Venice Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay

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Best Screenplay
Valerie Donzelli at 82nd Venice International Film Festival-3.jpg
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.

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

Winners

Alfonso Cuaron won for Y tu mama tambien Alfonso Cuaron (2013) cropped.jpg
Alfonso Cuarón won for Y tu mamá también
Martin McDonagh won twice, for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh 2012.jpg
Martin McDonagh won twice, for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and The Banshees of Inisherin
Rakhshan Banietemad won for Tales Rakhshan Bani Etemad 04 (cropped).jpg
Rakhshān Banietemad won for Tales
Joel and Ethan Coen won for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs COEN Brothers (cannesPH).jpg
Joel and Ethan Coen won for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

2000s

YearWriter(s)English TitleOriginal TitleRef.
2000 Flag of Italy.svg Claudio Fava, Marco Tullio Giordana and Monica Zapelli One Hundred Steps I cento passi [1]
2001 Flag of Mexico.svg Alfonso Cuarón and Carlos Cuarón Y tu mamá también [2]

2010s

YearWriter(s)English TitleOriginal TitleRef.
2013 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope Philomena [3]
2014 Flag of Iran.svg Rakhshān Banietemad Tales قصه‌ها [4]
2015 Flag of France.svg Christian Vincent Courted L'Hermine [5]
2016 Flag of the United States.svg Noah Oppenheim Jackie [6]
2017 Flag of Ireland.svg Martin McDonagh Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri [7]
2018 Flag of the United States.svg Joel and Ethan Coen The Ballad of Buster Scruggs [8]
2019 Flag of Hong Kong.svg Yonfan No.7 Cherry Lane 繼園臺七號 [9]

2020s

YearWriter(s)English TitleOriginal TitleRef.
2020 Flag of India.svg Chaitanya Tamhane The Disciple [10]
2021 Flag of the United States.svg Maggie Gyllenhaal The Lost Daughter [11]
2022 Flag of Ireland.svg Martin McDonagh The Banshees of Inisherin [12]
2023 Flag of Chile.svg Guillermo Calderón and Pablo Larraín El Conde [13] [14]
2024 Flag of Brazil.svg Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega I'm Still Here Ainda Estou Aqui [15]
2025 Flag of France.svg 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 WinsWriterNationalityFilms
2 Martin McDonagh Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) and The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)

See also

References

  1. ↑ "I cento passi". Venice Biennale. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
  2. ↑ "Y tu mamá también". Venice Biennale. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
  3. ↑ "Venezia 70". labiennale. Archived from the original on 28 July 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  4. ↑ "'Pigeon' Soars, 'Birdman' Snubbed at Venice Awards". Variety. 6 September 2014. Retrieved 7 September 2014.
  5. ↑ "LIVE: The winners of the 72nd Venice Film Festival" . Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  6. ↑ "Venice Film Festival: Golden Lion To 'The Woman Who Left'; Tom Ford's 'Nocturnal Animals', Emma Stone Take Major Prizes – Full List". Deadline Hollywood. September 11, 2016. Archived from the original on September 11, 2016. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
  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.
  10. ↑ "Venice Film Festival 2020 Winners: Nomadland Takes Golden Lion, Vanessa Kirby Is Best Actress". IndieWire. 12 September 2020. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  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.
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