Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay

The Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for best screenplay.

Winners and nominees[]

This category existed between 1998 and 2004. It was reintroduced in 2011. Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.^[1]

1998: Dark City by Alex Proyas / Gods and Monsters by Bill Condon (TIE)^[2]
- Fallen by Nicholas Kazan
- Millennium (Episode: "Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me") by Darin Morgan
1999: The Sixth Sense by M. Night Shyamalan^[2]
- The Blair Witch Project by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Episode: "Hush") by Joss Whedon
- The Green Mile by Frank Darabont
2000: Shadow of the Vampire by Steven Katz^[2]
- The Cell by Mark Protosevich
- Pitch Black by David Twohy, Ken Wheat, and Jim Wheat
- Requiem for a Dream by Darren Aronofsky and Hubert Selby Jr.
- Unbreakable by M. Night Shyamalan
2001: Memento by Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan^[2]
- From Hell by Terry Hayes and Rafael Yglesias (based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh (based on the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien)
- The Others by Alejandro Amenábar
2002: Frailty by Brent Hanley^[2]
- Minority Report by Scott Frank and Jon Cohen (based on the story by Philip K. Dick)
- The Ring by Ehren Kruger (based on the novel by Koji Suzuki and film by Hiroshi Takahashi)
- Signs by M. Night Shyamalan
2003: Bubba Ho-Tep by Don Coscarelli^[2]
- Identity by Michael Cooney
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio
2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, and Pierre Bismuth / Shaun of the Dead by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright (TIE)^[2]
- Dawn of the Dead by James Gunn
- Hellboy by Guillermo del Toro
2011: American Horror Story (Episode: "Afterbirth") by Jessica Sharzer^[2]
- The Adjustment Bureau by George Nolfi
- Priest by Cory Goodman
- True Blood (Episode: "Spellbound") by Alan Ball
- The Walking Dead (Episode: "Pretty Much Dead Already") by Scott M. Gimple
- The Walking Dead (Episode: "Save the Last One") by Scott M. Gimple
2012: The Cabin in the Woods by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard^[2]
- American Horror Story (Episode: "Dark Cousin") by Tim Minear
- The Hunger Games by Gary Ross, Suzanne Collins, and Billy Ray
- The Walking Dead (Episode: "Killer Within") by Sang Kyu Kim
- The Woman in Black by Jane Goldman
2013: The Walking Dead (Episode: "Welcome to the Tombs") by Glen Mazzara^[3]
- American Horror Story: Asylum (Episode: "Spilt Milk") by Brad Falchuk
- Dracula (Episode: "A Whiff of Sulfur") by Daniel Knauf
- Hannibal (Episode: "Apéritif") by Bryan Fuller
- The Returned (Episode: "The Horde") by Frédéric Adda and Fabrice Gobert
2014: The Babadook by Jennifer Kent^[4]
- American Horror Story: Coven (Episode: "The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks") by James Wong
- Doctor Who (Episode: "Listen") by Steven Moffat
- Penny Dreadful (Episode: "Séance") by John Logan
- The Walking Dead (Episode: "The Grove") by Scott M. Gimple
2015: It Follows by David Robert Mitchell^[2]
- Crimson Peak by Guillermo del Toro and Matthew Robbins
- Penny Dreadful (Episode: "And Hell Itself My Only Foe") by John Logan
- Penny Dreadful (Episode: "The Nightcomers") by John Logan
- What We Do in the Shadows by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
2016: The Witch by Robert Eggers^[5]
- 10 Cloverfield Lane by Josh Campbell, Damien Chazelle, and Matthew Stuecken
- Penny Dreadful (Episode: "A Blade of Grass") by John Logan
- Stranger Things (Episode: "Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers") by The Duffer Brothers
- Stranger Things (Episode: "Chapter Eight: The Upside Down") by The Duffer Brothers
2017: Get Out by Jordan Peele^[6]
- The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor
- Stranger Things (Episode: "Chapter One: MADMAX") by The Duffer Brothers
- Twin Peaks (Episode: "Part 8") by Mark Frost and David Lynch
- It by Chase Palmer, Cary Fukunaga, and Gary Dauberman
2018: The Haunting of Hill House: "The Bent-Neck Lady" (Episode 01:05) by Meredith Averill^[7]^[8]
- Hereditary by Ari Aster
- Annihilation by Alex Garland
- Bird Box by Eric Heisserer
- A Quiet Place by Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, and John Krasinski
2019: Us by Jordan Peele^[9]
- Midsommar by Ari Aster
- Stranger Things (Season 3, "Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt") by Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer
- The Lighthouse by Robert Eggers and Max Eggers
- Doctor Sleep by Mike Flanagan
2020: The Invisible Man by Leigh Whannell (Universal Pictures, Blumhouse Productions, Goalpost Pictures, Nervous Tick Productions)^[10]
- Color Out of Space by Scarlett Amaris and , Richard Stanley (SpectreVision)
- Lovecraft Country, Season 1, Episode 1: "Sundown" by Misha Green (Affeme, Monkeypaw Productions, Bad Robot Productions, Warner Bros. Television Studios)
- Lovecraft Country, Season 1, Episode 8: "Jig-a-Bobo" by Misha Green and Ihuoma Ofordire (Affeme, Monkeypaw Productions, Bad Robot Productions, Warner Bros. Television Studios)
- The Haunting of Bly Manor, Season 1, Episode 5: "The Altar of the Dead" by Angela LaManna (Intrepid Pictures, Amblin Television, Paramount Television Studios)

