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.
Winners and nominees
1960s Year Film Screenwriter(s) 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 Year Film Screenwriter(s) 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 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 The Hospital (TIE) Paddy Chayefsky The Last Picture Show (TIE) Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich Cabaret Jay Presson Allen A Clockwork Orange Stanley Kubrick 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 Chinatown / The Last Detail Robert Towne 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 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Robert Getchell Dog Day Afternoon Frank Pierson Jaws Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb Nashville Joan Tewkesbury 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 Annie Hall Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman Equus Peter Shaffer Network Paddy Chayefsky Rocky Sylvester Stallone 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 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) 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
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
A: According to the BAFTA database, Robert Towne received a single joint award for two different films.
References
External links Official site at BAFTA.org