British Academy Film Award / Best Original Screenplay
The British Academy Film Award for the best script not based on pre-existing material has been presented since 1984 after the previous category "Best Screenplay", awarded since 1968, was split into "Adapted Screenplay" and "Original Screenplay".
| statistics | Surname | number | year |
| Most frequent awards | Woody Allen | 4th | 1985, 1986, 1987, 1993 |
| Most frequent nominations | Woody Allen | 10 | 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1996, 2012 , 2014 |
| Most frequent nominations without a win | Joel and Ethan Coen | 5 | 1996, 2001, 2009 , 2010 , 2014 |
1980s
1984
Paul D. Zimmerman - King of Comedy (The King of Comedy)
- Bill Forsyth - Local Hero
- Timothy Harris , Herschel Weingrod - The Soldiers of Fortune (Trading Places)
- Woody Allen - Zelig
1985
Woody Allen - Broadway Danny Rose
- Barbara Benedek , Lawrence Kasdan - The Big Chill (The Big Chill)
- Bill Forsyth - Comfort and Joy
- Alan Bennett - Lean Times (A Private Function)
1986
Woody Allen - The Purple Rose of Cairo
- Robert Zemeckis , Bob Gale - Back to the Future
- Hanif Kureishi - My Beautiful Laundrette (My Beautiful Laundrette)
- Earl W. Wallace - The Only Witness
1987
Woody Allen - Hannah and Her Sisters (Hannah and Her Sisters)
- John Cornell , Paul Hogan , Ken Shadie - Crocodile Dundee - A crocodile to kiss (Crocodile Dundee)
- Robert Bolt - Mission (The Mission)
- Neil Jordan , David Leland - Mona Lisa
1988
David Leland - Wish You Were Here - Wish You Were Here
- John Boorman - Hope and Glory
- David Leland - Personal Service (Personal Services)
- Woody Allen - Radio Days
1989
Shawn Slovo - Two Worlds (A World Apart)
- Louis Malle - Goodbye, children (Au revoir, les enfants)
- John Cleese - A Fish Called Wanda (A Fish Called Wanda)
- John Patrick Shanley - Moonstruck (Moonstruck)
1990s
1990
Nora Ephron - Harry and Sally (When Harry Met Sally ...)
- Tom Schulman - Dead Poets Society (Dead Poets Society)
- Ronald Bass , Barry Marrow - Rain Man
- Steven Soderbergh - Sex, Lies, and Video (Sex, Lies, and Videotape)
1991
Giuseppe Tornatore - Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo cinema Paradiso)
- Bruce Joel Rubin - Ghost - Message from Sam (Ghost)
- JF Lawton - Pretty Woman
- Woody Allen - Crimes and Misdemeanors (Crimes and Misdemeanors)
1992
Anthony Minghella - Like Crazy and From the Heartbeat (Truly, Madly, Deeply)
- Richard LaGravanese - The Fisher King (The Fisher King)
- Peter Weir - Green Card - Sham marriage with obstacles (Green Card)
- Callie Khouri - Thelma & Louise
1993
Woody Allen - Husbands and Wives (Husbands and Wives)
- Neil Jordan - The Crying Game
- David Webb Peoples - Merciless (Unforgiven)
- Peter Chelsom , Adrian Dunbar - Hear My Song
1994
Harold Ramis , Danny Rubin - Groundhog Day (Groundhog Day)
- Jeff Maguire - In the Line of Fire - The Second Chance (In the Line of Fire)
- Jane Campion - The Piano (The Piano)
- Jeff Arch , Nora Ephron , David S. Ward - Sleepless in Seattle (Sleepless in Seattle)
1995
Quentin Tarantino , Roger Avary - Pulp Fiction
- Stephan Elliott - Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert)
- Richard Curtis - Four Weddings and a Funeral (Four Weddings and a Funeral)
- Ron Nyswaner - Philadelphia
1996
Christopher McQuarrie - The Usual Suspects (The Usual Suspects)
- Woody Allen , Douglas McGrath - Bullets Over Broadway
- PJ Hogan - Muriel's Wedding (Muriel's Wedding)
- Andrew Kevin Walker - Seven (Se7en)
1997
Mike Leigh - Lies and Secrets (Secrets & Lies)
- Joel and Ethan Coen - Fargo
- Mark Herman - Brassed Off - With Timpani and Trumpets (Brassed Off)
- Jan Sardi - Shine - The Path into Light (Shine)
- John Sayles - Lone Star
1998
- Paul Thomas Anderson - Boogie Nights
- Simon Beaufoy - All Or Not (The Full Monty)
- Jeremy Brock - Her Majesty Mrs. Brown (Mrs. Brown)
1999
Andrew Niccol - Die Truman Show (The Truman Show)
- Roberto Benigni , Vicenzo Cerami - Life is beautiful (La vita è bella)
- Marc Norman , Tom Stoppard - Shakespeare in Love
- Michael Hirst - Elizabeth
2000s
2000
Charlie Kaufman - Being John Malkovich
- Pedro Almodóvar - All about my mother (Todo sobre mi madre)
- Alan Ball - American Beauty
- M. Night Shyamalan - The Sixth Sense
- Mike Leigh - Topsy-Turvy
2001
Cameron Crowe - Almost Famous - Almost Famous
- Lee Hall - Billy Elliot - I Will Dance (Billy Elliot)
- Susannah Grant - Erin Brockovich
- David Franzoni , John Logan , William Nicholson - gladiator
- Joel and Ethan Coen - O Brother, Where Art Thou? - A Mississippi Odyssey (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
2002
Jean-Pierre Jeunet , Guillaume Laurant - The fabulous world of Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain)
- Julian Fellowes - Gosford Park
- Baz Luhrmann , Craig Pearce - Moulin Rouge (Moulin Rouge!)
