BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
The BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay is the British Academy Film Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. It has been awarded since 1984, when the original category (BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay) was split into two awards, the other being the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Winners and nominees
1980s
Year |
Film |
Screenwriter(s) |
1983 37th |
The King of Comedy |
Paul D. Zimmerman |
Local Hero |
Bill Forsyth |
Trading Places |
Timothy Harris, Herschel Weingrod |
Zelig |
Woody Allen |
1984 38th |
Broadway Danny Rose |
Woody Allen |
The Big Chill |
Barbara Benedek, Lawrence Kasdan |
Comfort and Joy |
Bill Forsyth |
A Private Function |
Alan Bennett |
1985 39th |
The Purple Rose of Cairo |
Woody Allen |
Back to the Future |
Bob Gale, Robert Zemeckis |
My Beautiful Laundrette |
Hanif Kureishi |
Witness |
William Kelley, Earl W. Wallace |
1986 40th |
Hannah and Her Sisters |
Woody Allen |
Crocodile Dundee |
John Cornell, Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie |
The Mission |
Robert Bolt |
Mona Lisa |
Neil Jordan, David Leland |
1987 41st |
Wish You Were Here |
David Leland |
Hope and Glory |
John Boorman |
Personal Services |
David Leland |
Radio Days |
Woody Allen |
1988 42nd |
A World Apart |
Shawn Slovo |
Au revoir, les enfants |
Louis Malle |
A Fish Called Wanda |
John Cleese |
Moonstruck |
John Patrick Shanley |
1989 43rd |
When Harry Met Sally... |
Nora Ephron |
Dead Poets Society |
Tom Schulman |
Rain Man |
Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow |
Sex, Lies, and Videotape |
Steven Soderbergh |
1990s
Year |
Film |
Screenwriter(s) |
1990 44th |
Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo cinema Paradiso) |
Giuseppe Tornatore |
Crimes and Misdemeanors |
Woody Allen |
Ghost |
Bruce Joel Rubin |
Pretty Woman |
J.F. Lawton |
1991 45th |
Truly, Madly, Deeply |
Anthony Minghella |
The Fisher King |
Richard LaGravenese |
Green Card |
Peter Weir |
Thelma & Louise |
Callie Khouri |
1992 46th |
Husbands and Wives |
Woody Allen |
The Crying Game |
Neil Jordan |
Hear My Song |
Peter Chelsom, Adrian Dunbar |
Unforgiven |
David Webb Peoples |
1993 47th |
Groundhog Day |
Harold Ramis, Danny Rubin |
In the Line of Fire |
Jeff Maguire |
The Piano |
Jane Campion |
Sleepless in Seattle |
Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron, David S. Ward |
1994 48th |
Pulp Fiction |
Roger Avary, Quentin Tarantino |
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert |
Stephan Elliott |
Four Weddings and a Funeral |
Richard Curtis |
Philadelphia |
Ron Nyswaner |
1995 49th |
The Usual Suspects |
Christopher McQuarrie |
Bullets Over Broadway |
Woody Allen, Douglas McGrath |
Muriel's Wedding |
P.J. Hogan |
Se7en |
Andrew Kevin Walker |
1996 50th |
Secrets & Lies |
Mike Leigh |
Brassed Off |
Mark Herman |
Fargo |
Ethan and Joel Coen |
Lone Star |
John Sayles |
Shine |
Jan Sardi |
1997 51st |
Nil by Mouth |
Gary Oldman |
Boogie Nights |
Paul Thomas Anderson |
The Full Monty |
Simon Beaufoy |
Mrs. Brown |
Jeremy Brock |
1998 52nd |
The Truman Show |
Andrew Niccol |
Elizabeth |
Michael Hirst |
Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella) |
Roberto Benigni, Vincenzo Cerami |
Shakespeare in Love |
Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard |
1999 53rd |
Being John Malkovich |
Charlie Kaufman |
All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre) |
Pedro Almodóvar |
American Beauty |
Alan Ball |
The Sixth Sense |
M. Night Shyamalan |
Topsy-Turvy |
Mike Leigh |
2000s
Year |
Film |
Screenwriter(s) |
2000 54th |
Almost Famous |
Cameron Crowe |
Billy Elliot |
Lee Hall |
Erin Brockovich |
Susannah Grant |
Gladiator |
