European Film Award for Best Screenwriter | |
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Awarded for | Best Achievement in Screenwriting |
Presented by | European Film Academy |
First awarded | Louis Malle Au revoir les enfants (1988) |
Currently held by | Jacques Audiard Emilia Pérez (2024) |
Website | europeanfilmacademy |
The European Film Award for Best Screenwriter is an award given out at the annual European Film Awards to recognize a screenwriter who has delivered an outstanding screenplay in a film industry. The award is presented by the European Film Academy (EFA) and was first presented in 1988 to French director and screenwriter Louis Malle for Goodbye Children .
István Szabó, Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Thomas Vinterberg, Tobias Lindholm, Ruben Östlund and Paweł Pawlikowski are the only writers who have received this award more than once, with two wins each.
Year | Winner and nominees | English title | Original title |
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1988 (1st) | Louis Malle | Goodbye Children | Au Revoir Les Enfants |
Manoel de Oliveira | The Cannibals | Os Canibais | |
Terence Davies | Distant Voices, Still Lives | ||
Daniele Luchetti Franco Bernini Angelo Pasquini | It's Happening Tomorrow | Domani accadrà | |
Wolfgang Held | Bear Ye One Another's Burden | Einer trage des anderen Last | |
1989 (2nd) | Mariya Khmelik | Little Vera | Ма́ленькая Ве́ра |
Géza Bereményi | The Midas Touch | Eldorádó | |
Þráinn Bertelsson | Magnus | ||
Theodoros Angelopoulos Tonino Guerra Thanassis Valtinos | Landscape in the Mist | Topio stin omichli | |
Maciej Dejczer Cezary Harasimowicz | 300 Miles to Heaven | 300 mil do nieba | |
Screenwriter | Awards | Nominations |
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Jean-Pierre Bacri | 2 | 3 |
Agnès Jaoui | 2 | 3 |
Paweł Pawlikowski | 2 | 2 |
István Szabó | 2 | 2 |
Ruben Östlund | 2 | 2 |
Tobias Lindholm | 2 | 2 |
Thomas Vinterberg | 2 | 2 |
Pedro Almodóvar | 1 | 5 |
Michael Haneke | 1 | 4 |
Jacques Audiard | 1 | 3 |
François Ozon | 1 | 3 |
Dardenne brothers | 1 | 2 |
Roman Polanski | 1 | 2 |
Fatih Akin | 1 | 2 |
Ugo Chiti | 1 | 2 |
Efthimis Filippou | 1 | 2 |
Matteo Garrone | 1 | 2 |
Massimo Gaudioso | 1 | 2 |
Yorgos Lanthimos | 1 | 2 |
Paolo Sorrentino | 0 | 4 |
Paul Laverty | 0 | 4 |
Anders Thomas Jensen | 0 | 3 |
Aki Kaurismäki | 0 | 3 |
Cristian Mungiu | 0 | 3 |
Lars von Trier | 0 | 3 |
/ Ali Abbasi | 0 | 2 |
Maurizio Braucci | 0 | 2 |
Gianni Di Gregorio | 0 | 2 |
Robert Harris | 0 | 2 |
Radu Jude | 0 | 2 |
Steven Knight | 0 | 2 |
Oleg Negin | 0 | 2 |
Andrey Zvyagintsev | 0 | 2 |
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