Venice Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay

Best Screenplay
2025 co-recipient: Valérie Donzelli
Location	Venice
Country	Italy
Presented by	Venice Film Festival
First award	2000
Currently held by	Valérie Donzelli and Gilles Marchand for At Work (2025)
Website	labiennale.org/en/cinema

The Best Screenplay Award is an annual award presented for best screenwriting achievements in a feature film in the official competition section of the Venice Film Festival since 2000.

The prize was first awarded to Claudio Fava, Marco Tullio Giordana and Monica Zapelli for One Hundred Steps in 2000.

Winners

Alfonso Cuarón won for Y tu mamá también

Martin McDonagh won twice, for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and The Banshees of Inisherin

Rakhshān Banietemad won for Tales

Joel and Ethan Coen won for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

2000s

Year	Writer(s)	English Title	Original Title	Ref.
2000	Claudio Fava, Marco Tullio Giordana and Monica Zapelli	One Hundred Steps	I cento passi	[1]
2001	Alfonso Cuarón and Carlos Cuarón	Y tu mamá también		[2]

2010s

Year	Writer(s)	English Title	Original Title	Ref.
2013	Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope	Philomena		[3]
2014	Rakhshān Banietemad	Tales	قصه‌ها	[4]
2015	Christian Vincent	Courted	L'Hermine	[5]
2016	Noah Oppenheim	Jackie		[6]
2017	Martin McDonagh	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri		[7]
2018	Joel and Ethan Coen	The Ballad of Buster Scruggs		[8]
2019	Yonfan	No.7 Cherry Lane	繼園臺七號	[9]

2020s

Year	Writer(s)	English Title	Original Title	Ref.
2020	Chaitanya Tamhane	The Disciple		[10]
2021	Maggie Gyllenhaal	The Lost Daughter		[11]
2022	Martin McDonagh	The Banshees of Inisherin		[12]
2023	Guillermo Calderón and Pablo Larraín	El Conde		[13] [14]
2024	Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega	I'm Still Here	Ainda Estou Aqui	[15]
2025	Valérie Donzelli and Gilles Marchand	At Work	À pied d'œuvre	[16]

Multiple Winners

The following individuals received two or more Best Screenplay awards:

Number of Wins	Writer	Films
2	Martin McDonagh	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) and The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)

See also

• Golden Osella (until 2012)
• Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay
• Berlin Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay

References

1. "I cento passi". Venice Biennale. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
2. "Y tu mamá también". Venice Biennale. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
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7. "Venice: Guillermo del Toro Wins Golden Lion for 'The Shape of Water'". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved January 5, 2018.
8. Vivarelli, Nick (September 8, 2018). "'Venice Film Festival: Alfonso Cuaron's 'Roma' Wins Golden Lion (Complete Winners List)". Variety. Retrieved September 9, 2018.
9. Anderson, Ariston. "Venice: Todd Phillips' 'Joker' Wins Golden Lion, Roman Polanski Wins Silver Lion". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
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11. "Biennale Cinema 2021 | Official awards of the 78th Venice Film Festival". La Biennale di Venezia. 2021-09-11. Retrieved 2021-09-12.
12. Tartaglione, Nancy (10 September 2022). "Venice Film Festival Winners: Golden Lion Goes to 'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed'; Luca Guadagnino Best Director, Martin McDonagh Best Screenplay; Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell Take Acting Prizes". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved 24 December 2022.
13. Tartaglione, Nancy; Ntim, Zac (9 September 2023). "Venice Winners: Golden Lion Goes to Yorgos Lanthimos for 'Poor Things'; Hamaguchi, Sarsgaard, Spaeny Also Score — Full List". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
14. de Culto, Equipo (9 September 2023). "Pablo Larraín y Guillermo Calderón ganan a Mejor Guion por "El Conde" en el Festival de Cine de Venecia". La Tercera (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 September 2023.
15. Tartaglione, Andreas Wiseman, Nancy (2024-09-07). "Venice Winners: Pedro Almodóvar's 'The Room Next Door' Wins The Golden Lion; Also Wins For Nicole Kidman, Brady Corbet, 'I'm Still Here' & More". Deadline. Retrieved 2024-11-04.
16. Tartaglione, Nancy (2025-09-06). "Venice Film Festival – Jim Jarmusch's 'Father Mother Sister Brother' Is Golden Lion Winner; 'Voice Of Hind Rajab' Takes Grand Jury Prize; Benny Safdie Best Director For 'The Smashing Machine'". Deadline. Retrieved 2025-09-06.

External links

• Official website (in English and Italian)
• Venice Film Festival at IMDb