British Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay
British Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay | |
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Awarded for | Best Screenplay |
Country | United Kingdom |
Presented by | BIFA |
Currently held by | Aleem Khan – After Love (2021) |
Website | www |
The British Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay is an annual award given by the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) to recognize the best screenplay in a British independent film. The award was first presented in the 1998 ceremony with Paul Laverty being the first recipient of this award for his work in Ken Loach's My Name is Joe.
Steven Knight, Armando Iannucci and Simon Blackwell are the only nominees who have received this award more than once with two wins each while Paul Laverty has received the most nominations for this category with six followed by Lynne Ramsay with four.
Winners and nominees[]
1990s[]
Year | Film | Recipient(s) |
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1998 (1st) [1] |
My Name is Joe | Paul Laverty |
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | Guy Ritchie | |
My Son the Fanatic | Hanif Kureishi | |
Nil by Mouth | Gary Oldman | |
Orphans | Peter Mullan | |
1999 (2nd) [2] |
East Is East | Ayub Khan-Din |
Beautiful People | Jasmin Dizdar | |
Ratcatcher | Lynne Ramsay | |
A Room for Romeo Brass | Paul Fraser, Shane Meadows | |
This Year's Love | David Kane |
2000s[]
Year | Film | Recipient(s) |
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2000 (3rd) [3] |
Billy Elliot | Lee Hall |
Gangster No. 1 | Johnny Ferguson | |
Last Resort | Rowan Joffé, Paweł Pawlikowski | |
Purely Belter | Mark Herman | |
Saving Grace | Craig Ferguson, Mark Crowdey | |
2001 (4th) [4] |
Sexy Beast | Louis Mellis, David Scinto |
Bread and Roses | Paul Laverty | |
The Claim | Frank Cottrell Boyce | |
Jump Tomorrow | Joel Hopkins | |
2002 (5th) [5][6] |
Lawless Heart | Tom Hunsinger, Neil Hunter |
Bloody Sunday | Paul Greengrass | |
Morvern Callar | Lynne Ramsay, Liana Dognini | |
Sweet Sixteen | Paul Laverty | |
2003 (6th) [7][8] |
Dirty Pretty Things | Steven Knight |
Buffalo Soldiers | Gregor Jordan, Eric Weiss, Nora Maccoby | |
Calendar Girls | Tim Firth, Juliette Towhidi | |
The Magdalene Sisters | Peter Mullan | |
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself | Anders Thomas Jensen, Lone Scherfig | |
2004 (7th) [9] |
Shaun of the Dead | Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg |
Ae Fond Kiss... | Paul Laverty | |
Dead Man's Shoes | Paddy Considine, Shane Meadows | |
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely | |
Vera Drake | Mike Leigh | |
2005 (8th) [10] |
Millions | Frank Cottrell Boyce |
A Cock and Bull Story | Martin Hardy | |
The Constant Gardener | Jeffrey Caine | |
Kinky Boots | Tim Firth, Geoff Deane | |
Mrs Henderson Presents | Martin Sherman | |
2006 (9th) [11][12] |
The Queen | Peter Morgan |
The History Boys | Alan Bennet | |
The Last King of Scotland | Jeremy Brock, Peter Morgan | |
This Is England | Shane Meadows | |
Venus | Hanif Kureishi | |
2007 (10th) [13][14] |
Notes on a Scandal | Patrick Marber |
And When Did You Last See Your Father? | David Nicholls | |
Control | Matt Greenhalgh | |
Eastern Promises | Steven Knight | |
Hallam Foe | David Mackenzie, Ed Whitmore | |
2008 (11th) [15][16] |
In Bruges | Martin McDonagh |
Hunger | Enda Walsh, Steve McQueen | |
Slumdog Millionaire | Simon Beaufoy | |
Somers Town | Paul Fraser | |
Son of Rambow | Garth Jennings | |
2009 (12th) [17][18] |
In the Loop | Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche |
An Education | Nick Hornby | |
Fish Tank | Andrea Arnold | |
Moon | Nathan Parker | |
Nowhere Boy | Matt Greenhalgh |
2010s[]
2020s[]
Year | Film | Recipient(s) |
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2020 (23rd) [39][40] |
The Father | Florian Zeller, Christopher Hampton |
His House | Remi Weekes | |
Mogul Mowgli | Bassam Tariq, Riz Ahmed | |
Rocks | Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson | |
Saint Maud | Rose Glass | |
2021 (24th) [41] |
After Love | Aleem Khan |
Ali & Ava | Clio Barnard | |
The Nest | Sean Durkin | |
Benediction | Terence Davis | |
The Souvenir Part II | Joanna Hogg |
Multiple nominations[]
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Multiple wins[]
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References[]
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- ^ Brown, Mark (October 31, 2018). "The Favourite dominates British independent film award nominations". The Guardian. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
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