BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay

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BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay
Awarded forBest Screenplay
Location United Kingdom
Presented by British Academy of Film and Television Arts
First awarded1968 (presented 1969)
Last awarded1982 (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.

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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

  indicates the winner

1960s

YearFilmScreenwriter(s)
1968
(22nd)
[1]
The Graduate Calder Willingham and Buck Henry
if.... David Sherwin
The Lion in Winter James Goldman
1969
(23rd)
[2]
Midnight Cowboy Waldo Salt
Goodbye, Columbus Arnold Schulman
Women in Love Larry Kramer
Z Costa-Gavras and Jorge Semprún

1970s

YearFilmScreenwriter(s)
1970
(24th)
[3]
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid William Goldman
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker
Kes Barry Hines, Ken Loach and Tony Garnett
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? James Poe and Robert E. Thompson
1971
(25th)
[4]
The Go-Between Harold Pinter
Gumshoe Neville Smith
Sunday Bloody Sunday Penelope Gilliatt
Taking Off Miloš Forman, John Guare, Jean-Claude Carrière and John Klein
1972
(26th)
[5]
The Hospital (TIE) Paddy Chayefsky
The Last Picture Show (TIE) Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich
Cabaret Jay Presson Allen
A Clockwork Orange Stanley Kubrick
1973
(27th)
[6]
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière
The Day of the Jackal Kenneth Ross
Sleuth Anthony Shaffer
A Touch of Class Melvin Frank and Jack Rose
1974
(28th)
[7]
Chinatown
The Last Detail
Robert Towne [A]
Blazing Saddles Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor and Alan Uger
The Conversation Francis Ford Coppola
Lacombe, Lucien Louis Malle and Patrick Modiano
1975
(29th)
[8]
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Robert Getchell
Dog Day Afternoon Frank Pierson
Jaws Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb
Nashville Joan Tewkesbury
1976
(30th)
[9]
Bugsy Malone Alan Parker
All the President's Men William Goldman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben
The Sunshine Boys Neil Simon
1977
(31st)
[10]
Annie Hall Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
Equus Peter Shaffer
Network Paddy Chayefsky
Rocky Sylvester Stallone
1978
(32nd)
[11]
Julia Alvin Sargent
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Steven Spielberg
The Goodbye Girl Neil Simon
A Wedding John Considine, Patricia Resnick, Allan F. Nicholls and Robert Altman
1979
(33rd)
[12]
Manhattan Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
The China Syndrome Mike Gray, T. S. Cook and James Bridges
The Deer Hunter Deric Washburn
Yanks Colin Welland and Walter Bernstein

1980s

YearFilmScreenwriter(s)
1980
(34th)
[13]
Being There Jerzy Kosiński
Airplane! Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker
The Elephant Man Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren and David Lynch
Kramer vs. Kramer Robert Benton
1981
(35th)
[14]
Gregory's Girl Bill Forsyth
Atlantic City John Guare
Chariots of Fire Colin Welland
The French Lieutenant's Woman Harold Pinter
1982
(36th)
[15]
Missing Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Melissa Mathison
Gandhi John Briley
On Golden Pond Ernest Thompson

Multiple wins and nominations

Notes

    A 1 : According to the BAFTA database, Robert Towne received a single joint award for two different films. [16]

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