BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay

The BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay is the British Academy Film Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. It has been awarded since 1984. In 1984 the category BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay was split into two awards, this one and the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Winners and nominees

1980s

1983: The King of Comedy – Paul D. Zimmerman

• Local Hero – Bill Forsyth
• Trading Places – Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod
• Zelig – Woody Allen

1984: Broadway Danny Rose – Woody Allen

• The Big Chill – Barbara Benedek and Lawrence Kasdan
• Comfort and Joy – Bill Forsyth
• A Private Function – Alan Bennett

1985: The Purple Rose of Cairo – Woody Allen

• Back to the Future – Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis
• My Beautiful Laundrette – Hanif Kureishi
• Witness – William Kelley and Earl W. Wallace

1986: 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: Wish You Were Here – David Leland

• Hope and Glory – John Boorman
• Personal Services – David Leland
• Radio Days – Woody Allen

1988: A World Apart – Shawn Slovo

• Au revoir, les enfants – Louis Malle
• A Fish Called Wanda – John Cleese
• Moonstruck – John Patrick Shanley

1989: 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

1990: Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo cinema Paradiso) – Giuseppe Tornatore

• Crimes and Misdemeanors – Woody Allen
• Ghost – Bruce Joel Rubin
• Pretty Woman – J.F. Lawton

1991: Truly, Madly, Deeply – Anthony Minghella

• The Fisher King – Richard LaGravenese
• Green Card – Peter Weir
• Thelma & Louise – Callie Khouri

1992: Husbands and Wives – Woody Allen

• The Crying Game – Neil Jordan
• Hear My Song – Peter Chelsom and Adrian Dunbar
• Unforgiven – David Webb Peoples

1993: 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: Pulp Fiction – Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino

• The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – Stephan Elliott
• Four Weddings and a Funeral – Richard Curtis
• Philadelphia – Ron Nyswaner

1995: The Usual Suspects – Christopher McQuarrie

• Bullets Over Broadway – Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath
• Muriel's Wedding – P.J. Hogan
• Se7en – Andrew Kevin Walker

1996: Secrets & Lies – Mike Leigh

• Brassed Off – Mark Herman
• Fargo – Ethan and Joel Coen
• Lone Star – John Sayles
• Shine – Jan Sardi

1997: Nil by Mouth – Gary Oldman

• Boogie Nights – Paul Thomas Anderson
• The Full Monty – Simon Beaufoy
• Mrs. Brown – Jeremy Brock

1998: 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: 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

2000: 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? – Ethan and Joel Coen

2001: Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) – Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant

• Gosford Park – Julian Fellowes and Steven Zaillian Kenneth Lonergan
• Moulin Rouge! – Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce
• The Others – Alejandro Amenábar
• The Royal Tenenbaums – Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson

2002: Talk to Her (Hable con ella) – Pedro Almodóvar

• And Your Mother Too (Y tu mamá también) – Alfonso and Carlos Cuarón
• Dirty Pretty Things – Steven Knight
• Gangs of New York – Jay Cocks Steven Zaillian Kenneth Lonergan
• The Magdalene Sisters – Peter Mullan

2003: The Station Agent – Thomas 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: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Charlie Kaufman

• The Aviator – John Logan
• Collateral – Stuart Beattie
• Ray – James L. White
• Vera Drake – Mike Leigh

2005: Crash – Paul Haggis and Robert 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: 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: 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: In Bruges – Martin McDonagh

• Burn After Reading – Ethan and Joel 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: 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

2010: The King's Speech – David Seidler

• Black Swan – Mark Heyman, Andrés 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: The Artist – Michel Hazanavicius

• Midnight in Paris – Woody Allen
• The Guard – John Michael McDonagh
• The Iron Lady – Abi Morgan
• Bridesmaids – Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig

2012: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

2018: The Favourite – Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara

• Cold War – Paweł Pawlikowski and Janusz Głowacki
• Green Book – Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, and Peter Farrelly
• Roma – Alfonso Cuarón
• Vice – Adam McKay

2019: Parasite – Han Jin Won and Bong Joon-ho

• Booksmart – Susanna Fogel, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins and Katie Silberman
• Marriage Story – Noah Baumbach
• Knives Out – Rian Johnson
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino

2020s

2020: Promising Young Woman – Emerald Fennell

• Another Round – Tobias Lindholm and Thomas Vinterberg
• Mank – Jack Fincher
• Rocks – Theresa Ikoko and Claire Wilson
• The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Aaron Sorkin

2021: Licorice Pizza – Paul Thomas Anderson

• Being the Ricardos – Aaron Sorkin
• Belfast – Kenneth Branagh
• Don't Look Up – Adam McKay
• King Richard – Zach Baylin

Other websites

• "Awards Database – The BAFTA Site". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Archived from the original on December 24, 2008. Retrieved June 16, 2012.