British film industry award
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
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
Robert Towne [A]
The Last Detail
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
Notes
A 1 : Robert Towne received a single citation for his work on two different films in the same year.[16]
References
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