The Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay was one of the annual Gotham Independent Film Awards. It was presented between 2015 and 2024 until it was replaced in 2025 with the Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay categories.

Winners and nominees 2010s YearScreenwriter(s)Film 2015 Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer Spotlight Noah Baumbach While We're Young Marielle Heller The Diary of a Teenage Girl Michael Alan Lerner and Oren Moverman Love & Mercy Phyllis Nagy Carol 2016 Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney Moonlight Jim Jarmusch Paterson Kenneth Lonergan Manchester by the Sea Taylor Sheridan Hell or High Water Whit Stillman Love & Friendship 2017 Jordan Peele Get Out Greta Gerwig Lady Bird Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani The Big Sick James Ivory Call Me by Your Name Kogonada Columbus Mike White Brad's Status2018 Paul Schrader First Reformed Andrew Bujalski Support the GirlsDeborah Davis and Tony McNamara The FavouriteCory Finley ThoroughbredsTamara Jenkins Private Life2019 Noah Baumbach Marriage StoryAri Aster MidsommarJimmie Fails, Joe Talbot and Robert Richert The Last Black Man in San FranciscoTarell Alvin McCraney High Flying BirdLulu Wang The Farewell

2020s YearScreenwriter(s)Film 2020 Radha Blank The Forty-Year-Old VersionDan Sallitt Fourteen Mike Makowsky Bad Education James Montague and Craig W. Sander The Vast of Night Jon Raymond and Kelly Reichardt First Cow2021Maggie Gyllenhaal The Lost DaughterSean Baker and Chris Bergoch Red RocketRebecca Hall PassingDavid Lowery The Green KnightPaul Schrader The Card CounterAmalia Ulman El Planeta2022Todd Field TárLena Dunham Catherine Called BirdyJames Gray Armageddon TimeKogonada After YangSarah Polley Women Talking2023Justine Triet and Arthur HarariAnatomy of a Fall Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik May DecemberJonathan Glazer The Zone of InterestAndrew Haigh All of Us StrangersCristian Mungiu R.M.N.2024Azazel JacobsHis Three DaughtersAnnie Baker Janet PlanetSam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping FemmeRyusuke Hamaguchi Evil Does Not ExistNathan Silver and C. Mason Wells Between the Temples

See also Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay AACTA International Award for Best Screenplay BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Screenplay Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

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