Original Screenplay
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (Burn After Reading)
Dustin Lance Black (Milk)
Woody Allen (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
Tom McCarthy (The Visitor)
Robert Siegel (The Wrestler)
Adapted Screenplay
Eric Roth (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight)
John Patrick Shanley (Doubt)
Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon)
Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire)