Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay

Film award category

Best Screenplay Award

Prix du scénario (French)

The 2024 recipient: Coralie Fargeat

Awarded for| Best Achievement in Writing
Country| France
Presented by| Cannes Film Festival
First awarded| 1949
Currently held by| Coralie Fargeat
The Substance (2024)
Website| www.festival-cannes.com/en/

The Best Screenplay Award (French: Prix du scénario) is an award presented by the Jury to the best screenwriter for their work on a film of the Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival. It was first awarded in 1949.

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## Winners

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Year  | Screenwriters(s)  | English Title  | Original Title

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1940s
1949 | Alfred L. Werker, Eugene Ling & Virginia Shaler | Lost Boundaries
1950s
1951 | Terence Rattigan | The Browning Version
1952 | Piero Tellini | Cops and Robbers | Guardie e ladri
1958 | Pier Paolo Pasolini, Massimo Franciosa & Pasquale Festa Campanile [A] | Young Husbands | Giovani mariti
1960s
1963 | Dumitru Carabat, Henri Colpi & Yves Jamiaque | Codine
1965 | Ray Rigby | The Hill
Pierre Schoendoerffer | The 317th Platoon
1967 | Alain Jessua | The Killing Game | Jeu de massacre
Elio Petri | We Still Kill the Old Way | A ciascuno il suo
1970s
1974 | Steven Spielberg, Hal Barwood & Matthew Robbins | The Sugarland Express
1980s
1980 | Furio Scarpelli, Agenore Incrocci & Ettore Scola [B] | La Terrazza
1981 | István Szabó | Mephisto
1982 | Jerzy Skolimowski | Moonlighting
1984 | Thanassis Valtinos, Theo Angelopoulos & Tonino Guerra [C] | Voyage to Cythera | Taxidi sta Kythira
1990s
1994 | Michel Blanc | Grosse fatigue
1996 | Jacques Audiard & Alain Le Henry | A Self Made Hero | Un héros très discret
1997 | James Schamus | The Ice Storm
1998 | Hal Hartley | Henry Fool
1999 | Yuri Arabov | Moloch | Молох
2000s
2000 | James Flamberg & John C. Richards | Nurse Betty
2001 | Danis Tanović | No Man's Land
2002 | Paul Laverty | Sweet Sixteen
2003 | Denys Arcand | The Barbarian Invasions | Les invasions barbares
2004 | Agnès Jaoui & Jean-Pierre Bacri | Look at Me | Comme une image
2005 | Guillermo Arriaga | The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
2006 | Pedro Almodóvar | Volver
2007 | Fatih Akin | The Edge of Heaven | Auf der anderen Seite
2008 | Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne | Lorna's Silence | Le silence de Lorna
2009 | Mei Feng | Spring Fever | 春风沉醉的夜晚
2010s
2010 | Lee Chang-dong | Poetry | 시
2011 | Joseph Cedar | Footnote | Hearat Shulayim
2012 | Cristian Mungiu & Tatiana Niculescu Bran | Beyond the Hills | După dealuri
2013 | Jia Zhangke | A Touch of Sin | 天注定
2014 | Andrey Zvyagintsev & Oleg Negin | Leviathan | Левиафан
2015 | Michel Franco | Chronic
2016 | Asghar Farhadi | The Salesman | فروشنده
2017 | Yorgos Lanthimos & Efthymis Filippou | The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Lynne Ramsay | You Were Never Really Here
2018 | Jafar Panahi & Nader Saeivar | 3 Faces | سه رخ
Alice Rohrwacher | Happy as Lazzaro | Lazzaro felice
2019 | Céline Sciamma | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Portrait de la jeune fille en feu
2020s
2021 | Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe | Drive My Car | ドライブ・マイ・カー
2022 | Tarik Saleh | Boy from Heaven | صبي من الجنة
2023 | Yuji Sakamoto | Monster | 怪物
2024 | Coralie Fargeat | The Substance

## See also

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* Golden Osella for Best Screenplay
* Silver Bear for Best Screenplay

## Notes

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A^ : This year the award received the name Prix du scénario original (Original Screenplay Award).
B^ : This year the award received the name Prix du scénario et des dialogues au Festival International du Film (Screenplay and Dialogues Award).
C^ : This year the award received the name Prix du meilleur scénario original (Best Original Screenplay Award).

## External links

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* Cannes Film Festival Official Website
* Cannes Film Festival at IMDB Archived 2010-04-11 at the Wayback Machine.

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Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay

1949–2000|

* Alfred L. Werker, Eugene Ling & Virginia Shaler (1949)
* Terence Rattigan (1951)
* Piero Tellini (1952)
* Pier Paolo Pasolini, Massimo Franciosa & Pasquale Festa Campanile (1958)
* Dumitru Carabat, Henri Colpi & Yves Jamiaque (1963)
* Ray Rigby / Pierre Schoendoerffer (1965)
* Alain Jessua / Elio Petri (1967)
* Steven Spielberg, Hal Barwood & Matthew Robbins (1974)
* Furio Scarpelli, Agenore Incrocci & Ettore Scola (1980)
* István Szabó (1981)
* Jerzy Skolimowski (1982)
* Thanassis Valtinos, Theo Angelopoulos & Tonino Guerra (1984)
* Michel Blanc (1994)
* Jacques Audiard & France Alain Le Henry (1996)
* James Schamus (1997)
* Hal Hartley (1998)
* Yuri Arabov (1999)
* James Flamberg & John C. Richards (2000)

2001–present|

* Danis Tanović (2001)
* Paul Laverty (2002)
* Denys Arcand (2003)
* Agnès Jaoui & Jean-Pierre Bacri (2004)
* Guillermo Arriaga (2005)
* Pedro Almodóvar (2006)
* Fatih Akin (2007)
* Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne (2008)
* Mei Feng (2009)
* Lee Chang-dong (2010)
* Joseph Cedar (2011)
* Cristian Mungiu & Tatiana Niculescu Bran (2012)
* Jia Zhangke (2013)
* Andrey Zvyagintsev & Oleg Negin (2014)
* Michel Franco (2015)
* Asghar Farhadi (2016)
* Yorgos Lanthimos & Efthymis Filippou / Lynne Ramsay (2017)
* Jafar Panahi & Nader Saeivar / Alice Rohrwacher (2018)
* Céline Sciamma (2019)
* Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe (2021)
* Tarik Saleh (2022)
* Yuji Sakamoto (2023)
* Coralie Fargeat (2024)

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