# César Award for Best Original Screenplay

The César Award for Best Original Screenplay (French: César du meilleur scénario original) is an award presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma. It was initially awarded from 1983 to 1985, and then awarded again in 2006, when the original category (César Award for Best Writing) was split into two awards, the other being César Award for Best Adaptation.

## Winners and Nominees
### 1980s

| Year | Winners and nominees | Original title | Writer(s) |
| 1983 (8th) | The Return of Martin Guerre | Le Retour de Martin Guerre | Jean-Claude Carrière and Daniel Vigne |
| 1983 (8th) | Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David? | Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David? | Élie Chouraqui |
| 1983 (8th) | La Balance | La Balance | Mathieu Fabiani and Bob Swaim |
| 1983 (8th) | A Good Marriage | Le Beau Mariage | Éric Rohmer |
| 1984 (9th) | The Wounded Man | L'Homme blessé | Patrice Chéreau and Hervé Guibert |
| 1984 (9th) | Entre Nous | Coup de foudre | Diane Kurys and Alain Le Henry |
| 1984 (9th) | The ComDads | Les Compères | Francis Veber |
| 1985 (10th) | Our Story | Notre histoire | Bertrand Blier |
| 1985 (10th) | Full Moon in Paris | Les Nuits de la pleine lune | Éric Rohmer |
| 1985 (10th) | My New Partner | Les Ripoux | Claude Zidi |
The César Award for Best Writing was awarded from 1986 to 2005.

### 2000s

| Year | Winners and nominees | Original title | Writer(s) |
| 2006 (31st) | Live and Become | Va, vis et deviens | Alain-Michel Blanc and Radu Mihaileanu |
| 2006 (31st) | The Child | L'enfant | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne |
| 2006 (31st) | Hidden | Caché | Michael Haneke |
| 2006 (31st) | Merry Christmas | Joyeux Noël | Christian Carion |
| 2006 (31st) | The Young Lieutenant | Le petit lieutenant | Xavier Beauvois, Guillaume Bréaud and Jean-Eric Troubat |
| 2007 (32nd) | Days of Glory | Indigènes | Rachid Bouchareb and Olivier Lorelle |
| 2007 (32nd) | Jean-Philippe | Jean-Philippe | Laurent Tuel and Christophe Turpin |
| 2007 (32nd) | Orchestra Seats (a.k.a. Avenue Montaigne) | Fauteuils d'orchestre | Christopher and Danièle Thompson |
| 2007 (32nd) | When I Was a Singer (a.k.a. The Singer) | Quand j'étais chanteur | Xavier Giannoli |
| 2007 (32nd) | You Are So Beautiful | Je vous trouve très beau | Isabelle Mergault |
| 2008 (33rd) | The Secret of the Grain | La graine et la mulet | Abdellatif Kechiche |
| 2008 (33rd) | 2 Days in Paris | 2 Days in Paris | Julie Delpy |
| 2008 (33rd) | Molière | Molière | Laurent Tirard and Grégoire Vigneron |
| 2008 (33rd) | Those Who Remain | Ceux qui restent | Anne Le Ny |
| 2008 (33rd) | La Vie en Rose | La môme | Olivier Dahan |
| 2009 (34th) | Séraphine | Séraphine | Marc Abdelnour and Martin Provost |
| 2009 (34th) | A Christmas Tale | Un conte de Noël | Emmanuel Bourdieu and Arnaud Desplechin |
| 2009 (34th) | The First Day of the Rest of Your Life | Le premier jour du reste de ta vie | Rémi Bezançon |
| 2009 (34th) | I've Loved You So Long | Il y a longtemps que je t'aime | Philippe Claudel |
| 2009 (34th) | Welcome to the Sticks | Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis | Dany Boon, Alexandre Charlot and Franck Magnier |

