Oscar voor beste verhaal

De Academy Award voor beste verhaal (Engels: Academy Award for Best (Motion Picture) Story, ook bekend als de Oscar voor beste verhaal) was een jaarlijkse filmprijs van de Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Deze prijs werd uitgereikt sinds het begin van de Academy Awards in 1927 tot 1957. De categorie bestond naast de Academy Award voor beste bewerkte scenario en vanaf 1940 ook naast de Academy Award voor beste originele scenario.

Winnaars en genomineerden

De winnaars staan bovenaan in vette letters op een gele achtergrond. De overige films en scenaristen die werden genomineerd staan eronder vermeld in alfabetische volgorde.

1927-1929

Jaar	Film	Scenarist(en)
1927–28 (1ste)
	Underworld	Ben Hecht
	The Last Command	Lajos Bíró
1928–29 (2de)	Geen uitreiking in deze categorie.

1930-1939

Jaar	Film	Scenarist(en)
1929–30 (3de)	Geen uitreiking in deze categorie.
1930–31 (4de)
	The Dawn Patrol	John Monk Saunders
	The Doorway to Hell	Rowland Brown
	Laughter	Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast, Douglas Doty en Donald Ogden Stewart
	The Public Enemy	John Bright en Kubec Glasmon
	Smart Money	Lucien Hubbard en Joseph Jackson
1931–32 (5de)
	The Champ	Frances Marion
	Lady and Gent	Grover Jones en William Slavens McNutt
	The Star Witness	Lucien Hubbard
	What Price Hollywood?	Adela Rogers St. Johns en Jane Murfin
1932–33 (6de)
	One Way Passage	Robert Lord
	The Prizefighter and the Lady	Frances Marion
	Rasputin and the Empress	Charles MacArthur
1934 (7de)
	Manhattan Melodrama	Arthur Caesar
	Hide-Out	Mauri Grashin
	The Richest Girl in the World	Norman Krasna
1935 (8ste)
	The Scoundrel	Ben Hecht en Charles MacArthur
	Broadway Melody of 1936	Moss Hart
	G-Men	Gregory Rogers
	The Gay Deception	Don Hartman en Stephen Avery
1936 (9de)
	The Story of Louis Pasteur	Pierre Collings en Sheridan Gibney
	Fury	Norman Krasna
	The Great Ziegfeld	William Anthony McGuire
	San Francisco	Robert Hopkins
	Three Smart Girls	Adele Comandini
1937 (10de)
	A Star Is Born	William A. Wellman en Robert Carson
	Black Legion	Robert Lord
	In Old Chicago	Niven Busch
	The Life of Emile Zola	Heinz Herald en Geza Herczeg
	One Hundred Men and a Girl	Hanns Kräly
1938 (11de)
	Boys Town	Dore Schary en Eleanore Griffin
	Alexander's Ragtime Band	Irving Berlin
	Angels with Dirty Faces	Rowland Brown
	Blockade	John Howard Lawson
	Mad About Music	Marcella Burke en Frederick Kohner
	Test Pilot	Frank Wead
1939 (12de)
	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	Lewis R. Foster
	Bachelor Mother	Felix Jackson
	Love Affair	Mildred Cram en Leo McCarey
	Ninotchka	Melchior Lengyel
	Young Mr. Lincoln	Lamar Trotti

