Can you name the Oscar Best Original Screenplay nominees from 1970-2009?

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YearWriterFilm
1970Five Easy Pieces
1970Joe
1970Love Story
1970My Night at Maud's
1970*Patton
1971*The Hospital
1971Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
1971Klute
1971Summer of '42
1971Sunday Bloody Sunday
1972*The Candidate
1972Lady Sings the Blues
1972The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1972Murmur of the Heart
1972Yong Winston
1973American Graffiti
1973Cries and Whispers
1973Save the Tiger
1973*The Sting
1973A Touch of Class
1974Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1974*Chinatown
1974The Conversation
1974Day for Night
1974Harry and Tonto
1975Amarcord
1975And Now My Love
1975*Dog Day Afternoon
1975Lies My Father Told Me
1975Shampoo
1976Cousin cousine
1976The Front
1976*Network
1976Rocky
1976Seven Beauties
1977*Annie Hall
1977The Goodbye Girl
1977The Late Show
1977Star Wars
1977The Turning Point
1978Autumn Sonata
1978*Coming Home
1978The Deer Hunter
1978Interiors
1978An Unmarried Woman
1979All That Jazz
1979...And Justice for All.
1979*Breaking Away
1979The China Syndrome
1979Manhattan
1980Brubaker
1980Fame
1980*Melvin and Howard
1980Mon oncle d'Amérique
1980Private Benjamin
1981Absence of Malice
1981Arthur
1981Atlantic City
1981*Chariots of Fire
1981Reds
1982Diner
1982E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
1982*Gandhi
1982An Officer and a Gentleman
1982Tootsie
1983The Big Chill
1983Fanny and Alexander
YearWriterFilm
1983Silkwood
1983*Tender Mercies
1983WarGames
1984Beverly Hills Cop
1984Broadway Danny Rose
1984El Norte
1984*Places in the Heart
1984Splash
1985Back to the Future
1985Brazil
1985The Official Story
1985The Purple Rose of Cairo
1985*Witness
1986Crocodile Dundee
1986*Hannah and Her Sisters
1986My Beautiful Laundrette
1986Platoon
1986Salvador
1987Au revoir les enfants
1987Broadcast News
1987Hope and Glory
1987*Moonstruck
1987Radio Days
1988Big
1988Bull Durham
1988A Fish Called Wanda
1988*Rain Man
1988Running on Empty
1989Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989*Dead Poets Society
1989Do the Right Thing
1989Sex, Lies, and Videotape
1989When Harry Met Sally...
1990Alice
1990Avalon
1990*Ghost
1990Green Card
1990Metropolitan
1991Boyz n the Hood
1991Bugsy
1991The Fisher King
1991Grand Canyon
1991*Thelma & Louise
1992*The Crying Game
1992Husbands and Wives
1992Lorenzo's Oil
1992Passion Fish
1992Unforgiven
1993Dave
1993In the Line of Fire
1993Philadelphia
1993*The Piano
1993Sleepless in Seattle
1994Bullets Over Broadway
1994Four Weddings and a Funeral
1994Heavenly Creatures
1994*Pulp Fiction
1994Three Colors: Red
1995Braveheart
1995Mighty Aphrodite
1995Nixon
1995Toy Story
1995*The Usual Suspects
1996*Fargo
1996Jerry Maguire
1996Lone Star
1996Secrets & Lies
YearWriterFilm
1996Shine
1997Boogie Nights
1997Deconstructing Harry
1997The Full Monty
1997*Good Will Hunting
1997As Good as It Gets
1998Bulworth
1998Life is Beautiful
1998Saving Private Ryan
1998*Shakespeare in Love
1998The Truman Show
1999*American Beauty
1999Being John Malkovich
1999Magnolia
1999The Sixth Sense
1999Topsy-Turvy
2000*Almost Famous
2000Billy Elliot
2000Erin Brockovich
2000Gladiator
2000You Can Count on Me
2001Amélie
2001*Gosford Park
2001Memento
2001Monster's Ball
2001The Royal Tenenbaums
2002Far from Heaven
2002Gangs of New York
2002My Big Fat Greek Wedding
2002*Talk to Her
2002Y tu mamá también
2003The Barbarian Invasions
2003Dirty Pretty Things
2003Finding Nemo
2003In America
2003*Lost in Translation
2004The Aviator
2004*Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004Hotel Rwanda
2004The Incredibles
2004Vera Drake
2005*Crash
2005Good Night, and Good Luck.
2005Match Point
2005The Squid and the Whale
2005Syriana
2006Babel
2006Letters from Iwo Jima
2006*Little Miss Sunshine
2006Pan's Labyrinth
2006The Queen
2007*Juno
2007Lars and the Real Girl
2007Michael Clayton
2007Ratatouille
2007The Savages
2008Frozen River
2008Happy-Go-Lucky
2008In Bruges
2008*Milk
2008WALL-E
2009*The Hurt Locker
2009A Serious Man
2009Inglourious Basterds
2009The Messenger
2009Up
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Oscar Screenplay Nominations Quiz

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