British Academy Film Award / Best Screenplay
British Academy Film Award: Best Screenplay (Best Screenplay)
Winner and nominee for Best Screenplay since it was first presented at the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA Awards) in 1955. From 1955 to 1968, the award was for Best British Screenplay ; Since 1969, two script awards have been given: in the categories of Best Original Script and Best Adapted Script .
1950s
1955
George Tabori , Robin Estridge - The young lovers (The Young Lovers)
- Nicholas Phipps - But, Doctor ... (Doctor in the House)
- David Lean , Norman Spencer , Wynyard Browne - Lord of the House I Am (Hobson's Choice)
- Hugh Mills , René Clément - Women's Darling (Monsieur Ripois)
- Renato Castellani - Romeo and Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)
- Jack Whittingham - The Divided Heart
- William Rose - The old Kahn (The Maggie)
- Eric Ambler - Flames over the Far East (The Purple Plain)
William Rose - Ladykillers (The Ladykillers)
- Nicholas Phipps , Jack Davies - Doctor Ahoy! (Doctor at Sea)
- Sidney Gilliat , Val Valentine - Something women love (The Constant Husband)
- RC Sherriff - May 1943 - The Dam Busters
- Terence Rattigan - Lockende depth (The Deep Blue Sea)
- RC Sherriff - You Were 13 (The Night My Number Came Up)
- Bridget Boland - The Prisoner (The Prisoner)
- William Rose - The Other Half Of Me (Touch and Go)
- John Baines - Simba
1957
Nigel Balchin - The Man Who Never Was (The Man Who Never Was)
- WP Lipscomb , Richard Mason - The Long Road to Alice Springs (A Town Like Alice)
- Frank Harvey , John Boulting - The Best Man in the Military (Private's Progress)
- Lewis Gilbert - Allen powers despite (Reach for the Sky)
- Moore Raymond , Anthony Kimmins - Smiley
- Michael Powell , Emeric Pressburger - Panzerschiff Graf Spee (The Battle of the River Plate)
- Sidney Gilliat , Frank Launder - The Green Man (The Green Man)
- Hubert Gregg , Vernon Harris - Three Men in a Boat (Three Men in a Boat)
- John Cresswell , Joan Henry - Yield to the Night (Yield to the Night)
1958
Pierre Boulle - The Bridge on the River Kwai (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
- Arthur Laurents - Anastasia
- John Kruse , Cy Endfield - Duel at the wheel (Hell Drivers)
- Jack Whittingham - The Birthday Present
- William Rose , John Eldridge - Experimental Machine CB 5 (The Man in the Sky)
- Terence Rattigan - The Prince and the Showgirl (The Prince and the Showgirl)
- William Rose , John Eldridge - The Smallest Show on Earth
- Charles Kaufman - Esther Costello (The Story of Esther Costello)
- Jill Craigie - The Man in Fire (Windom's Way)
- Ted Willis - The woman in a dressing gown (Woman in a Dressing Gown)
1959
Paul Dehn - The Silent War (Orders to Kill)
1960s
1960
Frank Harvey , John Boulting , Alan Hackney - Young Man from a Good House (I'm All Right Jack)
- Ben Barzman , Millard Lampell - The Deadly Trap (Blind Date)
- Wolf Mankowitz - Expresso Bongo
- Nigel Kneale - Look Back in Anger (Look Back in Anger)
- Ted Willis - No Trees in the Street
- Robin Estridge - Burning India (North West Frontier)
- Janet Green - The Sapphire Girl (Sapphire)
- Alec Guinness - The Horse's Mouth (The Horse's Mouth)
- John Hawkesworth , Shelley Smith - Tiger Bay
1961
Bryan Forbes - Wrath silence (The Angry Silence)
- Roger MacDougall , Guy Hamilton , Ivan Foxwell - High Treason with Obstacles (A Touch of Larceny)
- Val Guest - Hetzjagd (Hell Is a City)
- Alan Sillitoe - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning)
- Howard Clewes - bank robbery of the century (The Day They Robbed the Bank of England)
- John Osborne , Nigel Kneale - Der Komödiant (The Entertainer)
- Bryan Forbes - The Gentlemen Burglars Do Each Other (The League of Gentlemen)
- Wolf Mankowitz - Die Millionärin (The Millionairess)
- Ken Hughes - The Trials of Oscar Wilde (The Trials of Oscar Wilde)
- James Kennaway - Once a Hero (Tunes of Glory)
1962
Shelagh Delaney , Tony Richardson - A Taste of Honey (A Taste of Honey)
Wolf Mankowitz , Val Guest - The Day the Earth Caught Fire (The Day the Earth Caught Fire)
- Ted Willis - Flame in the Streets
- Carl Foreman - The Guns of Navarone (The Guns of Navarone)
- Janet Green , John McCormick - The Vicious Cycle (Victim)
- Keith Waterhouse , Willis Hall - ... where the wind blows (Whistle Down the Wind)
1963
Robert Bolt - Lawrence of Arabia (Lawrence of Arabia)
- Willis Hall , Keith Waterhouse - Just A Touch of Bliss (A Kind of Loving)
- Peter Ustinov , DeWitt Bodeen - The Damned of the Seas (Billy Budd)
- Bryan Forbes - loved one can only second (Only Two Can Play)
- Geoffrey Cotterell , Ivan Foxwell - Tiara Tahiti
- Wolf Mankowitz - Waltz of the Toreros (Waltz of the Toreadors)
1964
John Osborne - Tom Jones - Between Bed and Gallows (Tom Jones)
- Keith Waterhouse , Willis Hall - Beloved Spinner (Billy Liar)
- Harold Pinter - The Servant (The Servant)
- David Storey - Alluring Laurel (This Sporting Life)
1965
Harold Pinter - Bedroom dispute (The Pumpkin Eater)
- Edward Anhalt - Becket
- Stanley Kubrick , Peter George , Terry Southern - Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to love the bomb (or Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
- Bryan Forbes - On a gloomy afternoon (Séance on a Wet Afternoon)
1966
- Ray Rigby - A Bunch of Great Dogs (The Hill)
- Bill Canaway , James Doran - Ipcress - Top Secret (The Ipcress File)
- Charles Wood - The Knack (The Knack ... and How to Get It)
1967
David Mercer - Protest (Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment)
- Bill Naughton - The Seducer sends his regards (Alfie)
- Kevin Brownlow , Andrew Mollo - It Happened Here
- Harold Pinter - Das Quiller Memorandum - Danger from the Dark (The Quiller Memorandum)
1968
Robert Bolt - A Man for All Seasons (A Man for All Seasons)
- Harold Pinter - Accident - Oxford Incident (Accident)
- Paul Dehn - Call for a Dead (The Deadly Affair)
- Frederic Raphael - Two for the Road (Two for the Road)
1969
Calder Willingham , Buck Henry - The Graduate (The Graduate)
- David Sherwin - If ... (if ...)
