# Guldbagge Award for Best Screenplay

The Guldbagge for Best Screenplay is a Swedish film award presented annually by the Swedish Film Institute (SFI) as part of the Guldbagge Awards (Swedish: "Guldbaggen") to screenwriters working in the Swedish motion picture industry.

## Winners and nominees

Each Guldbagge Awards ceremony is listed chronologically below along with the winner of the Guldbagge Award for Best Screenplay and the film associated with the award. Before 1991 the awards did not announce nominees, only winners. In the columns under the winner of each award are the other nominees for best screenplay, which are listed from 1991 and forward.
| Year | Screenwriter(s) | Film |
| 1988 (24th) | Bengt Danneborn‡ Lennart Persson‡ | Det är långt till New York |
| 1989 (25th) | Stig Larsson‡ Åke Sandgren‡ | The Miracle in Valby |
| 1990 (26th) | Kjell Grede‡ | Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg |
| 1991 (27th) | Clas Lindberg‡ | Underground Secrets |
| 1991 (27th) | Marianne Goldman | Freud's Leaving Home |
| 1991 (27th) | Per Olov Enquist | Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem |
| 1992 (28th) | Ingmar Bergman‡ | The Best Intentions |
| 1992 (28th) | Kjell-Åke Andersson Magnus Nilsson | Night of the Orangutan |
| 1992 (28th) | Colin Nutley | House of Angels |
| 1993 (29th) | Daniel Alfredson‡ Jonas Cornell‡ | The Man on the Balcony |
| 1993 (29th) | Niklas Rådström | Speak Up! It's So Dark |
| 1993 (29th) | Åke Sandgren | The Slingshot |
| 1994 (30th) | Peter Dalle‡ Rolf Börjlind‡ | Yrrol |
| 1994 (30th) | Richard Hobert | The Hands |
| 1994 (30th) | Ulf Stark | Sixten |
| 1995 (31st) | Jonas Gardell‡ | Like It Never Was Before |
| 1995 (31st) | Kristian Petri Stig Larsson | Between Summers |
| 1995 (31st) | Hannes Holm Måns Herngren | One in a Million |
| 1996 (32nd) | Per Olov Enquist‡ | Hamsun |
| 1996 (32nd) | Harald Hamrell Mats Wahl Sara Heldt | Winter Bay |
| 1996 (32nd) | Björn Carlström Kjell Sundvall | The Hunters |
| 1997 (33rd) | Annika Thor‡ | Sanning eller konsekvens |
| 1997 (33rd) | Hans Renhäll | Tic Tac |
| 1997 (33rd) | Hannes Holm Måns Herngren | Adam & Eva |
| 1998 (34th) | Lukas Moodysson‡ | Show Me Love |
| 1998 (34th) | Anders Grönros | Glasblåsarns barn |
| 1998 (34th) | Klas Östergren Lisa Ohlin | Waiting for the Tenor |
| 1999 (35th) | Ulf Stark‡ | Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen |
| 1999 (35th) | Fredrik Lindström | Adult Behavior |
| 1999 (35th) | Malin Lagerlöf | Vägen ut |
| 2000 (36th) | Roy Andersson‡ | Songs from the Second Floor |
| 2000 (36th) | Lukas Moodysson Peter Birro | The New Country |
| 2000 (36th) | Lukas Moodysson | Together |
| 2001 (37th) | Hans Gunnarsson‡ Mikael Håfström‡ | Days Like This |
| 2001 (37th) | Jacques Werup Jan Troell | As White as in Snow |
| 2001 (37th) | Bille August | A Song for Martin |
| 2002 (38th) | Lukas Moodysson‡ | Lilya 4-ever |
| 2002 (38th) | Peter Birro | We Can Be Heroes! |
| 2002 (38th) | Sara Heldt | Grabben i graven bredvid |
| 2003 (39th) | Björn Runge‡ | Daybreak |
| 2003 (39th) | Hans Gunnarsson Mikael Håfström | Evil |
| 2003 (39th) | Jonas Frykberg | Details |
| 2004 (40th) | Maria Blom‡ | Dalecarlians |
| 2004 (40th) | Andres Lokko Henrik Schyffert Johan Rheborg Jonas Inde Martin Luuk Robert Gustafsson Tomas Alfredson | Four Shades of Brown |
