

īong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won became the first Asian writers to win either Screenplay award, for 2019's Parasite. Jordan Peele became the first and only African-American to win in this category for 2017's Get Out. Maurice Richlin and Stanley Shapiro were nominated in 1959 for both Operation Petticoat and Pillow Talk and won for the latter. Oliver Stone achieved the same distinction in 1986, for Platoon and Salvador. Preston Sturges was nominated for two different films in the same year (1944): Hail the Conquering Hero and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. Francis Ford Coppola ( Patton, 1970) and Sofia Coppola ( Lost in Translation, 2003) are the only father-daughter pair to win. In 1996, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen became the only siblings to win in this category (for Fargo). Wallace and Pamela Wallace ( Witness) are the others. The Boxes are also the first of two married couples to win in this category Earl W.

Muriel Box ( The Seventh Veil) was the first woman to win in this category she shared the award with her husband, Sydney Box. Lamorisse is additionally the only person to win or even be nominated for Best Original Screenplay for a short film ( The Red Balloon, 1956). Other winners for a non-English screenplay include Albert Lamorisse, Pietro Germi, Claude Lelouch, Pedro Almodóvar, Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won. Richard Schweizer was the first to win for a foreign-language film, Marie-Louise. Ben Affleck is the youngest winner (25) for Good Will Hunting, co-written with Matt Damon (27).

Woody Allen also holds the record as the oldest winner (76) for Midnight in Paris. Marshman Jr., and The Apartment, shared with I. Paddy Chayefsky and Billy Wilder have also won three screenwriting Oscars: Chayefsky won two for Original Screenplay ( The Hospital and Network) and one for Adapted Screenplay ( Marty), while Wilder won one for Adapted Screenplay ( The Lost Weekend, shared with Charles Brackett), and two for Original Screenplay ( Sunset Boulevard, shared with Brackett and D.M. Woody Allen has the most nominations in this category with 16, and the most awards with 3 (for Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, and Midnight in Paris).
