Critics' Choice Movie Award / Best Screenplay

The BFCAA has been honoring the best screenwriter of the previous film year since 1996 .

Award winners

year	Award winners	Movie
1996	Emma Thompson	Sense and sensuality
1997	Anthony Minghella	The English patient
1998	Ben Affleck Matt Damon	Good Will Hunting
	Brian Helgeland Curtis Hanson	LA Confidential
1999	Marc Norman Tom Stoppard	Shakespeare in Love
	Scott B. Smith	A simple plan
2000	Alan Ball	American Beauty
	Frank Darabont	The Green Mile
2001	Cameron Crowe	Almost Famous
	Stephen Gaghan	traffic
	Steven Kloves	The WonderBoys
2002	Christopher Nolan	Memento
2003	Charlie Kaufman	Adaptation.
2004	Jim Sheridan Kirsten Sheridan Naomi Sheridan	In America
2005	Alexander Payne Jim Taylor	Sideways
2006	Paul Haggis Robert Moresco	LA crash
2007	Michael Arndt	Little Miss Sunshine
2008	Diablo Cody	Juno
2009	Simon Beaufoy	Slumdog millionaire
2010	Original: Quentin Tarantino	Inglourious Basterds
	Adapted: Jason Reitman Sheldon Turner	Up in the air
2011	Original: David Seidler	The King's Speech
	Adapted: Aaron Sorkin	The social network
2012	Original: Woody Allen	Midnight in Paris
	Adapted: Aaron Sorkin Steven Zailian	The art of winning - Moneyball
2013	Original: Quentin Tarantino	Django Unchained
	Adapted: Tony Kushner	Lincoln
2014	Original: Spike Jonze	Her
	Adapted: John Ridley	12 years a slave
2015	Original: Alejandro González Iñárritu Nicolás Giacobone Alexander Dinelaris junior Armando Bó	Birdman or (The Unexpected Power of Cluelessness)
	Adapted: Gillian Flynn	Gone Girl - The perfect victim
2016 (January)	Original: Josh Singer Tom McCarthy	Spotlight
	Adapted: Charles Randolph Adam McKay	The big short
2016 (December)	Original: Damien Chazelle	La La Land
	Kenneth Lonergan	Manchester by the Sea
	Adapted: Eric Heisserer	Arrival
2018	Original: Jordan Peele	Get out
	Adapted: James Ivory	Call Me by Your Name
2019	Original: Paul Schrader	First Reformed
	Adapted: Barry Jenkins	If Beale Street Could Talk
2020	Original: Quentin Tarantino	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
	Adapted: Greta Gerwig	Little Women