### 2010s

| Year | Winners and nominees | Original title | Writer(s) |
| 2010 (35th) | A Prophet | Un prophète | Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri and Nicolas Peufaillit |
| 2010 (35th) | In the Beginning | À l'origine | Xavier Giannoli |
| 2010 (35th) | Skirt Day | La Journée de la jupe | Jean-Paul Lilienfeld |
| 2010 (35th) | Welcome | Welcome | Philippe Lioret, Emmanuel Courcol and Olivier Adam |
| 2010 (35th) | Le Concert | Le Concert | Radu Mihăileanu and Alain-Michel Blanc |
| 2011 (36th) | The Names of Love | Le Nom des gens | Baya Kasmi and Michel Leclerc |
| 2011 (36th) | On Tour | Tournée | Mathieu Amalric, Philippe Di Folco, Marcelo Novias Teles and Raphaëlle Valbrune |
| 2011 (36th) | The Clink of Ice | Le Bruit des glaçons | Bertrand Blier |
| 2011 (36th) | Of Gods and Men | Des hommes et des dieux | Étienne Comar and Xavier Beauvois |
| 2011 (36th) | Mammuth | Mammuth | Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern |
| 2012 (37th) | The Minister | L'Exercice de l'État | Pierre Schöller |
| 2012 (37th) | Declaration of War | La Guerre est déclarée | Valérie Donzelli and Jérémie Elkaïm |
| 2012 (37th) | The Artist | The Artist | Michel Hazanavicius |
| 2012 (37th) | Polisse | Polisse | Maïwenn and Emmanuelle Bercot |
| 2012 (37th) | The Intouchables | Intouchables | Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache |
| 2013 (38th) | Amour | Amour | Michael Haneke |
| 2013 (38th) | Holy Motors | Holy Motors | Leos Carax |
| 2013 (38th) | Camille Rewinds | Camille redouble | Noémie Lvovsky, Florence Seyvos, Maud Ameline and Pierre-Olivier Mattei |
| 2013 (38th) | Granny's Funeral | Adieu Berthe, l'enterrement de mémé | Bruno Podalydès and Denis Podalydès |
| 2013 (38th) | A Few Hours of Spring | Quelques heures de printemps | Floence Vignon and Stéphane Brizé |
| 2014 (39th) | 9 Month Stretch | Neuf mois ferme | Albert Dupontel |
| 2014 (39th) | Suzanne | Suzanne | Mariette Désert and Katell Quillévéré |
| 2014 (39th) | The Past | Le Passé | Asghar Farhadi |
| 2014 (39th) | Stranger by the Lake | L'Inconnu du lac | Alain Guiraudie |
| 2014 (39th) | Cycling with Moliere | Alceste à bicyclette | Philippe Le Guay |
| 2015 (40th) | Timbuktu | Timbuktu | Abderrahmane Sissako and Kessen Tall |
| 2015 (40th) | The Bélier Family | La Famille Bélier | Victoria Bedos, Stanislas Carré de Malberg, Eric Lartigau and Thomas Bidegain |
| 2015 (40th) | Love at First Fight | Les Combattants | Thomas Cailley and Claude Le Pape |
| 2015 (40th) | Hippocrates | Hippocrate | Thomas Lilti, Baya Kasmi, Julien Lilti and Pierre Chosson |
| 2015 (40th) | Clouds of Sils Maria | Sils Maria | Olivier Assayas |
| 2016 (41st) | Mustang | Mustang | Deniz Gamze Ergüven and Alice Winocour |
| 2016 (41st) | Dheepan | Dheepan | Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain and Noé Debré |
| 2016 (41st) | Marguerite | Marguerite | Xavier Giannoli |
| 2016 (41st) | Standing Tall | La Tête haute | Emmanuelle Bercot and Marcia Romano |
| 2016 (41st) | My Golden Days | Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse | Arnaud Desplechin and Julie Peyr |
| 2017 (42nd) | The Aquatic Effect | L'Effet aquatique | Sólveig Anspach and Jean-Luc Gaget |
| 2017 (42nd) | Divines | Divines | Romain Compingt, Houda Benyamina and Malik Rumeau |
| 2017 (42nd) | The Innocents | Les Innocentes | Sabrina B. Karine, Alice Vial, Pascal Bonitzer and Anne Fontaine |
| 2017 (42nd) | Slack Bay | Ma Loute | Bruno Dumont |
| 2017 (42nd) | In Bed with Victoria | Victoria | Justine Triet |
| 2018 (43rd) | BPM (Beats per Minute) | 120 battements par minute | Robin Campillo |
| 2018 (43rd) | Barbara | Barbara | Mathieu Amalric and Philippe Di Folco |
| 2018 (43rd) | Raw | Grave | Julia Ducournau |
| 2018 (43rd) | Bloody Milk | Petit paysan | Claude Le Pape and Hubert Charuel |
| 2018 (43rd) | C'est la vie! | Le Sens de la fête | Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache |
| 2019 (44th) | Custody | Jusqu'à la garde | Xavier Legrand |
| 2019 (44th) | The Trouble with You | En liberté! | Pierre Salvadori, Benoît Graffin, Benjamin Charbit |
| 2019 (44th) | Sink or Swim | Le Grand Bain | Gilles Lellouche, Ahmed Hamidi, Julien Lambroschini |
| 2019 (44th) | Guy | Guy | Alex Lutz, Anaïs Deban, Thibault Ségouin |
| 2019 (44th) | In Safe Hands | Pupille | Jeanne Herry |

