# Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay

The Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for best screenplay.

## Winners and nominees

This category existed between 1998 and 2004. It was reintroduced in 2011. Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.

### Original run

| Year | Nominated Film / Series | Screenwriter | Result |
| 1998 | Dark City | Alex Proyas | Won (tie) |
| 1998 | Gods and Monsters | Bill Condon | Won (tie) |
| 1998 | Fallen | Nicholas Kazan | Nominated |
| 1998 | Millennium (Season 2, Episode 21: "Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me") | Darin Morgan | Nominated |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense | M. Night Shyamalan | Won |
| 1999 | The Blair Witch Project | Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez | Nominated |
| 1999 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Season 4, Episode 10: "Hush") | Joss Whedon | Nominated |
| 1999 | The Green Mile | Frank Darabont | Nominated |
| 2000 | Shadow of the Vampire | Steven Katz | Won |
| 2000 | The Cell | Mark Protosevich | Nominated |
| 2000 | Pitch Black | David Twohy, Ken Wheat, and Jim Wheat | Nominated |
| 2000 | Requiem for a Dream | Darren Aronofsky and Hubert Selby Jr. | Nominated |
| 2000 | Unbreakable | M. Night Shyamalan | Nominated |
| 2001 | Memento | Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan | Won |
| 2001 | From Hell | Terry Hayes and Rafael Yglesias (based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell) | Nominated |
| 2001 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh (based on the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien) | Nominated |
| 2001 | The Others | Alejandro Amenábar | Nominated |
| 2002 | Frailty | Brent Hanley | Won |
| 2002 | Minority Report | Jon Cohen and Scott Frank (based on the story by Philip K. Dick) | Nominated |
| 2002 | The Ring | Ehren Kruger (based on the novel by Koji Suzuki and film by Hiroshi Takahashi) | Nominated |
| 2002 | Signs | M. Night Shyamalan | Nominated |
| 2003 | Bubba Ho-Tep | Don Coscarelli | Won |
| 2003 | Identity | Michael Cooney | Nominated |
| 2003 | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio | Nominated |
| 2004 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, and Pierre Bismuth | Won (tie) |
| 2004 | Shaun of the Dead | Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright | Won (tie) |
| 2004 | Dawn of the Dead | James Gunn | Nominated |
| 2004 | Hellboy | Guillermo del Toro | Nominated |