- Alejandro Amenábar - The Others
- Wes Anderson , Owen Wilson - The Royal Tenenbaums (The Royal Tennebaums)
2003
Pedro Almodóvar - Talk to her (Hable con ella)
- Alfonso Cuarón , Carlos Cuarón - Y Tu Mamá También - Lust for Life (Y tu mamá también)
- Steven Knight - Little Dirty Tricks (Dirty Pretty Things)
- Jay Cocks , Steven Zaillian , Kenneth Lonergan - Gangs of New York
- Peter Mullan - The Merciless Sisters (The Magdalene Sisters)
2004
Tom McCarthy - The Station Agent (The Station Agent)
- Guillermo Arriaga - 21 grams (21 grams )
- Denys Arcand - The Invasion of the Barbarians (Les invasions barbaren)
- Bob Peterson , Andrew Stanton , David Reynolds - Finding Nemo (Finding Nemo)
- Sofia Coppola - Lost in Translation
2005
Charlie Kaufman - Don't Forget Mine! (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
- John Logan - Aviator (The Aviator)
- Stuart Beattie - Collateral
- Mike Leigh - Vera Drake
- James L. White - Ray
Paul Haggis , Robert Moresco - LA Crash
- Terry George , Keir Pearson - Hotel Rwanda (Hotel Rwanda)
- George Clooney , Grant Heslov - Good Night, and Good Luck (Good Night, and Good Luck.)
- Akiva Goldsman , Cliff Hollingsworth - The Comeback (Cinderella Man)
- Martin Sherman - Lady Henderson Presents (Mrs Henderson Presents)
Michael Arndt - Little Miss Sunshine
- Guillermo Arriaga - Babel
- Guillermo del Toro - Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)
- Peter Morgan - The Queen (The Queen)
- Paul Greengrass - Flight 93 (United 93)
- Steven Zaillian - American gangster
- Tony Gilroy - Michael Clayton
- Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck - The Lives of Others
- Shane Meadows - This Is England
Martin McDonagh - See Bruges ... and die? (In Bruges)
- Joel and Ethan Coen - Burn After Reading - Who's Burning Their Fingers Here? (Burn After Reading)
- Dustin Lance Black - Milk
- J. Michael Straczynski - The Strange Son (Changeling)
- Philippe Claudel - I love you for so many years (Il ya longtemps que je t'aime)
2010s
Mark Boal - Fatal Command - The Hurt Locker
- Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
- Joel and Ethan Coen - A Serious Man
- Pete Docter , Bob Peterson - Up (Up)
- Josh Lucas , Scott Moore - Hangover (The Hangover)
David Seidler - The King's Speech
- Mark Heyman , Andrés Heinz , John McLaughlin - Black Swan
- Christopher Nolan - Inception
- Lisa Cholodenko , Stuart Blumberg - The Kids Are All Right
- Scott Silver , Eric Johnson , Paul Tamsay - The Fighter
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
- Woody Allen - Midnight in Paris
- Annie Mumolo , Kristen Wiig - Bridesmaids (Bridesmaids)
- John Michael McDonagh - The Guard - An Irishman sees black (The Guard)
- Abi Morgan - The Iron Lady (The Iron Lady)
Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained
- Michael Haneke - love
- Paul Thomas Anderson - The Master
- Wes Anderson , Roman Coppola - Moonrise Kingdom
- Mark Boal - Zero Dark Thirty
David O. Russell , Eric Warren Singer - American Hustle
- Woody Allen - Blue Jasmine
- Alfonso Cuarón , Jonás Cuarón - Gravity
- Ethan and Joel Coen - Inside Llewyn Davis
- Bob Nelson - Nebraska
Wes Anderson - Grand Budapest Hotel (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
- Armando Bó junior , Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. Nicolás Giacobone , Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - Birdman or (The unexpected power of ignorance) (Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance))
- Damien Chazelle - Whiplash
- Dan Gilroy - Nightcrawler - Every night has its price (Nightcrawler)
- Richard Linklater - Boyhood
Tom McCarthy , Josh Singer - Spotlight
- Matt Charman , Ethan Coen, Joel Coen - Bridge of Spies - The Negotiator (Bridge of Spies)
- Pete Docter , Josh Cooley , Meg Lefauve - Everything is upside down (Inside Out)
- Alex Garland - Ex Machina
- Quentin Tarantino - The Hateful Eight
Kenneth Lonergan - Manchester by the Sea
- Damien Chazelle - La La Land
- Barry Jenkins - Moonlight
- Paul Laverty - Me, Daniel Blake (I, Daniel Blake)
- Taylor Sheridan - Hell or High Water
Martin McDonagh - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
- Jordan Peele - Get Out
- Steven Rogers - I, Tonya
- Greta Gerwig - Lady Bird
- Guillermo del Toro , Vanessa Taylor - Shape of Water - The Whisper of Water (The Shape of Water)
Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara - The Favorite - Intrigue and Madness (The Favorite)
- Janusz Głowacki and Paweł Pawlikowski - Cold War - The latitude of love (Zimna wojna)
- Brian Currie , Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga - Green Book - A Special Friendship (Green Book)
- Alfonso Cuarón - Roma
- Adam McKay - Vice - The Second Man (Vice)
2020s
Han Jin Won and Bong Joon-Ho - Parasite