| Karnataka State Film Award for Best Screenplay | |
|---|---|
| State award for contributions to Kannada cinema | |
| Awarded for | Award for creating well-woven screenplay |
| Sponsored by | Government of Karnataka |
| Reward(s) |
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| First awarded | 1967-68 |
| Last awarded | 2017 |
| Most recent winner | Venkat Bharadwaj |
| Highlights | |
| Total awarded | 50 |
| First winner | S. R. Puttanna Kanagal |
Karnataka State Film Award for Best Screenplay is a state film award of the Indian state of Karnataka given during the annual Karnataka State Film Awards. The award honors Kannada language films.
| • Sunil Kumar Desai | 3 Awards |
| • Girish Kasaravalli | 4 Awards |
| • Puttanna Kanagal | 6 Awards |
The first recipient of the award is S. R. Puttanna Kanagal. For six times, multiple writers were awarded for their work in a single film; Shankar Nag and Mariam Jetpurwala for Minchina Ota (1979), Singeetam Srinivasa Rao and Chi. Udayashankar for Bhagyada Lakshmi Baramma (1985, first time) and Anand (1986, second time), S. V. Rajendra Singh Babu and Ramani for Kothigalu Saar Kothigalu (2001), Prakash and M. S. Abhishek for Rishi (2004), Shashank and Raghu Kovi for Krishna Leela (2015).
The following is a complete list of award winners and the name of the films for which they won.
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