BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay

The **BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay** was a British Academy Film Award from 1954 to 1967.

## 1967

***A Man for All Seasons*** - **Robert Bolt**
- _Accident_ - Harold Pinter
- _The Deadly Affair_ - Paul Dehn
- _Two for the Road_ - Frederic Raphael

## 1966

***Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment*** - **David Mercer**
- _Alfie_ - Bill Naughton
- _It Happened Here_ - Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo
- _The Quiller Memorandum_ – Harold Pinter

## 1965

***Darling*** - **Frederic Raphael**
- _The Hill_ - Ray Rigby
- _The Ipcress File_ - Bill Canaway, James Doran
- _The Knack …and How to Get It_ - Charles Wood

## 1964

***The Pumpkin Eater*** - **Harold Pinter**
- _Becket_ - Edward Anhalt
- _Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb_ - Stanley Kubrick,  Peter George, Terry Southern
- _Seance on a Wet Afternoon_ - Bryan Forbes

## 1963

***Tom Jones*** - **John Osborne**
- _Billy Liar_ - Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall
- _The Servant_ - Harold Pinter
- _This Sporting Life_ - David Storey

## 1962

***Lawrence of Arabia*** - **Robert Bolt**
- _Billy Budd_ - Peter Ustinov, DeWitt Bodeen
- _A Kind of Loving_ - Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
- _Only Two Can Play_ - Bryan Forbes
- _Tiara Tahiti_ - Geoffrey Cotterell, Ivan Foxwell
- _Waltz of the Toreadors_ - Wolf Mankowitz

## 1961

***The Day the Earth Caught Fire*** - **Wolf Mankowitz**, **Val Guest**, and

***A Taste of Honey*** - **Shelagh Delaney**, **Tony Richardson**
- _Flame in the Streets_ - Ted Willis
- _The Guns of Navarone_ - Carl Foreman
- _Victim_ - Janet Green, John McCormick
- _Whistle Down the Wind_ - Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall

## 1960

***The Angry Silence*** - **Bryan Forbes**
- _The Day They Robbed the Bank of England_ - Howard Clewes
- _The Entertainer_ - John Osborne, Nigel Kneale
- _Hell Is a City_ - Val Guest
- _The League of Gentlemen_ - Bryan Forbes
- _The Millionairess_ - Wolf Mankowitz
- _Saturday Night and Sunday Morning_ - Alan Sillitoe
- _A Touch of Larceny_ - Roger MacDougall, Guy Hamilton, Ivan Foxwell
- _The Trials of Oscar Wilde_ - Ken Hughes
- _Tunes of Glory_ - James Kennaway

## 1959

***I'm All Right Jack*** - **Frank Harvey**, **John Boulting**, **Alan Hackney**
- _Blind Date_ - Ben Barzman, Millard Lampell
- _Expresso Bongo_ - Wolf Mankowitz
- _The Horse's Mouth_ - Alec Guinness
- _Look Back in Anger_ - Nigel Kneale
- _No Trees in the Street_ - Ted Willis
- _North West Frontier_ - Robin Estridge
- _Sapphire_ - Janet Green
- _Tiger Bay_ - John Hawkesworth, Shelley Smith

## 1958

***Orders to Kill*** - **Paul Dehn**

## 1957

***The Bridge on the River Kwai*** - **Pierre Boulle**
- _Anastasia_ - Arthur Laurents
- _The Birthday Present_ - Jack Whittingham
- _Hell Drivers_ - John Kruse, Cy Endfield
- _The Man in the Sky_ - William Rose, John Eldridge
- _The Prince and the Showgirl_ - Terence Rattigan
- _The Smallest Show on Earth_ - William Rose, John Eldridge
- _The Story of Esther Costello_ - Charles Kaufman
- _Windom's Way_ - Jill Craigie
- _Woman in a Dressing Gown_ - Ted Willis

## 1956

***The Man Who Never Was*** - **Nigel Balchin**
- _The Battle of the River Plate_ - Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
- _The Green Man_ - Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder
- _Private's Progress_ - Frank Harvey, John Boulting
- _Reach for the Sky_ - Lewis Gilbert
- _Smiley_ - Moore Raymond, Anthony Kimmins
- _Three Men in a Boat_ - Hubert Gregg, Vernon Harris
- _A Town Like Alice_ - W.P. Lipscomb, Richard Mason
- _Yield to the Night_ - John Cresswell, Joan Henry

## 1955

***The Ladykillers*** - **William Rose**
- _The Constant Husband_ - Sidney Gilliat, Val Valentine
- _The Dam Busters_ - R. C. Sherriff
- _The Deep Blue Sea_ - Terence Rattigan
- _Doctor at Sea_ - Nicholas Phipps, Jack Davies
- _The Night My Number Came Up_ - R.C. Sherriff
- _The Prisoner_ - Bridget Boland
- _Touch and Go_ - William Rose

## 1954

***The Young Lovers*** - **George Tabori**, **Robin Estridge**
- _The Divided Heart_ - Jack Whittingham
- _Doctor in the House_ - Nicholas Phipps
- _Hobson's Choice_ - David Lean, Norman Spencer, Wynyard Browne
- _The Maggie_ - William Rose
- _Monsieur Ripois_ - Hugh Mills, René Clément
- _The Purple Plain_ - Eric Ambler
- _Romeo and Juliet_ - Renato Castellani