- Apocalypse Now - Screenplay by John Milius and Francis Coppola
- The Producers - Screenplay by Mel Brooks
- Star Wars - Screenplay by George Lucas
- When Harry Met Sally… - Screenplay by Nora Ephron
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Screenplay by Melissa Mathison
- Rocky - Screenplay by Sylvester Stallone
- Being John Malkovich - Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman
- Dog Day Afternoon - Screenplay by Frank Pierson
- Annie Hall - Screenplay by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
- Chinatown - Screenplay by Robert Towne
- American Beauty - Screenplay by Alan Ball
- The Usual Suspects - Screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Screenplay by William Goldman
- Network - Screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky
- Citizen Kane - Screenplay by Herman Mankiewicz and Orson Welles
- Harold and Maude - Screenplay by Colin Higgins
- Dead Poets Society - Screenplay by Tom Schulman
- Broadcast News - Screenplay by James L. Brooks
- The Deer Hunter - Screenplay by Michael Cimino and Deric Washburn
- Taxi Driver - Screenplay by Paul Schrader
- American Graffiti - Screenplay by George Lucas and Gloria Katz
- The Sixth Sense - Screenplay by M. Night Shyamalan
- Diner - Screenplay by Barry Levinson
- Big - Screenplay by Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg
- Easy Rider - Screenplay by Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper