Academy Award For Best Story - 1940s

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