Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham and Dan Mazer; story by Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham, Anthony Hines and Todd Phillips
Children of Men, Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby
The Departed, William Monahan
Little Children, Todd Field and Tom Perrotta
Notes on a Scandal, Patrick Marber
Original Screenplay
Babel, Guillermo Arriaga
Letters from Iwo Jima, Iris Yamashita and Paul Haggis