Chlotrudis Awards / Best Original Screenplay

Since 1998, the Chlotrudis Awards have honored the best screenplay and since 2001 the best original screenplay or its author.

statistics
Most frequently honored screenwriter	Wes Anderson (two awards)
Most frequently nominated screenwriter	Hirokazu Koreeda (four nominations)
Most nominated screenwriter without a win	David Gordon Green and Mike Leigh and Hirokazu Koreeda (three nominations)

Excellent screenwriters

year	Award winners	Movie	Other nominees
1998	Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson	LA Confidential	Paul Attanasio for Donnie Brasco Ben Affleck and Matt Damon for Good Will Hunting Tom Jankiewicz , DV Vincentis , Steve Pink and John Cusack for Grosse Pointe Blank Paula Milne for Hollow Reed - Lautlose Schreie Bart Freundlich for The Myth of Fingerprints
1999	Todd Solondz	Happiness	Vincenzo Cerami and Roberto Benigni for Life is Beautiful David Mamet for The Invisible Trap Andrew Niccol for The Truman Show Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard for Shakespeare in Love Don Roos for The Opposite of Sex - The Opposite of Sex
2000	Charlie Kaufman	Being John Malkovich	Alan Ball for American Beauty Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor for Election David Cronenberg for eXistenZ Brad Bird and Tim McCanlies for The Giant from Space Don McKellar for Last Night Patricia Rozema for Mansfield Park Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson for Rushmore M. Night Shyamalan for The Sixth Sense
2001	Mike White	Chuck & Buck	Majid Majidi for Die Farben des Paradieses Jeremy Podeswa for The Five Senses David Gordon Green for George Washington Eric Mendelsohn for Judy Berlin David Mamet for State and Main Woody Allen for Sweet and Lowdown Ken Lonergan for You Can Count on Me
2002	David Lynch Audience Award: David Lynch	Mulholland Drive - Street of Darkness Mulholland Drive - Street of Darkness	Guillermo Arriaga for Amores Perros Wong Kar-Wai for In the Mood for Love Jim McKay for Our Song Richard Linklater for Waking Life Edward Yang for Yi Yi - A One and a Two
2003	Richard Kelly Audience Award: Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman	Donnie Darko adaptation.	Todd Haynes for Dem Himmel So Fern Nicole Holofcener for Lovely & Amazing Jill Narrator and Karen Narrator for Thirteen Conversations About One Thing Alfonso Cuarón and Carlos Cuarón for Y Tu Mamá También - Lust for Life
2004	Sofia Coppola	Lost in Translation	Alex Garland for 28 Days Later David Gordon Green and Paul Schneider for All the Real Girls Gordy Hoffman for Love Liza Aki Kaurismäki for The Man Without a Past Tom McCarthy for Station Agent
2005	Lucas Belvaux	Trilogy: Après la vie - After life	Lars von Trier for Dogville Joshua Marston for Maria voll der Gnade Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright for Shaun of the Dead Lindgard Jervey , Joe Conway and David Gordon Green for Undertow Mike Leigh for Vera Drake Lone Scherfig and Anders Thomas Jensen for Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
2006	Miranda July	Me and You and Everyone We Know (Me and You and Everyone We Know)	Kim Ki-duk for Bin-jip Sandro Petraglia and Stefano Rulli for The Best Years Noah Baumbach for The Squid and the Whale Daniel MacIvor for Wilby Wonderful
2007	Nick Cave	The Proposition - Deadly Offer	Michael Haneke for Caché Joanathan Raymond and Kelly Reichardt for Old Joy Bernd Lange for Requiem Jeff Stanzler for Sorry, Haters
2008	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	The Lives of Others	Hal Hartley for Fay Grim Emanuele Crialese for Golden Door Diablo Cody for Juno Kôsuke Mukai , Wakako Miyashita and Nobuhiro Yamashita for Linda Linda Linda
2009	Cristian Mungiu	4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days	See Mike Leigh for Happy-Go-Lucky Martin McDonagh for Bruges ... and die? Philippe Claudel for So Many Years I Love You Guy Maddin for My Winnipeg Tom McCarthy for One Summer in New York - The Visitor
2010	Armando Iannucci , Harold Manning , Ian Martin , Jesse Armstrong , Simon Blackwell and Tony Roche	Cabinet out of control	Mark Boal for Tödliches Kommando - The Hurt Locker William M. Finkelstein for Bad Lieutenant - Cop without a conscience Hirokazu Koreeda for Aruitemo aruitemo Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber for (500) Days of Summer
2011	Bong Joon-ho and Park Eun-kyo	Mother	Tanya Hamilton for Night Catches Us David Michôd for Kingdom of Crime Maren Ade for Everyone Else Xavier Dolan for I Killed My Mother David Seidler for The King's Speech
2012	Chang-dong Lee	Poetry	Andrew Haigh for Weekend Sean Durkin for Martha Marcy May Marlene Mike Leigh for Another Year John Michael McDonagh for The Guard - An Irishman sees black
2013	Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola and Sarah Polley	Moonrise Kingdom Take This Waltz	Hirokazu Koreeda for I Wish (Kiseki) Christopher D. Ford for Robot & Frank Derek Connolly for Journey of Love - The real adventure is love
2014	Asghar Farhadi	Le passé - the past	Nicole Holofcener for Enough Said Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig for Frances Ha Tobias Lindholm and Thomas Vinterberg for Die Jagd (Jagten) Destin Daniel Cretton for Short Term 12 Quentin Dupieux for Wrong
2015	Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness	Grand Budapest Hotel	Paweł Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewicz for Ida Alejandro González Iñárritu , Nicolás Giacobone , Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. and Armando Bó for Birdman or (The Unexpected Power of Cluelessness) Justin Simien for Dear White People Steven Knight for No Turning Back
2016	Damián Szifron	Wild Tales - Everyone goes crazy!	Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi for 5 room kitchen coffin Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz for Get - The Trial of Viviane Amsalem Deniz Gamze Ergüven and Alice Winocour for Mustang Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy for Spotlight Grímur Hákonarson for Sture Böcke Peter Strickland for The Duke of Burgundy Kornél Mundruczó , Viktória Petrányi and Kata Wéber for Underdog
2017	Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou	The Killing of a Sacred Deer	Kleber Mendonça Filho for Aquarius Matt Ross for Captain Fantastic - One time wilderness and back Mauricio Zacharias and Ira Sachs for Little Men Kenneth Lonergan for Manchester by the Sea Grímur Hákonarson for Sture Bock
2018	Jim Jarmusch	Paterson	Kogonada for Columbus Steven Rogers for I, Tonya Annie J. Howell for Little Boxes Asghar Farhadi for The Salesman Hirokazu Koreeda for After the Storm (Umi yori mo Mada)
2019	Hirokazu Koreeda	Shoplifters - family ties	Josephine Decker for Madeline's Madeline Chloé Zhao for The Rider Paul Schrader for First Reformed Ethan and Joel Coen for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs