Here's mine:

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

Years in which I've seen all of the nominees:

2006 - "Notes on a Scandal"

2002 - "The Pianist"

2001 - "Ghost World"

Years in which I've seen 4/5 nominees:

2005 - "The Constant Gardener"
Missing Link - "Brokeback Mountain"

2000 - "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"
Missing Link - "Traffic"

Years in which I've seen 3/5 nominees:

2007 - "No Country for Old Men"
Missing Links - "Away from Her" & "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"

2003 - "American Splendor"
Missing Links - "City of God" & "Mystic River"

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

Years in which I've seen all of the nominees:

2006 - "Babel" or "Letters from Iwo Jima"

2004 - "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"

1999 - "American Beauty"

Years in which I've seen 4/5 nominees:

2001 - "Amelie"
Missing Link - "Monster's Ball"

Years in which I've seen 3/5 nominees:

2005 - "Good Night, and Good Luck"
Missing Links - "Match Point" & "Syriana"

2000 - "Almost Famous"
Missing Links - "Gladiator" & "You Can Count on Me"

1997 - "Good Will Hunting"
Missing Links - "Deconstructing Harry" & "The Full Monty"

1995 - "Toy Story"
Missing Links - "Nixon" & "The Usual Suspects"

1994 - "Heavenly Creatures"
Missing Links - "Four Weddings and a Funeral" & "Red"

Random thoughts: Looking through the backlog of writing nominees, it is pretty surprising what was nominated - "Beverly Hills Cop", "Splash", "WarGames"? O-kay...

Original Screenplay
2000: Almost Famous - Cameron Crowe
2001: Memento - Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan
2002: Far from Heaven - Todd Haynes
2003: Lost in Translation - Sofia Coppola
2004: The Incredibles - Brad Bird
2005: Crash - Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco
2006: Little Miss Sunshine - Michael Arndt
2007: Juno - Diablo Cody

Adapted Screenplay
2000: Traffic - Stephen Gaghan from the teleplay Traffik by Simon Moore
2001: Beautiful Mind - Akiva Goldsman from the biography by Sylvia Nasar
2002: The Pianist - Ronald Harwood from the book by Władysław Szpilman
2003: Mystic River - Brian Helgeland from the novel by Dennis Lehane
2004: Million Dollar Baby - Paul Haggis from Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner by F.X. Toole
2005: Brokeback Mountain - Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana from the short story by E. Annie Proulx
2006: Notes on a Scandal - Patrick Marber from the novel by Zoë Heller
2007: Atonement - Christopher Hampton from the novel by Ian McEwan

I always find the writing categories difficult because I end up being passionate about more than one of the nominee's!

2007
Original - The Savages
Adapted - No Country For Old Men

2006
Original - ARGHHH! Little Miss Sunshine or Letters From Iwo Jima both amazing pieces of writing!
Adapted - Little Children

2005
Original - Crash
Adapted - Brokeback Mountain

2004
Original - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Adapted - Million Dollar Baby

2003
Original - Lost In Translation
Adapted - City of God

2002
Original - Yu Tu Mama Tambien
Adapted - Adaptation

2001
Original - THIS YEAR HAS AMAZING WRITING! Gosford Park/The Royal Tenembaums/Amelie
Adapted - A Beautiful Mind

2000
Adapted - Traffic
Original - Almost Famous

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2001 was a great year. IMO, both "Mulholland Dr." and "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" should've been nominated as well.

I'll have a go at this but I looked over the nominees and it's very difficult for me to choose just one:

2007-
Adapted: All pretty good...The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
Original: Michael Clayton; all great writing save ONE perplexing crap-fest screenplay

2006-
A: A three-way tie with Notes on a Scandal, Children of Men, and Little Children
O: Something wonderful about all the nominees, but I'll say Pan's Labyrinth

2005-
A: All great, but Brokeback Mountain for the win!
O: Syriana

2004-
A: Sideways
O: whoa...ESOTSM; a great line-up

2003-
A: I liked all of these, but I'll say City of God
O: The Barbarian Invasions

2002-
A: Adaptation, with About a Boy and The Pianist close seconds
O: A tie with Talk to Her and Y Tu Mama Tambien

2001-
A: The Lord of The Rings, with Ghost World, In The Bedroom, Shrek close seconds
O: Memento

2000-
A: Wow; I love all of these screenplays...five-way tie
O: hmm; all worthy except for Gladiator

1999-
A: The Talented Mr Ripley
O: gach...all good in such diff ways...

1998-
A: A Simple Plan, with Gods and Monsters close
O: whoa...Shakespeare In Love

1997-
A: Easy, LA Confidential
O: Boogie Nights

1996-
A: Sling Blade
O: Fargo, with props to Secrets and Lies, Shine, and Lone Star

1995-
A: Babe
O: The Usual Suspects

1994-
A: wow...ok, Forrest Gump, cuz he knows what love is
O: Pulp Fiction in what I think was a great year

1993-
A: Schindler's Lost er, List Lol
O: The Piano

1992-
A: The Player
O: The Crying Game, with props to the others

1991-
A: The Silence of the Lambs
O: wow! What a great line-up..Boyz N the Hood

1990-
A: Good Fellas, with The Grifters RU
O: Avalon

1989-
A: Driving Miss Daisy
O: arrgh...Sex, Lies, and Videotape, with kudos also to all of the other nominees

1988-
A: Blech...Gorillas in The Mist, for the gorillas...
O: Running On Empty, but all very good

1987-
A: Full Metal Jacket
O: all good...Broadcast News

1986-
A: Stand By Me
O: Hannah and Her Sisters, with kudos to the others

1985-
A: arrgh...
O: Brazil!

