AACTA International Award for Best Screenplay

Best Screenplay
AACTA International Award
Country Australia
Presented by Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA)
First awarded 2012
Currently held by The Ides of March, George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon,
and Margin Call, J.C. Chandor (2011)
Official website http://www.aacta.org

The AACTA International Award for Best Screenplay is an award that is presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), to a writer of an original or adapted screenplay, for a film made outside of Australia. It was first handed out in 2011, by the Academy after its establishment by the Australian Film Institute (AFI).[1] The winners and nominees for 2011 were determined by a jury.[2][3]

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the winner is marked in a separate colour, and highlighted in boldface; the nominees are those that are not highlighted or in boldface.[3]

2010s

Year Film Screenwriter(s) Notes
2011
(1st)
The Artist Michel Hazanavicius Original screenplay
The Descendants Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash Adaptation of the novel The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings
The Ides of March George Clooney, Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon Adaptation of the play Farragut North by Beau Willimon
Margin Call J.C. Chandor Original screenplay
Melancholia Lars von Trier Original screenplay
Moneyball Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin and Stan Chervin Adaptation of the novel Moneyball by Michael Lewis
Midnight in Paris Woody Allen Original screenplay
We Need to Talk About Kevin Lynne Ramsay and Rory Kinnear Adaptation of the novel We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
2012
(2nd)
Argo Chris Terrio Adaptation of the memoir Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA by Tony Mendez and Joshuah Bearman's 2007 Wired magazine article The Great Escape.
Django Unchained Quentin Tarantino Original screenplay
Lincoln Tony Kushner Adaptation of the book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Master Paul Thomas Anderson Original screenplay
Silver Linings Playbook David O. Russell Adaptation of the novel of the same name by Matthew Quick
Zero Dark Thirty Mark Boal Original screenplay
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References

  1. ^ "AACTA - The Academy". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 9 January 2012. 
  2. ^ Maddox, Gary (1 December 2011). "And the winner is ... the AFI". Smh.com.au. Retrieved 17 January 2012. 
  3. ^ a b "AACTA International Award Nominees". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). 15 January 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2012. 
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External links

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