BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay facts for kids
Quick facts for kids BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay |
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| Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
| Location | United Kingdom |
| First awarded | 1968 (presented 1969) |
| Last awarded | 1982 (presented 1983) |
The BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay was a special prize given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). This award celebrated the best script written for a movie. A screenplay is the written story of a film, including what the characters say (dialogue) and what happens (actions).
This award was given out every year from 1968 until 1982. After 1982, BAFTA decided to split this award into two new ones: the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay (for stories created just for the movie) and the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (for stories based on books or other works).
In the lists below, you will see the movies and the writers who were honored. The names and movie titles shown in bold with a gold background are the winners. The other names and titles are the nominees who were also considered for the award. The years listed are when the movies were released, not when the award ceremony took place. The ceremony always happened the year after the movie came out.
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Winners and Nominees by Year
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1960s Awards
| Year | Film | Screenwriter(s) |
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(22nd) |
The Graduate | Calder Willingham and Buck Henry |
| if.... | David Sherwin | |
| The Lion in Winter | James Goldman | |
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(23rd) |
Midnight Cowboy | Waldo Salt |
| Goodbye, Columbus | Arnold Schulman | |
| Women in Love | Larry Kramer | |
| Z | Costa-Gavras and Jorge Semprún |
1970s Awards
| Year | Film | Screenwriter(s) |
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(24th) |
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 | |
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(25th) |
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 | |
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(26th) |
The Hospital (TIE) | Paddy Chayefsky |
| The Last Picture Show (TIE) | Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich | |
| Cabaret | Jay Presson Allen | |
| A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick | |
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(27th) |
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 | |
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(28th) |
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 | |
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(29th) |
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Robert Getchell |
| Dog Day Afternoon | Frank Pierson | |
| Jaws | Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb | |
| Nashville | Joan Tewkesbury | |
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(30th) |
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 | |
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(31st) |
Annie Hall | Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman |
| Equus | Peter Shaffer | |
| Network | Paddy Chayefsky | |
| Rocky | Sylvester Stallone | |
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(32nd) |
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 | |
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(33rd) |
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 Awards
| Year | Film | Screenwriter(s) |
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(34th) |
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 | |
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(35th) |
Gregory's Girl | Bill Forsyth |
| Atlantic City | John Guare | |
| Chariots of Fire | Colin Welland | |
| The French Lieutenant's Woman | Harold Pinter | |
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(36th) |
Missing | Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Melissa Mathison | |
| Gandhi | John Briley | |
| On Golden Pond | Ernest Thompson |
Screenwriters with Multiple Wins and Nominations
Multiple WinsThis section shows screenwriters who won the BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay more than once.
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Multiple NominationsThis section lists screenwriters who were nominated for the award multiple times.
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See also
In Spanish: Anexo:BAFTA al mejor guion para niños