- James Goldman - The Lion in Winter (The Lion in Winter)
1970s
1970
Waldo Salt - Asphalt Cowboy (Midnight Cowboy)
- Arnold Schulman - To the devil with innocence (Goodbye Columbus)
- Larry Kramer - Women in Love (Women in Love)
- Costa-Gavras , Jorge Semprún - Z
1971
William Goldman - Two bandits (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
- Paul Mazursky , Larry Tucker - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice)
- Barry Hines , Ken Loach , Tony Garnett - Kes
- James Poe , Robert E. Thompson - They Shoot Horses (They Shoot Horses, Do not They?)
1972
Harold Pinter - The Mediator (The Go-Between)
- Neville Smith - Silent footsteps (Gumshoe)
- Penelope Gilliatt - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
- Miloš Forman , John Guare , Jean-Claude Carrière , Jon Klein - Taking Off
1973
Paddy Chayefsky - Hospital (The Hospital)
Larry McMurtry , Peter Bogdanovich - The Last Picture Show (The Last Picture Show)
- Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange (A Clockwork Orange)
- Jay Presson Allen - Cabaret
1974
Luis Buñuel , Jean-Claude Carrière - The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie (Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie) -
- Anthony Shaffer - man, you are great! (A Touch of Class)
- Anthony Shaffer - Murder with Small Mistakes (Sleuth)
- Kenneth Ross - The Jackal (The Day of the Jackal)
1975
Robert Towne - Chinatown
Robert Towne - The Last Detail (The Last Detail)
- Mel Brooks , Norman Steinberg , Andrew Bergman , Richard Pryor , Alan Uger - Der wilde wilde Westen (Blazing Saddles)
- Louis Malle , Patrick Modiano - Lacombe, Lucien
- Francis Ford Coppola - The Dialogue (The Conversation)
1976
Robert Getchell - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
- Frank Pierson - Dog Days (Dog Day Afternoon)
- Peter Benchley , Carl Gottlieb - The great white shark (Jaws)
- Joan Tewkesbury - Nashville
1977
- William Goldman - The Untouchables (All the President's Men)
- Lawrence Hauben , Bo Goldman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
- Neil Simon - The Sunshine Boys (The Sunshine Boys)
1978
Woody Allen , Marshall Brickman - The Urban Neurotic (Annie Hall)
1979
- John Considine , Patricia Resnick , Allan F. Nicholls , Robert Altman - The Wedding (A Wedding)
- Steven Spielberg - Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Close Encounters of the Third Child)
- Neil Simon - The Goodbye (The Goodbye Girl)
1980s
1980
Woody Allen , Marshall Brickman - Manhattan
- Mike Gray , TS Cook , James Bridges - The China Syndrome (The China Syndrome)
- Deric Washburn - Those Who Go Through Hell (The Deer Hunter)
- Colin Welland , Walter Bernstein - Yanks - Yesterday we were strangers (Yanks)
1981
Jerzy Kosiński - Welcome Mr. Chance (Being There)
- Jim Abrahams , David Zucker , Jerry Zucker - The Incredible Journey in a Crazy Airplane (Airplane!)
- Robert Benton - Kramer vs. Kramer (Kramer vs. Kramer)
- Christopher De Vore , Eric Bergren , David Lynch - Der Elefantenmensch (The Elephant Man)
1982
- John Guare - Atlantic City, USA (Atlantic City)
- Colin Welland - The Victory's Hour (Chariots of Fire)
- Harold Pinter - The French Lieutenant's Woman (The French Lieutenant's Woman)
1983
Costa-Gavras , Donald Stewart - Missing (Missing)
- Melissa Mathison - ET : The Extra-Terrestrial
- John Briley - Gandhi
- Ernest Thompson - On Golden Pond (On Golden Pond)