Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay

The Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay is one of the annual Gotham Independent Film Awards.

Winners and nominees

Year	Screenwriter(s)	Film	Ref.
2015	Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer	Spotlight	^[1]
	Noah Baumbach	While We're Young
	Marielle Heller	The Diary of a Teenage Girl
	Michael Alan Lerner and Oren Moverman	Love & Mercy
	Phyllis Nagy	Carol
2016	Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney	Moonlight	^[2]
	Jim Jarmusch	Paterson
	Kenneth Lonergan	Manchester by the Sea
	Taylor Sheridan	Hell or High Water
	Whit Stillman	Love & Friendship
2017	Jordan Peele	Get Out	^[3]
	Greta Gerwig	Lady Bird
	Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani	The Big Sick
	James Ivory	Call Me by Your Name
	Kogonada	Columbus
	Mike White	Brad's Status
2018	Paul Schrader	First Reformed	^[4]
	Andrew Bujalski	Support the Girls
	Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara	The Favourite
	Cory Finley	Thoroughbreds
	Tamara Jenkins	Private Life
2019	Noah Baumbach	Marriage Story	^[5]
	Ari Aster	Midsommar
	Jimmie Fails, Joe Talbot and Robert Richert	The Last Black Man in San Francisco
	Tarell Alvin McCraney	High Flying Bird
	Lulu Wang	The Farewell

Year	Screenwriter(s)	Film	Ref.
2020	Radha Blank	The Forty-Year-Old Version	^[6]
	Dan Sallitt	Fourteen
	Mike Makowsky	Bad Education
	James Montague and Craig W. Sander	The Vast of Night
	Jon Raymond and Kelly Reichardt	First Cow
2021	Maggie Gyllenhaal	The Lost Daughter	^[7]^[8]
	Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch	Red Rocket
	Rebecca Hall	Passing
	David Lowery	The Green Knight
	Paul Schrader	The Card Counter
	Amalia Ulman	El Planeta