### 2020s

| Year | Winners and nominees | Original title | Writer(s) |
| 2020 (45th) | La Belle Époque | La Belle Époque | Nicolas Bedos |
| 2020 (45th) | By the Grace of God | Grâce à Dieu | François Ozon |
| 2020 (45th) | The Specials | Hors normes | Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache |
| 2020 (45th) | Les Misérables | Les Misérables | Ladj Ly, Giordano Gederlini and Alexis Manenti |
| 2020 (45th) | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Portrait de la jeune fille en feu | Céline Sciamma |
| 2021 (46th) | Bye Bye Morons | Adieu les cons | Albert Dupontel |
| 2021 (46th) | My Donkey, My Lover & I | Antoinette dans les Cévennes | Caroline Vignal |
| 2021 (46th) | Love Affair(s) | Les Choses qu'on dit, les choses qu'on fait | Emmanuel Mouret |
| 2021 (46th) | Two of Us | Deux | Filippo Meneghetti and Malysone Bovorashy |
| 2021 (46th) | Delete History | Effacer l'historique | Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kerven |
| 2022 (47th) | Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle | Onoda, 10 000 nuits dans la jungle | Arthur Harari and Vincent Poymiro |
| 2022 (47th) | Aline | Aline | Valérie Lemercier and Brigitte Buc |
| 2022 (47th) | Annette | Annette | Leos Carax, Ron Mael and Russell Mael |
| 2022 (47th) | Black Box | Boîte noire | Yann Gozlan, Simon Moutaïrou, and Nicolas Bouvet-Levrard |
| 2022 (47th) | The Divide | La Fracture | Catherine Corsini, Laurette Polmanss, and Agnès Feuvre |
| 2023 (48th) | The Innocent | L'innocent | Louis Garrel, Tanguy Viel and Naïla Guiguet |
| 2023 (48th) | Full Time | À plein temps | Éric Gravel |
| 2023 (48th) | Forever Young | Les Amandiers | Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Noémie Lvovsky, Agnes de Sacy |
| 2023 (48th) | Rise | En corps | Cedric Klapisch, Santiago Amigorena |
| 2023 (48th) | Saint Omer | Saint Omer | Alice Diop, Amrita David and Marie NDiaye |
| 2024 (49th) | Anatomy of a Fall | Anatomie d'une chute | Justine Triet and Arthur Harari |
| 2024 (49th) | All Your Faces | Je verrai toujours vos visages | Jeanne Herry |
| 2024 (49th) | The Animal Kingdom | Le Règne animal | Thomas Cailley and Pauline Munier |
| 2024 (49th) | The Goldman Case | Le Procès Goldman | Cédric Kahn and Nathalie Hertzberg |
| 2024 (49th) | Junkyard Dog | Chien de la casse | Jean-Baptiste Durand |
| 2025 (50th) | Souleymane's Story | L'Histoire de Souleymane | Boris Lojkine and Delphine Agut |
| 2025 (50th) | Borgo | Borgo | Stéphane Demoustier |
| 2025 (50th) | Holy Cow | Vingt Dieux | Louise Courvoisier and Théo Abadie |
| 2025 (50th) | The Marching Band | En Fanfare | Emmanuel Courcol and Irène Muscari |
| 2025 (50th) | Misericordia | Miséricorde | Alain Guiraudie |