Golden Globe Awards
Most Wins for Best Screenplay
This list features writers with the most wins for Best Screenplay at the Golden Globe Awards.
RANK | FILMS | NOMINATIONS | WINS | YEARS |
1 | Aaron Sorkin | 9 | 3 | The Social Network (2010) Steve Jobs (2015) The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) |
2 | Quentin Tarantino | 5 | 3 | Pulp Fiction (1994) Django Unchained (2012) Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) |
3 | Robert Bolt | 3 | 3 | Doctor Zhivago (1965) A Man for All Seasons (1966) The Mission (1986) |
4 | Woody Allen | 6 | 2 | The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) Midnight in Paris (2011) |
5 | Stirling Silliphant | 4 | 2 | In the Heat of the Night (1967) Charly (1968) |
6 | Oliver Stone | 4 | 2 | Midnight Express (1978) Born on the Fourth of July (1989) |
7 | Alexander Payne | 3 | 2 | About Schmidt (2002) Sideways (2004) |
8 | Paddy Chayefsky | 2 | 2 | The Hospital (1971) Network (1976), |
9 | William Peter Blatty | 2 | 2 | The Exorcist (1973) The Ninth Configuration (1980) |
10 | Bo Goldman | 2 | 2 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) Scent of a Woman (1992) |
11 | Jim Taylor | 2 | 2 | About Schmidt (2002) Sideways (2004) |
12 | Martin McDonagh | 2 | 2 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) |
13 | Francis Ford Coppola | 4 | 1 | The Godfather (1972) |
14 | Mario Puzo | 3 | 1 | The Godfather (1972) |
15 | Neil Simon | 3 | 1 | The Sunshine Boys (1975) |
16 | Robert Benton | 3 | 1 | Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) |
17 | James L. Brooks | 3 | 1 | Terms of Endearment (1983) |
18 | Steven Zaillian | 3 | 1 | Schindler's List (1993) |
19 | Ethan Coen | 3 | 1 | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
20 | Joel Coen | 3 | 1 | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
21 | Billy Wilder | 2 | 1 | Sabrina (1954) |
22 | Ernest Lehman | 2 | 1 | West Side Story (1961) |
23 | John Hale | 2 | 1 | Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) |
24 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2 | 1 | One Battle After Another (2025) |
25 | George Seaton | 1 | 1 | Miracle on 34th Street (1947) |
26 | Richard Schweizer | 1 | 1 | The Search (1948) |
27 | Robert Pirosh | 1 | 1 | Battleground (1949) |
28 | Samuel A. Taylor | 1 | 1 | Sunset Boulevard (1950) |
29 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1 | 1 | All About Eve (1950) |
30 | Robert Buckner | 1 | 1 | Bright Victory (1951) |
31 | Michael Wilson | 1 | 1 | 5 Fingers (1952) |
32 | Bridget Boland | 1 | 1 | Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) |
33 | Richard Sokolove | 1 | 1 | Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) |
34 | Erich Segal | 1 | 1 | Love Story (1970) |
35 | Robert Towne | 1 | 1 | Chinatown (1974) |
36 | Lawrence Hauben | 1 | 1 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) |
37 | Ernest Thompson | 1 | 1 | On Golden Pond (1981) |
38 | John Briley | 1 | 1 | Gandhi (1982) |
39 | Peter Shaffer | 1 | 1 | Amadeus (1984) |
40 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 1 | 1 | The Last Emperor (1987) |
41 | Mark Peploe | 1 | 1 | The Last Emperor (1987) |
42 | Enzo Ungari | 1 | 1 | The Last Emperor (1987) |
43 | Naomi Foner | 1 | 1 | Running on Empty (1988) |
44 | Ron Kovic | 1 | 1 | Born on the Fourth of July (1989) |
45 | Michael Blake | 1 | 1 | Dances with Wolves (1990) |
46 | Callie Khouri | 1 | 1 | Thelma & Louise (1991) |
47 | Emma Thompson | 1 | 1 | Sense and Sensibility (1995) |
48 | Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski | 1 | 1 | The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) |
49 | Matt Damon | 1 | 1 | Good Will Hunting (1997) |
50 | Ben Affleck | 1 | 1 | Good Will Hunting (1997) |
51 | Marc Norman | 1 | 1 | Shakespeare in Love (1998) |
52 | Tom Stoppard | 1 | 1 | Shakespeare in Love (1998) |
53 | Alan Ball | 1 | 1 | American Beauty (1999) |
54 | Stephen Gaghan | 1 | 1 | Traffic (2000) |
55 | Akiva Goldsman | 1 | 1 | A Beautiful Mind (2001) |
56 | Sofia Coppola | 1 | 1 | Lost in Translation (2003) |
57 | Larry McMurtry | 1 | 1 | Brokeback Mountain (2005) |
58 | Diana Ossana | 1 | 1 | Brokeback Mountain (2005) |
59 | Peter Morgan | 1 | 1 | The Queen (2006) |
60 | Simon Beaufoy | 1 | 1 | Slumdog Millionaire (2008) |
61 | Jason Reitman | 1 | 1 | Up in the Air (2009) |
62 | Sheldon Turner | 1 | 1 | Up in the Air (2009) |
63 | Spike Jonze | 1 | 1 | Her (2013) |
64 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 1 | 1 | Birdman (2014) |
65 | Nicolás Giacobone | 1 | 1 | Birdman (2014) |
66 | Alexander Dinelaris Jr. | 1 | 1 | Birdman (2014) |
67 | Armando Bo | 1 | 1 | Birdman (2014) |
68 | Damien Chazelle | 1 | 1 | La La Land (2016) |
69 | Nick Vallelonga | 1 | 1 | Green Book (2018) |
70 | Brian Hayes Currie | 1 | 1 | Green Book (2018) |
71 | Peter Farrelly | 1 | 1 | Green Book (2018) |
72 | Kenneth Branagh | 1 | 1 | Belfast (2021) |
73 | Justine Triet | 1 | 1 | Anatomy of a Fall (2023) |
74 | Arthur Harari | 1 | 1 | Anatomy of a Fall (2023) |
75 | Peter Straughan | 1 | 1 | Conclave (2024) |
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