Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay

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The following is a list of Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture, one of the Edgar Awards awarded to authors and others by the Mystery Writers of America. The "Best Motion Picture" award was first presented in 1946 and was discontinued after 2009.

Winners

1940s

Year Writer(s) Title
1946 John Paxton Murder, My Sweet
1947 Anthony Veiller The Killers
1948 John Paxton Crossfire
1949 Jerome Cady, Jay Dratler, Leonard Hoffman, and Quentin Reynolds Call Northside 777

1950s

Year Writer(s) Title
1950 Mel Dinelli and Cornell Woolrich The Window
1951 Ben Maddow The Asphalt Jungle
1952 Michael Wilson Detective Story
1953 Michael Wilson and Otto Lang Five Fingers
1954 Sydney Boehm The Big Heat
1955 John Michael Hayes Rear Window
1956 Joseph Hayes The Desperate Hours
1957 No Award Presented
1958 Reginald Rose 12 Angry Men
1959 Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith The Defiant Ones

1960s

Year Writer(s) Title
1960 Ernest Lehman North By Northwest
1961 Joseph Stefano Psycho
1962 William Archibald and Truman Capote The Innocents
1963 No Award Presented
1964 Peter Stone Charade
1965 Henry Farrell and Lukas Heller Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1966 Paul Dehn and Guy Trosper The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
1967 William Goldman Harper
1968 Stirling Silliphant In The Heat of the Night
1969 Harry Kleiner and Alan Trustman Bullitt

1970s

Year Writer(s) Title
1970 Costa Gavras and Jorge Semprún Z
1971 Elio Petri and Ugo Pirro Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
1972 Ernest Tidyman The French Connection
1973 Anthony Shaffer Sleuth
1974 Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim The Last of Sheila
1975 Robert Towne Chinatown
1976 David Rayfiel and Lorenzo Semple, Jr. Three Days of the Condor
1977 Ernest Lehman Family Plot
1978 Robert Benton The Late Show
1979 William Goldman Magic

1980s

Year Writer(s) Title
1980 Michael Crichton The Great Train Robbery
1981 Joseph Wambaugh The Black Marble
1982 Jeffrey Alan Fiskin Cutter's Way
1983 Barrie Keeffe The Long Good Friday
1984 Dennis Potter Gorky Park
1985 Charles Fuller A Soldier's Story
1986 William Kelley and Earl W. Wallace Witness
1987 E. Max Frye Something Wild
1988 Jim Kouf Stakeout
1989 Errol Morris The Thin Blue Line

1990s

Year Writer(s) Title
1990 Daniel Waters Heathers
1991 Donald E. Westlake The Grifters
1992 Ted Tally The Silence of the Lambs
1993 Michael Tolkin The Player
1994 Ebbe Roe Smith Falling Down
1995 Quentin Tarantino Pulp Fiction
1996 Christopher McQuarrie The Usual Suspects
1997 Billy Bob Thornton Sling Blade
1998 Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland L.A. Confidential
1999 Scott Frank (screenplay)

Elmore Leonard (novel)

 Out of Sight

2000s

Year Writer(s) Title Ref.
2000 Guy Ritchie (screenplay) Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
2001 Stephen Gaghan (screenplay)

Simon Moore (original mini-series)

 Traffic
2002 Christopher Nolan Memento
2003 Bill Condon Chicago
2004 Steven Knight Dirty Pretty Things
2005 Jean-Pierre Jeunet (screenplay)

Sébastien Japrisot (novel)

 A Very Long Engagement
2006 Stephen Gaghan (screenplay)

Robert Baer (book)

 Syriana [1]
2007 William Monahan The Departed [2]
2008 Tony Gilroy Michael Clayton [3][4]
2009 Martin McDonagh In Bruges [5][6]

See also

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