oscars: best original screenplay winners

The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.

Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into having an affair so he can catch her and murder her, as he knows he would be given a light sentence for killing an adulterous woman. He persuades a painter to lure his wife into an affair, but Rosalia proves to be more faithful than he expected.

A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.

Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.

Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.

Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.

A sportswriter who marries a fashion designer discovers that their mutual interests are few, although each has an intriguing past which makes the other jealous.

A young boy discovers a stray balloon, which seems to have a mind of its own, on the streets of Paris. The two become inseparable, yet the world’s harsh realities finally interfere.

Terry Malloy is a kindhearted dockworker, and former boxer, who is tricked by his corrupt bosses into leading his friend to death. After falling in love, he tries to leave the waterfront and expose his employers.

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.

杰瑞•莫里恩（金•凯利 Gene Kelly 饰）是住在巴黎一位穷困潦倒的美国画家，通过朋友钢琴手亚当（奥斯卡•莱文特 Oscar Levant 饰），杰瑞结识了一位当红法国歌手亨利（乔治•盖塔瑞 George Guétary 饰）。不久杰瑞被一位富有的夫人麦络（妮娜•福煦 Nina Foch 饰）赏识并资助作画，但他却爱上了百货店的年轻售货员丽丝（莱斯利•卡伦 Leslie Caron 饰）。然而出乎意料的是，丽丝竟然是亨利的女友，不知情的亨利还劝杰瑞要勇于争取爱情。所有的矛盾在一次盛大的黑白舞会中聚集激化，杰瑞得知丽丝将要嫁给亨利的消息后最后一次幻想二人在浪漫巴黎歌舞翩翩。然而真挚的爱情就这样永远逝去么？ 本片获1951年奥斯卡最佳影片，最佳艺术效果，最佳摄影，最佳服装设计，最佳配乐，最佳剧本六项大奖。

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.

A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.

1942 film by George Stevens

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...