BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
{{Short description|British film industry award}}
{{Infobox award
| name = BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
| image = File:ARealPainBFILFF131024_(17_of_138)_(54065187869)_(cropped).jpg
| caption = The 2024 recipient: Jesse Eisenberg
| awarded_for = Best Original Screenplay
| presenter = British Academy of Film and Television Arts
| location = United Kingdom
| holder = Jesse Eisenberg for A Real Pain (2024)
| website = http://www.bafta.org/
}}
The BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to a screenwriter for a specific film.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, and video games (and formerly also for children's film and television). Since 1983, selected films have been awarded with the BAFTA award for Best Adapted Screenplay at an annual ceremony.
In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the remaining nominees. The winner is also the first name listed in each category.
History
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 and Best Original Screenplay.
Woody Allen holds the record for the most wins with four awards.
Winners and nominees
{{legend|#FAEB86|indicates the winner}}
File:Woody Allen Cannes 2016.jpg won four times for Broadway Danny Rose (1984), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), and Husbands and Wives (1992)]]
File:Nora Ephron.jpg won for When Harry Met Sally... (1989)]]
File:Harold Ramis Oct 2009.jpg won for Groundhog Day (1993)]]
File:Tarantino at 2019 Cannes (cropped).jpg won twice for Pulp Fiction (1994) and Django Unchained (2013)]]
File:Christopher McQuarrie 2022.jpg won for The Usual Suspects (1995)]]
File:Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Mike Leigh at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (cropped II).jpg won for Secrets & Lies (1996)]]
File:Gary Oldman (13948780853) (cropped).jpg won for Nil by Mouth (1997)]]
File:Charlie Kaufman Fantastic Fest 2015-0257 (27441349145) (cropped).jpg won twice for Being John Malkovich (1999) and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)]]
File:CameronCrowe.jpg won for Almost Famous (2000)]]
File:Pedro Almodóvar at Premios Goya 2017 1 (cropped 3).jpg won for Talk to Her (2002)]]
File:Tom McCarthy (cropped).jpg won twice for The Station Agent (2003) and Spotlight (2015)]]
File:MJK 08478 Wes Anderson (Opening Gala Berlinale 2018).jpg won for The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)]]
File:Diablo Cody2.jpg won for Juno (2007)]]
File:Martin McDonagh 2012.jpg won thrice for In Bruges (2008), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017), and The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)]]
File:Michel Hazanavicius César 2012 - 2.jpg won for The Artist (2011)]]
File:David O Russell 2011 Shankbone.JPG won for American Hustle (2013)]]
File:Kenneth Lonergan Viennale 2016 opening 4 (cropped).jpg won for Manchester by the Sea (2016)]]
File:Bong Joon-ho 2017.jpg won for Parasite (2019)]]
File:Emerald Fennell, 2023 (1).jpg won for Promising Young Woman (2020)]]
File:Paul Thomas Anderson 2022 (2) (cropped).jpg won for Licorice Pizza (2021)]]
File:AnatomyOfFallPicCent011123 (1 of 8) (53327939769) (cropped).jpg won for Anatomy of a Fall (2023)]]
File:Jesse Eisenberg-62192 (cropped).jpg won for A Real Pain (2024)]]
=1980s=
=1990s=
| class="wikitable sortable"
!scope="col" style="width:8%;"| Year !scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Film !scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Screenwriter(s) !scope="col" style="width:2%;" class="unsortable"|{{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}} |
| rowspan="4"| {{center|1990 {{small|(44th)}}}} | style="background:#FAEB86"| Cinema Paradiso | style="background:#FAEB86"| Giuseppe Tornatore | rowspan=4| |
| Crimes and Misdemeanors |
| Ghost |
| Pretty Woman |
| rowspan="4"| {{center|1991 {{small|(45th)}}}} | style="background:#FAEB86"| Truly, Madly, Deeply | style="background:#FAEB86"| Anthony Minghella | rowspan=4| |
