| Year | Film | Writer(s) |
|---|
1970
(23rd)
[2] | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
|---|
| Patton | Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North |
| Five Easy Pieces | Carole Eastman (as Adrien Joyce) |
| Love Story | Erich Segal |
| 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)
[3] | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
|---|
| Sunday Bloody Sunday | Penelope Gilliatt |
| Klute | Andy Lewis and David E. Lewis |
| Summer of '42 | Hernan Raucher |
| The Hellstrom Chronicle | David Seltzer |
| 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)
[4] | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
|---|
| The Candidate | Jeremy Larner |
| Bad Company | David Newman and Robert Benton |
| Images | Robert Altman |
| The Culpepper Cattle Co. | Eric Bercovici and Gregory Prentiss |
| The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid | Philip Kaufman |
| 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)
[5] | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
|---|
| Save the Tiger | Steve Shagan |
| Mean Streets | Martin Scorsese and Mardik Martin |
| Payday | Don Carpenter |
| The Sting | David S. Ward |
| The Way We Were | Arthur Laurents |
| 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)
[6] | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
|---|
| Chinatown | Robert Towne |
| A Woman Under the Influence | John Cassavetes |
| Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Robert Getchell |
| Harry and Tonto | Paul Mazursky and Josh Greenfeld |
| The Conversation | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 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)
[7] | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
|---|
| Dog Day Afternoon | Frank Pierson |
| French Connection II | Alexander Jacobs, Robert Dillon, and Laurie Dillon |
| Nashville | Joan Twekesbury |
| The Wind and the Lion | John Milius |
| 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)
[8] | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
|---|
| Network | Paddy Chayefsky |
| The Omen | David Seltzer |
| Rocky | Sylvester Stallone |
| Taxi Driver | Paul Schrader |
| The Front | Walter Bernstein |
| 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)
[9] | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
|---|
| The Turning Point | Arthur Laurents |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Steven Spielberg |
| Saturday Night Fever | Norman Wexler |
| The Late Show | Robert Benton |
| 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)
[10] | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
|---|
| Coming Home | Nancy Dowd, Robert C. Jones, and Waldo Salt |
| An Unmarried Woman | Paul Mazursky |
| Days of Heaven | Terrence Malick |
| Interiors | Woody Allen |
| The Deer Hunter | Deric Washburn, Michael Cimino, Louis Garfinkle, and Quinn K. Redeker |
| 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)
[11] | Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
|---|
| The China Syndrome | Mike Gray, T. S. Cook, and James Bridges |
| Apocalypse Now | John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola |
| Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen |
|---|
| Breaking Away | Steve Tesich |
| 10 | Blake Edwards |
| Manhattan | Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman |