Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Screenplay

The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Screenplay is one of the annual film awards given by the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association.

Winners

2000s

Year	Writer(s)	Winner
2002	Nia Vardalos	My Big Fat Greek Wedding
2003	Sofia Coppola	Lost in Translation
	Bob Peterson, David Reynolds and Andrew Stanton	Finding Nemo
	Guillermo Arriaga	21 Grams
	Steven Knight	Dirty Pretty Things
	Catherine Hardwicke and Nikki Reed	Thirteen
2004	Charlie Kaufman	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2005	Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco	Crash
	George Clooney and Grant Heslov	Good Night, and Good Luck
	Craig Brewer	Hustle & Flow
	Angus MacLachlan	Junebug
	Noah Baumbach	The Squid and the Whale
2006	Michael Arndt	Little Miss Sunshine
2007	Diablo Cody	Juno
2008	Jenny Lumet	Rachel Getting Married
2009	Quentin Tarantino	Inglourious Basterds
	Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber	(500) Days of Summer
	Mark Boal	The Hurt Locker
	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	A Serious Man
	Bob Peterson and Pete Docter	Up

2010s

Year	Writer(s)	Winner
2010	Christopher Nolan	Inception
	Mike Leigh	Another Year
	Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin	Black Swan
	Scott Blumberg and Lisa Cholodenko	The Kids Are All Right
	David Seidler	The King's Speech
2011	Will Reiser	50/50
	Michel Hazanavicius	The Artist
	Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig	Bridesmaids
	Woody Allen	Midnight in Paris
	Thomas McCarthy	Win Win
2012	Rian Johnson	Looper
	Quentin Tarantino	Django Unchained
	Paul Thomas Anderson	The Master
	Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola	Moonrise Kingdom
	Mark Boal	Zero Dark Thirty
2013	Spike Jonze	Her
	David O. Russell and Eric Warren Singer	American Hustle
	Woody Allen	Blue Jasmine
	Nicole Holofcener	Enough Said
	Joel and Ethan Coen	Inside Llewyn Davis
2014	Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr. and Armando Bó	Birdman
	Richard Linklater	Boyhood
	Wes Anderson	The Grand Budapest Hotel
	Phil Lord and Christopher Miller	The Lego Movie
	Damien Chazelle	Whiplash
2015	Screenplay: Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley Screen Story: Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen	Inside Out
	Matt Charman & Joel and Ethan Coen	Bridge of Spies
	Alex Garland	Ex Machina
	Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer	Spotlight
	Amy Schumer	Trainwreck