| The Fisher King |
| Green Card |
| Thelma & Louise |
| rowspan="4"| {{center|1992 {{small|(46th)}}}} | style="background:#FAEB86"| Husbands and Wives | style="background:#FAEB86"| Woody Allen | rowspan=4| |
| The Crying Game |
| Hear My Song
| Peter Chelsom and Adrian Dunbar |
| Unforgiven |
| rowspan="4"| {{center|1993 {{small|(47th)}}}} | style="background:#FAEB86"| Groundhog Day | style="background:#FAEB86"| Harold Ramis and Danny Rubin | rowspan=4| |
| In the Line of Fire |
| The Piano |
| Sleepless in Seattle
| Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron and David S. Ward |
| rowspan="4"| {{center|1994 {{small|(48th)}}}} | style="background:#FAEB86"| Pulp Fiction | style="background:#FAEB86"| Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary | rowspan=4| |
| The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert |
| Four Weddings and a Funeral |
| Philadelphia |
| rowspan="4"| {{center|1995 {{small|(49th)}}}} | style="background:#FAEB86"| The Usual Suspects | style="background:#FAEB86"| Christopher McQuarrie | rowspan=4| |
| Bullets over Broadway
| Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath |
| Muriel's Wedding |
| Se7en |
| rowspan="5"| {{center|1996 {{small|(50th)}}}} | style="background:#FAEB86"| Secrets & Lies | style="background:#FAEB86"| Mike Leigh | rowspan=5| |
| Brassed Off |
| Fargo |
| Lone Star |
| Shine |
| rowspan="4"| {{center|1997 {{small|(51st)}}}} | style="background:#FAEB86"| Nil by Mouth | style="background:#FAEB86"| Gary Oldman | rowspan=4| |
| Boogie Nights |
| The Full Monty |
| Mrs Brown |
| rowspan="4"| {{center|1998 {{small|(52nd)}}}} | style="background:#FAEB86"| The Truman Show | style="background:#FAEB86"| Andrew Niccol | rowspan=4| |
| Elizabeth |
| Life Is Beautiful |
| Shakespeare in Love
| Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard |
| rowspan="5", align=center|1999 {{small|(53rd)}} | style="background:#FAEB86"| Being John Malkovich | style="background:#FAEB86"| Charlie Kaufman | rowspan=5|{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/707568.stm|title=American Beauty shines at Baftas|work=BBC News|date=9 April 2000|access-date=1 July 2021|archive-date=30 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211030000637/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/707568.stm|url-status=live}} |
| All About My Mother |
| American Beauty |
| The Sixth Sense |
| Topsy-Turvy |
=2000s=
=2010s=
=2020s=
Multiple wins and nominations
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=Multiple wins=
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |
| scope="col" width="55" | Wins
! scope="col" align="center" | Screenwriter |
|---|
| rowspan=1 style="text-align:center;" | 4 |
| rowspan=1 style="text-align:center;" | 3 |
| rowspan=4 style="text-align:center;" | 2 |
| Charlie Kaufman |
| Tom McCarthy |
| Quentin Tarantino |
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= Multiple nominations =
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |
| scope="col" width="55" | Nominations
! scope="col" align="center" | Screenwriter |
|---|
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 10 |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 6 |
| rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;" | 5 |
| rowspan="6" style="text-align:center;" | 3 |
| Wes Anderson |
| Alfonso Cuarón |
| Mike Leigh |
| David Leland |
| Martin McDonagh |
| rowspan=19 style="text-align:center;" | 2 |
| Pedro Almodóvar |
| Guillermo Arriaga |
| Mark Boal |
| Damien Chazelle |
| Guillermo del Toro |
| Pete Docter |
| Nora Ephron |
| Bill Forsyth |
| Charlie Kaufman |
| Neil Jordan |
| John Logan |
| Kenneth Lonergan |
| Tom McCarthy |
| Adam McKay |
| Bob Peterson |
| Josh Singer |
| Aaron Sorkin |
| Steven Zaillian |
{{col-end}}
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
{{BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay}}
{{BAFTA Film Awards Chron}}