| 2004 (40th) | Carin Pollak Kay Pollak Margaretha Pollak | As It Is in Heaven |
| 2005 (41st) | Lena Einhorn‡ | Nina's Journey |
| 2005 (41st) | Josef Fares | Zozo |
| 2005 (41st) | Björn Runge | Mouth to Mouth |
| 2006 (42nd) | Hans Renhäll‡ Ylva Gustavsson‡ | Kidz in da Hood |
| 2006 (42nd) | Fredrik Wenzel Jesper Ganslandt | Falkenberg Farewell |
| 2006 (42nd) | Anders Nilsson Joakim Hansson | When Darkness Falls |
| 2007 (43rd) | Roy Andersson‡ | You, the Living |
| 2007 (43rd) | Johan Kling | Darling |
| 2007 (43rd) | Kjell Sundstedt | The New Man |
| 2008 (44th) | John Ajvide Lindqvist‡ | Let the Right One In |
| 2008 (44th) | Erik Hemmendorff Ruben Östlund | Involuntary |
| 2008 (44th) | Agneta Ulfsäter-Troell Jan Troell Niklas Rådström | Everlasting Moments |
| 2009 (45th) | Ulf Malmros‡ | Bröllopsfotografen |
| 2009 (45th) | Teresa Fabik | Starring Maja |
| 2009 (45th) | Karin Arrhenius | The Girl |
| 2010 (46th) | Lisa Langseth‡ | Pure |
| 2010 (46th) | Andreas Öhman Jonathan Sjöberg | Simple Simon |
| 2010 (46th) | Lolita Ray Pernilla August | Beyond |
| 2011 (47th) | Josefine Adolfsson‡ Lisa Aschan‡ | She Monkeys |
| 2011 (47th) | Pernilla Oljelund | Stockholm East |
| 2011 (47th) | Ruben Östlund | Play |
| 2012 (48th) | Gabriela Pichler‡ | Eat Sleep Die |
| 2012 (48th) | Malik Bendjelloul | Searching for Sugar Man |
| 2012 (48th) | Marietta von Hausswolff von Baumgarten | Call Girl |
| 2013 (49th) | Anna Odell‡ | The Reunion |
| 2013 (49th) | Lisa Langseth | Hotell |
| 2013 (49th) | Cilla Jackert | Shed No Tears |
| 2014 (50th) | Ruben Östlund‡ | Force Majeure |
| 2014 (50th) | Ester Martin Bergsmark Eli Levén | Something Must Break |
| 2014 (50th) | Klas Östergren | Gentlemen |
| 2015 (51st) | Peter Grönlund‡ | Drifters |
| 2015 (51st) | Sanna Lenken | My Skinny Sister |
| 2015 (51st) | Ronnie Sandahl | Underdog |
| 2016 (52nd) | Johannes Nyholm‡ | The Giant |
| 2016 (52nd) | Jan Vierth Anders Sparring | Bajsfilmen – Dolores och Gunellens värld |
| 2016 (52nd) | China Åhlander Dragan Mitić Goran Kapetanović | My Aunt in Sarajevo |
| 2016 (52nd) | Sara Nameth | The Yard |
| 2017 (53rd) | Amanda Kernell‡ | Sami Blood |
| 2017 (53rd) | Maud Nycander Jannike Åhlund Kersti Grunditz Brennan | Citizen Schein |
| 2017 (53rd) | Can Demirtas Ivica Zubak [sv] | A Hustler's Diary |
| 2017 (53rd) | Ruben Östlund | The Square |
| 2018 (54th) | Peter Grönlund‡ | Goliath |
| 2018 (54th) | Gabriela Pichler Jonas Hassen Khemiri | Amateurs |
| 2018 (54th) | Ali Abbasi, Isabella Eklöf and John Ajvide Lindqvist | Border |
| 2018 (54th) | Gunnar A.K. Järvstad | Garden Lane |
| 2019 (55th) | Levan Akin ‡ | And Then We Danced |
| 2019 (55th) | Roy Andersson | About Endlessness |
| 2019 (55th) | Lisa Aschan | Call Mom! |
| 2019 (55th) | Erlend Loe | The Perfect Patient |
| 2020 (56th) | Uje Brandelius ‡ | Spring Uje spring |
| 2020 (56th) | Josephine Bornebusch and Gunnar A.K. Järvstad | Orca |
| 2020 (56th) | Maria Bäck | Psychosis in Stockholm |
| 2020 (56th) | Amanda Kernell | Charter |
| 2021 (56th) | Nathalie Álvarez Mesén and Maria Camila Arias‡ | Clara Sola |
| 2021 (56th) | Manuel Concha | Suedi |
| 2021 (56th) | Hogir Hirori | Sabaya |
| 2021 (56th) | Jan Vierth | Apstjärnan |