1940-1949

Jaar	Film	Scenarist(en)
1940 (13de)
	Arise, My Love	Benjamin Glazer en John S. Toldy
	Comrade X	Walter Reisch
	Edison, the Man	Dore Schary en Hugo Butler
	My Favorite Wife	Bella Spewack, Samuel Spewack en Leo McCarey
	The Westerner	Stuart N. Lake
1941 (14de)
	Here Comes Mr. Jordan	Harry Segall
	Ball of Fire	Billy Wilder en Thomas Monroe
	The Lady Eve	Monckton Hoffe
	Meet John Doe	Richard Connell en Robert Presnell
	Night Train	Gordon Wellesley
1942 (15de)
	The Invaders	Emeric Pressburger
	Holiday Inn	Irving Berlin
	The Pride of the Yankees	Paul Gallico
	The Talk of the Town	Sidney Harmon
	Yankee Doodle Dandy	Robert Buckner
1943 (16de)
	The Human Comedy	William Saroyan
	Action in the North Atlantic	Guy Gilpatric
	Destination Tokyo	Steve Fisher
	The More the Merrier	Robert Russell en Frank Ross
	Shadow of a Doubt	Gordon McDonell
1944 (17de)
	Going My Way	Leo McCarey
	A Guy Named Joe	Chandler Sprague en David Boehm
	Lifeboat	John Steinbeck
	None Shall Escape	Alfred Neumann en Joseph Than
	The Sullivans	Edward Doherty en Jules Schermer
1945 (18de)
	The House on 92nd Street	Charles G. Booth
	The Affairs of Susan	Thomas Monroe en Laszlo Gorog
	A Medal for Benny	John Steinbeck en Jack Wagner
	Objective, Burma!	Alvah Bessie
	A Song to Remember	Ernst Marischka
1946 (19de)
	Vacation from Marriage	Clemence Dane
	The Dark Mirror	Vladimir Pozner
	The Strange Love of Martha Ivers	John Patrick
	The Stranger	Victor Trivas
	To Each His Own	Charles Brackett
1947 (20ste)
	Miracle on 34th Street	Valentine Davies
	A Cage of Nightingales	Georges Chaperot en René Wheeler
	It Happened on Fifth Avenue	Herbert Clyde Lewis en Frederick Stephani
	Kiss of Death	Eleazar Lipsky
	Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman	Dorothy Parker en Frank Cavett
1948 (21ste)
	The Search	Richard Schweizer en David Wechsler
	Louisiana Story	Frances Flaherty en Robert Flaherty
	The Naked City	Malvin Wald
	Red River	Borden Chase
	The Red Shoes	Emeric Pressburger
1949 (22ste)
	The Stratton Story	Douglas Morrow
	Come to the Stable	Clare Boothe Luce
	It Happens Every Spring	Shirley W. Smith en Valentine Davies
	Sands of Iwo Jima	Harry Brown
	White Heat	Virginia Kellogg

1950-1956

Jaar	Film	Scenarist(en)
1950 (23ste)
	Panic in the Streets	Edna Anhalt en Edward Anhalt
	Bitter Rice	Giuseppe De Santis en Carlo Lizzani
	The Gunfighter	William Bowers en André de Toth
	Mystery Street	Leonard Spigelgass
	When Willie Comes Marching Home	Sy Gomberg
1951 (24ste)
	Seven Days to Noon	Paul Dehn en James Bernard
	Bullfighter and the Lady	Budd Boetticher en Ray Nazarro
	The Frogmen	Oscar Millard
	Here Comes the Groom	Robert Riskin en Liam O'Brien
	Teresa	Alfred Hayes en Stewart Stern
1952 (25ste)
	The Greatest Show on Earth	Fredric M. Frank, Theodore St. John en Frank Cavett
	My Son John	Leo McCarey
	The Narrow Margin	Martin Goldsmith en Jack Leonard
	The Pride of St. Louis	Guy Trosper
	The Sniper	Edna Anhalt en Edward Anhalt
1953 (26ste)
	Roman Holiday	Dalton Trumbo
	Above and Beyond	Beirne Lay jr.
	The Captain's Paradise	Alec Coppel
	Hondo	Louis L'Amour
	Little Fugitive	Ray Ashley, Morris Engel en Ruth Orkin
1954 (27ste)
	Broken Lance	Philip Yordan
	Bread, Love and Dreams	Ettore Margadonna
	Forbidden Games	François Boyer
	Night People	Jed Harris en Tom Reed
	There's No Business Like Show Business	Lamar Trotti
1955 (28ste)
	Love Me or Leave Me	Daniel Fuchs
	The Private War of Major Benson	Joe Connelly en Bob Mosher
	Rebel Without a Cause	Nicholas Ray
	The Sheep Has Five Legs	Jean Marsan, Henri Troyat, Jacques Perret, Henri Verneuil en Raoul Ploquin
	Strategic Air Command	Beirne Lay jr.
1956 (29ste)
	The Brave One	Dalton Trumbo
	The Eddy Duchin Story	Leo Katcher
	High Society	Edward Bernds en Elwood Ullman
	The Proud and the Beautiful	Jean-Paul Sartre
	Umberto D.	Cesare Zavattini

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