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Many movies have multiple people listed for “story” and “screenplay.” This list is for the writer (or writers) of the screenplay, or my best guess when it is not indicated in the credits.
| Jay Presson Allen | Cabaret (0042) |
| Woody Allen | Bananas (0026) |
| Play It Again, Sam (0045) | |
| Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (0052) |
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| James Lee Barrett | The Cheyenne Social Club (0008) |
| Robert Benton | What’s Up, Doc? (0043) |
| John D. F. Black | Shaft (0030) |
| Peter Bogdanovich | The Last Picture Show (0035) |
| Leslie Bricusse | Scrooge (0019) |
| Graham Chapman | And Now For Something Completely Different (0032) |
| Chris Clark | Lady Sing the Blues (0054) |
| John Cleese | And Now For Something Completely Different (0032) |
| Francis Ford Coppola | Patton (0006) |
| The Godfather (0044) | |
| John William Corrington | The Omega Man (0031) |
| Joyce Hooper Corrington | The Omega Man (0031) |
| Mart Crowley | The Boys in the Band (0004) |
| Suzanne De Passe | Lady Sing the Blues (0054) |
| Paul Dehn | Beneath the Planet of the Apes (0007) |
| Escape from the Planet of the Apes (0027) | |
| Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (0047) | |
| I.A.L. Diamond | The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (0018) |
| James Dickey | Deliverance (0051) |
| Roger Ebert | Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (0011) |
| Lonne Elder III | Sounder (0053) |
| Andrew J. Fenady | Chisum (0013) |
| Harry Julian Fink | Big Jake (0028) |
| Dirty Harry (0039) | |
| R. M. Fink | Big Jake (0028) |
| Dirty Harry (0039) | |
| Larry Forrester | Tora! Tora! Tora! (0016) |
| Vincent Price Fox, Jr. | Cold Turkey (0022) |
| Harriet Frank, Jr. | The Cowboys (0040) |
| Leonard Gardner | Fat City (0050) |
| Leonard Gershe | Butterflies Are Free (0048) |
| Terry Gilliam | And Now For Something Completely Different (0032) |
| William Goldman | The Hot Rock (0041) |
| Jo Heims | Play Misty for Me (0036) |
| Buck Henry | The Owl and the Pussycat (0020) |
| What’s Up, Doc? (0043) | |
| Walter Hill | The Getaway (0058) |
| Mike Hodges | Get Carter (0023) |
| Eric Idle | And Now For Something Completely Different (0032) |
| William Dale Jennings | The Cowboys (0040) |
| Terry Jones | And Now For Something Completely Different (0032) |
| Adrien Joyce | Five Easy Pieces (0015) |
| Aben Kandel | Trog (0017) |
| Troy Kennedy-Martin | Kelly’s Heroes (0010) |
| Ryuzo Kikushima | Tora! Tora! Tora! (0016) |
| Akira Kurosawa (uncredited) | Tora! Tora! Tora! (0016) |
| Ring Lardner, Jr. | M*A*S*H (0002) |
| Norman Lear | Cold Turkey (0022) |
| Elmore Leonard | Joe Kidd (0049) |
| Andy Lewis | Klute (0029) |
| Dave Lewis | Klute (0029) |
| Richard Maibaum | Diamonds Are Forever (0038) |
| Albert Maltz | Two Mules for Sister Sara (0009) |
| Tom Mankiewicz | Diamonds Are Forever (0038) |
| Wendell Mayes | The Poseidon Adventure (0056) |
| Terence McCloy | Lady Sing the Blues (0054) |
| Larry McMurtry | The Last Picture Show (0035) |
| John Milius | Jeremiah Johnson (0057) |
| David Newman | What’s Up, Doc? (0043) |
| Edmund H. North | Patton (0006) |
| Hideo Oguni | Tora! Tora! Tora! (0016) |
| Michael Palin | And Now For Something Completely Different (0032) |
| John Paxton | Kotch (0033) |
| Eleanor Perry | Diary of a Mad Housewife (0014) |
| James Poe | They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (0001) |
| Mario Puzo | The Godfather (0044) |
| Herman Raucher | Summer of ’42 (0024) |
| Irving Ravetch | The Cowboys (0040) |
| Dean Riesner | Play Misty for Me (0036) |
| Dirty Harry (0039) | |
| Mickey Rose | Bananas (0026) |
| George Seaton | Airport (0003) |
| Erich Segal | Love Story (0021) |
| Stirling Silliphant | The Poseidon Adventure (0056) |
| Joseph Stein | Fiddler on the Roof (0037) |
| Peter Stone | 1776 (0055) |
| Robert E. Thompson | They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (0001) |
| Ernest Tidyman | Shaft (0030) |
| The French Connection (0034) | |
| Shaft’s Big Score (0046) | |
| Melvin Van Peebles | Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (0025) |
| Norman Wexler | Joe (0012) |
| Billy Wilder | The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (0018) |
