| Tahun | Pemenang dan nominee | Penulis naskah |
| 1996 | Lone Star (berpasangan) | John Sayles |
| The People vs. Larry Flynt (berpasangan) | Scott Alexander dan Larry Karaszewski |
| Fargo | Joel Coen dan Ethan Coen |
| Shine | Jan Sardi dan Scott Hicks |
| Sling Blade | Billy Bob Thornton |
| 1997 | Good Will Hunting | Matt Damon dan Ben Affleck |
| Boogie Nights | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| The Full Monty | Simon Beaufoy |
| Mrs Brown | Jeremy Brock |
| Titanic | James Cameron |
| 1998 | Pleasantville | Gary Ross |
| American History X | David McKenna |
| Central Station (Central do Brasil) | Walter Salles, João Emanuel Carneiro, dan Marcos Bernstein |
| Saving Private Ryan | Robert Rodat |
| Shakespeare in Love | Marc Norman dan Tom Stoppard |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense | M. Night Shyamalan |
| American Beauty | Alan Ball |
| Being John Malkovich | Charlie Kaufman |
| Magnolia | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| Three Kings | David O. Russell dan John Ridley |
| A Walk on the Moon | Pamela Gray |
