British Academy Film Award for Best Screenplay
British Academy Film Awards · 55 nominations across 16 ceremonies · 16 wins
36th BAFTA Film Awards · 1983
- Winner Missing · Costa-Gavras, Donald E. Stewart
- Nominee E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial · Melissa Mathison
- Nominee Gandhi · John Briley
- Nominee On Golden Pond · Ernest Thompson
35th BAFTA Film Awards · 1982
- Winner Gregory's Girl · Bill Forsyth
- Nominee Atlantic City · John Guare
- Nominee Chariots of Fire · Colin Welland
- Nominee The French Lieutenant's Woman · Harold Pinter
34th BAFTA Film Awards · 1981
- Winner Being There · Jerzy Kosinski
- Nominee The Elephant Man · Eric Bergren, David Lynch
- Nominee Airplane! · Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
- Nominee Kramer vs. Kramer · Robert Benton
33rd BAFTA Film Awards · 1980
- Winner Manhattan · Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
- Nominee The China Syndrome · Mike Gray, T. S. Cook, James Bridges
- Nominee Yanks · Colin Welland, Walter Bernstein
- Nominee The Deer Hunter · Deric Washburn
32nd BAFTA Film Awards · 1979
- Winner Julia · Alvin Sargent
- Nominee Close Encounters of the Third Kind · Steven Spielberg
- Nominee A Wedding · John Considine, Patricia Resnick, Allan F. Nicholls, Robert Altman
- Nominee The Goodbye Girl · Neil Simon
31st BAFTA Film Awards · 1978
- Winner Annie Hall · Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
- Nominee Network · Paddy Chayefsky
- Nominee Equus · Peter Shaffer
- Nominee Rocky · Sylvester Stallone
30th BAFTA Film Awards · 1977
- Winner Bugsy Malone · Alan Parker
- Nominee The Sunshine Boys · Neil Simon
- Nominee One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest · Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman
- Nominee All the President's Men · William Goldman
29th BAFTA Film Awards · 1976
- Winner Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore · Robert Getchell
- Nominee Jaws · Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb
- Nominee Dog Day Afternoon · Frank Pierson
- Nominee Nashville · Joan Tewkesbury
28th BAFTA Film Awards · 1975
- Winner Chinatown · Robert Towne
27th BAFTA Film Awards · 1974
- Winner The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie · Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière
- Nominee Sleuth · Anthony Shaffer
- Nominee A Touch of Class · Melvin Frank, Jack Rose
- Nominee The Day of the Jackal · Kenneth Ross
26th BAFTA Film Awards · 1973
- Winner The Hospital · Paddy Chayefsky
25th BAFTA Film Awards · 1972
- Winner The Go-Between · Harold Pinter
- Nominee Gumshoe · Neville Smith
- Nominee Sunday, Bloody Sunday · Penelope Gilliatt
- Nominee Taking Off · Miloš Forman, John Guare, Jean-Claude Carrière
24th BAFTA Film Awards · 1971
- Winner Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid · William Goldman
- Nominee Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice · Paul Mazursky, Larry Tucker
- Nominee Kes · Barry Hines, Ken Loach, Tony Garnett
- Nominee They Shoot Horses, Don't They? · James Poe, Robert E. Thompson
23rd BAFTA Film Awards · 1970
- Winner Midnight Cowboy · Waldo Salt
- Nominee Women in Love · Larry Kramer
- Nominee Z · Costa-Gavras, Jorge Semprún
- Nominee Goodbye, Columbus · Arnold Schulman
22nd BAFTA Film Awards · 1969
- Winner The Graduate · Calder Willingham, Buck Henry
- Nominee Guess Who's Coming to Dinner · William Rose
- Nominee The Lion in Winter · James Goldman
- Nominee if.... · David Sherwin
15th BAFTA Film Awards · 1962
- Winner A Taste of Honey · Tony Richardson