhao

WINNER

NOMINEES

MINARI – Written by Lee Isaac Chung

SOUND OF METAL – Screenplay by Darius Marder & Abraham Marder; Story by Darius Marder & Derek Cianfrance

2020 Oscar Contending Screenplays

WINNER

NOMINEES

JOKER – Written by Todd Phillips & Scott Silver

WINNER

PARASITE – Screenplay by Bong Joon Ho, Han Jin Won; Story by Bong Joon Ho

NOMINEES

1917– Written by Sam Mendes & Krysty Wilson-Cairns

2019 Oscar Contending Screenplays

WINNER

NOMINEES

A STAR IS BORN – Screenplay by Eric Roth and Bradley Cooper & Will Fetters

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)

WINNER

GREEN BOOK – Written by Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrell

NOMINEES

ROMA – Written by Alfonso Cuarón

VICE – Written by Adam McKay

2018 Oscar Contending Screenplays

WINNER

NOMINEES

LOGAN – Screenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green; Story by James Mangold

MUDBOUND – Screenplay by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees

2017 Oscar Contending Screenplays

WINNER

NOMINEES

ARRIVAL – Screenplay by Eric Heisserer

FENCES – Screenplay by August Wilson

LION – Screenplay by Luke Davies

WINNER

NOMINEES

THE LOBSTER – Written by Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou

2016 Oscar Contending Screenplays

WINNER

NOMINEES

CAROL – Screenplay by Phyllis Nagy

ROOM – Screenplay by Emma Donoghue

WINNER

SPOTLIGHT – Written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy

NOMINEES

INSIDE OUT – Screenplay by Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley; Original story by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen

STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON – Screenplay by Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; Story by S. Leigh Savidge & Alan Wenkus and Andrea Berloff

2015 Oscar Contending Screenplays

WINNER

NOMINEES

BOYHOOD – Written by Richard Linklater

FOXCATCHER – Written by E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman

2014 Oscar Contending Screenplays

WINNER

NOMINEES

PHILOMENA – Screenplay by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope

WINNER

HER – Written by Spike Jonze

NOMINEES

2013 Oscar Contending Screenplays

WINNER

ARGO – Screenplay by Chris Terrio

NOMINEES

LINCOLN – Screenplay by Tony Kushner

WINNER

NOMINEES

AMOUR – Written by Michael Haneke

FLIGHT – Written by John Gatins

2012 Oscar Contending Screenplays

WINNER

NOMINEES

HUGO – Screenplay by John Logan

MONEYBALL – Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin; Story by Stan Chervin

2011 Oscar Contending Screenplays

WINNER

NOMINEES

127 HOURS – Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy

TOY STORY 3 – Screenplay by Michael Arndt; Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich

TRUE GRIT – Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen

WINNER

NOMINEES

THE FIGHTER – Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson; Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson

2010 Oscar Contending Screenplays

WINNER

NOMINEES

IN THE LOOP – Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche

WINNER

NOMINEES

UP – Screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter; Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy

2009 Oscar Contending Screenplays

WINNER

NOMINEES

DOUBT – Written by John Patrick Shanley

WINNER

MILK – Written by Dustin Lance Black

NOMINEES

WALL-E – Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon; Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter

2008 Oscar Contending Screenplays

2007 Oscar Contending Screenplays

WINNER

NOMINEES

CHILDREN OF MEN – Screenplay by Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby

WINNER

NOMINEES

BABEL – Written by Guillermo Arriaga

2006 Oscar Contending Screenplays

WINNER

NOMINEES

CAPOTE – Screenplay by Dan Futterman

MUNICH – Screenplay by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth

WINNER

CRASH – Screenplay by Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco; Story by Paul Haggis

NOMINEES

SYRIANA – Written by Stephen Gaghan

2005 Oscar Contending Screenplays

WINNER

SIDEWAYS – Screenplay by Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor

NOMINEES

BEFORE SUNSET – Screenplay by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, & Ethan Hawke; Story by Richard Linklater & Kim Krizan

2004 Oscar Contending Screenplays

WINNER

NOMINEES

FINDING NEMO – Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson and David Reynolds; Original Story by Andrew Stanton

2003 Oscar Contending Screenplays

WINNER

NOMINEES

ADAPTATION – Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman

2002 Oscar Contending Screenplays

WINNER

NOMINEES

SHREK – Written by Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman & Roger S.H. Schulman

2001 Oscar Contending Screenplays

WINNER

TRAFFIC – Screenplay by Stephen Gaghan

NOMINEES

CHOCOLAT – Screenplay by Robert Nelson Jacobs

WINNER

NOMINEES

GLADIATOR – Screenplay by David Franzoni and John Logan and William Nicholson; Story by David Franzoni