Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay
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The Best Screenplay Award (French: Prix du scénario) is an award presented by the Jury to the best screenwriter for their work on a film of the Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival. It was first awarded in 1949.
Winners[]
# | Indicates Ex-aequo winners |
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Year | Screenwriters(s) | Film | Original title |
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1940s | |||
1949 | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Lost Boundaries | |
1950s | |||
1950 | Festival not held, no awards given that year | ||
1951 | ![]() |
The Browning Version | |
1952 | ![]() |
Cops and Robbers | Guardie e ladri |
1953 | No award given that year | ||
1954 | No award given that year | ||
1955 | No award given that year | ||
1956 | No award given that year | ||
1957 | No award given that year | ||
1958 | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Young Husbands | Giovani mariti |
1959 | No award given that year | ||
1960s | |||
1960 | No award given that year | ||
1961 | No award given that year | ||
1962 | No award given that year | ||
1963 | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Codine | |
1964 | No award given that year | ||
1965 | ![]() |
The Hill | |
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The 317th Platoon | ||
1966 | No award given that year | ||
1967 | ![]() |
The Killing Game | Jeu de massacre |
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We Still Kill the Old Way | A ciascuno il suo | |
1968 | Festival interrupted, no awards given that year because of the May 1968 events in France | ||
1969 | No award given that year | ||
1970s | |||
1970 | No award given that year | ||
1971 | No award given that year | ||
1972 | No award given that year | ||
1973 | No award given that year | ||
1974 | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The Sugarland Express | |
1975 | No award given that year | ||
1976 | No award given that year | ||
1977 | No award given that year | ||
1978 | No award given that year | ||
1979 | No award given that year | ||
1980s | |||
1980 | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
La Terrazza | |
1981 | ![]() |
Mephisto | |
1982 | ![]() |
Moonlighting | |
1983 | No award given that year | ||
1984 | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Voyage to Cythera | Taxidi sta Kythira |
1985 | No award given that year | ||
1986 | No award given that year | ||
1987 | No award given that year | ||
1988 | No award given that year | ||
1989 | No award given that year | ||
1990s | |||
1990 | No award given that year | ||
1991 | No award given that year | ||
1992 | No award given that year | ||
1993 | No award given that year | ||
1994 | ![]() |
Grosse fatigue | |
1995 | No award given that year | ||
1996 | ![]() ![]() |
A Self Made Hero | Un héros très discret |
1997 | ![]() |
The Ice Storm | |
1998 | ![]() |
Henry Fool | |
1999 | ![]() |
Moloch | Молох |
2000s | |||
2000 | ![]() ![]() |
Nurse Betty | |
2001 | ![]() |
No Man's Land | |
2002 | ![]() |
Sweet Sixteen | |
2003 | ![]() |
The Barbarian Invasions | Les invasions barbares |
2004 | ![]() ![]() |
Look at Me | Comme une image |
2005 | ![]() |
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada | |
2006 | ![]() |
Volver | |
2007 | ![]() |
The Edge of Heaven | Auf der anderen Seite |
2008 | ![]() |
Lorna's Silence | Le silence de Lorna |
2009 | ![]() |
Spring Fever | 春风沉醉的夜晚 |
2010s | |||
2010 | ![]() |
Poetry | 시 |
2011 | ![]() |
Footnote | Hearat Shulayim |
2012 | ![]() ![]() |
Beyond the Hills | După dealuri |
2013 | ![]() |
A Touch of Sin | 天注定 |
2014 | ![]() ![]() |
Leviathan | Левиафан |
2015 | ![]() |
Chronic | |
2016 | ![]() |
The Salesman | فروشنده |
2017 | ![]() ![]() |
The Killing of a Sacred Deer | |
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You Were Never Really Here | ||
2018 | ![]() ![]() |
3 Faces | سه رخ |
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Happy as Lazzaro | Lazzaro felice | |
2019 | ![]() |
Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Portrait de la jeune fille en feu |
2020s | |||
2020 | Festival not held, no awards given that year due to the COVID-19 pandemic | ||
2021 | ![]() ![]() |
Drive My Car | ドライブ・マイ・カー |
See also[]
Notes[]
- A^ : This year the award received the name Prix du scénario original (Original Screenplay Award).
- B^ : This year the award received the name Prix du scénario et des dialogues au Festival International du Film (Screenplay and Dialogues Award).
- C^ : This year the award received the name Prix du meilleur scénario original (Best Original Screenplay Award).
External links[]
- Cannes Film Festival Official Website
- Cannes Film Festival at IMDB Archived 2010-04-11 at the Wayback Machine.
Categories:
- Cannes Film Festival
- Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay winners
- Lists of films by award
- Screenwriting awards for film