BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay
British film industry award
BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay | |
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Awarded for | Best Screenplay |
Location | United Kingdom |
Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
First awarded | 1968 (presented 1969) |
Last awarded | 1982 (presented 1983) |
Website | http://www.bafta.org/ |
The BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay is a British Academy Film Award for the best script. It was awarded from 1968 to 1982. In 1983 it was split into BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay and BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year.
Winner and nominees
indicates the winner
1960s
Year | Film | Screenwriter(s) |
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The Graduate | Calder Willingham and Buck Henry | |
if.... | David Sherwin | |
The Lion in Winter | James Goldman | |
Midnight Cowboy | Waldo Salt | |
Goodbye, Columbus | Arnold Schulman | |
Women in Love | Larry Kramer | |
Z | Costa-Gavras and Jorge Semprún |
1970s
1980s
Year | Film | Screenwriter(s) |
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Being There | Jerzy Kosiński | |
Airplane! | Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker | |
The Elephant Man | Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren and David Lynch | |
Kramer vs. Kramer | Robert Benton | |
Gregory's Girl | Bill Forsyth | |
Atlantic City | John Guare | |
Chariots of Fire | Colin Welland | |
The French Lieutenant's Woman | Harold Pinter | |
Missing | Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart | |
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Melissa Mathison | |
Gandhi | John Briley | |
On Golden Pond | Ernest Thompson |
Notes
- A1 : Robert Towne received a single citation for his work on two different films in the same year.[16]
References
- ^ "BAFTA | Film in 1969". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
- ^ "BAFTA | Film in 1970". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
- ^ "BAFTA | Film in 1971". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
- ^ "BAFTA | Film in 1972". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
- ^ "BAFTA | Film in 1973". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
- ^ "BAFTA | Film in 1974". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
- ^ "BAFTA | Film in 1975". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
- ^ "BAFTA | Film in 1976". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
- ^ "BAFTA | Film in 1977". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
- ^ "BAFTA | Film in 1978". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
- ^ "BAFTA | Film in 1979". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
- ^ "BAFTA | Film in 1980". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
- ^ "BAFTA | Film in 1981". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
- ^ "BAFTA | Film in 1982". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
- ^ "BAFTA | Film in 1983". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
- ^ "Film | Screenplay in 1975". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
External links
- Official site at BAFTA.org
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BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay
- Calder Willingham and Buck Henry (1968)
- Waldo Salt (1969)
- William Goldman (1970)
- Harold Pinter (1971)
- Paddy Chayefsky / Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich (1972)
- Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière (1973)
- Robert Towne (1974)
- Robert Getchell (1975)
- Alan Parker (1976)
- Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman (1977)
- Alvin Sargent (1978)
- Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman (1979)
- Jerzy Kosiński (1980)
- Bill Forsyth (1981)
- Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart (1982)