The European Film Award for Best Screenwriter is an award given out at the annual European Film Awards to recognize a screenwriter who has delivered an outstanding screenplay in a film industry. The award is presented by the European Film Academy (EFA) and was first presented in 1988.
| European Film Award for Best Screenwriter | |
|---|---|
 The 2020 recipient: Thomas Vinterberg | |
| Awarded for | Best Achievement in Screenwriting |
| Presented by | European Film Academy |
| First awarded | Louis Malle Au revoir les enfants (1988) |
| Currently held by | Thomas Vinterberg, Tobias Lindholm Another Round (2020) |
| Website | europeanfilmacademy |
Winners and nomineesEdit
1980sEdit
| Year | Winner and nominees | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 (1st) |
 Louis Malle |
Goodbye Children | Au Revoir Les Enfants |
 Manoel de Oliveira |
The Cannibals | Os Canibais | |
 Terence Davies |
Distant Voices, Still Lives | ||
 Daniele Luchetti Franco Bernini Angelo Pasquini |
It's Happening Tomorrow | Domani accadrà | |
 Wolfgang Held |
Bear Ye One Another's Burden | Einer trage des anderen Last | |
| 1989 (2nd) |
  Mariya Khmelik |
Little Vera | Ма́ленькая Ве́ра |
 Géza Bereményi |
The Midas Touch | Eldorádó | |
 Þráinn Bertelsson |
Magnus | ||
 Theodoros Angelopoulos Tonino Guerra Thanassis Valtinos |
Landscape in the Mist | Topio stin omichli | |
 Maciej Dejczer Cezary Harasimowicz |
300 Miles to Heaven | 300 mil do nieba | |
1990sEdit
2000sEdit
2010sEdit
2020sEdit
| Year | Winner and nominees | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (33rd) [23][24] |
 Thomas Vinterberg Tobias Lindholm |
Another Round | Druk |
 Martin Behnke Burhan Qurbani |
Berlin Alexanderplatz | ||
| Costa-Gavras |
Adults in the Room | Ενήλικοι στην αίθουσα (Enílikoi stin aíthousa) | |
| Damiano and Fabio D'Innocenzo |
Bad Tales | Favolacce | |
| Pietro Marcello Maurizio Braucci |
Martin Eden | ||
| Mateusz Pacewicz |
Corpus Christi | Boże Ciało | |
Most wins by screenwriterEdit
| Screenwriter | Awards | Nominations |
|---|---|---|
| Paweł Pawlikowski | 2 | 2 |
| István Szabó | 2 | 2 |
| Michael Haneke | 1 | 3 |
| Pedro Almodóvar | 1 | 2 |
| Dardenne brothers | 1 | 2 |
| François Ozon | 1 | 2 |
| Fatih Akin | 1 | 1 |
| Ugo Chiti | 1 | 1 |
| Efthimis Filippou | 1 | 1 |
| Matteo Garrone | 1 | 1 |
| Massimo Gaudioso | 1 | 1 |
| Yorgos Lanthimos | 1 | 1 |
| Roman Polanski | 1 | 1 |
| Cristian Mungiu | 0 | 3 |
| Lars von Trier | 0 | 3 |
| Aki Kaurismäki | 0 | 2 |
| Paolo Sorrentino | 0 | 2 |
| Andrey Zvyagintsev | 0 | 2 |
ReferencesEdit
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