BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay

The **BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay** is the British Academy Film Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. It has been awarded since 1984.  In 1984 the category BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay was split into two awards, this one and the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

### 1980s

**1983: _The King of Comedy*** – Paul D. Zimmerman
- _Local Hero_ – Bill Forsyth
- _Trading Places_ – Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod
- _Zelig_ – Woody Allen

**1984: _Broadway Danny Rose*** – Woody Allen
- _The Big Chill_ – Barbara Benedek and Lawrence Kasdan
- _Comfort and Joy_ – Bill Forsyth
- _A Private Function_ – Alan Bennett

**1985: _The Purple Rose of Cairo*** – Woody Allen
- _Back to the Future_ – Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis
- _My Beautiful Laundrette_ – Hanif Kureishi
- _Witness_ – William Kelley and Earl W. Wallace

**1986: _Hannah and Her Sisters*** – Woody Allen
- _Crocodile Dundee_ – John Cornell, Paul Hogan and Ken Shadie
- _The Mission_ – Robert Bolt
- _Mona Lisa_ – Neil Jordan and David Leland

**1987: _Wish You Were Here*** – David Leland
- _Hope and Glory_ – John Boorman
- _Personal Services_ – David Leland
- _Radio Days_ – Woody Allen

**1988: _A World Apart*** – Shawn Slovo
- _Au revoir, les enfants_ – Louis Malle
- _A Fish Called Wanda_ – John Cleese
- _Moonstruck_ – John Patrick Shanley

**1989: _When Harry Met Sally...*** – Nora Ephron
- _Dead Poets Society_ – Tom Schulman
- _Rain Man_ – Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow
- _Sex, Lies, and Videotape_ – Steven Soderbergh

### 1990s

**1990: _Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo cinema Paradiso)*** – Giuseppe Tornatore
- _Crimes and Misdemeanors_ – Woody Allen
- _Ghost_ – Bruce Joel Rubin
- _Pretty Woman_ – J.F. Lawton

**1991: _Truly, Madly, Deeply*** – Anthony Minghella
- _The Fisher King_ – Richard LaGravenese
- _Green Card_ – Peter Weir
- _Thelma & Louise_ – Callie Khouri

**1992: _Husbands and Wives*** – Woody Allen
- _The Crying Game_ – Neil Jordan
- _Hear My Song_ – Peter Chelsom and Adrian Dunbar
- _Unforgiven_ – David Webb Peoples

**1993: _Groundhog Day*** – Harold Ramis and Danny Rubin
- _In the Line of Fire_ – Jeff Maguire
- _The Piano_ – Jane Campion
- _Sleepless in Seattle_ – Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron and David S. Ward

**1994: _Pulp Fiction*** – Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino
- _The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert_ – Stephan Elliott
- _Four Weddings and a Funeral_ – Richard Curtis
- _Philadelphia_ – Ron Nyswaner

**1995: _The Usual Suspects*** – Christopher McQuarrie
- _Bullets Over Broadway_ – Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath
- _Muriel's Wedding_ – P.J. Hogan
- _Se7en_ – Andrew Kevin Walker

**1996: _Secrets & Lies*** – Mike Leigh
- _Brassed Off_ – Mark Herman
- _Fargo_ – Ethan and Joel Coen
- _Lone Star_ – John Sayles
- _Shine_ – Jan Sardi

**1997: _Nil by Mouth*** – Gary Oldman
- _Boogie Nights_ – Paul Thomas Anderson
- _The Full Monty_ – Simon Beaufoy
- _Mrs. Brown_ – Jeremy Brock

**1998: _The Truman Show*** – Andrew Niccol
- _Elizabeth_ – Michael Hirst
- _Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella)_ – Roberto Benigni and Vincenzo Cerami
- _Shakespeare in Love_ – Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard

**1999: _Being John Malkovich*** – Charlie Kaufman
- _All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre)_ – Pedro Almodóvar
- _American Beauty_ – Alan Ball
- _The Sixth Sense_ – M. Night Shyamalan
- _Topsy-Turvy_ – Mike Leigh

### 2000s

**2000: _Almost Famous*** – Cameron Crowe
- _Billy Elliot_ – Lee Hall
- _Erin Brockovich_ – Susannah Grant
- _Gladiator_ – David Franzoni, John Logan and William Nicholson
- _O Brother, Where Art Thou?_ – Ethan and Joel Coen

**2001: _Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain)*** – Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant
- _Gosford Park_ – Julian Fellowes and Steven Zaillian Kenneth Lonergan
- _Moulin Rouge!_ – Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce
- _The Others_ – Alejandro Amenábar
- _The Royal Tenenbaums_ – Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson

**2002: _Talk to Her (Hable con ella)*** – Pedro Almodóvar
- _And Your Mother Too (Y tu mamá también)_ – Alfonso and Carlos Cuarón
- _Dirty Pretty Things_ – Steven Knight
- _Gangs of New York_ – Jay Cocks Steven Zaillian Kenneth Lonergan
- _The Magdalene Sisters_ – Peter Mullan

