Year |
Film |
Writer(s) |
1960
(13th)[14]
|
The Apartment |
Billy Wilder, and I.A.L. Diamond |
North to Alaska |
Martin Rackin, John Lee Mahin, and Claude Binyon |
Ocean's 11 |
Harry Brown, and Charles Lederer |
Please Don't Eat the Daisies |
Isobel Lennart |
The Facts of Life |
Norman Panama, and Melvin Frank |
1961
(14th)[15]
|
Breakfast at Tiffany's |
George Axelrod |
A Majority of One, |
Leonard Spigelgass |
One, Two, Three |
Billy Wilder, and I.A.L. Diamond |
The Absent Minded Professor |
Bill Walsh |
The Parent Trap |
David Swift |
1962
(15th)[16]
|
That Touch of Mink |
Nate Monaster and Stanley Shapiro |
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation |
Nunnally Johnson |
The Notorious Landlady |
Blake Edwards, and Larry Gelbart |
Period of Adjustment |
Isobel Lennart |
The Pigeon That Took Rome |
Melville Shavelson |
1963
(16th)[17]
|
Lilies of the Field |
James Poe |
Charade |
Peter Stone |
Irma la Douce |
I.A.L. Diamond, and Billy Wilder |
Love with the Proper Stranger |
Arnold Schulman |
The Thrill of It All |
Carl Reiner |
1964
(17th)[18]
|
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb |
Stanley Kubrick, Peter George, and Terry Southern |
Father Goose, |
Peter Stone, and Frank Tarloff |
The Pink Panther |
Maurice Richlin, and Blake Edwards |
The World of Henry Orient |
Nora Johnson, and Nunnally Johnson |
Topkapi |
Monja Danischewsky |
1965
(18th)[19]
|
A Thousand Clowns |
Herb Gardner |
Cat Ballou |
Walter Newman, and Frank Pierson |
That Darn Cat! |
Mildred Gordon, Gordon Gordon, and Bill Walsh |
The Great Race |
Arthur A. Ross |
What's New Pussycat |
Woody Allen |
1966
(19th)[20]
|
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming |
William Rose |
How to Steal a Million |
Harry Kurnitz |
Our Man Flint |
Hal Fimberg, and Ben Starr |
The Fortune Cookie |
Billy Wilder, and I.A.L. Diamond |
You're a Big Boy Now |
Francis Ford Coppola |
1967
(20th)[21]
|
The Graduate |
Buck Henry, and Calder Willingham |
Barefoot in the Park |
Neil Simon |
Divorce American Style |
Norman Lear |
The Flim-Flam Man |
William Rose |
A Guide for the Married Man |
Frank Tarloff |
1968
(21st)[22]
|
The Odd Couple |
Neil Simon |
Hot Millions |
Ira Wallach, and Peter Ustinov |
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! |
Paul Mazursky, and Larry Tucker |
The Producers |
Mel Brooks |
Yours, Mine and Ours |
Melville Shavelson, and Mort Lachman |
1969
(22nd)[23] |
Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
Goodbye, Columbus ‡ |
Arnold Schulman |
Cactus Flower |
I.A.L. Diamond |
Gaily, Gaily |
Abram S. Ginnes |
John and Marty |
John Mortimer |
The Reivers |
Irving Ravetch, and Harriet Frank Jr. |
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen |
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice ‡ |
Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker |
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium |
David Shaw |
Popi |
Tina Pine, and Lester Pine |
Support Your Local Sheriff |
William Bowers |
Take the Money and Run |
Woody Allen, and Mickey Rose |
Year |
Film |
Writer(s) |
1970
(23rd)[24] |
Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
M*A*S*H † |
Ring Lardner Jr. |
Lovers and Other Strangers |
Renée Taylor, Joseph Bologna, David Zelag Goodman |
The Owl and the Pussycat |
Buck Henry |
The Twelve Chairs |
Mel Brooks |
Where's Poppa |
Robert Klane |
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen |
The Out-of-Towners |
Neil Simon |
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes |
Billy Wilder, and I.A.L. Diamond |
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronk |
Gabriel Walsh |
Start the Revolution Without Me |
Fred Freeman, and Lawrence J. Cohen |
The Cheyenne Social Club |
James Lee Barrett |
1971
(24th)[25] |
Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
Kotch |
John Paxton |
A New Leaf |
Elaine May |
Fiddler on the Roof |
Joseph Stein |
Little Murders |
Jules Feiffer |
The Boy Friend |
Ken Russell |
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen |
The Hospital |
Paddy Chayefsky |
Bananas |
Woody Allen, and Mickey Rose |
Carnal Knowledge |
Jules Feiffer |
Made for Each Other |
Renée Taylor, and Joseph Bologna |
Taking Off |
Miloṡ Forman, Jean-Claude Carrière, John Guare, and Jon Klein |
1972
(25th)[26] |
Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
Cabaret ‡ |
Jay Presson Allen |
Avanti! |
Billy Wilder, and I.A.L. Diamond |
Butterflies Are Free |
Leonard Gershe |
The Heartbreak Kid |
Neil Simon |
Travels with My Aunt |
Jay Presson Allen, and Hugh Wheeler |
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen |
What's Up, Doc? |
Peter Bogdanovich, Buck Henry, David Newman, and Robert Benton |
Get to Know Your Rabbit |
Jordan Crittenden |
Hammersmith Is Out |
Stanford Whitmore |
Minnie and Moskowitz |
John Cassavetes |
The War Between Men and Women |
Melville Shavelson, and Danny Arnold |
1973
(26th)[27] |
Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
Paper Moon ‡ |
Alvin Sargent |
40 Carats |
Leonard Gershe |
Godspell |
David Greenne, and John-Michael Tebelak |
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen |
A Touch of Class‡ |
