BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay
{{Short description|British film industry award}}
{{Infobox award
| name = BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay
| image =
| awarded_for = Best Screenplay
| presenter = British Academy of Film and Television Arts
| location = United Kingdom
|year = 1968 (presented 1969)
|year2 = 1982 (presented 1983)
| website = http://www.bafta.org/
}}
The BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay is a British Academy Film Award for the best script. It was awarded from 1968 to 1982. In 1983 it was split into BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay and BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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 nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year.
Winners and nominees
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=1960s=
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| style="width:5%;"| Year
! style="width:30%;"| Film ! style="width:40%;"| Screenwriter(s) |
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| rowspan="3"| {{center|1968 {{small|(22nd)}} {{cite web|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1969/film/|title=BAFTA {{!}} Film in 1969|website=bafta.org|access-date=2024-02-01|archive-date=2024-02-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201192707/http://awards.bafta.org/award/1969/film/|url-status=live}}}} | style="background:#FAEB86"| The Graduate | style="background:#FAEB86"| Calder Willingham and Buck Henry |
| if.... |
| The Lion in Winter |
| rowspan="4"| {{center|1969 {{small|(23rd)}} {{cite web|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1970/film/|title=BAFTA {{!}} Film in 1970|website=bafta.org|access-date=2024-02-01}}}} | style="background:#FAEB86"| Midnight Cowboy | style="background:#FAEB86"| Waldo Salt |
| Goodbye, Columbus |
| Women in Love |
| Z
| Costa-Gavras and Jorge Semprún |
=1970s=
=1980s=
Multiple wins and nominations
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=Multiple wins=
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| scope="col" width="55" | Wins
! scope="col" align="center" | Screenwriter |
|---|
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | 2 |
| Marshall Brickman |
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= Multiple nominations =
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |
| scope="col" width="55" | Nominations
! scope="col" align="center" | Screenwriter |
|---|
| rowspan="10" style="text-align:center;" | 2 |
| Marshall Brickman |
| Jean-Claude Carrière |
| Paddy Chayefsky |
| Costa-Gavras |
| William Goldman |
| John Guare |
| Harold Pinter |
| Neil Simon |
| Colin Welland |
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Notes
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:A{{note label|Towne||1}}: According to the BAFTA database, Robert Towne received a single joint award for two different films.{{cite web|url=https://awards.bafta.org/award/1975/film/screenplay|title=Film {{!}} Screenplay in 1975|publisher=British Academy of Film and Television Arts|access-date=19 January 2024|archive-date=2 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240302033201/http://awards.bafta.org/award/1975/film/screenplay|url-status=live}}
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References
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External links
- [http://www.bafta.org/ Official site at BAFTA.org]
{{BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay}}
{{BAFTA Film Awards Chron}}