Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay

Winners
Names and titles in bold indicate writers that won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (denoted with ᵃ) or the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay (denoted with ᵒ). Names and titles that are not bolded while including one of the two letters, indicate films that were nominated for either award without winning.
 * 1975 - Nashville (Joan Tewkesbury)
 * 1976 - Network (Paddy Chayefsky)ᵒ
 * 1977 - Annie Hall (Woody Allen)ᵒ
 * 1978 - An Unmarried Woman (Paul Mazursky)ᵒ
 * 1979 - Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton)ᵃ
 * 1980 - Return of the Secaucus 7 (John Sayles)
 * 1981 - Atlantic City (John Guare)ᵒ
 * 1982 - Tootsie (Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal)ᵒ
 * 1983 - Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks)ᵃ
 * 1984 - Amadeus (Peter Shaffer)ᵃ
 * 1985 - Brazil (Terry Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard)ᵒ
 * 1986 - Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)ᵒ
 * 1987 - Hope and Glory (John Boorman)ᵒ
 * 1988 - Bull Durham (Ron Shelton)ᵒ
 * 1989 - Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost)
 * 1990 - Reversal of Fortune (Nicholas Kazan)ᵃ
 * 1991 - Bugsy (James Toback)ᵒ
 * 1992 - Unforgiven (David Webb Peoples)ᵒ
 * 1993 - The Piano (Jane Campion)ᵒ
 * 1994 - Pulp Fiction (Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino)ᵒ
 * 1995 - Sense and Sensibility (Emma Thompson)ᵃ
 * 1996 - Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen)ᵒ
 * 1997 - L.A. Confidential​ (Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland)ᵃ
 * 1998 - Bulworth (Warren Beatty and Jeremy Pikser)ᵒ
 * 1999 - Being John Malkovich (Charlie Kaufman)ᵒ
 * 2000 - You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)ᵒ
 * 2001 - Memento (Christopher Nolan)ᵒ
 * 2002 - About Schmidt (Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor)
 * 2003 - American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini)ᵃ
 * 2004 - Sideways (Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor)ᵃ
 * 2005 - Capote / The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)ᵒ
 * 2006 - The Queen (Peter Morgan)ᵒ
 * 2007 - The Savages (Tamara Jenkins)ᵒ
 * 2008 - Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)ᵒ
 * 2009 - Up in the Air (Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner)ᵃ
 * 2010 - The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin)ᵃ
 * 2011 - A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)ᵒ
 * 2012 - Argo (Chris Terrio)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 - The Lobster (Efthymis Filippou and Yorgos Lanthimos)ᵒ
 * 2017 - Get Out (Jordan Peele)ᵒ
 * 2018 - Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty)ᵃ

Most wins

 * 2 - Woody Allen, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor