National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay

Winners

 * 1967 - Bonnie and Clyde (Robert Benton and David Newman)ᵒ
 * 1968 - Faces (John Cassavetes)ᵒ
 * 1969 - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker)ᵒ
 * 1970 - My Night at Maud's (Éric Rohmer)ᵒ
 * 1971 - Sunday Bloody Sunday (Penelope Gilliatt)ᵒ
 * 1972 - Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)ᵒ
 * 1973 - American Graffiti (Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz, and George Lucas)ᵒ
 * 1974 - Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)
 * 1975 - Shampoo (Warren Beatty and Robert Towne)
 * 1976 - Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (John Berger and Alain Tanner)
 * 1977 - Annie Hall (Woody Allen)ᵒ
 * 1978 - An Unmarried Woman (Paul Mazursky)ᵒ
 * 1979 - Breaking Away (Steve Tesich)ᵒ
 * 1980 - Melvin and Howard (Bo Goldman)ᵒ
 * 1981 - Atlantic City (John Guare)ᵒ
 * 1982 - Tootsie (Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal)ᵒ
 * 1983 - Local Hero (Bill Forsyth)
 * 1984 - Splash (Bruce Jay Friedman, Lowell Ganz, and Babaloo Mandel)ᵒ
 * 1985 - Lost in America (Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson)
 * 1986 - My Beautiful Laundrette (Hanif Kureishi)ᵒ
 * 1987 - Hope and Glory (John Boorman)ᵒ
 * 1988 - Bull Durham (Ron Shelton)ᵒ
 * 1989 - Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost)
 * 1990 - To Sleep with Anger (Charles Burnett)
 * 1991 - Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg)
 * 1992 - Unforgiven (David Webb Peoples)ᵒ
 * 1993 - The Piano (Jane Campion)ᵒ
 * 1994 - Pulp Fiction (Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino)ᵒ
 * 1995 - Clueless (Amy Heckerling)
 * 1996 - Mother (Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson)
 * 1997 - L.A. Confidential  (Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland)ᵃ
 * 1998 - ''Out of Sight (Scott Frank)ᵃ
 * 1999 - Being John Malkovich (Charlie Kaufman)ᵒ
 * 2000 - You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)ᵒ
 * 2001 - Gosford Park (Julian Fellowes)ᵒ
 * 2002 - The Pianist (Ronald Harwood)ᵃ
 * 2003 - American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini)ᵃ
 * 2004 - Sideways (Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor)ᵃ
 * 2005 - The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)ᵒ
 * 2006 - The Queen (Peter Morgan)ᵒ
 * 2008 - Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)ᵒ
 * 2009 - A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen)ᵒ
 * 2010 - The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin)ᵃ
 * 2011 - A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)ᵒ
 * 2012 - Lincoln  (Tony Kushner)ᵃ
 * 2013 - Before Midnight (Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, and Richard Linklater)ᵃ
 * 2014 - The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)ᵒ
 * 2015 - Spotlight (Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer)ᵒ
 * 2016 - Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)ᵒ
 * 2017 - Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)ᵒ
 * 2018 - The Death of Stalin (Peter Fellows, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin, and David Schneider)

Most wins

 * 2 - Albert Brooks, Monica Johnson, Paul Mazursky, Kenneth Lonergan