1984-
A: Amadeus, with The Killing Fields and Passage to India very close
O: sheesh....

1983-
A: The Dresser
O: The Big Chill

1982-
A: a great year...Sophie's Choice
O: Tootsie

1981-
A: Ragtime
O: whoa....Reds

1980-
A: Breaker Morant
O: Melvin and Howard, with props to My American Cousin

1979-
A: arrgh...La Cage aux Folles
O: all great!..for the, "you're such a tease" line with Death, All That Jazz

1978-
A: California Suite
O: The Deer Hunter

1977-
A: Julia
O: Annie Hall in a cake walk

1976-
A: All The President's Men, with props to Bound for Glory and Casanova
O: Network in a landslide, with kudos to Seven Beauties

1975-
A: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
O: Amarcord

1974-
A: The Godfather 2
O: Chinatown!; but all actually good

1973-
A: The Exorcist
O: A terrific line-up where I cant pick just one or even two or three

1972-
A: The Godfather
O: The Candidate

1971-
A: A Clockwork Orange! with props to The Last Picture Show
O: Another terrific line-up, but I'll go with Paddy Chayefsky

1970-
A: Lovers and Other Strangers, but all good in wildly diff ways
O: Five Easy Pieces

1969-
A: Arrgh! ties
O: gach!
This year had tons of parity in writing where I could make a case for all ten of these films

1968-
A: The Lion in Winter; The Odd Couple RU
O: 2001: A Space Odyssey (hurrahs to Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke)

1967-
A: five-way tie
O: Bonnie and Clyde

1966-
A: whoa...all great
O: A Man and a Woman

1965-
A: Another great year...Doctor Zivago, with props to A Thousand Clowns
O: Darling; The Umbrellas of Cherbourg RU

1964-
A: Dr. Strangelove!
O: A Hard Day's Night (why not?)

1963-
A: Hud
O: 8 1/2

1962-
A: wow...what a year...
O: Through a Glass Darkly

1961-
A: Judgement at Nuremberg
O: For William Inge and Zohra Lampert, I'll say Splendor in The Grass...

I cant type anymore. I'll probably finish up later.

1960-
A: Inherit the Wind
O: The Apartment

1959-
A: Anatomy of a Murder, with props to three of the other winner/nominees
O: Gach...tie with The 400 Blows and North by Northwest

1958-
A: Great year...Separate Tables
O: The Defiant Ones

1957-
A: The Bridge on The River Kwai, with props to all the other nominees
O: Designing Woman

1956-
A: gach...Giant
O: The Red Balloon in a close one

1955-
Marty,..hmm, have not seen The Sheep Has Five Legs; props also to Blackboard Jungle, East of Eden, and Bad Day at Black Rock

1954-
such a great year; like I said, one of my favorite years...
On the Waterfront, with kudos to Sabrina, Rear Window, and the Caine Mutiny

1953-
Props to Roman Holiday, Shane, Hondo, and From Here to Eternity

1952-
Ditto to The Bad and The Beautiful, Lavender Hill Mob, and esp The Quiet Man

1951-
wow; all great..personal fave, African Queen.

I'll stop just before Sunset Blvd.

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My choices:

1977:
O: Annie Hall
A: Julia

1978:
O: The Deer Hunter
A: California Suite

1979:
O: Manhattan
A: Kramer vs. Kramer

1980:
O: Fame
A: Ordinary People/Coal Miner's Daughter

1981:
O: Reds
A: no choice

1982:
O: ET
A: wow. Sophie's Choice

1983:
O: no choice
A:

1984:
O: Places in the Heart
A: Terms of Endearment

1985:
O: no choice
A: Out of Africa

1986:
O: Hannah and Her Sisters
A: Children fo a Lesser God

1987:
O: Broadcast News
A: Fatal Attraction

1988:
O: Rain Man
A: all good

1989:
O: Sex, Lies and Videotape
A: Driving Miss Daisy

1990:
O: Ghost
A: Goodfellas

1991
O: Thelma and Louise
A: Silence of the Lambs

1992:
O: The Crying Game
A: Howards End

1993:
O: Philadelphia (props to The Piano)
A: Schindler's List

1994:
O: Pulp Fiction
A: The Shwashank Redemption

1995:
O:Mighty Aphrodite
A: Sense and Sensibility

1996:
O: Fargo
A: The English Patient

1997:
O: Boogie Nights
A: LA Confidential

1998:
O: Shakespeare in Love (The Truman Show close second)
A:: Gods and Monsters

1999:
O: American Beauty (BJM second)
A: three way tie

2000:
O: Billy Elliott
A: Wow. Uhm Traffic (CHocolat in 2nd place)

2001:
O: Amelie (Gosford Park second)
A: In the Bedroom

2002:
O: Y Tu Mama Tambien
A: The Hours

2003:
O: Lost in Translation
A: LOTR: ROTK

2004:
O: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless MInd
A: Sideways

2005:
O: Match Point
A: Brokeback Mountain

2006:
O: Little Miss Sunshine
A: Notes on a Scandal

2007:
O: Michael Clayton
A: No Country for Old Men