BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay

BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
Awarded for	Best Original Screenplay
Location	United Kingdom
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	British Academy of Film and Television Arts
Currently held by	Kenneth Lonergan for Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Website	http://www.bafta.org/

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.

Winners and nomineesEdit

1980sEdit

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

1990sEdit

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

2000sEdit

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

2010sEdit

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

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