Editing Academy Award for Best Story (section)

===1950s===
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''[[1950 in film|1950]]'''<br /><small>[[23rd Academy Awards|(23rd)]]</small>
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|'''''[[Panic in the Streets (film)|Panic in the Streets]]'''''
|'''[[Edna Anhalt]], [[Edward Anhalt]]'''
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| ''[[Bitter Rice]]''
| [[Giuseppe De Santis]], [[Carlo Lizzani]]
|-
| ''[[The Gunfighter]]''
| [[William Bowers]], [[André de Toth]]
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| ''[[Mystery Street]]''
| [[Leonard Spigelgass]]
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| ''[[When Willie Comes Marching Home]]''
| [[Sy Gomberg]]
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| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''[[1951 in film|1951]]'''<br /><small>[[24th Academy Awards|(24th)]]</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|'''''[[Seven Days to Noon]]'''''
|'''[[James Bernard (composer)|James Bernard]], [[Paul Dehn]]'''<ref name=oscar-seven-days >{{cite web |title=WRITING (MOTION PICTURE STORY) |work=THE 24TH ACADEMY AWARDS – 1952 |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1952 |date=March 20, 1952 |publisher=[[The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date= October 21, 2014}}</ref>
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| ''[[Bullfighter and the Lady]]''
| [[Budd Boetticher]], [[Ray Nazarro]]
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| ''[[The Frogmen]]''
| [[Oscar Millard]]
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| ''[[Here Comes the Groom (1951 film)|Here Comes the Groom]]''
| [[Liam O'Brien (screenwriter)|Liam O'Brien]], [[Robert Riskin]]
|-
| ''[[Teresa (1951 film)|Teresa]]''
| [[Alfred Hayes (writer)|Alfred Hayes]], [[Stewart Stern]]
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''[[1952 in film|1952]]'''<br /><small>[[25th Academy Awards|(25th)]]</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|'''''[[The Greatest Show on Earth (film)|The Greatest Show on Earth]]'''''
|'''[[Frank Cavett]], [[Fredric M. Frank]], [[Theodore St. John]]'''
|-
|''[[My Son John]]''
| [[Leo McCarey]]
|-
|''[[The Narrow Margin]]''
| [[Martin Goldsmith (screenwriter)|Martin Goldsmith]], Jack Leonard
|-
|''[[The Pride of St. Louis]]''
| [[Guy Trosper]]
|-
|''[[The Sniper (1952 film)|The Sniper]]''
| [[Edward Anhalt]], [[Edna Anhalt]]
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''[[1953 in film|1953]]'''<br /><small>[[26th Academy Awards|(26th)]]</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|'''''[[Roman Holiday]]'''''
|'''[[Dalton Trumbo]]'''{{efn|The screen credit and award was originally credited to [[Ian McLellan Hunter]], who was a front for Trumbo. On December 15, 1992, the Board of Governors voted to retroactively attribute the award to Trumbo. Hunter's name was removed. Although Trumbo had died some years earlier, he had been alive in 1954 and this is not considered a [[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|posthumous award]].}}
|-
|''[[Above and Beyond (1952 film)|Above and Beyond]]''
| [[Beirne Lay, Jr.]]
|-
|''[[The Captain's Paradise]]''
| [[Alec Coppel]]
|-
|''[[Hondo (film)|Hondo]]''
| [[Louis L'Amour]]{{efn|Originally announced on February 15, 1954, as a nominee in this category. On February 17, 1954, letters from the producer and nominee questioned its inclusion in the category, as it was based on the short story, "The Gift of Cochise", by the nominee, Mr. L'Amour, published in [[Collier's magazine|''Collier's'' magazine]] on July 5, 1952. By waiver, the title of the short story was not included in the film's credits. The nomination was withdrawn, and only four nominees were included on the final ballot. The Academy thanked Mr. L'Amour and despite this incident, offered him a membership in the Academy.}}
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|''[[Little Fugitive (1953 film)|Little Fugitive]]''
| [[Ray Ashley]], [[Morris Engel]], [[Ruth Orkin]]
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''[[1954 in film|1954]]'''<br /><small>[[27th Academy Awards|(27th)]]</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|'''''[[Broken Lance]]'''''
|'''[[Philip Yordan]]'''
|-
|''[[Bread, Love and Dreams]]'' (Italian: ''Pane, amore e fantasia'')
| [[Ettore Margadonna]]
|-
|''[[Forbidden Games]]'' (French: ''Jeux interdits'')
| [[François Boyer]]
|-
|''[[Night People (1954 film)|Night People]]''
| [[Jed Harris]], [[Tom Reed (screenwriter)|Tom Reed]]
|-
|''[[There's No Business Like Show Business (film)|There's No Business Like Show Business]]''
| [[Lamar Trotti]] ([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|posthumous nomination]])
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''[[1955 in film|1955]]'''<br /><small>[[28th Academy Awards|(28th)]]</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|'''''[[Love Me or Leave Me (film)|Love Me or Leave Me]]'''''
|'''[[Daniel Fuchs]]'''
|-
|''[[The Private War of Major Benson]]''
| [[Joe Connelly (producer)|Joe Connelly]], [[Bob Mosher]]
|-
|''[[Rebel Without a Cause]]''
| [[Nicholas Ray]]
|-
|''[[The Sheep Has Five Legs]]'' (French: ''Le Mouton à cinq pattes'')
| [[Jean Marsan]], [[Henri Troyat]], [[Jacques Perret (writer)|Jacques Perret]], [[Henri Verneuil]], [[Raoul Ploquin]]
|-
|''[[Strategic Air Command (film)|Strategic Air Command]]''
| [[Beirne Lay, Jr.]]
|-
| rowspan=6 style="text-align:center" | '''[[1956 in film|1956]]'''<br /><small>[[29th Academy Awards|(29th)]]</small>
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
|'''''[[The Brave One (1956 film)|The Brave One]]'''''
|'''[[Dalton Trumbo]]'''{{efn|The name of the writer credited with authorship, Robert Rich, turned out to be an alias for Trumbo, who was being blacklisted at that time. On May 2, 1975, then-Academy president [[Walter Mirisch]] presented the Award to Trumbo.}}
|-
|''[[The Eddy Duchin Story]]''
| [[Leo Katcher]]
|-
|''[[High Society (1955 film)|High Society]]''
| [[Edward Bernds]], [[Elwood Ullman]]{{Efn|The authors of this [[The Bowery Boys|Bowery Boys]] film respectfully withdrew their own names and the nomination. They were aware that voters had probably mistaken their film with the 1956 [[High Society (1956 film)|MGM musical of the same name]] starring [[Bing Crosby]], [[Grace Kelly]] and [[Frank Sinatra]] which was based on ''[[The Philadelphia Story (film)|The Philadelphia Story]]''. This nomination was not included on the final ballot.}}
|-
|''[[The Proud and the Beautiful]]'' (French: ''Les Orgueilleux'')
| [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]
|-
|''[[Umberto D.]]''
| [[Cesare Zavattini]]
|}