OSCAR HISTORY: Best Original Story
A discontinued Oscar, it was a writing award given to the artists who conceived a film's story.
1956: THE BRAVE ONE (Dalton Trumbo)
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1955: LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME (Daniel Fuchs)
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1954: BROKEN LANCE (Philip Yordan)
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1953: ROMAN HOLIDAY (Dalton Trumbo)
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1952: THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (Frank Cavett, Frederic M. Frank, & Theodore St. John)
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1951: SEVEN DAYS TO NOON (James Bernard & Paul Dehn)
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1950: PANIC IN THE STREETS (Edna Anhalt & Edward Anhalt)
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1949: THE STRATTON STORY (Douglas Morrow)
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1948: THE SEARCH (Richard Schweizer & David Wechsler)
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1947: MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (Valentine Davies)
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1946: VACATION FROM MARRIAGE (Clemence Dane)
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1945: THE HOUSE ON 92ND STREET (Charles G. Booth)
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1944: GOING MY WAY (Leo McCarey)
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1943: THE HUMAN COMEDY (William Saroyan)
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1942: THE INVADERS (Emeric Pressburger)
1941: HERE COMES MR. JORDAN (Harry Segall)
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1940: ARISE, MY LOVE (Benjamin Glazer & John S. Toldy)
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1936: THE STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR (Pierre Collings & Sheridan Gibney)
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