The British Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay is an annual award given by the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) to recognize the best screenplay in a British independent film. The award was first presented in the 1998 ceremony with Paul Laverty being the first recipient of this award for his work in Ken Loach 's My Name is Joe .
Steven Knight , Armando Iannucci and Simon Blackwell are the only nominees who have received this award more than once with two wins each while Paul Laverty has received the most nominations for this category with six followed by Lynne Ramsay with four.
Winners and nominees [ edit ]
Year
Film
Recipient(s)
2000 (3rd) [ 3]
Billy Elliot
Lee Hall
Gangster No. 1
Johnny Ferguson
Last Resort
Rowan Joffé , Paweł Pawlikowski
Purely Belter
Mark Herman
Saving Grace
Craig Ferguson , Mark Crowdey
2001 (4th) [ 4]
Sexy Beast
Louis Mellis , David Scinto
Bread and Roses
Paul Laverty
The Claim
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Jump Tomorrow
Joel Hopkins
2002 (5th) [ 5] [ 6]
Lawless Heart
Tom Hunsinger, Neil Hunter
Bloody Sunday
Paul Greengrass
Morvern Callar
Lynne Ramsay , Liana Dognini
Sweet Sixteen
Paul Laverty
2003 (6th) [ 7] [ 8]
Dirty Pretty Things
Steven Knight
Buffalo Soldiers
Gregor Jordan , Eric Weiss, Nora Maccoby
Calendar Girls
Tim Firth , Juliette Towhidi
The Magdalene Sisters
Peter Mullan
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
Anders Thomas Jensen , Lone Scherfig
2004 (7th) [ 9]
Shaun of the Dead
Edgar Wright , Simon Pegg
Ae Fond Kiss...
Paul Laverty
Dead Man's Shoes
Paddy Considine , Shane Meadows
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Christopher Markus , Stephen McFeely
Vera Drake
Mike Leigh
2005 (8th) [ 10]
Millions
Frank Cottrell Boyce
A Cock and Bull Story
Martin Hardy
The Constant Gardener
Jeffrey Caine
Kinky Boots
Tim Firth , Geoff Deane
Mrs Henderson Presents
Martin Sherman
2006 (9th) [ 11] [ 12]
The Queen
Peter Morgan
The History Boys
Alan Bennet
The Last King of Scotland
Jeremy Brock , Peter Morgan
This Is England
Shane Meadows
Venus
Hanif Kureishi
2007 (10th) [ 13] [ 14]
Notes on a Scandal
Patrick Marber
And When Did You Last See Your Father?
David Nicholls
Control
Matt Greenhalgh
Eastern Promises
Steven Knight
Hallam Foe
David Mackenzie , Ed Whitmore
2008 (11th) [ 15] [ 16]
In Bruges
Martin McDonagh
Hunger
Enda Walsh , Steve McQueen
Slumdog Millionaire
Simon Beaufoy
Somers Town
Paul Fraser
Son of Rambow
Garth Jennings
2009 (12th) [ 17] [ 18]
In the Loop
Armando Iannucci , Jesse Armstrong , Simon Blackwell , Tony Roche
An Education
Nick Hornby
Fish Tank
Andrea Arnold
Moon
Nathan Parker
Nowhere Boy
Matt Greenhalgh
Year
Film
Recipient(s)
2010 (13th) [ 19] [ 20]
The King's Speech
David Seidler
Four Lions
Jesse Armstrong
Kick-Ass
Jane Goldman
Made in Dagenham
William Ivory
Never Let Me Go
Alex Garland
2011 (14th) [ 21] [ 22]
Submarine
Richard Ayoade
The Guard
John Michael McDonagh
Kill List
Ben Wheatley
Shame
Steve McQueen , Abi Morgan
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Lynne Ramsay , Rory Stewart Kinnear
2012 (15th) [ 23] [ 24]
Sightseers
Alice Lowe , Steve Oram , Amy Jump
Berberian Sound Studio
Peter Strickland
Broken
Mark O'Rowe
The Iron Lady
Abi Morgan
Song for Marion
Paul Andrew Williams
2013 (16th) [ 25] [ 26]
Locke
Steven Knight
Le Week-End
Hanif Kureishi
Philomena
Jeff Pope , Steve Coogan
The Selfish Giant
Clio Barnard
Starred Up
Jonathan Asser
2014 (17th) [ 27] [ 28]
Frank
Jon Ronson , Peter Straughan
'71
Gregory Burke
Calvary
John Michael McDonagh
The Imitation Game
Graham Moore
Pride
Stephen Beresford
2015 (18th) [ 29] [ 30]
Ex Machina
Alex Garland
45 Years
Andrew Haigh
Brooklyn
Nick Hornby
High-Rise
Amy Jump
The Lobster
Yorgos Lanthimos , Efthimis Filippou
2016 (19th) [ 31] [ 32]
Under the Shadow
Babak Anvari
I, Daniel Blake
Paul Laverty
Adult Life Skills
Rachel Tunnard
American Honey
Andrea Arnold
I Am Not a Serial Killer
Christopher Hyde, Billy O'Brien
2017 (20th) [ 33] [ 34]
Lady Macbeth
Alice Birch
The Death of Stalin
Armando Iannucci , David Schneider , Ian Martin
God's Own Country
Francis Lee
I Am Not a Witch
Rungano Nyoni
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Martin McDonagh
2018 (21st) [ 35] [ 36]
The Favourite
Deborah Davis , Tony McNamara
American Animals
Bart Layton
Beast
Michael Pearce
Disobedience
Sebastián Lelio , Rebecca Lenkiewicz
You Were Never Really Here
Lynne Ramsay
2019 (22nd) [ 37] [ 38]
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Armando Iannucci , Simon Blackwell
In Fabric
Peter Strickland
Sorry We Missed You
Paul Laverty
The Souvenir
Joanna Hogg
Wild Rose
Nicole Taylor
Multiple nominations [ edit ]
6 nominations
4 nominations
3 nominations
2 nominations
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