Casablanca Chosen as Best Screenplay

The association named the top 101 films in history.  Casablanca starred Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.  The story was written by Howard Koch and brothers, Julius and Philip Epstein.  The film won an Oscar in 1944 for Best Picture of the Year.

Other films on the list included The Godfather, written by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola, Chinatown, written by Robert Towne, Citizen Kane, written by Herman Mankiewicz and Orson Welles, and All About Eve, written by Joseph Mankiewicz.

The 101 top screenplays were chosen from a previously selected 1,400 films.