**2003: _The Station Agent*** – Thomas McCarthy
- _21 Grams_ – Guillermo Arriaga
- _The Barbarian Invasions (Les invasions barbares)_ – Denys Arcand
- _Finding Nemo_ – Bob Peterson, David Reynolds and Andrew Stanton
- _Lost in Translation_ – Sofia Coppola

**2004: _Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*** – Charlie Kaufman
- _The Aviator_ – John Logan
- _Collateral_ – Stuart Beattie
- _Ray_ – James L. White
- _Vera Drake_ – Mike Leigh

**2005: _Crash*** – Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco
- _Cinderella Man_ – Akiva Goldsman and Cliff Hollingsworth
- _Good Night, and Good Luck_ – George Clooney and Grant Heslov
- _Hotel Rwanda_ – Terry George and Keir Pearson
- _Mrs Henderson Presents_ – Martin Sherman

**2006: _Little Miss Sunshine*** – Michael Arndt
- _Babel_ – Guillermo Arriaga
- _Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)_ – Guillermo del Toro
- _The Queen_ – Peter Morgan
- _United 93_ – Paul Greengrass

**2007: _Juno*** – Diablo Cody
- _American Gangster_ – Steven Zaillian
- _The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)_ – Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
- _Michael Clayton_ – Tony Gilroy
- _This Is England_ – Shane Meadows

**2008: _In Bruges*** – Martin McDonagh
- _Burn After Reading_ – Ethan and Joel Coen
- _Changeling_ – J. Michael Straczynski
- _I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime)_ – Philippe Claudel
- _Milk_ – Dustin Lance Black

**2009: _The Hurt Locker_ – Mark Boal**
- _The Hangover_ – Jon Lucas and Scott Moore
- _Inglourious Basterds_ – Quentin Tarantino
- _A Serious Man_ – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
- _Up_ – Pete Docter and Bob Peterson

### 2010s

**2010: _The King's Speech_ – David Seidler**
- _Black Swan_ – Mark Heyman, Andrés Heinz and John McLaughlin
- _The Fighter_ – Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson
- _Inception_ – Christopher Nolan
- _The Kids Are All Right_ – Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg

**2011: _The Artist_ – Michel Hazanavicius**
- _Midnight in Paris_ – Woody Allen
- _The Guard_ – John Michael McDonagh
- _The Iron Lady_ – Abi Morgan
- _Bridesmaids_ – Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig

**2012: _Django Unchained_ – Quentin Tarantino**
- _Amour_ – Michael Haneke
- _The Master_ –	Paul Thomas Anderson
- _Moonrise Kingdom_ – Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
- _Zero Dark Thirty_ – Mark Boal

**2013: _American Hustle_ – Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell**
- _Blue Jasmine_ – Woody Allen
- _Gravity_ – Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón
- _Inside Llewyn Davis_ – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
- _Nebraska_ – Bob Nelson

**2014: _The Grand Budapest Hotel_ – Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness**
- _Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)_ – Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo
- _Boyhood_ – Richard Linklater
- _Nightcrawler_ – Dan Gilroy
- _Whiplash_ – Damien Chazelle

**2015: _Spotlight_ –	Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer**
- _Bridge of Spies_ – Matt Charman, Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen
- _Ex Machina_ –	Alex Garland
- _The Hateful Eight_ –	Quentin Tarantino
- _Inside Out_ –	Pete Docter, Josh Cooley, and Meg LeFauve

**2016: _Manchester by the Sea_ –	Kenneth Lonergan**
- _Hell or High Water_ –	Taylor Sheridan
- _I, Daniel Blake_ – Paul Laverty
- _La La Land_ –	Damien Chazelle
- _Moonlight_ – Barry Jenkins

**2017: _Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri_ –	Martin McDonagh**
- _Get Out_ –	Jordan Peele
- _I, Tonya_ – Steven Rogers
- _Lady Bird_ – Greta Gerwig
- _The Shape of Water_ – Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor

**2018: _The Favourite_ –	Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara**
- _Cold War_ – Paweł Pawlikowski and Janusz Głowacki
- _Green Book_	– Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, and Peter Farrelly
- _Roma_ – Alfonso Cuarón
- _Vice_ – Adam McKay

**2019: _Parasite_ – Han Jin Won and Bong Joon-ho**
- _Booksmart_ – Susanna Fogel, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins and Katie Silberman
- _Marriage Story_ –	Noah Baumbach
- _Knives Out_ –	Rian Johnson
- _Once Upon a Time in Hollywood_ – Quentin Tarantino

### 2020s

**2020: _Promising Young Woman_ –	Emerald Fennell**
- _Another Round_ –	Tobias Lindholm and Thomas Vinterberg
- _Mank_ – Jack Fincher
- _Rocks_ – Theresa Ikoko and Claire Wilson
- _The Trial of the Chicago 7_ – Aaron Sorkin

**2021: _Licorice Pizza_ – Paul Thomas Anderson**
- _Being the Ricardos_ – Aaron Sorkin
- _Belfast_ – Kenneth Branagh
- _Don't Look Up_ – Adam McKay
- _King Richard_ – Zach Baylin