BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay

The **BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay** is a British Academy Film Award for the best script.  It was awarded from 1968 to 1982.  In 1983 it was split into BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay and BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

- **1982** - ***Missing*** - **Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart**
    - _E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial_ - Melissa Mathison
    - _Gandhi_ - John Briley
    - _On Golden Pond_ - Ernest Thompson

- **1981** - ***Gregory's Girl*** - **Bill Forsyth**
    - _Atlantic City_ - John Guare
    - _Chariots of Fire_ - Colin Welland
    - _The French Lieutenant's Woman_ - Harold Pinter

- **1980** - ***Being There*** - **Jerzy Kosinski**
    - _Airplane!_ - Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
    - _The Elephant Man_ - Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren and David Lynch
    - _Kramer vs. Kramer_ - Robert Benton

- **1979** - ***Manhattan*** - **Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman**
    - _The China Syndrome_ - Mike Gray, T.S. Cook and James Bridges
    - _The Deer Hunter_ - Deric Washburn
    - _Yanks_ - Colin Welland and Walter Bernstein

- **1978** - ***Julia*** - **Alvin Sargent**
    - _Close Encounters of the Third Kind_ - Steven Spielberg
    - _The Goodbye Girl_ - Neil Simon
    - _A Wedding_ - John Considine, Patricia Resnick, Allan F. Nicholls and Robert Altman

- **1977** - ***Annie Hall*** - **Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman**
    - _Network_ - Paddy Chayefsky
    - _Rocky_ - Sylvester Stallone
    - _Equus_ - Peter Shaffer

- **1976** - ***Bugsy Malone*** - **Alan Parker**
    - _All the President's Men_ - William Goldman
    - _One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest_ - Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman
    - _The Sunshine Boys_ - Neil Simon

- **1975** - ***Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore*** - **Robert Getchell**
    - _Dog Day Afternoon_ - Frank Pierson
    - _Jaws_ - Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb
    - _Nashville_ - Joan Tewkesbury

- **1974** - ***Chinatown*** - **Robert Towne** and ***The Last Detail*** - **Robert Towne**
    - _Blazing Saddles_ - Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor and Alan Uger
    - _The Conversation_ - Francis Ford Coppola
    - _Lacombe Lucien_ - Louis Malle and Patrick Modiano

- **1973** - ***The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie*** - **Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière**
    - _The Day of the Jackal_ - Kenneth Ross
    - _Sleuth_ - Anthony Shaffer
    - _A Touch of Class_ - Melvin Frank, Jack Rose

- **1972** - ***The Hospital*** - **Paddy Chayefsky** and ***The Last Picture Show*** - ** Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich**
    - _Cabaret_ - Jay Presson Allen
    - _A Clockwork Orange_ - Stanley Kubrick

- **1971** - ***The Go-Between*** - **Harold Pinter**
    - _Gumshoe_ - Neville Smith
    - _Sunday Bloody Sunday_ - Penelope Gilliatt
    - _Taking Off_ - Miloš Forman, John Guare, Jean-Claude Carrière and Jon Klein

- **1970** - ***Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid*** - **William Goldman**
    - _Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice_ - Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker
    - _Kes_ - Barry Hines, Ken Loach, Tony Garnett
    - _They Shoot Horses, Don't They?_ - James Poe and Robert E. Thompson

- **1969** - ***Midnight Cowboy*** - **Waldo Salt**
    - _Goodbye, Columbus_ - Arnold Schulman
    - _Women in Love_ - Larry Kramer
    - _Z_ - Costa-Gavras, Jorge Semprún

- **1968** - ***The Graduate*** - **Calder Willingham and Buck Henry**
    - _If...._ - David Sherwin
    - _The Lion in Winter_ - James Goldman