AACTA International Award for Best Screenplay

Best Screenplay
AACTA International Award
Best Screenplay; AACTA International Award
Country	Australia
Presented by	Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA)
First award	2012
Currently held by	Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain (2024)
Website	http://www.aacta.org

Last updated August 09, 2025

The AACTA International Award for Best Screenplay is an accolade given by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), a non-profit organisation whose aim is to "identify, award, promote, and celebrate Australia's greatest achievements in film and television".^[1] The award is presented at the annual AACTA International Awards, which rewards achievements in feature films, regardless of the country the film was made.^[2] The winners and nominees are determined by the international chapter of the academy, which comprises eighty members of Australian filmmakers and executives.^[3]

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the winner is marked in a separate colour, and highlighted in boldface; the nominees are those that are not highlighted or in boldface.^[4]

2010s

Year	Film	Screenwriter(s)	Source
2011 (1st)
	The Ides of March	George Clooney, Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon	*The play Farragut North* by Willimon**
	Margin Call	J. C. Chandor	Original screenplay
	The Artist	Michel Hazanavicius	Original screenplay
	The Descendants	Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash	The novel of the same name by Kaui Hart Hemmings
	Melancholia	Lars von Trier	Original screenplay
	Midnight in Paris	Woody Allen	Original screenplay
	Moneyball	Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin and Stan Chervin	The book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
	We Need to Talk About Kevin	Lynne Ramsay and Rory Kinnear	The novel of the same name by Lionel Shriver
2012 (2nd)
	Django Unchained	Quentin Tarantino	Original screenplay
	Argo	Chris Terrio	The memoir Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA by Tony Mendez & the Wired magazine article The Great Escape: How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran by Joshuah Bearman
	Lincoln	Tony Kushner	The book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
	The Master	Paul Thomas Anderson	Original screenplay
	Silver Linings Playbook	David O. Russell	The novel of the same name by Matthew Quick
	Zero Dark Thirty	Mark Boal	Original screenplay
2013 (3rd)
	American Hustle	Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell	Original screenplay
	12 Years a Slave	John Ridley	The memoir of the same name by Solomon Northup
	Blue Jasmine	Woody Allen	Original screenplay
	Inside Llewyn Davis	Joel and Ethan Coen
	Saving Mr. Banks	Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith
2014 (4th)
	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)	Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. and Armando Bo	Original screenplay
	Boyhood	Richard Linklater	Original screenplay
	The Grand Budapest Hotel	Wes Anderson	Original screenplay
	The Imitation Game	Graham Moore	The book Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
	Whiplash	Damien Chazelle	Original screenplay
2015 (5th)
	Spotlight	Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer	Original screenplay
	Carol	Phyllis Nagy	The novel The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
	Ex Machina	Alex Garland	Original screenplay
	The Martian	Drew Goddard	The novel of the same name by Andy Weir
	Steve Jobs	Aaron Sorkin	The book of the same name by Walter Isaacson
2016 (6th)
	Manchester by the Sea	Kenneth Lonergan	Original screenplay
	Hacksaw Ridge	Andrew Knight and Robert Schenkkan	Original screenplay
	Hell or High Water	Taylor Sheridan
	La La Land	Damien Chazelle
	Lion	Luke Davies	The memoir A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley and Larry Buttrose
2017 (7th)
	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Martin McDonagh	Original screenplay
	Call Me by Your Name	James Ivory	The novel of the same name by André Aciman
	Dunkirk	Christopher Nolan	Original screenplay
	Get Out	Jordan Peele
	Lady Bird	Greta Gerwig
2018 (8th)
	The Favourite	Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara	Original screenplay
	BlacKkKlansman	Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel, Kevin Willmott	The memoir Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth
	Bohemian Rhapsody	Anthony McCarten	Original screenplay
	A Quiet Place	Scott Beck, John Krasinski, Bryan Woods
	Roma	Alfonso Cuarón
2019 (9th)
	Jojo Rabbit	Taika Waititi	*The novel Caging Skies* by Christine Leunens**
	The Irishman	Steven Zaillian	The book I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt
	Joker	Todd Phillips, Scott Silver	Based on the character by DC Comics
	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	Quentin Tarantino	Original screenplay
	Parasite	Bong Joon-ho, Han Jin-won	Original screenplay

2020s

Year	Film	Screenwriter(s)	Notes
2020 (10th)
	The Trial of the Chicago 7	Aaron Sorkin	Original screenplay
	The Father	Florian Zeller, Christopher Hampton	The play Le Père by Zeller
	Mank	Jack Fincher	Original screenplay
	Nomadland	Chloé Zhao	The book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder
	Promising Young Woman	Emerald Fennell	Original screenplay
2021 (11th)
	Being the Ricardos	Aaron Sorkin	Original screenplay
	Belfast	Kenneth Branagh	Original screenplay
	Licorice Pizza	Paul Thomas Anderson
	Nitram	Shaun Grant
	The Power of the Dog	Jane Campion	The novel of the same name by Thomas Savage
2022 (12th)
	The Banshees of Inisherin	Martin McDonagh	Original screenplay
	Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery	Rian Johnson	Based on the character Benoit Blanc by Johnson
	Tár	Todd Field	Original screenplay
	Triangle of Sadness	Ruben Östlund
	The Woman King	Dana Stevens and Maria Bello
2023 (13th)
	Poor Things	Tony McNamara	*The novel Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer* by Alasdair Gray**
	American Fiction	Cord Jefferson	The novel Erasure by Percival Everett
	Barbie	Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach	Based on Barbie by Mattel
	Maestro	Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer	Original screenplay
	Oppenheimer	Christopher Nolan	The book American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
2024 (14th)
	A Real Pain	Jesse Eisenberg	Original screenplay
	Anora	Sean Baker	Original screenplay
	Better Man	Michael Gracey, Oliver Cole and Simon Gleeson
	The Brutalist	Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold
	Conclave	Peter Straughan	The novel of the same name by Robert Harris

References

↑ "AACTA – The Academy". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Archived from the original on 24 June 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
↑ "AACTA – The Awards – AACTA International Awards". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 5 January 2014.
↑ "Australian Academy announces nominees for 3rd AACTA International Awards" (PDF). Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). 13 December 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 5 January 2014.
↑ "AACTA International Award Nominees" (PDF). Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). 15 January 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2012.^{[ dead link ]}

External links

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[1] "AACTA – The Academy". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Archived from the original on 24 June 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2014.

[2] "AACTA – The Awards – AACTA International Awards". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 5 January 2014.

[3] "Australian Academy announces nominees for 3rd AACTA International Awards" (PDF). Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). 13 December 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 5 January 2014.

[nominees-4] "AACTA International Award Nominees" (PDF). Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). 15 January 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2012.^{[ dead link ]}

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