# BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay

The BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay was a British Academy Film Award from 1954 to 1967. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, children's film and television, and interactive media.
In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year.
Since the death of Bryan Forbes in 2013, Frederic Raphael is the only surviving receipt of the award.

## Winners and nominees
### 1950s

| Year | Film | Screenwriter(s) |
| 1954 (8th) | The Young Lovers | George Tabori and Robin Estridge |
| 1954 (8th) | The Divided Heart | Jack Whittingham |
| 1954 (8th) | Doctor in the House | Nicholas Phipps |
| 1954 (8th) | Hobson's Choice | David Lean, Norman Spencer and Wynyard Browne |
| 1954 (8th) | The Maggie | William Rose |
| 1954 (8th) | Monsieur Ripois | Hugh Mills and René Clément |
| 1954 (8th) | The Purple Plain | Eric Ambler |
| 1954 (8th) | Romeo and Juliet | Renato Castellani |
| 1955 (9th) | The Ladykillers | William Rose |
| 1955 (9th) | The Constant Husband | Sidney Gilliat and Val Valentine |
| 1955 (9th) | The Dam Busters | R. C. Sherriff |
| 1955 (9th) | The Deep Blue Sea | Terence Rattigan |
| 1955 (9th) | Doctor at Sea | Nicholas Phipps and Jack Davies |
| 1955 (9th) | The Night My Number Came Up | R. C. Sherriff |
| 1955 (9th) | The Prisoner | Bridget Boland |
| 1955 (9th) | Touch and Go | William Rose |
| 1956 (10th) | The Man Who Never Was | Nigel Balchin |
| 1956 (10th) | The Battle of the River Plate | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
| 1956 (10th) | The Green Man | Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder |
| 1956 (10th) | Private's Progress | Frank Harvey and John Boulting |
| 1956 (10th) | Reach for the Sky | Lewis Gilbert |
| 1956 (10th) | Smiley | Moore Raymond and Anthony Kimmins |
| 1956 (10th) | Three Men in a Boat | Hubert Gregg and Vernon Harris |
| 1956 (10th) | A Town Like Alice | W. P. Lipscomb and Richard Mason |
| 1956 (10th) | Yield to the Night | John Cresswell and Joan Henry |
| 1957 (11th) | The Bridge on the River Kwai | Pierre Boulle |
| 1957 (11th) | Anastasia | Arthur Laurents |
| 1957 (11th) | The Birthday Present | Jack Whittingham |
| 1957 (11th) | Hell Drivers | John Kruse and Cy Endfield |
| 1957 (11th) | The Man in the Sky | William Rose and John Eldridge |
| 1957 (11th) | The Prince and the Showgirl | Terence Rattigan |
| 1957 (11th) | The Smallest Show on Earth | William Rose and John Eldridge |
| 1957 (11th) | The Story of Esther Costello | Charles Kaufman |
| 1957 (11th) | Windom's Way | Jill Craigie |
| 1957 (11th) | Woman in a Dressing Gown | Ted Willis |
| 1958 (12th) | Orders to Kill | Paul Dehn |
| 1958 (12th) | Bonjour Tristesse | Arthur Laurents |
| 1958 (12th) | A Cry from the Streets | Vernon Harris |
| 1958 (12th) | Ice Cold in Alex | T. J. Morrison |
| 1958 (12th) | Indiscreet | Norman Krasna |
| 1958 (12th) | The Inn of the Sixth Happiness | Isobel Lennart |
| 1958 (12th) | The Key | Carl Foreman |
| 1958 (12th) | The Man Upstairs | Alun Falconer |
| 1958 (12th) | A Night To Remember | Eric Ambler |
| 1958 (12th) | Violent Playground | James Kennaway |
| 1959 (13th) | I'm All Right Jack | Frank Harvey, John Boulting and Alan Hackney |
| 1959 (13th) | Blind Date | Ben Barzman and Millard Lampell |
| 1959 (13th) | Expresso Bongo | Wolf Mankowitz |
| 1959 (13th) | The Horse's Mouth | Alec Guinness |
| 1959 (13th) | Look Back in Anger | Nigel Kneale |
| 1959 (13th) | No Trees in the Street | Ted Willis |
| 1959 (13th) | North West Frontier | Robin Estridge |
| 1959 (13th) | Sapphire | Janet Green |
| 1959 (13th) | Tiger Bay | John Hawkesworth and Shelley Smith |

### 1960s

| Year | Film | Screenwriter(s) |
| 1960 (14th) | The Angry Silence | Bryan Forbes |
| 1960 (14th) | The Day They Robbed the Bank of England | Howard Clewes |
| 1960 (14th) | The Entertainer | John Osborne and Nigel Kneale |
| 1960 (14th) | Hell Is a City | Val Guest |
| 1960 (14th) | The League of Gentlemen | Bryan Forbes |
| 1960 (14th) | The Millionairess | Wolf Mankowitz |
| 1960 (14th) | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | Alan Sillitoe |
| 1960 (14th) | A Touch of Larceny | Roger MacDougall, Guy Hamilton and Ivan Foxwell |
| 1960 (14th) | The Trials of Oscar Wilde | Ken Hughes |
| 1960 (14th) | Tunes of Glory | James Kennaway |
| 1961 (15th) | The Day the Earth Caught Fire (TIE) | Wolf Mankowitz and Val Guest |
| 1961 (15th) | A Taste of Honey (TIE) | Shelagh Delaney and Tony Richardson |
| 1961 (15th) | Flame in the Streets | Ted Willis |
| 1961 (15th) | The Guns of Navarone | Carl Foreman |
| 1961 (15th) | Victim | Janet Green and John McCormick |
| 1961 (15th) | Whistle Down the Wind | Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall |
| 1962 (16th) | Lawrence of Arabia | Robert Bolt |
| 1962 (16th) | Billy Budd | Peter Ustinov and DeWitt Bodeen |
| 1962 (16th) | A Kind of Loving | Willis Hall and Keith Waterhouse |
| 1962 (16th) | Only Two Can Play | Bryan Forbes |
| 1962 (16th) | Tiara Tahiti | Geoffrey Cotterell and Ivan Foxwell |
| 1962 (16th) | Waltz of the Toreadors | Wolf Mankowitz |
| 1963 (17th) | Tom Jones | John Osborne |
| 1963 (17th) | Billy Liar | Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall |
| 1963 (17th) | The Servant | Harold Pinter |
| 1963 (17th) | This Sporting Life | David Storey |
| 1964 (18th) | The Pumpkin Eater | Harold Pinter |
| 1964 (18th) | Becket | Edward Anhalt |
| 1964 (18th) | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Stanley Kubrick, Peter George and Terry Southern |
| 1964 (18th) | Séance on a Wet Afternoon | Bryan Forbes |
| 1965 (19th) | Darling | Frederic Raphael |
| 1965 (19th) | The Hill | Ray Rigby |
| 1965 (19th) | The Ipcress File | Bill Canaway and James Doran |
| 1965 (19th) | The Knack ...and How to Get It | Charles Wood |
| 1966 (20th) | Morgan! | David Mercer |
| 1966 (20th) | Alfie | Bill Naughton |
| 1966 (20th) | It Happened Here | Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo |
| 1966 (20th) | The Quiller Memorandum | Harold Pinter |
| 1967 (21st) | A Man for All Seasons | Robert Bolt |
| 1967 (21st) | Accident | Harold Pinter |
| 1967 (21st) | The Deadly Affair | Paul Dehn |
| 1967 (21st) | Two for the Road | Frederic Raphael |