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

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