Australian Film Institute Award for Best Screenplay

Best Screenplay (Adapted or Original)
AACTA Award
Best Screenplay (Adapted or Original); AACTA Award
Country	Australia
Presented by	Australian Film Institute (AFI)
First awarded	1979
Last awarded	2007
Website	http://www.aacta.org

The Australian Film Institute Award for Best Screenplay (Original or Adapted) was an award presented intermittently by the Australian Film Institute (AFI), for an Australian screenplay written directly for the screen or based on previously released or published material. It was handed out at the Australian Film Institute Awards (known commonly as the AFI Awards), which are now the AACTA Awards after the establishment of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), by the AFI.^[1] The award was handed out from 1975–1977, 1980–1982, 1990–1992, and again in 2007; two separate awards were created for "Best Adapted Screenplay" and "Best Original Screenplay" and have been presented intermittently from 1978–1979, 1983–1989, 1993–2006, and then from 2008, onwards.^[2] The award was first presented at the 1974-75 awards as a film prize which included a cash reward of $A1000.^[3]

Winners and nominees

In the following table, films and screenwriters listed in bold, and in a blue background have received the special award; those listed in boldface and highlighted in gold are the winners of the competitive awards. Films and screenwriters that are not in boldface or highlighted are the nominees.^[4]

Winner of competitive award

Winner of special award

Year	Film	Screenwriter(s)
1974-75 (17th)	Petersen	David Williamson
1976 (18th)	The Devil's Playground	Fred Schepisi
1976 (18th)	The Trespassers	John Duigan
1976 (18th)	Picnic at Hanging Rock	Cliff Green
1976 (18th)	Caddie	Joan Long
1977 (19th)	Don's Party	David Williamson
1977 (19th)	Storm Boy	Sonia Borg
1977 (19th)	The Fourth Wish	Michael Craig
1977 (19th)	The Picture Show Man	Joan Long
1980 (22nd)	Breaker Morant	Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens and Bruce Beresford
1980 (22nd)	Hard Knocks	Hilton Bonner and Don McLennan
1980 (22nd)	...Maybe This Time	Anne Brooksbank and Bob Ellis
1980 (22nd)	Stir	Bob Jewson
1981 (23rd)	Gallipoli	David Williamson
1981 (23rd)	Hoodwink	Ken Quinnell
1981 (23rd)	The Club	David Williamson
1981 (23rd)	Winter of Our Dreams	John Duigan
1982 (24th)	Goodbye Paradise	Bob Ellis and Denny Lawrence
1982 (24th)	Lonely Hearts	Paul Cox and John Clarke
1982 (24th)	Moving Out	Jan Sardi
1982 (24th)	We of the Never Never	Peter Schreck
1990 (32nd)	The Big Steal	David Parker
1990 (32nd)	Blood Oath	Denis Whitburn and Brian A. Williams
1990 (32nd)	Golden Braid	Paul Cox and Barry Dickins
1990 (32nd)	Struck by Lightning	Trevor Farrant
1991 (33rd)	Proof	Jocelyn Moorhouse
1991 (33rd)	A Woman's Tale	Paul Cox and Barry Dickins
1991 (33rd)	Death in Brunswick	John Ruane and Boyd Oxlade
1991 (33rd)	Spotswood	Max Dann and Andrew Knight
1992 (34th)	Strictly Ballroom	Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce
1992 (34th)	Black Robe	Brian Moore
1992 (34th)	Greenkeeping	David Caesar
1992 (34th)	The Last Days of Chez Nous	Helen Garner
2000 (42nd)	Russian Doll (film)	Stavros Kazantzidis and Allanah Zitserman
2000 (42nd)	Better Than Sex	Jonathan Teplitzky
2000 (42nd)	Me, Myself, I	Pip Karmel
2000 (42nd)	My Mother Frank	Mark Lamprell
2007 (49th)	The Home Song Stories	Tony Ayres
2007 (49th)	Clubland	Keith Thompson
2007 (49th)	Lucky Miles	Helen Barnes and Michael James Rowland
2007 (49th)	Noise	Matthew Saville
2007 (49th)	Romulus, My Father	Nick Drake
2019 (61st)	The Nightingale	Jennifer Kent
2019 (61st)	The King	David Michôd, Joel Edgerton
2019 (61st)	Judy And Punch	Mirrah Foulkes
2019 (61st)	Hotel Mumbai	John Collee, Anthony Maras
2020 (62nd)	Babyteeth	Rita Kalnejais
2020 (62nd)	Little Monsters	Abe Forsythe
2020 (62nd)	The Invisible Man	Leigh Whannell
2020 (62nd)	Relic	Natalie Erika James, Christian White
2020 (62nd)	True History of the Kelly Gang	Shaun Grant

References

^ "AACTA - The Academy". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 15 December 2011.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "AFI Feature Film Award Winners: 1958-2010" (PDF). Australian Film Institute (AFI). 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 March 2012. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
^ Staff (24 March 1975). "Shearer feature gets good clip of 'Oscars'". The Age. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
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Winners and nominees by year:
- 1974-75: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1970-1979 - 1974-75". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
- 1976: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1970-1979 - 1976". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- 1977: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1970-1979 - 1977". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- 1980: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1980-1989 - 1980". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- 1981: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1980-1989 - 1981". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- 1982: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1980-1989 - 1982". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- 1990: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1990-1999 - 1990". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- 1991: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1990-1999 - 1991". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- 1992: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1990-1999 - 1992". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- 2000: "AACTA - Past Winners - 2000-2010 - 2000". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- 2007: "AACTA - Past Winners - 2000-2010 - 2007". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.

External links

[academyoverview-1] "AACTA - The Academy". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 15 December 2011.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[afipast-2] "AFI Feature Film Award Winners: 1958-2010" (PDF). Australian Film Institute (AFI). 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 March 2012. Retrieved 4 January 2012.

[theage-3] Staff (24 March 1975). "Shearer feature gets good clip of 'Oscars'". The Age. Retrieved 25 August 2011.

[Winners-4] Winners and nominees by year:
1974-75: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1970-1979 - 1974-75". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

1976: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1970-1979 - 1976". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.

1977: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1970-1979 - 1977". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.

1980: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1980-1989 - 1980". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.

1981: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1980-1989 - 1981". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.

1982: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1980-1989 - 1982". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.

1990: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1990-1999 - 1990". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.

1991: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1990-1999 - 1991". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.

1992: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1990-1999 - 1992". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.

2000: "AACTA - Past Winners - 2000-2010 - 2000". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.

2007: "AACTA - Past Winners - 2000-2010 - 2007". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.

[5] 1974-75: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1970-1979 - 1974-75". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[6] 1976: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1970-1979 - 1976". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.

[7] 1977: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1970-1979 - 1977". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.

[8] 1980: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1980-1989 - 1980". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.

[9] 1981: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1980-1989 - 1981". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.

[10] 1982: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1980-1989 - 1982". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.

[11] 1990: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1990-1999 - 1990". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.

[12] 1991: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1990-1999 - 1991". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.

[13] 1992: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1990-1999 - 1992". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.

[14] 2000: "AACTA - Past Winners - 2000-2010 - 2000". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.

[15] 2007: "AACTA - Past Winners - 2000-2010 - 2007". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.

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