### 2011–present

| Year | Nominated Film / Series | Screenwriter | Result |
| 2011 | American Horror Story: Murder House (Season 1, Episode 12: "Afterbirth") | Jessica Sharzer | Won |
| 2011 | The Adjustment Bureau | George Nolfi | Nominated |
| 2011 | Priest | Cory Goodman | Nominated |
| 2011 | True Blood (Season 4, Episode 8: "Spellbound") | Alan Ball | Nominated |
| 2011 | The Walking Dead (Season 2, Episode 7: "Pretty Much Dead Already") | Scott M. Gimple | Nominated |
| 2011 | The Walking Dead (Season 2, Episode 3: "Save the Last One") | Scott M. Gimple | Nominated |
| 2012 | The Cabin in the Woods | Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard | Won |
| 2012 | American Horror Story: Asylum (Season 2, Episode 7: "Dark Cousin") | Tim Minear | Nominated |
| 2012 | The Hunger Games | Gary Ross, Suzanne Collins, and Billy Ray | Nominated |
| 2012 | The Walking Dead (Season 3, Episode 4: "Killer Within") | Sang Kyu Kim | Nominated |
| 2012 | The Woman in Black | Jane Goldman | Nominated |
| 2013 | The Walking Dead (Season 3, Episode 16: "Welcome to the Tombs") | Glen Mazzara | Won |
| 2013 | American Horror Story: Asylum (Season 2, Episode 11: "Spilt Milk") | Brad Falchuk | Nominated |
| 2013 | Dracula (Episode: "A Whiff of Sulfur") | Daniel Knauf | Nominated |
| 2013 | Hannibal (Episode: "Apéritif") | Bryan Fuller | Nominated |
| 2013 | The Returned (Season 1, Episode 8: "The Horde") | Frédéric Adda and Fabrice Gobert | Nominated |
| 2014 | The Babadook | Jennifer Kent | Won |
| 2014 | American Horror Story: Coven (Season 3, Episode 10: "The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks") | James Wong | Nominated |
| 2014 | Doctor Who (Series 8, Episode 4: "Listen") | Steven Moffat | Nominated |
| 2014 | Penny Dreadful (Season 1, Episode 2: "Séance") | John Logan | Nominated |
| 2014 | The Walking Dead (Season 4, Episode 14: "The Grove") | Scott M. Gimple | Nominated |
| 2015 | It Follows | David Robert Mitchell | Won |
| 2015 | Crimson Peak | Guillermo del Toro and Matthew Robbins | Nominated |
| 2015 | Penny Dreadful (Season 2, Episode 9: "And Hell Itself My Only Foe") | John Logan | Nominated |
| 2015 | Penny Dreadful (Season 2, Episode 3: "The Nightcomers") | John Logan | Nominated |
| 2015 | What We Do in the Shadows | Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi | Nominated |
| 2016 | The Witch | Robert Eggers | Won |
| 2016 | 10 Cloverfield Lane | Josh Campbell, Damien Chazelle, and Matthew Stuecken | Nominated |
| 2016 | Penny Dreadful (Season 3, Episode 4: "A Blade of Grass") | John Logan | Nominated |
| 2016 | Stranger Things (Season 1, Episode 1: "Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers") | The Duffer Brothers | Nominated |
| 2016 | Stranger Things (Season 1, Episode 8: "Chapter Eight: The Upside Down") | The Duffer Brothers | Nominated |
| 2017 | Get Out | Jordan Peele | Won |
| 2017 | It | Chase Palmer, Cary Fukunaga, and Gary Dauberman | Nominated |
| 2017 | The Shape of Water | Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor | Nominated |
| 2017 | Stranger Things (Season 2, Episode 1: "Chapter One: MADMAX") | The Duffer Brothers | Nominated |
| 2017 | Twin Peaks (Season 3, Episode 8: "Part 8") | Mark Frost and David Lynch | Nominated |
| 2018 | The Haunting of Hill House (Season 1, Episode 5: "The Bent-Neck Lady") | Meredith Averill | Won |
| 2018 | Annihilation | Alex Garland | Nominated |
| 2018 | Bird Box | Eric Heisserer | Nominated |
| 2018 | Hereditary | Ari Aster | Nominated |
| 2018 | A Quiet Place | Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, and John Krasinski | Nominated |
| 2019 | Us | Jordan Peele | Won |
| 2019 | Doctor Sleep | Mike Flanagan | Nominated |
| 2019 | The Lighthouse | Robert Eggers and Max Eggers | Nominated |
| 2019 | Midsommar | Ari Aster | Nominated |
| 2019 | Stranger Things (Season 3, Episode 8: "Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt") | Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer | Nominated |
| 2020 | The Invisible Man | Leigh Whannell (Universal Pictures, Blumhouse Productions, Goalpost Pictures, Nervous Tick Productions) | Won |
| 2020 | Color Out of Space | Scarlett Amaris and Richard Stanley (SpectreVision) | Nominated |
| 2020 | Lovecraft Country (Season 1, Episode 1: "Sundown") | Misha Green (Affeme, Monkeypaw Productions, Bad Robot Productions, Warner Bros. Television Studios) | Nominated |
| 2020 | Lovecraft Country (Season 1, Episode 8: "Jig-a-Bobo") | Misha Green and Ihuoma Ofordire (Affeme, Monkeypaw Productions, Bad Robot Productions, Warner Bros. Television Studios) | Nominated |
| 2020 | The Haunting of Bly Manor (Season 1, Episode 5: "The Altar of the Dead") | Angela LaManna (Intrepid Pictures, Amblin Television, Paramount Television Studios) | Nominated |
| 2021 | Midnight Mass (Season 1, Episode 6: "Book VI: Acts of the Apostles") | Mike Flanagan, James Flanagan, and Jeff Howard (Intrepid Pictures) | Won |
| 2021 | Antlers | C. Henry Chaisson, Nick Antosca, and Scott Cooper (Searchlight Pictures) | Nominated |
| 2021 | Candyman | Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld, and Nia DaCosta (Universal Pictures) | Nominated |
| 2021 | Fear Street: Part One – 1994 | Phil Graziadei and Leigh Janiak (Chernin Entertainment) | Nominated |
| 2021 | Squid Game (Season 1, Episode 1: "Red Light, Green Light") | Hwang Dong-hyuk (Siren Pictures) | Nominated |
| 2022 | The Black Phone | Scott Derrickson & C. Robert Cargill | Won (tie) |
| 2022 | Stranger Things (Season 4, Episode 1: "Chapter One: The Hellfire Club") | The Duffer Brothers | Won (tie) |
| 2022 | The Pale Blue Eye | Scott Cooper | Nominated |
| 2022 | Men | Alex Garland | Nominated |
| 2022 | Pearl | Mia Goth & Ti West | Nominated |
| 2023 | Godzilla Minus One | Takashi Yamazaki | Won |
| 2023 | Black Mirror (Season 6, Episode 3: Beyond the Sea) | Charlie Brooker | Nominated |
| 2023 | Huesera: The Bone Woman | Michelle Garza Cervera & Abia Castillo | Nominated |
| 2023 | No One Will Save You | Brian Duffield | Nominated |
| 2023 | When Evil Lurks | Demián Rugna | Nominated |