BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay

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.

BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay
Awarded for	Best Screenplay
Location	United Kingdom
Presented by	British Academy of Film and Television Arts
First award	1968 (presented 1969)
Final award	1982 (presented 1983)
Website	http://www.bafta.org/

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.

Winners and nominees

  indicates the winner

1960s

Year	Film	Screenwriter(s)
1968 (22nd) [1]	The Graduate	Calder Willingham and Buck Henry
	if....	David Sherwin
	The Lion in Winter	James Goldman
1969 (23rd) [2]	Midnight Cowboy	Waldo Salt
	Goodbye, Columbus	Arnold Schulman
	Women in Love	Larry Kramer
	Z	Costa-Gavras and Jorge Semprún

1970s

Year	Film	Screenwriter(s)
1970 (24th) [3]	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	William Goldman
	Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice	Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker
	Kes	Barry Hines, Ken Loach and Tony Garnett
	They Shoot Horses, Don't They?	James Poe and Robert E. Thompson
1971 (25th) [4]	The Go-Between	Harold Pinter
	Gumshoe	Neville Smith
	Sunday Bloody Sunday	Penelope Gilliatt
	Taking Off	Miloš Forman, John Guare, Jean-Claude Carrière and John Klein
1972 (26th) [5]	The Hospital (TIE)	Paddy Chayefsky
	The Last Picture Show (TIE)	Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich
	Cabaret	Jay Presson Allen
	A Clockwork Orange	Stanley Kubrick
1973 (27th) [6]	The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie	Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière
	The Day of the Jackal	Kenneth Ross
	Sleuth	Anthony Shaffer
	A Touch of Class	Melvin Frank and Jack Rose
1974 (28th) [7]	Chinatown / The Last Detail	Robert Towne [A]
	Blazing Saddles	Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor and Alan Uger
	The Conversation	Francis Ford Coppola
	Lacombe, Lucien	Louis Malle and Patrick Modiano
1975 (29th) [8]	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore	Robert Getchell
	Dog Day Afternoon	Frank Pierson
	Jaws	Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb
	Nashville	Joan Tewkesbury
1976 (30th) [9]	Bugsy Malone	Alan Parker
	All the President's Men	William Goldman
	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben
	The Sunshine Boys	Neil Simon
1977 (31st) [10]	Annie Hall	Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
	Equus	Peter Shaffer
	Network	Paddy Chayefsky
	Rocky	Sylvester Stallone
1978 (32nd) [11]	Julia	Alvin Sargent
	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Steven Spielberg
	The Goodbye Girl	Neil Simon
	A Wedding	John Considine, Patricia Resnick, Allan F. Nicholls and Robert Altman
1979 (33rd) [12]	Manhattan	Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
	The China Syndrome	Mike Gray, T. S. Cook and James Bridges
	The Deer Hunter	Deric Washburn
	Yanks	Colin Welland and Walter Bernstein

1980s

Year	Film	Screenwriter(s)
1980 (34th) [13]	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
1981 (35th) [14]	Gregory's Girl	Bill Forsyth
	Atlantic City	John Guare
	Chariots of Fire	Colin Welland
	The French Lieutenant's Woman	Harold Pinter
1982 (36th) [15]	Missing	Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart
	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Melissa Mathison
	Gandhi	John Briley
	On Golden Pond	Ernest Thompson

Multiple wins and nominations

Multiple wins Wins Screenwriter 2 Woody Allen Marshall Brickman

Multiple nominations Nominations Screenwriter 2 Woody Allen Marshall Brickman Jean-Claude Carrière Paddy Chayefsky Costa-Gavras William Goldman John Guare Harold Pinter Neil Simon Colin Welland

Notes

A¹ : According to the BAFTA database, Robert Towne received a single joint award for two different films.^[16]