New York Film Critics Circle 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.
 * 1956 - Around the World in 80 Days (John Farrow, James Poe, and S.J. Perelman)ᵃ
 * 1957 - none given
 * 1958 - The Defiant Ones (Harold Jacob Smith and Nedrick Young)ᵒ
 * 1959 - Anatomy of a Murder (Wendell Mayes)ᵃ
 * 1960 - The Apartment (I. A. L. Diamond and Billy Wilder)ᵒ
 * 1961 - Judgment at Nuremberg (Abby Mann)ᵃ
 * 1962 - none given
 * 1963 - Hud (Harriet Frank Jr. and Irving Ravetch)ᵃ
 * 1964 - The Servant (Harold Pinter)
 * 1965 - none given
 * 1966 - A Man for All Seasons (Robert Bolt)ᵃ
 * 1967 - Bonnie and Clyde (Robert Benton and David Newman)ᵒ
 * 1968 - Pretty Poison (Lorenzo Semple Jr.)
 * 1969 - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker)ᵒ
 * 1970 - My Night at Maud's (Éric Rohmer)ᵒ
 * 1971 - The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich and Larry McMurtry)ᵃ / 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 - The Story of Adele H. (Jean Gruault, Suzanne Schiffman, and François Truffaut)
 * 1976 - Network (Paddy Chayefsky)ᵒ
 * 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 - Places in the Heart (Robert Benton)ᵒ
 * 1985 - The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)ᵒ
 * 1986 - My Beautiful Laundrette (Hanif Kureishi)ᵒ
 * 1987 - Broadcast News (James L. Brooks)ᵒ
 * 1988 - Bull Durham (Ron Shelton)ᵒ
 * 1989 - Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost)
 * 1990 - Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (Ruth Prawer Jhabvala)
 * 1991 - Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg)
 * 1992 - The Crying Game (Neil Jordan)ᵒ
 * 1993 - The Piano (Jane Campion)ᵒ
 * 1994 - Pulp Fiction (Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino)ᵒ
 * 1995 - Sense and Sensibility (Emma Thompson)ᵃ
 * 1996 - Mother (Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson)
 * 1997 - L.A. Confidential  (Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland)ᵃ
 * 1998 - Shakespeare in Love  (Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard)ᵒ
 * 1999 - Election (Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor)ᵃ
 * 2000 - You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)ᵒ
 * 2001 - Gosford Park (Julian Fellowes)ᵒ
 * 2002 - Adaptation. (Charlie Kaufman)ᵃ
 * 2003 - The Secret Lives of Dentists (Craig Lucas)
 * 2004 - Sideways (Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor)ᵃ
 * 2005 - The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)ᵒ
 * 2006 - The Queen (Peter Morgan)ᵒ
 * 2007 - No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen)ᵃ
 * 2008 - Rachel Getting Married (Jenny Lumet)
 * 2009 - In the Loop (Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, and Tony Roche)ᵃ
 * 2010 - The Kids Are All Right (Stuart Blumberg and Lisa Cholodenko)ᵒ
 * 2011 - Moneyball (Stan Chervin, Aaron Sorkin, and Steven Zaillian)ᵃ
 * 2012 - Lincoln  (Tony Kushner)ᵃ
 * 2013 - American Hustle (David O. Russell and Eric Warren Singer)ᵒ
 * 2014 - The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)ᵒ
 * 2015 - Carol (Phyllis Nagy)ᵃ
 * 2016 - Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)ᵒ
 * 2017 - Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
 * 2018 - First Reformed (Paul Schrader)ᵒ

Most wins

 * 2 - Woody Allen, Robert Benton, Ingmar Bergman, Kenneth Lonergan, Paul Mazursky, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor