BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay

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[edit] 1967

A Man for All Seasons - Robert Bolt

• Accident - Harold Pinter
• The Deadly Affair - Paul Dehn
• Two for the Road - Frederic Raphael

[edit] 1966

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment - David Mercer

• Alfie - Bill Naughton
• It Happened Here - Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo
• The Quiller Memorandum – Harold Pinter

[edit] 1965

Darling - Frederic Raphael

• The Hill - Ray Rigby
• The Ipcress File - Bill Canaway, James Doran
• The Knack ...and How to Get It - Charles Wood

[edit] 1964

The Pumpkin Eater - Harold Pinter

• Becket - Edward Anhalt
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Stanley Kubrick, Peter George, Terry Southern
• Seance on a Wet Afternoon - Bryan Forbes

[edit] 1963

Tom Jones - John Osborne

• Billy Liar - Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall
• The Servant - Harold Pinter
• This Sporting Life - David Storey

[edit] 1962

Lawrence of Arabia - Robert Bolt

• Billy Budd - Peter Ustinov, DeWitt Bodeen
• A Kind of Loving - Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
• Only Two Can Play - Bryan Forbes
• Tiara Tahiti - Geoffrey Cotterell, Ivan Foxwell
• Waltz of the Toreadors - Wolf Mankowitz

[edit] 1961

The Day the Earth Caught Fire - Wolf Mankowitz, Val Guest, and
A Taste of Honey - Shelagh Delaney, Tony Richardson

• Flame in the Streets - Ted Willis
• The Guns of Navarone - Carl Foreman
• Victim - Janet Green, John McCormick
• Whistle Down the Wind - Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall

[edit] 1960

The Angry Silence - Bryan Forbes

• The Day They Robbed the Bank of England - Howard Clewes
• The Entertainer - John Osborne, Nigel Kneale
• Hell Is a City - Val Guest
• The League of Gentlemen - Bryan Forbes
• The Millionairess - Wolf Mankowitz
• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Alan Sillitoe
• A Touch of Larceny - Roger MacDougall, Guy Hamilton, Ivan Foxwell
• The Trials of Oscar Wilde - Ken Hughes
• Tunes of Glory - James Kennaway

[edit] 1959

I'm All Right Jack - Frank Harvey, John Boulting, Alan Hackney

• Blind Date - Ben Barzman, Millard Lampell
• Expresso Bongo - Wolf Mankowitz
• The Horse's Mouth - Alec Guinness
• Look Back in Anger - Nigel Kneale
• No Trees in the Street - Ted Willis
• North West Frontier - Robin Estridge
• Sapphire - Janet Green
• Tiger Bay - John Hawkesworth, Shelley Smith

[edit] 1958

Orders to Kill - Paul Dehn

[edit] 1957

The Bridge on the River Kwai - Pierre Boulle

• Anastasia - Arthur Laurents
• The Birthday Present - Jack Whittingham
• Hell Drivers - John Kruse, Cy Endfield
• The Man in the Sky - William Rose, John Eldridge
• The Prince and the Showgirl - Terence Rattigan
• The Smallest Show on Earth - William Rose, John Eldridge
• The Story of Esther Costello - Charles Kaufman
• Windom's Way - Jill Craigie
• Woman in a Dressing Gown - Ted Willis

[edit] 1956

The Man Who Never Was - Nigel Balchin

• The Battle of the River Plate - Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
• The Green Man - Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder
• Private's Progress - Frank Harvey, John Boulting
• Reach for the Sky - Lewis Gilbert
• Smiley - Moore Raymond, Anthony Kimmins
• Three Men in a Boat - Hubert Gregg, Vernon Harris
• A Town Like Alice - W.P. Lipscomb, Richard Mason
• Yield to the Night - John Cresswell, Joan Henry

[edit] 1955

The Ladykillers - William Rose

• The Constant Husband - Sidney Gilliat, Val Valentine
• The Dam Busters - R.C. Sherriff
• The Deep Blue Sea - Terence Rattigan
• Doctor at Sea - Nicholas Phipps, Jack Davies
• The Night My Number Came Up - R.C. Sherriff
• The Prisoner - Bridget Boland
• Touch and Go - William Rose

[edit] 1954

The Young Lovers - George Tabori, Robin Estridge

• The Divided Heart - Jack Whittingham
• Doctor in the House - Nicholas Phipps
• Hobson's Choice - David Lean, Norman Spencer, Wynyard Browne
• The Maggie - William Rose
• Monsieur Ripois - Hugh Mills, René Clément
• The Purple Plain - Eric Ambler
• Romeo and Juliet - Renato Castellani