Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay

Last updated June 20, 2024

The Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for best screenplay.

Winners and nominees

This category existed between 1998 and 2004. It was reintroduced in 2011. Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.^[1]

Original Run


Year	Nominated Film / Series	Screenwriter	Result	Ref
1998	Dark City	Alex Proyas	Won (tie)	^[2]
	Gods and Monsters	Bill Condon	Won (tie)	^[2]
	Fallen	Nicholas Kazan	Nominated	^[2]
	Millennium (Season 2, Episode 21: "Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me")	Darin Morgan	Nominated	^[2]
1999	The Sixth Sense	M. Night Shyamalan	Won	^[3]
	The Blair Witch Project	Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez	Nominated	^[3]
	Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Season 4, Episode 10: "Hush")	Joss Whedon
	The Green Mile	Frank Darabont
2000	Shadow of the Vampire	Steven Katz	Won	^[4]
	The Cell	Mark Protosevich	Nominated	^[4]
	Pitch Black	David Twohy, Ken Wheat, and Jim Wheat
	Requiem for a Dream	Darren Aronofsky and Hubert Selby Jr.
	Unbreakable	M. Night Shyamalan
2001	Memento	Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan	Won	^[5]
	From Hell	Terry Hayes and Rafael Yglesias (based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell)	Nominated	^[5]
	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh (based on the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien)
	The Others	Alejandro Amenábar
2002	Frailty	Brent Hanley	Won	^[6]
	Minority Report	Jon Cohen and Scott Frank (based on the story by Philip K. Dick)	Nominated	^[6]
	The Ring	Ehren Kruger (based on the novel by Koji Suzuki and film by Hiroshi Takahashi)
	Signs	M. Night Shyamalan
2003	Bubba Ho-Tep	Don Coscarelli	Won	^[7]
	Identity	Michael Cooney	Nominated	^[7]
	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio	Nominated	^[7]
2004	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, and Pierre Bismuth	Won (tie)	^[8]
	Shaun of the Dead	Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright	Won (tie)	^[8]
	Dawn of the Dead	James Gunn	Nominated	^[8]
	Hellboy	Guillermo del Toro	Nominated	^[8]

