Venice Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay

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 1947.

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

Best Screenplay
Location	Venice
Country	Italy
Presented by	Venice Film Festival
First award	1947
Currently held by	Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega for I'm Still Here
Website	labiennale.org/en/cinema

Winners

2000s

Year	English Title	Original Title	Writer(s)	Ref.
2000 (57th)	One Hundred Steps	I cento passi	Claudio Fava, Marco Tullio Giordana and Monica Zapelli	[1]
2001 (58th)	Y tu mamá también		Alfonso Cuarón and Carlos Cuarón	[2]

2010s

Year	English Title	Original Title	Writer(s)	Ref.
2013 (70th)	Philomena		Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope	[3]
2014 (71st)	Tales	قصه‌ها	Rakhshān Banietemad	[4]
2015 (72nd)	Courted	L'Hermine	Christian Vincent	[5]
2016 (73rd)	Jackie		Noah Oppenheim	[6]
2017 (74th)	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri		Martin McDonagh	[7]
2018 (75th)	The Ballad of Buster Scruggs		Joel and Ethan Coen	[8]
2019 (76th)	No.7 Cherry Lane	繼園臺七號	Yonfan	[9]

2020s

Year	English Title	Original Title	Writer(s)	Ref.
2020 (77th)	The Disciple		Chaitanya Tamhane	[10]
2021 (78th)	The Lost Daughter		Maggie Gyllenhaal	[11]
2022 (79th)	The Banshees of Inisherin		Martin McDonagh	[12]
2023 (80th)	El Conde		Guillermo Calderón and Pablo Larraín	[13][14]
2024 (81st)	I'm Still Here	Ainda Estou Aqui	Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega	[15]

See also

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