BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
The BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay is the British Academy Film Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. It has been awarded since 1984, when the original category (BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay) was split into two awards, the other being the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Winners and nominees
1980s
1983: The King of Comedy – Paul D. Zimmerman
1984: Broadway Danny Rose – Woody Allen
- The Big Chill – Barbara Benedek and Lawrence Kasdan
- Comfort and Joy – Bill Forsyth
- A Private Function – Alan Bennett
1985: The Purple Rose of Cairo – Woody Allen
- Back to the Future – Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis
- My Beautiful Laundrette – Hanif Kureishi
- Witness – William Kelley and Earl W. Wallace
1986: Hannah and Her Sisters – Woody Allen
- Crocodile Dundee – John Cornell, Paul Hogan and Ken Shadie
- The Mission – Robert Bolt
- Mona Lisa – Neil Jordan and David Leland
1987: Wish You Were Here – David Leland
1988: A World Apart – Shawn Slovo
- Au revoir, les enfants – Louis Malle
- A Fish Called Wanda – John Cleese
- Moonstruck – John Patrick Shanley
1989: When Harry Met Sally... – Nora Ephron
- Dead Poets Society – Tom Schulman
- Rain Man – Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow
- Sex, Lies, and Videotape – Steven Soderbergh
1990s
1990: Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo cinema Paradiso) – Giuseppe Tornatore
1991: Truly, Madly, Deeply – Anthony Minghella
1992: Husbands and Wives – Woody Allen
- The Crying Game – Neil Jordan
- Hear My Song – Peter Chelsom and Adrian Dunbar
- Unforgiven – David Webb Peoples
1993: Groundhog Day – Harold Ramis and Danny Rubin
- In the Line of Fire – Jeff Maguire
- The Piano – Jane Campion
- Sleepless in Seattle – Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron and David S. Ward
1994: Pulp Fiction – Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino
- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – Stephan Elliott
- Four Weddings and a Funeral – Richard Curtis
- Philadelphia – Ron Nyswaner
1995: The Usual Suspects – Christopher McQuarrie
- Bullets Over Broadway – Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath
- Muriel's Wedding – P.J. Hogan
- Se7en – Andrew Kevin Walker
1996: Secrets & Lies – Mike Leigh
- Brassed Off – Mark Herman
- Fargo – Ethan and Joel Coen
- Lone Star – John Sayles
- Shine – Jan Sardi
1997: Nil by Mouth – Gary Oldman
1998: The Truman Show – Andrew Niccol
- Elizabeth – Michael Hirst
- Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella) – Roberto Benigni and Vincenzo Cerami
- Shakespeare in Love – Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard
1999: Being John Malkovich – Charlie Kaufman
- All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre) – Pedro Almodóvar
- American Beauty – Alan Ball
- The Sixth Sense – M. Night Shyamalan
- Topsy-Turvy – Mike Leigh
2000s
2000: Almost Famous – Cameron Crowe
- Billy Elliot – Lee Hall
- Erin Brockovich – Susannah Grant
- Gladiator – David Franzoni, John Logan and William Nicholson
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? – Ethan and Joel Coen
2001: Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) – Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant
- Gosford Park – Julian Fellowes and Steven Zaillian Kenneth Lonergan
- Moulin Rouge! – Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce
- The Others – Alejandro Amenábar
- The Royal Tenenbaums – Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson
2002: Talk to Her (Hable con ella) – Pedro Almodóvar
- And Your Mother Too (Y tu mamá también) – Alfonso and Carlos Cuarón
- Dirty Pretty Things – Steven Knight
- Gangs of New York – Jay Cocks Steven Zaillian Kenneth Lonergan
- The Magdalene Sisters – Peter Mullan
2003: The Station Agent – Thomas McCarthy
- 21 Grams – Guillermo Arriaga
- The Barbarian Invasions (Les invasions barbares) – Denys Arcand
- Finding Nemo – Bob Peterson, David Reynolds and Andrew Stanton
- Lost in Translation – Sofia Coppola
2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Charlie Kaufman
2005: Crash – Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco
- Cinderella Man – Akiva Goldsman and Cliff Hollingsworth
- Good Night, and Good Luck – George Clooney and Grant Heslov
- Hotel Rwanda – Terry George and Keir Pearson
- Mrs Henderson Presents – Martin Sherman
2006: Little Miss Sunshine – Michael Arndt
- Babel – Guillermo Arriaga
- Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) – Guillermo del Toro
- The Queen – Peter Morgan
- United 93 – Paul Greengrass
2007: Juno – Diablo Cody
- American Gangster – Steven Zaillian
- The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) – Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
- Michael Clayton – Tony Gilroy
- This Is England – Shane Meadows
2008: In Bruges – Martin McDonagh
- Burn After Reading – Ethan and Joel Coen
- Changeling – J. Michael Straczynski
- I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime) – Philippe Claudel
- Milk – Dustin Lance Black
2009: The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal
- The Hangover – Jon Lucas and Scott Moore
- Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino
- A Serious Man – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
- Up – Pete Docter and Bob Peterson
2010s
2010: The King's Speech – David Seidler
- Black Swan – Mark Heyman, Andrés Heinz and John McLaughlin
- The Fighter – Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson
- Inception – Christopher Nolan
- The Kids Are All Right – Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg
2011: The Artist – Michel Hazanavicius
- Midnight in Paris – Woody Allen
- The Guard – John Michael McDonagh
- The Iron Lady – Abi Morgan
- Bridesmaids – Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig