2013 - The Stories (Adapted Screenplay)

1. George Clooney & Grant Heslov (The Monuments Men)
   In a race against time, a crew of art historians and museum curators unite to recover renown works of art stolen by Nazis before Hitler destroys them
2. Jason Reitman (Labor Day)
   Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited.
3. Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke (Before Midnight)
   We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.
4. Tracy Letts (August : Osage County)
   The Weston family overcomes certain differences when their alcoholic patriarch goes missing.
5. Steve McQueen & John Ridley (Twelve Years a Slave)
   A man living in New York during the mid-1800s is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the deep south.
6. Terence Winter (The Wolf of Wall Street)
   A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration.
7. Josh Singer (The Fifth Estate)
   A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.
8. Frank Cottrell Boyce & Andy Paterson (The Railway Man)
   A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.
9. Baz Luhrmann & Craig Pearce (The Great Gatsby)
   Nick Carraway, a Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy
10. Jean Pierre Jeunet & Guillaume Laurant (The Young & Prodigious Spivet)
    A 12-year-old cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.

11. Scott Neustadter (The Spectacular Now)
    Sutter Keely (Miles Teller) lives in the now. It’s a good place for him. A high school senior, charming and self-possessed, he’s the life of the party, loves his job at a men’s clothing store, and has no plans for the future. A budding alcoholic, he’s never far from his supersized, whisky-fortified thirst-master cup. But after being dumped by his girlfriend, Sutter gets drunk and wakes up on a lawn with Aimee Finicky (Shailene Woodley) hovering over him. She’s different: the “nice girl” who reads science fiction and doesn’t have a boyfriend. While Amy has dreams of a future, Sutter lives in the impressive delusion of a spectacular now, yet somehow, they're drawn together.

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    Steve Coogan & Jeff Pope (Philomena)
    A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.
12. Lee Daniels & Danny Strong (The Butler)
    A White House butler served eight American Presidents over the course of three decades.
13. Christopher Kyle (Serena)
    In Depression-era North Carolina, the future of George Pemberton's timber empire becomes complicated when it is learned that his wife, Serena, cannot bear children.
14. Roman Polanski (Venus in Fur)
    An actress attempts to convince a director how she's perfect for a role in his upcoming production.
15. Paul Harris Boardman & Scott Derrickson (Devil's Knot)
    The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as part of a satanic ritual.
16. Charlie Stratton (Theresa Raquin)
    Therese and her lover Laurent murder Camille, Therese's husband. After marrying, the couple are visited by Camille's ghost, slowly turning their love for one another into an all-consuming hatred.
17. Akiva Goldsman (Winter's Tale)
    A fantasy story set in 19th Century and present-day Manhattan and revolves around a thief, a dying girl, and a flying white horse.
18. Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens & Guillermo del Toro (The Hobbit : The Desolation of Smaug)
    The Dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf have successfully escaped the Misty Mountains, and Bilbo has gained the One Ring. They all continue their journey to get their gold back from the Dragon, Smaug.
19. Mitchell Kapner & David Lindsay-Abaire (Oz : The Great & Powerful)
    A small-time magician with questionable ethics arrives in a magical land and must choose between becoming a good man or a great one.
20. Eric Aronson, Justin Haythe, Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio (Lone Ranger)
    Native American spirit warrior Tonto recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid, a man of the law, into a legend of justice
21. Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof (Star Trek : Into the Darkness)
    After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction.
22. Matthew Michael Carnahan (World War Z)
    A U.N. employee is racing against time and fate, as he travels the world trying to stop the outbreak of a deadly Zombie pandemic.
23. Simon Beaufoy & Michael Arndt (The Hunger Games : Catching Fire)
    Katniss and Peeta's victory is cut short as the Quarter Quell puts them back into the Hunger Games for the second time.
24. Mark Protosevich (Oldboy)
    After being kidnapped and imprisoned for 20 years, an advertising executive is released, only to find that he must find his captor in 5 days.
25. Roberto Aquirre-Sacasa (Carrie)
    A sheltered high school girl unleashes her newly developed telekinetic powers after she is pushed too far by her peers.
26. Andrew Bovell (A Most Wanted Man)
    A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught up in the international war on terror.
27. Josh Fagin (The First)
    The life story of silent film star Mary Pickford, who co-founded the movie studio United Artists in 1919. Based on Eileen Whitfield's biography, "Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood."
28. Carroll Cartwright & Nancy Doyne (What Maisie Knew)
    In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter divorce.
29. Julian Fellowes (The Chaperone)
    Amid the backdrop of the tumultuous times of the early 1920s, the life of a Kansas woman is forever changed when she chaperones a beautiful and talented 15 year-old dancer named Louise Brooks to New York for the summer. One of them is eager to fulfill her destiny of silent film stardom; the other hopes to unearth the mysteries of her past.
30. Jennifer Lee & Shane Morris (Frozen)
    A mountain climber and a young girl named Anna journey through snowy peaks and dangerous cliffs to find the legendary Snow Queen and end the perpetual winter prophecy that has fallen over their kingdom.
31. Darren Aronofsky, John Logan & Ari Handel (Noah)
    The Biblical Noah suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge, and takes measures to protect his family from the coming flood.
32. Terence Davies (A Quiet Passion)
    The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.