Top Tier Contenders
- 1 Before Midnight - Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
- 2 The Monuments Men – George Clooney, Grant Heslov
- 3 The Wolf of Wall Street – Terence Winter
- 4 August: Osage County – Tracy Letts
- 5 Foxcatcher - Dan Futterman, E. Max Frye
- 6 12 Years a Slave – John Ridley, Steve McQueen
- 7 A Most Wanted Man – Andrew Bovell
- 8 Serena – Christopher Kyle
- 9 The Butler - Lee Daniels, Danny Strong
- 10 The Fifth Estate - Josh Singer
- 11 Her - Spike Jonze
- 12 The Two Faces of January - Hossein Amini
- 13 Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom – William Nicholson
- 14 Malavita – Luc Besson
- 15 Labor Day - Jason Reitman
- 16 Frozen - Jennifer Lee, Shane Morris
- 17 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - Steve Conrad, James Thurber
- 18 The Railway Man - Frank Cottrell Boyce, Andy Paterson
- 19 The Spectacular Now - Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber
- 20 Much Ado About Nothing – Joss Whedon
Also In Contention
- 21 Oldboy - Mark Protosevich
- 22 Winter’s Tale - Akiva Goldsman
- 23 A Long Way Down - Jack Thorne
- 24 Paranoia - Jason Dean Hall, Barry Levy
- 25 Mood Indigo - Luc Bossi
- 26 Devil’s Knot - Paul Harris Boardman, Scott Derrickson
- 27 The Seventh Son – Max Borenstein, Matt Greenberg, Charles Leavitt, Alili Sinan
- 28 The Iceman - Morgan Land, Ariel Vromen
- 29 The World Made Straight - Shane Danielsen
- 30 Jack Ryan – Adam Cozad, David Koepp, Anthony Peckham, Steven Zaillian
- 31 Black Nativity – Kasi Lemmons
- 32 Ender’s Game – Gavin Hood
- 33 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Phillippa Boyens, Guillermo del Toro
- 34 Star Trek Into Darkness - Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtsman, Damon Lindelof
- 35 Romeo and Juliet - Julian Fellowes
- 36 Monsters University - Unknown
- 37 Despicable Me 2 – Ken Daurio, Cinco Paul
- 38 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 - John Francis Daley, Jonathan M. Goldstein
- 39 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Simon Beaufoy, Michael Arndt
- 40 The Great Gatsby – Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce
