1940s
- 1940 Arise, My Love - Benjamin Glazer, John Toldy
- Comrade X - Walter Reisch
- Edison, the Man - Hugo Butler, Dore Schary
- My Favorite Wife - Leo McCarey, Samuel Spewack and Bella Spewack
- The Westerner - Stuart N. Lake
- 1941 Here Comes Mr. Jordan - Harry Segall
- Ball of Fire - Thomas Monroe, Billy Wilder
- The Lady Eve - Monckton Hoffe
- Meet John Doe - Richard Connell, Robert Presnell
- Night Train to Munich - Gordon Wellesley
- 1942 49th Parallel (The Invaders) - Emeric Pressburger
- Holiday Inn - Irving Berlin
- The Pride of the Yankees - Paul Gallico
- The Talk of the Town - Sidney Harmon
- Yankee Doodle Dandy - Robert Buckner
- 1943 The Human Comedy - William Saroyan
- Action in the North Atlantic - Guy Gilpatric
- Destination Tokyo - Steve Fisher
- The More the Merrier - Frank Ross, Robert Russell
- Shadow of a Doubt - Gordon McDonell
- 1944 Going My Way - Leo McCarey
- A Guy Named Joe - David Boehm, Chandler Sprague
- Lifeboat - John Steinbeck
- None Shall Escape - Alfred Neumann, Joseph Than
- The Sullivans - Edward Doherty, Jules Schermer
- 1945 The House on 92nd St. - Charles G. Booth
- The Affairs of Susan - Laszlo Gorog, Thomas Monroe
- A Medal for Benny - John Steinbeck, Jack Wagner
- Objective, Burma! - Alvah Bessie
- A Song to Remember - Ernst Marischka
- 1946 Vacation from Marriage - Clemence Dane
- The Dark Mirror - Vladimir Pozner
- The Strange Love of Martha Ivers - Jack Patrick
- The Stranger - Victor Trivas
- To Each His Own - Charles Brackett
- 1947 Miracle on 34th Street - Valentine Davies
- A Cage of Nightingales - Georges Chaperot, René Wheeler
- It Happened on Fifth Avenue - Herbert Clyde Lewis, Frederick Stephani
- Kiss of Death - Eleazar Lipsky
- Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman - Frank Cavett, Dorothy Parker
- 1948 The Search - Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler
- The Louisiana Story - Robert J. Flaherty, Frances H. Flaherty
- The Naked City - Malvin Wald
- Red River - Borden Chase
- The Red Shoes - Emeric Pressburger
- 1949 Stratton Story - Douglas Morrow
- Come to the Stable - Clare Luce
- It Happens Every Spring - Valentine Davies, Shirley Smith
- Sands of Iwo Jima - Harry Brown
- White Heat - Virginia Kellogg
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