BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay

1983: The King of Comedy – Paul D. Zimmerman

• Local Hero – Bill Forsyth
• Trading Places – Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod
• Zelig – Woody Allen

1984: Broadway Danny Rose – Woody Allen

• The Big Chill – Barbara Benedek and Lawrence Kasdan
• Comfort and Joy – Bill Forsyth
• A Private Function – Alan Bennett

1985: The Purple Rose of Cairo – Woody Allen

• Back to the Future – Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis
• My Beautiful Laundrette – Hanif Kureishi
• Witness – William Kelley and Earl W. Wallace

1986: Hannah and Her Sisters – Woody Allen

• Crocodile Dundee – John Cornell, Paul Hogan and Ken Shadie
• The Mission – Robert Bolt
• Mona Lisa – Neil Jordan and David Leland

1987: Wish You Were Here – David Leland

• Hope and Glory – John Boorman
• Personal Services – David Leland
• Radio Days – Woody Allen

1988: A World Apart – Shawn Slovo

• Au revoir, les enfants – Louis Malle
• A Fish Called Wanda – John Cleese
• Moonstruck – John Patrick Shanley

1989: When Harry Met Sally... – Nora Ephron

• Dead Poets Society – Tom Schulman
• Rain Man – Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow
• Sex, Lies, and Videotape – Steven Soderbergh

1990: Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo cinema Paradiso) – Giuseppe Tornatore

• Crimes and Misdemeanors – Woody Allen
• Ghost – Bruce Joel Rubin
• Pretty Woman – J.F. Lawton

1991: Truly, Madly, Deeply – Anthony Minghella

• The Fisher King – Richard LaGravenese
• Green Card – Peter Weir
• Thelma & Louise – Callie Khouri

1992: Husbands and Wives – Woody Allen

• The Crying Game – Neil Jordan
• Hear My Song – Peter Chelsom and Adrian Dunbar
• Unforgiven – David Webb Peoples

1993: Groundhog Day – Harold Ramis and Danny Rubin

• In the Line of Fire – Jeff Maguire
• The Piano – Jane Campion
• Sleepless in Seattle – Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron and David S. Ward

1994: Pulp Fiction – Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino

• The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – Stephan Elliott
• Four Weddings and a Funeral – Richard Curtis
• Philadelphia – Ron Nyswaner

1995: The Usual Suspects – Christopher McQuarrie

• Bullets Over Broadway – Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath
• Muriel's Wedding – P.J. Hogan
• Se7en – Andrew Kevin Walker

1996: Secrets & Lies – Mike Leigh

• Brassed Off – Mark Herman
• Fargo – Ethan and Joel Coen
• Lone Star – John Sayles
• Shine – Jan Sardi

1997: Nil by Mouth – Gary Oldman

• Boogie Nights – Paul Thomas Anderson
• The Full Monty – Simon Beaufoy
• Mrs. Brown – Jeremy Brock

1998: The Truman Show – Andrew Niccol

• Elizabeth – Michael Hirst
• Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella) – Roberto Benigni and Vincenzo Cerami
• Shakespeare in Love – Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard

1999: Being John Malkovich – Charlie Kaufman

• All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre) – Pedro Almodóvar
• American Beauty – Alan Ball
• The Sixth Sense – M. Night Shyamalan
• Topsy-Turvy – Mike Leigh

2000: Almost Famous – Cameron Crowe

• Billy Elliot – Lee Hall
• Erin Brockovich – Susannah Grant
• Gladiator – David Franzoni, John Logan and William Nicholson
• O Brother, Where Art Thou? – Ethan and Joel Coen

2001: Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) – Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant

• Gosford Park – Julian Fellowes and Steven Zaillian Kenneth Lonergan
• Moulin Rouge! – Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce
• The Others – Alejandro Amenábar
• The Royal Tenenbaums – Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson

2002: Talk to Her (Hable con ella) – Pedro Almodóvar

• And Your Mother Too (Y tu mamá también) – Alfonso and Carlos Cuarón
• Dirty Pretty Things – Steven Knight
• Gangs of New York – Jay Cocks Steven Zaillian Kenneth Lonergan
• The Magdalene Sisters – Peter Mullan

