Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay

The Critics' Choice Award for Best Original and Adapted Screenplay (previously known as Awards for Best Writer) is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Broadcast Film Critics Association.

1 List of winners and nominees

List of winners and nominees

1995-1996 (Best Screenplay)

Year	Writer(s)	Film
1995	Emma Thompson	Sense and Sensibility
1996	Anthony Minghella	The English Patient

1997-2000 (Best Screenplay, Original & Adaptation)

Year	Screenplay, Original		Screenplay, Adaptation
Year	Writer(s)	Film	Writer(s)	Film
1997	Matt Damon and Ben Affleck	Good Will Hunting	Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland	L.A. Confidential
1998	Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman	Shakespeare in Love	Scott Smith	A Simple Plan
1999	Alan Ball	American Beauty	Frank Darabont	The Green Mile
2000	Cameron Crowe	Almost Famous	Stephen Gaghan	Traffic

2001-2008 (Best Writer)

Year	Writer(s)	Film
2001	Christopher Nolan	Memento
	Akiva Goldsman	A Beautiful Mind
	Ethan Coen and Joel Coen	The Man Who Wasn't There
2002	Charlie Kaufman	Adaptation and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
	Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor	About Schmidt
	Nia Vardalos	My Big Fat Greek Wedding
2003	Jim Sheridan, Kirsten Sheridan and Naomi Sheridan	In America
	John August	Big Fish
	Sofia Coppola	Lost in Translation
	Brian Helgeland	Mystic River
	Gary Ross	Seabiscuit
2004	Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor	Sideways
	Bill Condon	Kinsey
	Charlie Kaufman	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
	John Logan	The Aviator
	David Magee	Finding Neverland
2005	Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco	Crash
	Noah Baumbach	The Squid and the Whale
	George Clooney and Grant Heslov	Good Night, and Good Luck
	Dan Futterman	Capote
	Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana	Brokeback Mountain
2006	Michael Arndt	Little Miss Sunshine
	Guillermo Arriaga	Babel
	Todd Field and Tom Perrotta	Little Children
	Zach Helm	Stranger Than Fiction
	William Monahan	The Departed
	Peter Morgan	The Queen
2007	Diablo Cody	Juno
	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	No Country for Old Men
	Tony Gilroy	Michael Clayton
	Nancy Oliver	Lars and the Real Girl
	Sean Penn	Into the Wild
	Aaron Sorkin	Charlie Wilson's War
2008	Simon Beaufoy	Slumdog Millionaire
	Dustin Lance Black	Milk
	Peter Morgan	Frost/Nixon
	Eric Roth	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
	John Patrick Shanley	Doubt

2009 & 2010s (Best Original & Adapted Screenplay)

Year	Original Screenplay		Adapted Screenplay
Year	Writer(s)	Film	Writer(s)	Film
2009	Quentin Tarantino	Inglourious Basterds	Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner	Up in the Air
	Mark Boal	The Hurt Locker	Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach	The Fantastic Mr. Fox
	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	A Serious Man	Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell	District 9
	Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber	(500) Days of Summer	Geoffrey Fletcher	Precious
	Bob Peterson and Peter Docter	Up	Tom Ford and David Searce	A Single Man
			Nick Hornby	An Education
2010	David Seidler	The King's Speech	Aaron Sorkin	The Social Network
	Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg	The Kids Are All Right	Michael Arndt (story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich)	Toy Story 3
	Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin	Black Swan	Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle	127 Hours
	Mike Leigh	Another Year	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	True Grit
	Christopher Nolan	Inception	Peter Craig, Ben Affleck and Aaron Stockard	The Town
	Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (story by Keith Dorrington, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson)	The Fighter	Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini	Winter's Bone
2011	Woody Allen	Midnight in Paris	John Logan	Hugo
	Diablo Cody	Young Adult	Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash	The Descendants
	Michel Hazanavicius	The Artist	Eric Roth	Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
	Tom McCarthy (story by Tom McCarthy and Joe Tiboni)	Win Win	Tate Taylor	The Help
	Will Reiser	50/50	Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin (story by Stan Chervin)	Moneyball

Broadcast Film Critics

Current Awards (Film)	Action Film • Actor • Actress • Animated Feature • Art Direction • Cast (Acting Ensemble) • Cinematography • Comedy Film • Composer (Score) • Costume Design • Director • Editing • Documentary Film • Film • Foreign Language Film • Makeup • Screenplay • Song • Sound • Supporting Actor • Supporting Actress • Visual Effects • Young Performer (Actor & Actress)

Current Awards (Television)	Television Film

Ceremonies	1995 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999 • 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009 • 2010 • 2011 (years are of film release; ceremonies are the next year)