Best Screenplays: 1960s

Best Adapted Screenplay:

1960: Psycho (Joseph Stefano)

Oscar winner: Elmer Gantry (Richard Brooks)

Was this nominated?: No

1961: The Hustler (Sidney Carroll and Robert Rossen)

Oscar winner: Judgment at Nuremberg (Abby Mann)

Was this nominated?: Yes

1962: To Kill a Mockingbird (Horton Foote)

Oscar winner: To Kill a Mockingbird (Horton Foote)

1963: The Great Escape (James Clavell and W.R. Burnett)

Oscar winner: Tom Jones (John Osborne)

Was this nominated?: No

1964: Dr. Stangelove (Stanley Kubrick, Peter George, and Terry Southern)

Oscar winner: Becket (Edward Anhalt)

Was this nominated?: Yes

1965: Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)

Oscar winner: Doctor Zhivago (Robert Bolt)

Was this nominated?: No

1966: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Ernest Lehman)

Oscar winner: A Man for All Seasons (Robert Bolt)

Was this nominated?: Yes

1967: The Graduate (Calder Willingham and Buck Henry)

Oscar winner: In the Heat of the Night (Stirling Silliphant)

Was this nominated?: Yes

1968: The Lion in Winter (James Goldman)

Oscar winner: The Lion in Winter (James Goldman)

1969: Midnight Cowboy (Waldo Salt)

Oscar winner: Midnight Cowboy (Waldo Salt)

Best Original Screenplay:

1960: The Apartment (Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond)

Oscar winner: The Apartment (Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond)

1961: Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)

Oscar winner: Splendor in the Grass (William Inge)

Was this nominated?: No

1962: Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)

Oscar winner: Divorce Italian Style (Ennio de Concini, Alfredo Giannetti, and Pietro Germi)

Was this nominated?: No

1963: 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, and Brunello Rondl)

Oscar winner: How the West Was Won (James R. Webb)

Was this nominated?: Yes

1964: Father Goose (S.H. Barnett, Peter Stone, and Frank Tarloff)

Oscar winner: Father Goose (S.H. Barnett, Peter Stone, and Frank Tarloff)

1965: Repulsion (Roman Polanski, Gérard Brach, and David Stone)

Oscar winner: Darling (Frederic Raphael)

Was this nominated?: No

1966: Persona (Ingmar Bergman)

Oscar winner: A Man and a Woman (Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven)

Was this nominated?: No

1967: Bonnie and Clyde (David Newman and Robert Benton)

Oscar winner: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (William Rose)

Was this nominated?: Yes

1968: Shame (Ingmar Bergman)

Oscar winner: The Producers (Mel Brooks)

Was this nominated?: No

1969: Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, Sergio Donati, Dario Argento, and Bernardo Bertolucci)

Oscar winner: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (William Goldman)

Was this nominated?: No