2003: The Station Agent – Thomas McCarthy

• 21 Grams – Guillermo Arriaga
• The Barbarian Invasions (Les invasions barbares) – Denys Arcand
• Finding Nemo – Bob Peterson, David Reynolds and Andrew Stanton
• Lost in Translation – Sofia Coppola

2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Charlie Kaufman

• The Aviator – John Logan
• Collateral – Stuart Beattie
• Ray – James L. White
• Vera Drake – Mike Leigh

2005: Crash – Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco

• Cinderella Man – Akiva Goldsman and Cliff Hollingsworth
• Good Night, and Good Luck – George Clooney and Grant Heslov
• Hotel Rwanda – Terry George and Keir Pearson
• Mrs Henderson Presents – Martin Sherman

2006: Little Miss Sunshine – Michael Arndt

• Babel – Guillermo Arriaga
• Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) – Guillermo del Toro
• The Queen – Peter Morgan
• United 93 – Paul Greengrass

2007: Juno – Diablo Cody

• American Gangster – Steven Zaillian
• The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) – Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
• Michael Clayton – Tony Gilroy
• This Is England – Shane Meadows

2008: In Bruges – Martin McDonagh

• Burn After Reading – Ethan and Joel Coen
• Changeling – J. Michael Straczynski
• I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime) – Philippe Claudel
• Milk – Dustin Lance Black

2009: The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal

• The Hangover – Jon Lucas and Scott Moore
• Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino
• A Serious Man – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
• Up – Pete Docter and Bob Peterson

2010: The King's Speech – David Seidler

• Black Swan – Mark Heyman, Andrés Heinz and John McLaughlin
• The Fighter – Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson
• Inception – Christopher Nolan
• The Kids Are All Right – Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg

2011: The Artist – Michel Hazanavicius

• Midnight in Paris – Woody Allen
• The Guard – John Michael McDonagh
• The Iron Lady – Abi Morgan
• Bridesmaids – Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig

2012: Django Unchained – Quentin Tarantino

• Amour – Michael Haneke
• The Master – Paul Thomas Anderson
• Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
• Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal

2013: American Hustle – Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell

• Blue Jasmine – Woody Allen
• Gravity – Alfonso Cuarón and Jonás Cuarón
• Inside Llewyn Davis – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
• Nebraska – Bob Nelson

2014: The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness

• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) – Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bo
• Boyhood – Richard Linklater
• Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy
• Whiplash – Damien Chazelle

2015: Spotlight – Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer

• Bridge of Spies – Matt Charman, Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen
• Ex Machina – Alex Garland
• The Hateful Eight – Quentin Tarantino
• Inside Out – Pete Docter, Josh Cooley, and Meg LeFauve

2016: Manchester by the Sea – Kenneth Lonergan

• Hell or High Water – Taylor Sheridan
• I, Daniel Blake – Paul Laverty
• La La Land – Damien Chazelle
• Moonlight – Barry Jenkins

2017: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Martin McDonagh

• Get Out – Jordan Peele
• I, Tonya – Steven Rogers
• Lady Bird – Greta Gerwig
• The Shape of Water – Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor

2018: The Favourite – Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara

• Cold War – Paweł Pawlikowski and Janusz Głowacki
• Green Book – Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, and Peter Farrelly
• Roma – Alfonso Cuarón
• Vice – Adam McKay

2019: Parasite – Han Jin Won and Bong Joon-ho

• Booksmart – Susanna Fogel, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins and Katie Silberman
• Marriage Story – Noah Baumbach
• Knives Out – Rian Johnson
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino

2020: Promising Young Woman – Emerald Fennell

• Another Round – Tobias Lindholm and Thomas Vinterberg
• Mank – Jack Fincher
• Rocks – Theresa Ikoko and Claire Wilson
• The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Aaron Sorkin

2021: Licorice Pizza – Paul Thomas Anderson

• Being the Ricardos – Aaron Sorkin
• Belfast – Kenneth Branagh
• Don't Look Up – Adam McKay
• King Richard – Zach Baylin