Editing Academy Award for Best Story (section)

===1940s===
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
|- bgcolor="#bebebe"
! width="5%" | Year
! width="35%" | Film
! width="60%" | Nominees
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''[[1940 in film|1940]]'''<br /><small>[[13th Academy Awards|(13th)]]</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|'''''[[Arise, My Love]]'''''
|'''[[Benjamin Glazer]], [[John Toldy]]'''
|-
| ''[[Comrade X]]''
| [[Walter Reisch]]
|-
| ''[[Edison, the Man]]''
| [[Hugo Butler]], [[Dore Schary]]
|-
| ''[[My Favorite Wife]]''
| [[Leo McCarey]], [[Samuel and Bella Spewack|Samuel Spewack and Bella Spewack]]
|-
| ''[[The Westerner (1940 film)|The Westerner]]''
| [[Stuart N. Lake]]
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''[[1941 in film|1941]]'''<br /><small>[[14th Academy Awards|(14th)]]</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|'''''[[Here Comes Mr. Jordan]]'''''
|'''[[Harry Segall]]'''
|-
| ''[[Ball of Fire]]''
| [[Thomas Monroe (writer)|Thomas Monroe]], [[Billy Wilder]]
|-
| ''[[The Lady Eve]]''
| [[Monckton Hoffe]]
|-
| ''[[Meet John Doe]]''
| [[Richard Connell]], [[Robert Presnell, Jr.]]
|-
| ''[[Night Train to Munich]]''
| [[Gordon Wellesley]]
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''[[1942 in film|1942]]'''<br /><small>[[15th Academy Awards|(15th)]]</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|'''''[[49th Parallel (film)|49th Parallel]]'''''
|'''[[Emeric Pressburger]]'''
|-
|''[[Holiday Inn (film)|Holiday Inn]]''
| [[Irving Berlin]]
|-
|''[[The Pride of the Yankees]]''
| [[Paul Gallico]]
|-
|''[[The Talk of the Town (1942 film)|The Talk of the Town]]''
| [[Sidney Harmon]]
|-
|''[[Yankee Doodle Dandy]]''
| [[Robert Buckner]]
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''[[1943 in film|1943]]'''<br /><small>[[16th Academy Awards|(16th)]]</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|'''''[[The Human Comedy (film)|The Human Comedy]]'''''
|'''[[William Saroyan]]'''
|-
|''[[Action in the North Atlantic]]''
| [[Guy Gilpatric]]
|-
|''[[Destination Tokyo]]''
| [[Steve Fisher (writer)|Steve Fisher]]
|-
|''[[The More the Merrier]]''
| [[Frank Ross (producer)|Frank Ross]], [[Robert W. Russell|Robert Russell]]
|-
|''[[Shadow of a Doubt]]''
| Gordon McDonell
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''[[1944 in film|1944]]'''<br /><small>[[17th Academy Awards|(17th)]]</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|'''''[[Going My Way]]'''''
|'''[[Leo McCarey]]'''
|-
|''[[A Guy Named Joe]]''
| [[David Boehm]], Chandler Sprague
|-
|''[[Lifeboat (1944 film)|Lifeboat]]''
| [[John Steinbeck]]
|-
|''[[None Shall Escape]]''
| [[Alfred Neumann (writer)|Alfred Neumann]], Joseph Than
|-
|''[[The Fighting Sullivans|The Sullivans]]''
| [[Eddie Doherty|Edward Doherty]], Jules Schermer
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''[[1945 in film|1945]]'''<br /><small>[[18th Academy Awards|(18th)]]</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|'''''[[The House on 92nd Street]]'''''
|'''[[Charles G. Booth]]'''
|-
|''[[The Affairs of Susan]]''
| [[László Görög (writer)|László Görög]], [[Thomas Monroe (writer)|Thomas Monroe]]
|-
|''[[A Medal for Benny]]''
| [[John Steinbeck]], [[Jack Wagner (screenwriter)|Jack Wagner]]
|-
|''[[Objective, Burma!]]''
| [[Alvah Bessie]]
|-
|''[[A Song to Remember]]''
| [[Ernst Marischka]]
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''[[1946 in film|1946]]'''<br /><small>[[19th Academy Awards|(19th)]]</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|'''''[[Perfect Strangers (1945 film)|Vacation from Marriage]]'''''
|'''[[Clemence Dane]]'''
|-
|''[[The Dark Mirror (1946 film)|The Dark Mirror]]''
| [[Vladimir Solomonovich Pozner]]
|-
|''[[The Strange Love of Martha Ivers]]''
| [[John Patrick (dramatist)|Jack Patrick]]
|-
|''[[The Stranger (1946 film)|The Stranger]]''
| [[Victor Trivas]]
|-
|''[[To Each His Own (1946 film)|To Each His Own]]''
| [[Charles Brackett]]
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''[[1947 in film|1947]]'''<br /><small>[[20th Academy Awards|(20th)]]</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|'''''[[Miracle on 34th Street]]'''''
|'''[[Valentine Davies]]'''
|-
|''[[A Cage of Nightingales]]'' (French: ''La Cage aux rossignols'')
| [[Georges Chaperot]], [[René Wheeler]]
|-
|''[[It Happened on Fifth Avenue]]''
| [[Herbert Clyde Lewis]], [[Frederick Stephani]]
|-
|''[[Kiss of Death (1947 film)|Kiss of Death]]''
| [[Eleazar Lipsky]]
|-
|''[[Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman]]''
| [[Frank Cavett]], [[Dorothy Parker]]
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''[[1948 in film|1948]]'''<br /><small>[[21st Academy Awards|(21st)]]</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|'''''[[The Search]]'''''
|'''[[Richard Schweizer]], {{ill|David Wechsler (writer)|de|3=David Wechsler (Autor)|lt=David Wechsler}}'''
|-
|''[[Louisiana Story]]'' 
|[[Robert J. Flaherty]], [[Frances H. Flaherty]]
|-
|''[[The Naked City]]''
| [[Malvin Wald]]
|-
|''[[Red River (1948 film)|Red River]]''
| [[Borden Chase]]
|-
|''[[The Red Shoes (1948 film)|The Red Shoes]]''
| [[Emeric Pressburger]]
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''[[1949 in film|1949]]'''<br /><small>[[22nd Academy Awards|(22nd)]]</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|'''''[[The Stratton Story]]'''''
|'''[[Douglas Morrow]]'''
|-
|''[[Come to the Stable]]''
| [[Clare Boothe Luce]]
|-
|''[[It Happens Every Spring]]''
| [[Valentine Davies]], Shirley Smith
|-
|''[[Sands of Iwo Jima]]''
| [[Harry Brown (writer)|Harry Brown]]
|-
|''[[White Heat]]''
| [[Virginia Kellogg]]
|}