BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for Best Original Screenplay has been presented to its winners since 1984, when the original category (BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay) was split into two awards, the other being the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
Awarded for	Best Original Screenplay
Location	United Kingdom
Presented by	British Academy of Film and Television Arts
Currently held by	Martin McDonagh for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Website	http://www.bafta.org/

Contents

Winners and nominees

Legend:

• "†" indicates the winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
• "‡" indicates the winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
• "††" indicates the winner of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
• "‡‡" indicates the winner of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

1980s

Year	Film	Screenwriter(s)
1983 37th
	The King of Comedy	Paul D. Zimmerman
	Local Hero	Bill Forsyth
	Trading Places	Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod
	Zelig	Woody Allen
1984 38th
	Broadway Danny Rose	Woody Allen ‡
	The Big Chill	Barbara Benedek and Lawrence Kasdan ‡
	Comfort and Joy	Bill Forsyth
	A Private Function	Alan Bennett
1985 39th
	The Purple Rose of Cairo	Woody Allen ‡
	Back to the Future	Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale ‡
	My Beautiful Laundrette	Hanif Kureishi
	Witness	William Kelley and Earl W. Wallace †
1986 40th
	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 41st
	Wish You Were Here	David Leland
	Hope and Glory	John Boorman ‡
	Personal Services	David Leland
	Radio Days	Woody Allen ‡
1988 42nd
	A World Apart	Shawn Slovo
	Au revoir les enfants	Louis Malle ‡
	A Fish Called Wanda	John Cleese ‡
	Moonstruck	John Patrick Shanley †
1989 43rd
	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

Year	Film	Screenwriter(s)
1990 44th
	Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso)	Giuseppe Tornatore
	Crimes and Misdemeanors	Woody Allen ‡
	Ghost	Bruce Joel Rubin †
	Pretty Woman	J. F. Lawton
1991 45th
	Truly, Madly, Deeply	Anthony Minghella
	The Fisher King	Richard LaGravenese ‡
	Green Card	Peter Weir ‡
	Thelma & Louise	Callie Khouri †
1992 46th
	Husbands and Wives	Woody Allen ‡
	The Crying Game	Neil Jordan †
	Hear My Song	Peter Chelsom and Adrian Dunbar
	Unforgiven	David Webb Peoples ‡
1993 47th
	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 48th
	Pulp Fiction	Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary †
	The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert	Stephan Elliott
	Four Weddings and a Funeral	Richard Curtis ‡
	Philadelphia	Ron Nyswaner ‡
1995 49th
	The Usual Suspects	Christopher McQuarrie †
	Bullets over Broadway	Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath ‡
	Muriel's Wedding	P. J. Hogan
	Se7en	Andrew Kevin Walker
1996 50th
	Secrets & Lies	Mike Leigh ‡
	Brassed Off	Mark Herman
	Fargo	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen †
	Lone Star	John Sayles
	Shine	Jan Sardi ‡
1997 51st
	Nil by Mouth	Gary Oldman
	Boogie Nights	Paul Thomas Anderson ‡
	The Full Monty	Simon Beaufoy ‡
	Mrs Brown	Jeremy Brock
1998 52nd
	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 53rd
	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

Year	Film	Screenwriter(s)
2000 54th
	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?	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen ‡‡
2001 55th
	Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain)	Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant ‡
	Gosford Park	Julian Fellowes †
	Moulin Rouge!	Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce
	The Others	Alejandro Amenábar
	The Royal Tenenbaums	Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson ‡
2002 56th
	Talk to Her (Hable con ella)	Pedro Almodóvar †
	And Your Mother Too (Y Tu Mamá También)	Alfonso Cuarón and Carlos Cuarón ‡
	Dirty Pretty Things	Steven Knight
	Gangs of New York	Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan ‡
	The Magdalene Sisters	Peter Mullan
2003 57th
	The Station Agent	Tom 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 58th
	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Charlie Kaufman †
	The Aviator	John Logan ‡
	Collateral	Stuart Beattie
	Ray	James L. White
	Vera Drake	Mike Leigh ‡
2005 59th
	Crash	Paul Haggis and Bobby 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 60th
	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 61st
	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 62nd
	In Bruges	Martin McDonagh ‡
	Burn After Reading	Joel Coen and Ethan 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 63rd
	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

Year	Film	Screenwriter(s)
2010 64th
	The King's Speech	David Seidler †
	Black Swan	Mark Heyman, Andres 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 65th
	The Artist	Michel Hazanavicius ‡
	Bridesmaids	Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo ‡
	The Guard	John Michael McDonagh
	Midnight in Paris	Woody Allen †
	The Iron Lady	Abi Morgan
2012 66th
	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 67th
	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 68th
	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 69th
	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 70th
	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 71st
	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 ‡

See also

• Academy Award for Best Story
• Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay
• Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
• AACTA International Award for Best Screenplay
• Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Screenplay
• Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay