Talk:Academy Award for Best Story

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The text says that the award was the predecessor to Best Original Screenplay, and that award was introduced in 1940, but this Story award continued to be given at least into the 50's. It would be nice if there were some commentary on the relationship between the two awards while they coexisted and why this one was ultimately killed off.


 * I agree more commentary is needed. It initially seems that the "Best Story" award was discontinued because it was virtually the same thing as "Best Original Screenplay", but there must have been subtle differences which need explanation. It puzzles me because in 1937 the 1936 film "The Story Of Louis Pasteur" won "Best Story" (regarded as the "Original Screenplay" award) but also won "Best Screenplay" (its name at the time, and now regarded by most sources as an "Adapted Screenplay" award). That was in the decade when there were just two writing awards. Then compare that to the "triple award" years of 1940-1956, when in 1950 for example the 1949 films "The Stratton Story" won "Best Writing (Motion Picture Story)", "A Letter To Three Wives" won "Best Writing (Screenplay)" and "Battleground" won "Best Writing (Story and Screenplay)". This suggests that the "Best Story" award was actually discontinued because by the time of its final years it distinctly overlapped both original and adapted qualifications in some way, and probably caused as much confusion then as now! Pete Hobbs (talk) 23:43, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

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