References[]

^ "Past Bram Stoker Nominees & Winners". Horror Writers Association. Archived from the original on 2017-10-17. Retrieved 2021-10-12.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "Horror Writers Association - Past Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners". Horror Writers Association. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-05-30. Retrieved 2014-04-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "2014 Bram Stoker Awards Winners". May 10, 2015.
^ "2016 Bram Stoker Award Winners". Locus Online. Locus. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
^ "The 2017 Bram Stoker Awards Winners". Horror Writers Association. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
^ "2018 Stoker Awards Winners". Locus. May 13, 2019.
^ "2018 Bram Stoker Awards Winners & Nominees". Bram Stoker Award. Horror Writers Association. Retrieved February 28, 2020.
^ "2019 Stoker Awards Winners". Locus Magazine. Locus Publications. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
^ Templeton, Molly (2021-06-01). "Announcing the 2020 Bram Stoker Awards Winners". Tor.com.

External links[]

[1] "Past Bram Stoker Nominees & Winners". Horror Writers Association. Archived from the original on 2017-10-17. Retrieved 2021-10-12.

[past-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j "Horror Writers Association - Past Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners". Horror Writers Association. Retrieved 16 February 2017.

[3] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-05-30. Retrieved 2014-04-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[4] "2014 Bram Stoker Awards Winners". May 10, 2015.

[5] "2016 Bram Stoker Award Winners". Locus Online. Locus. Retrieved 16 July 2017.

[6] "The 2017 Bram Stoker Awards Winners". Horror Writers Association. Retrieved 27 December 2018.

[7] "2018 Stoker Awards Winners". Locus. May 13, 2019.

[8] "2018 Bram Stoker Awards Winners & Nominees". Bram Stoker Award. Horror Writers Association. Retrieved February 28, 2020.

[9] "2019 Stoker Awards Winners". Locus Magazine. Locus Publications. Retrieved 28 April 2020.

[10] Templeton, Molly (2021-06-01). "Announcing the 2020 Bram Stoker Awards Winners". Tor.com.

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v t HWA- Bram Stoker Award
Current categories	Novel (1987–) First Novel (1987–) Young Adult Novel (2011–) Graphic Novel (2011–) Long Fiction (1998–) Short Fiction (1998–) Fiction Collection (1998–) Screenplay (1998–2004, 2011–) Anthology (1998–) Non-Fiction (1987–) Poetry Collection (2000–) Lifetime Achievement (1987–)
Discontinued categories	Novelette (1987–1997) Short Story (1987–1997) Collection (1987–1997) Other Media (1993, 1998–2000) Illustrated Narrative (1998–2004) Work for Young Readers (1998–2004) Alternative Forms (2001–2004)