David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson |
O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
Ethan and Joel Coen |
2001 55th |
Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) |
Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant |
Gosford Park |
Julian Fellowes, Steven Zaillian, Kenneth Lonergan |
Moulin Rouge! |
Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce |
The Others |
Alejandro Amenábar |
The Royal Tenenbaums |
Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson |
2002 56th |
Talk to Her (Hable con ella) |
Pedro Almodóvar |
And Your Mother Too (Y tu mamá también) |
Alfonso and Carlos Cuarón |
Dirty Pretty Things |
Steven Knight |
Gangs of New York |
Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, Kenneth Lonergan |
The Magdalene Sisters |
Peter Mullan |
2003 57th |
The Station Agent |
Thomas McCarthy |
21 Grams |
Guillermo Arriaga |
The Barbarian Invasions (Les invasions barbares) |
Denys Arcand |
Finding Nemo |
Bob Peterson, David Reynolds, Andrew Stanton |
Lost in Translation |
Sofia Coppola |
2004 58th |
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
Charlie Kaufman |
The Aviator |
John Logan |
Collateral |
Stuart Beattie |
Ray |
James L. White |
Vera Drake |
Mike Leigh |
2005 59th |
Crash |
Paul Haggis, Robert Moresco |
Cinderella Man |
Akiva Goldsman, Cliff Hollingsworth |
Good Night, and Good Luck |
George Clooney, Grant Heslov |
Hotel Rwanda |
Terry George, Keir Pearson |
Mrs Henderson Presents |
Martin Sherman |
2006 60th |
Little Miss Sunshine |
Michael Arndt |
Babel |
Guillermo Arriaga |
Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) |
Guillermo del Toro |
The Queen |
Peter Morgan |
United 93 |
Paul Greengrass |
2007 61st |
Juno |
Diablo Cody |
American Gangster |
Steven Zaillian |
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) |
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck |
Michael Clayton |
Tony Gilroy |
This Is England |
Shane Meadows |
2008 62nd |
In Bruges |
Martin McDonagh |
Burn After Reading |
Ethan and Joel Coen |
Changeling |
J. Michael Straczynski |
I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime) |
Philippe Claudel |
Milk |
Dustin Lance Black |
2009 63rd |
The Hurt Locker |
Mark Boal |
The Hangover |
Jon Lucas, Scott Moore |
Inglourious Basterds |
Quentin Tarantino |
A Serious Man |
Joel and Ethan Coen |
Up |
Pete Docter, Bob Peterson |
2010s
Year |
Film |
Screenwriter(s) |
2010 64th |
The King's Speech |
David Seidler |
Black Swan |
Mark Heyman, Andrés Heinz, John McLaughlin |
The Fighter |
Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson |
Inception |
Christopher Nolan |
The Kids Are All Right |
Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg |
2011 65th |
The Artist |
Michel Hazanavicius |
Bridesmaids |
Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig |
Midnight in Paris |
Woody Allen |
The Guard |
John Michael McDonagh |
The Iron Lady |
Abi Morgan |
2012 66th |
Django Unchained |
Quentin Tarantino |
Amour |
Michael Haneke |
The Master |
Paul Thomas Anderson |
Moonrise Kingdom |
Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola |
Zero Dark Thirty |
Mark Boal |
2013 67th |
American Hustle |
David O. Russell, Eric Warren Singer |
Blue Jasmine |
Woody Allen |
Gravity |
Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón |
Inside Llewyn Davis |
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen |
Nebraska |
Bob Nelson |
2014 68th |
The Grand Budapest Hotel |
Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness |
Whiplash |
Damien Chazelle |
Nightcrawler |
Dan Gilroy |
Birdman |
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. and Armando Bó |
Boyhood |
Richard Linklater |
See also
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