The Chlotrudis Award for Best Screenplay was an award given by the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film. The Chlotrudis Awards is an annual ceremony where the best of the previous year's independent and international film are honored.
Note: From 1997 through 1999, there was only one award given in the category of Best Screenplay. After that year, awards were given in two categories, the Best Original Screenplay and the Best Adapted Screenplay.
| Year | Film | Writer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | L.A. Confidential | Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson |
| Donnie Brasco | Paul Attanasio | |
| Good Will Hunting | Matt Damon and Ben Affleck | |
| Grosse Pointe Blank | Tom Jankiewicz, D.V. DeVincentis, Steve Pink and John Cusack | |
| Hollow Reed | Paula Milne | |
| The Myth of Fingerprints | Bart Freundlich | |
| 1998 | Happiness | Todd Solondz |
| Life Is Beautiful | Vincenzo Cerami and Roberto Benigni | |
| The Opposite of Sex | Don Roos | |
| Shakespeare in Love | Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard | |
| The Spanish Prisoner | David Mamet | |
| The Truman Show | Andrew Niccol | |
| 1999 | Being John Malkovich | Charlie Kaufman |
| American Beauty | Alan Ball | |
| Election | Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor | |
| eXistenZ | David Cronenberg | |
| The Iron Giant | Brad Bird and Tim McCanlies | |
| Last Night | Don McKellar | |
| Mansfield Park | Patricia Rozema | |
| Rushmore | Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson | |
| The Sixth Sense | M. Night Shyamalan |
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