The Academy Award for Best Story was the Academy Award that was the predecessor to the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay which was introduced in 1940.
1928 Underworld - Ben Hecht
- The Last Command - Lajos Biro
- The Patent Leather Kid - Rupert Hughes
1930 None given
1931 The Dawn Patrol - John Saunders
- Doorway to Hell - Rowland Brown
- Laughter - Harry D'Arrast, Douglas Doty, Donald Stewart
- The Public Enemy - John Bright, Kubec Glasmon
- Smart Money - Lucien Hubbard, Joseph Jackson
- Lady and Gent - Grover Jones, William McNutt
- Star Witness - Lucien Hubbard
- What Price Hollywood - Adela St. John
- The Prizefighter and the Lady - Frances Marion
- Rasputin and the Empress - Charles MacArthur
- Hide Out - Mauri Grashin
- The Richest Girl in the World - Norman Krasna
- Broadway Melody of 1936 - Moss Hart
- The Gay Deception - Stephen Avery, Don Hartman
- Fury - Norman Krasna
- The Great Ziegfield - William McGuire
- San Francisco - Robert Hopkins
- Three Smart Girls - Adele Commandini
- Black Legion - Robert Lord
- In Old Chicago - Niven Busch
- The Life of Emile Zola - Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg
- One Hundred Men and a Girl - Hans Kraly
- Alexander's Ragtime Band - Irving Berlin
- Angels with Dirty Faces - Rowland Brown
- Blockade - John Lawson
- Mad About Music - Marcella Burke, Frederick Kohner
- Test Pilot - Frank Wead
- Bachelor Mother - Felix Jackson
- Love Affair - Mildred Cram, Leo McCarey
- Ninotchka - Melchior Lengyel
- Young Mr. Lincoln - Lamar Trotti
- Comrade X - Walter Reisch
- Edison, The Man - Hugo Butler, Dore Schary
- My Favorite Wife - Leo McCarey, Bella Spewack, Samuel Spewack
- The Westerner - Stuart Lake
- Ball of Fire - Thomas Monroe, Billy Wilder
- The Lady Eve - Monckton Hoffe
- Meet John Doe - Richard Connell, Robert Presnell
- Night Train to Munich - Gordon Wellesley
- Holiday Inn - Irving Berlin
- The Pride of the Yankees - Paul Gallico
- The Talk of the Town - Sidney Harmon
- Yankee Doodle Dandy - Robert Buckner
- Action in the North Atlantic - Guy Gilpatric
- Destination Tokyo - Steve Fisher
- The More the Merrier - Frank Ross, Robert Russell
- Shadow of a Doubt - Gordon McDonell
- A Guy Named Joe - David Boehm, Chandler Sprague
- Lifeboat - John Steinbeck
- None Shall Escape - Alfred Neumann, Joseph Than
- The Sullivans - Edward Doherty, Jules Schermer
- The Affairs of Susan - Laszlo Gorog, Thomas Monroe
- A Medal for Benny - John Steinbeck, Jack Wagner
- Objective, Burma - Alvah Bessie
- A Song to Remember - Ernst Marischka
- The Dark Mirror - Vladimir Pozner
- The Strange Love of Martha Ivers -Jack Patrick
- The Stranger ? Victor Trivas
- To Each His Own -Charles Brackett
- A Cage of Nightingales - Georges Chaperot, Rene Wheeler
- It Happened on Fifth Avenue - Herbert Lewis, Frederick Stephani
- Kiss of Death - Eleazar Lipsky
- Smash Up - The Story of a Woman - Frank Cavett, Dorothy Parker
- The Louisiana Story ? Robert Flaherty, Francis Flaherty
- the Naked City - Marvin Wald
- Red River - Borden Chase
- The Red Shoes - Emeric Pressburger
- Come to the Stable ? Clare Luce
- It Happens Every Spring - Valentine Davies, Shirley Smith
- Sands of Iwo Jima - Harry Brown
- White Heat - Virginia Kellog
- Bitter Rice - Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani
- The Gunfighter - William Bowers, Andre de Toth
- Mystery Street - Leonard Spigelglass
- When Willie Comes Marching Home - Sy Gomberg
- The Bullfighter and the Lady - Bud Boetticher, Ray Nazarro
- The Frogmen - Oscar Millard
- Here Comes the Groom - Liam O'Brian, Robert Riskin
- Teresa -Alfred Hayes, Stewart Stern
- My Son John - Leo McCarey
- The Narrow Margin - Martin Goldsmith, Jack Leonard
- The Pride of Saint Louis ? Guy Trosper
- The Sniper - Edward Anhalt, Edna Anhalt
- Above and Beyond - Beirne Lay
- The Captain's Paradise - Alec Coppel
- Hondo - Louis L'Amour
- Little Fugitive - Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin
- Bread, Love and Dreams - Ettore Margadonna
- Forbidden Games - François Boyer
- Night People - Jed Harris, Tom Reed
- There's No Business Like Show Business - Lamar Trotti
- The Private War of Major Benson - Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher
- Rebel Without a Cause - Nicholas Ray
- The Sheep Has Five Legs - Jean Marsan, Jacques Perret, Raoul Ploquin, Henry Troyat, Henri Verneuil
- Strategic Air Command - Beirne Lay
- The Eddie Dutcher Story - Leo Katcher
- High Society - Edward Burnds, Elwood Ullman
- The Proud and the Beautiful - Jean-Paul Sartre
- Umberto D - Cesare Zavattini