Editing Academy Award for Best Story (section)

===1930s===
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! width="35%" | Film
! width="60%" | Nominees
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''[[1930 in film|1930]]–[[1931 in film|1931]]'''<br /><small>[[4th Academy Awards|(4th)]]</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|'''''[[The Dawn Patrol (1930 film)|The Dawn Patrol]]'''''
|'''[[John Monk Saunders]]'''
|-
| ''[[Doorway to Hell]]''
| [[Rowland Brown]]
|-
| ''[[Laughter (1930 film)|Laughter]]''
| [[Harry D'Arrast|Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast]], [[Douglas Z. Doty|Douglas Doty]], [[Donald Ogden Stewart]]
|-
| ''[[The Public Enemy]]''
| [[John Bright (screenwriter)|John Bright]], [[Kubec Glasmon]]
|-
| ''[[Smart Money (1931 film)|Smart Money]]''
| [[Lucien Hubbard]], [[Joseph Jackson (screenwriter)|Joseph Jackson]]
|-
| rowspan=5 style="text-align:center" | '''[[1931 in film|1931]]–[[1932 in film|1932]]'''<br /><small>[[5th Academy Awards|(5th)]]</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|'''''[[The Champ (1931 film)|The Champ]]'''''
|'''[[Frances Marion]]'''
|-
| ''[[Lady and Gent]]''
| [[Grover Jones]], [[William Slavens McNutt]]
|-
| ''[[The Star Witness]]''
| [[Lucien Hubbard]]
|-
| ''[[What Price Hollywood?]]''
| [[Adela Rogers St. Johns]], [[Jane Murfin]]
|-
| rowspan=4 style="text-align:center" | '''[[1932 in film|1932]]–[[1933 in film|1933]]'''<br /><small>[[6th Academy Awards|(6th)]]</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|'''''[[One Way Passage]]'''''
|'''[[Robert Lord (screenwriter)|Robert Lord]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Prizefighter and the Lady]]''
| [[Frances Marion]]
|-
| ''[[Rasputin and the Empress]]''
| [[Charles MacArthur]]
|-
| rowspan=4 style="text-align:center" | '''[[1934 in film|1934]]'''<br /><small>[[7th Academy Awards|(7th)]]</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|'''''[[Manhattan Melodrama]]'''''
|'''[[Arthur Caesar]]'''
|-
| ''[[Hide-Out]]''
| Mauri Grashin
|-
| ''[[The Richest Girl in the World (1934 film)|The Richest Girl in the World]]''
| [[Norman Krasna]]
|-
| rowspan=4 style="text-align:center" | '''[[1935 in film|1935]]'''<br /><small>[[8th Academy Awards|(8th)]]</small><br />{{Efn|''[[G Men]]'', story by Gregory Rogers (a pseudonym of [[Darryl F. Zanuck]]), was not officially nominated for this award, but appears in Academy records because it placed second in voting as a write-in candidate in 1935.}}
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|'''''[[The Scoundrel (1935 film)|The Scoundrel]]'''''
|'''[[Ben Hecht]], [[Charles MacArthur]]'''
|-
| ''[[Broadway Melody of 1936]]''
| [[Moss Hart]]
|-
| ''[[The Gay Deception]]''
| [[Stephen Morehouse Avery]], [[Don Hartman]]
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''[[1936 in film|1936]]'''<br /><small>[[9th Academy Awards|(9th)]]</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|'''''[[The Story of Louis Pasteur]]'''''
|'''[[Pierre Collings]], [[Sheridan Gibney]]'''
|-
| ''[[Fury (1936 film)|Fury]]''
| [[Norman Krasna]]
|-
| ''[[The Great Ziegfeld]]''
| [[William Anthony McGuire]]
|-
| ''[[San Francisco (1936 film)|San Francisco]]''
| [[Robert Hopkins (screenwriter)|Robert Hopkins]]
|-
| ''[[Three Smart Girls]]''
| [[Adele Comandini]]
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''[[1937 in film|1937]]'''<br /><small>[[10th Academy Awards|(10th)]]</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|'''''[[A Star Is Born (1937 film)|A Star Is Born]]'''''
|'''[[Robert Carson (writer)|Robert Carson]], [[William A. Wellman|William Wellman]]'''
|-
| ''[[Black Legion (film)|Black Legion]]''
| [[Robert Lord (screenwriter)|Robert Lord]]
|-
| ''[[In Old Chicago]]''
| [[Niven Busch]]
|-
| ''[[The Life of Emile Zola]]''
| Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg
|-
| ''[[One Hundred Men and a Girl]]''
| [[Hans Kraly]]
|-
| rowspan=7 style="text-align:center" | '''[[1938 in film|1938]]'''<br /><small>[[11th Academy Awards|(11th)]]</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|'''''[[Boys Town (film)|Boys Town]]'''''
|'''[[Eleanore Griffin]], [[Dore Schary]]'''
|-
| ''[[Alexander's Ragtime Band (film)|Alexander's Ragtime Band]]''
| [[Irving Berlin]]
|-
| ''[[Angels with Dirty Faces]]''
| [[Rowland Brown]]
|-
| ''[[Blockade (1938 film)|Blockade]]''
| [[John Howard Lawson]]
|-
| ''[[Mad About Music]]''
| Marcella Burke, [[Frederick Kohner]]
|-
| ''[[Test Pilot (film)|Test Pilot]]''
| [[Frank Wead]]
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''[[1939 in film|1939]]'''<br /><small>[[12th Academy Awards|(12th)]]</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|'''''[[Mr. Smith Goes to Washington]]'''''
|'''[[Lewis R. Foster]]'''
|-
| ''[[Bachelor Mother]]''
| [[Felix Jackson]]
|-
| ''[[Love Affair (1939 film)|Love Affair]]''
| [[Mildred Cram]], [[Leo McCarey]]
|-
| ''[[Ninotchka]]''
| [[Melchior Lengyel]]
|-
| ''[[Young Mr. Lincoln]]''
| [[Lamar Trotti]]
|-
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