Evening Standard British Film Award / Best Screenplay

Evening Standard British Film Award : Best Screenplay

Winner of the Evening Standard British Film Awards in the category Best Screenplay ( Best Screenplay ). The British Film Prize selects the best national film productions and filmmakers of the past calendar year and is usually awarded at the beginning of February.

In contrast to more well-known events such as the Oscar or BAFTA award ceremony, no distinction is made between the award of adapted materials (14 awards so far) and original scripts (15 awards). The most successful in this category was Alan Bennett , who has won the award three times, followed by Neil Jordan and Richard Curtis with two wins each. Three times (1982, 1997, 2000) the winner agreed with the eventual Oscar winner.

year	Award winners	Movie title	German distribution title
1982	Colin Welland	Chariots of Fire	The hour of the victor
1983	John Krish	Friend or Foe	not known
1984	Ian McEwan	The Plowman's Lunch	not known
1985	Bernard MacLaverty	Cal	Cal
1986	Alan Bennett Malcolm Mowbray	A private function	Lean times - the movie with the pig
1987	Robert Bolt	The Mission	mission
1988	Alan Bennett	Prick Up Your Ears	The stormy life of Joe Orton
1989	Bruce Robinson	Withnail & I	Withnail & I
1990	Willy Russell	Shirley Valentine	Shirley Valentine - Goodbye, my dear man
1991	Michael Eaton	Fellow Traveler	Shadow of betrayal
1992	Neil Jordan	The Miracle	Miracle - A mysterious summer
1993	Terence Davies	The Long Day Closes	At the end of a long day
1994	Jim Allen	Raining Stones	Raining Stones
1995	Richard Curtis	Four Weddings and a Funeral	Four weddings and one death
1996	Alan Bennett	The Madness of King George	King George - a kingdom for more understanding
1997	John Hodge	Trainspotting	Trainspotting - New Heroes
	Emma Thompson	Sense and Sensibility	Sense and sensuality
1998	Jeremy Brock	Mrs. Brown	Your Majesty Mrs. Brown
1999	Eileen Atkins	Mrs. Dalloway	Mrs. Dalloway
2000	Tom Stoppard	Shakespeare in Love	Shakespeare in Love
2001	Neil Jordan	The end of the affair	The end of an affair
2002	Richard Curtis Andrew Davies Helen Fielding	Bridget Jones's Diary	Bridget Jones - Chocolate for Breakfast
2003	Tom Hunsinger Neil Hunter	Lawless Heart	The heart knows no law
2004	Eric Weiss Gregor Jordan Nora Maccoby	Buffalo Soldiers	Army Go Home!
2005	Pawel Pawlikowski	My Summer of Love	My Summer of Love
2006	Mark O'Halloran	Adam & Paul	not known
2007	Peter Morgan	The Last King of Scotland The Queen	The Last King of Scotland - In the Clutches of Power The Queen
2008	Matt Greenhalgh	Control	Control
2009	Martin McDonagh	In Bruges	See Bruges ... and die?
2010	Jesse Armstrong Simon Blackwell Armando Iannucci Tony Roche	In the loop	not known
2011	Clio Barnard	The arbor	not known