Melvin Frank and Jack Rose |
American Graffiti ‡ |
George Lucas, Gloria Katz, and Willard Huyck |
Blume in Love |
Paul Mazursky |
Sleeper |
Woody Allen, and Marshall Brickman |
Slither |
W.D. Richter |
1974
(27th)[28] |
Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz ‡ |
Mordecai Richler, and Lionel Chetwynd |
The Front Page |
Billy Wilder, and I.A.L. Diamond |
Young Frankenstein ‡ |
Gene Wilder, and Mel Brooks |
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen |
Blazing Saddles |
Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, and Alan Uger |
California Split |
Joseph Walsh |
Claudine |
Tina Pine, and Lester Pine |
Phantom of the Paradise |
Brian de Palma |
The Sugarland Express |
Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins, and Steven Spielberg |
1975
(28th)[29] |
Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
The Sunshine Boys ‡ |
Neil Simon |
Hester Street |
Joan Micklin Silver |
The Prisoner of Second Avenue |
Neil Simon |
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen |
Shampoo ‡ |
Robert Towne and Warren Beatty |
Heats of the West |
Rob Thompson |
Smile |
Jerry Belson |
The Return of the Pink Panther |
Frank Waldman, and Blake Edwards |
1976
(29th)[30] |
Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
The Pink Panther Strikes Again |
Frank Waldman, and Blake Edwards |
Family Plot |
Ernest Lehman |
Stay Hungry |
Charles Gaines, and Bob Rafelson |
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings |
Hal Barwood, and Matthew Robbins |
The Ritz |
Terrence McNally |
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen |
The Bad News Bears |
Bill Lancaster |
Murder by Death |
Neil Simon |
Next Stop, Greenwich Village |
Paul Mazursky |
Silent Movie |
Mel Brooks, Ron Clark, Rudy De Luca, and Barry Levinson |
Silver Streak |
Colin Higgins |
1977
(30th)[31] |
Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
Oh, God! ‡ |
Larry Gelbart |
The Spy Who Loved Me |
Christopher Wood, and Richard Maibaum |
Semi-Tough |
Walter Bernstein |
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen |
Annie Hall |
Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman |
Star Wars |
George Lucas |
Slap Shot |
Nancy Dowd |
The Goodbye Girl |
Neil Simon |
1978
(31st)[32] |
Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
Heaven Can Wait ‡ |
Elaine May, and Warren Beatty |
California Suite ‡ |
Neil Simon |
Same Time, Next Year ‡ |
Bernard Slade |
Superman |
Mario Puzo, David Newman, Leslie Newman, and Robert Benton |
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? |
Peter Stone |
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen |
Movie Movie |
Larry Gelbart and Sheldon Keller |
A Wedding |
John Considine, Patricia Resnick, Allan F. Nicholls, and Robert Altman |
Animal House |
Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney, and Chris Miller |
House Calls |
Max Shulman, Julius J. Epstein, Alan Mandel, and Charles Shyer |
Once in Paris... |
Frank D. Gilroy |
1979
(32nd)[33] |
Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
Being There |
Jerzy Kosinski |
Starting Over |
James L. Brooks |
A Little Romance ‡ |
Allan Burns |
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen |
Breaking Away † |
Steve Tesich |
10 |
Blake Edwards |
Manhattan ‡ |
Woody Allen, and Marshall Brickman |
Year |
Nominees |
Writer(s) |
1980
(33rd)[34] |
Best Comedy Adapted from Other Another Medium |
Airplane! |
Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker |
Hopscotch |
Brian Garfield, and Bryan Forbes |
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back |
Leigh Brackett, and Lawrence Kasdan |
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen |
Private Benjamin † |
Nancy Meyers, Harvey Miller, and Charles Shyer |
Nine to Five |
Coling Higgins, and Patricia Resnick |
Return of the Secaucus |
John Sayles |
Stardust Memories |
Woody Allen |
1981
(34th)[35] |
Best Comedy Adapted from Other Another Medium |
Rich and Famous |
Gerald Ayres |
For Your Eyes Only' |
Richard Maibaum, and Michael G. Wilson |
First Monday in October |
Jerome Lawrence, and Robert E. Lee |
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen |
Arthur ‡ |
Steve Gordon |
Raiders of the Lost Ark |
Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas, and Philip Kaufman |
S.O.B. |
Blake Edwards |
The Four Seasons |
Alan Alda |
1982
(35th)[36] |
Best Comedy Adapted from Other Another Medium |
Victor Victoria ‡ |
Blake Edwards |
Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
Cameron Crowe |
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen |
Tootsie ‡ |
Don McGuire, Larry Gelbart, and Murray Schisgal |
Diner |
Barry Levinson |
My Favorite Year |
Norman Steinberg, and Dennis Palumbo |
1983
(36th)[37] |
Best Comedy Adapted from Other Another Medium |
Terms of Endearment † |
James L. Brooks |
A Christmas Story |
Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown, and Bob Clark |
To Be or Not to Be |
Thomas Meehan, and Ronny Graham |
Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen |
The Big Chill ‡ |
Lawrence Kasdan, and Barbara Benedek |
Risky Business |
Paul Brickman |
Zelig |
Woody Allen |