2011-present

Year	Nominated Film / Series	Screenwriter	Result	Ref
2011	American Horror Story: Murder House (Season 1, Episode 12: "Afterbirth")	Jessica Sharzer	Won	^[9]
	The Adjustment Bureau	George Nolfi	Nominated	^[9]
	Priest	Cory Goodman
	True Blood (Season 4, Episode 8: "Spellbound")	Alan Ball
	The Walking Dead (Season 2, Episode 7: "Pretty Much Dead Already")	Scott M. Gimple
	The Walking Dead (Season 2, Episode 3: "Save the Last One")	Scott M. Gimple
2012	The Cabin in the Woods	Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard	Won	^[10]
	American Horror Story: Asylum (Season 2, Episode 7: "Dark Cousin")	Tim Minear	Nominated	^[10]
	The Hunger Games	Gary Ross, Suzanne Collins, and Billy Ray
	The Walking Dead (Season 3, Episode 4: "Killer Within")	Sang Kyu Kim
	The Woman in Black	Jane Goldman
2013	The Walking Dead (Season 3, Episode 16: "Welcome to the Tombs")	Glen Mazzara	Won	^[11]
	American Horror Story: Asylum (Season 2, Episode 11: "Spilt Milk")	Brad Falchuk	Nominated	^[11]
	Dracula (Episode: "A Whiff of Sulfur")	Daniel Knauf
	Hannibal (Episode: "Apéritif")	Bryan Fuller
	The Returned (Season 1, Episode 8: "The Horde")	Frédéric Adda and Fabrice Gobert
2014	The Babadook	Jennifer Kent	Won	^[12]
	American Horror Story: Coven (Season 3, Episode 10: "The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks")	James Wong	Nominated	^[12]
	Doctor Who (Series 8, Episode 4: "Listen")	Steven Moffat
	Penny Dreadful (Season 1, Episode 2: "Séance")	John Logan
	The Walking Dead (Season 4, Episode 14: "The Grove")	Scott M. Gimple
2015	It Follows	David Robert Mitchell	Won	^[13]
	Crimson Peak	Guillermo del Toro and Matthew Robbins	Nominated	^[13]
	Penny Dreadful (Season 2, Episode 9: "And Hell Itself My Only Foe")	John Logan
	Penny Dreadful (Season 2, Episode 3: "The Nightcomers")	John Logan
	What We Do in the Shadows	Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
2016	The Witch	Robert Eggers	Won	^[14]
	10 Cloverfield Lane	Josh Campbell, Damien Chazelle, and Matthew Stuecken	Nominated	^[14]
	Penny Dreadful (Season 3, Episode 4: "A Blade of Grass")	John Logan
	Stranger Things (Season 1, Episode 1: "Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers")	The Duffer Brothers
	Stranger Things (Season 1, Episode 8: "Chapter Eight: The Upside Down")	The Duffer Brothers
2017	Get Out	Jordan Peele	Won	^[15]
	It	Chase Palmer, Cary Fukunaga, and Gary Dauberman	Nominated	^[15]
	The Shape of Water	Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor
	Stranger Things (Season 2, Episode 1: "Chapter One: MADMAX")	The Duffer Brothers
	Twin Peaks (Season 3, Episode 8: "Part 8")	Mark Frost and David Lynch
2018	The Haunting of Hill House (Season 1, Episode 5: "The Bent-Neck Lady")	Meredith Averill	Won	^[16]
	Annihilation	Alex Garland	Nominated	^[16]
	Bird Box	Eric Heisserer
	Hereditary	Ari Aster
	A Quiet Place	Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, and John Krasinski
2019	Us	Jordan Peele	Won	^[17]
	Doctor Sleep	Mike Flanagan	Nominated	^[17]
	The Lighthouse	Robert Eggers and Max Eggers
	Midsommar	Ari Aster
	Stranger Things (Season 3, Episode 8: "Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt")	Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer
2020	The Invisible Man	Leigh Whannell (Universal Pictures, Blumhouse Productions, Goalpost Pictures, Nervous Tick Productions)	Won	^[18]
	Color Out of Space	Scarlett Amaris and Richard Stanley (SpectreVision)	Nominated	^[18]
	Lovecraft Country (Season 1, Episode 1: "Sundown")	Misha Green (Affeme, Monkeypaw Productions, Bad Robot Productions, Warner Bros. Television Studios)
	Lovecraft Country (Season 1, Episode 8: "Jig-a-Bobo")	Misha Green and Ihuoma Ofordire (Affeme, Monkeypaw Productions, Bad Robot Productions, Warner Bros. Television Studios)
	The Haunting of Bly Manor (Season 1, Episode 5: "The Altar of the Dead")	Angela LaManna (Intrepid Pictures, Amblin Television, Paramount Television Studios)
2021	Midnight Mass (Season 1, Episode 6: "Book VI: Acts of the Apostles")	Mike Flanagan, James Flanagan, and Jeff Howard (Intrepid Pictures)	Won	^[19]
	Antlers	C. Henry Chaisson, Nick Antosca, and Scott Cooper (Searchlight Pictures)	Nominated	^[19]
	Candyman	Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld, and Nia DaCosta (Universal Pictures)
	Fear Street: Part One – 1994	Phil Graziadei and Leigh Janiak (Chernin Entertainment)
	Squid Game (Season 1, Episode 1: "Red Light, Green Light")	Hwang Dong-hyuk (Siren Pictures)
2022	The Black Phone	Scott Derrickson & C. Robert Cargill	Won (tie)	^[20]
	Stranger Things (Season 4, Episode 1: "Chapter One: The Hellfire Club")	The Duffer Brothers	Won (tie)	^[20]
	The Pale Blue Eye	Scott Cooper	Nominated	^[20]
	Men	Alex Garland
	Pearl	Mia Goth & Ti West
2023	Godzilla Minus One	Takashi Yamazaki	Won	^[21]
	Black Mirror (Season 6, Episode 3: Beyond the Sea)	Charlie Brooker	Nominated	^[21]
	Huesera: The Bone Woman	Michelle Garza Cervera & Abia Castillo
	No One Will Save You	Brian Duffield
	When Evil Lurks	Demián Rugna

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v t e Bram Stoker Award
Horror Writers Association
Current categories	Novel (1987–) First Novel (1987–) Young Adult Novel (2011–) Graphic Novel (2011–) Long Fiction (1998–) Short Fiction (1998–) Fiction Collection (1998–) Screenplay (1998–2004, 2011–) Anthology (1998–) Non-Fiction (1987–) Poetry Collection (2000–) Lifetime Achievement (1987–)
Discontinued categories	Novelette (1987–1997) Short Story (1987–1997) Collection (1987–1997) Other Media (1993, 1998–2000) Illustrated Narrative (1998–2004) Work for Young Readers (1998–2004) Alternative Forms (2001–2004)