1930s
- 1929/1930 None given
- 1930/1931 The Dawn Patrol - John Monk Saunders
- Doorway to Hell - Rowland Brown
- Laughter - Harry D'Arrast, Douglas Doty, Donald Stewart
- The Public Enemy - John Bright, Kubec Glasmon
- Smart Money - Lucien Hubbard, Joseph Jackson
- 1931/1932 The Champ - Frances Marion
- Lady and Gent - Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt
- Star Witness - Lucien Hubbard
- What Price Hollywood? - Adela St. John, Jane Murfin
- 1932/1933 One Way Passage - Robert Lord
- The Prizefighter and the Lady - Frances Marion
- Rasputin and the Empress - Charles MacArthur
- 1934 Manhattan Melodrama - Arthur Caesar
- Hide Out - Mauri Grashin
- The Richest Girl in the World - Norman Krasna
- 1935 The Scoundrel - Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
- Broadway Melody of 1936 - Moss Hart
- The Gay Deception - Stephen Avery, Don Hartman
- Write in Candidate: G Men - Gregory Rogers (pseudonym of Darryl F. Zanuck)
- 1936 The Story of Louis Pasteur - Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney
- Fury - Norman Krasna
- The Great Ziegfeld - William McGuire
- San Francisco - Robert Hopkins
- Three Smart Girls - Adele Commandini
- 1937 A Star Is Born - Robert Carson, William Wellman
- Black Legion - Robert Lord
- In Old Chicago - Niven Busch
- The Life of Emile Zola - Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg
- One Hundred Men and a Girl - Hans Kraly
- 1938 Boys Town - Eleanore Griffin, Dore Schary
- Alexander's Ragtime Band - Irving Berlin
- Angels with Dirty Faces - Rowland Brown
- Blockade - John Howard Lawson
- Mad About Music - Marcella Burke, Frederick Kohner
- Test Pilot - Frank Wead
- 1939 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Lewis R. Foster
- Bachelor Mother - Felix Jackson
- Love Affair - Mildred Cram, Leo McCarey
- Ninotchka - Melchior Lengyel
- Young Mr. Lincoln - Lamar Trotti
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