British film industry award
The BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to a screenwriter for a specific film.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, children's film and television, and interactive media. Since 1983, selected films have been awarded with the BAFTA award for Best Adapted Screenplay at an annual ceremony.
In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the remaining nominees. The winner is also the first name listed in each category.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award for Best Original Screenplay has been presented to its winners since 1984, when the original category (BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay ) was split into two awards, the other being the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay.
Woody Allen holds the record for the most wins with four awards.
Winners and nominees [ edit ]
indicates the winner
Year
Film
Screenwriter(s)
The King's Speech
David Seidler
Black Swan
Mark Heyman andres Heinz and John McLaughlin
The Fighter
Scott Silver , Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson
Inception
Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right
Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg
The Artist
Michel Hazanavicius
Bridesmaids
Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo
The Guard
John Michael McDonagh
The Iron Lady
Abi Morgan
Midnight in Paris
Woody Allen
Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino
Amour
Michael Haneke
The Master
Paul Thomas Anderson
Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
Zero Dark Thirty
Mark Boal
American Hustle
Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
Blue Jasmine
Woody Allen
Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón
Inside Llewyn Davis
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Nebraska
Bob Nelson
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu , Nicolás Giacobone , Alexander Dinelaris Jr. and Armando Bo
Boyhood
Richard Linklater
Nightcrawler
Dan Gilroy
Whiplash
Damien Chazelle
Spotlight
Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer
Bridge of Spies
Matt Charman , Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Ex Machina
Alex Garland
The Hateful Eight
Quentin Tarantino
Inside Out
Pete Docter , Josh Cooley and Meg LeFauve
Manchester by the Sea
Kenneth Lonergan
Hell or High Water
Taylor Sheridan
I, Daniel Blake
Paul Laverty
La La Land
Damien Chazelle
Moonlight
Barry Jenkins
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Martin McDonagh
Get Out
Jordan Peele
I, Tonya
Steven Rogers
Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig
The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor
The Favourite
Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara
Cold War
Paweł Pawlikowski and Janusz Głowacki
Green Book
Nick Vallelonga , Brian Hayes Currie and Peter Farrelly
Roma
Alfonso Cuarón
Vice
Adam McKay
Parasite
Han Jin Won and Bong Joon-ho
Booksmart
Susanna Fogel , Emily Halpern , Sarah Haskins and Katie Silberman
Marriage Story
Noah Baumbach
Knives Out
Rian Johnson
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino
Multiple wins and nominations [ edit ]
Multiple nominations [ edit ]
^ BAFTA Awards
^ 1985 Film Original Screenplay|BAFTA Awards
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