National Board of Review Award for Best Original Screenplay

Winners
Names and titles in bold indicate writers that won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Names and titles with an asterisk (*) indicate films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, but did not win.
 * 2003 - In America* (Jim Sheridan, Kirsten Sheridan, and Naomi Sheridan)
 * 2004 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Charlie Kaufman)
 * 2005 - The Squid and the Whale* (Noah Baumbach)
 * 2006 - Stranger than Fiction (Zach Helm)
 * 2007 - Juno (Diablo Cody) / Lars and the Real Girl* (Nancy Oliver)
 * 2008 - Gran Torino (Nick Schenk)
 * 2009 - A Serious Man* (Joel and Ethan Coen)
 * 2010 - Buried (Chris Sparling)
 * 2011 - 50/50 (Will Reiser)
 * 2012 - Looper (Rian Johnson)
 * 2013 - Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen)
 * 2014 - The Lego Movie (Phil Lord and Chris Miller)
 * 2015 - The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino)
 * 2016 - Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
 * 2017 - Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
 * 2018 - First Reformed* (Paul Schrader)

Most wins

 * 2 - Joel and Ethan Coen