Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay
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 |
|---|
| Year | Screenwriters(s) | Film | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | |||
| 1949 |  Alfred L. Werker, Eugene Ling & Virginia Shaler
|
Lost Boundaries | |
| 1950s | |||
| 1950 | Festival not held, no awards given that year | ||
| 1951 |  Terence Rattigan
|
The Browning Version | |
| 1952 |  Piero Tellini
|
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 | Pier Paolo Pasolini, Massimo Franciosa & Pasquale Festa Campanile [A]
|
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 |  Dumitru Carabat,  Henri Colpi & Yves Jamiaque
|
Codine | |
| 1964 | No award given that year | ||
| 1965 | Ray Rigby #
|
The Hill | |
| Pierre Schoendoerffer #
|
The 317th Platoon | ||
| 1966 | No award given that year | ||
| 1967 | Alain Jessua #
|
The Killing Game | Jeu de massacre |
| Elio Petri #
|
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 | Steven Spielberg, Hal Barwood & Matthew Robbins
|
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 | Furio Scarpelli, Agenore Incrocci & Ettore Scola [B]
|
La Terrazza | |
| 1981 |  István Szabó
|
Mephisto | |
| 1982 |  Jerzy Skolimowski
|
Moonlighting | |
| 1983 | No award given that year | ||
| 1984 |  Thanassis Valtinos, Theo Angelopoulos & Tonino Guerra [C]
|
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 | Michel Blanc
|
Grosse fatigue | |
| 1995 | No award given that year | ||
| 1996 | Jacques Audiard & Alain Le Henry
|
A Self Made Hero | Un héros très discret |
| 1997 | James Schamus
|
The Ice Storm | |
| 1998 | Hal Hartley
|
Henry Fool | |
| 1999 |  Yuri Arabov
|
Moloch | Молох |
| 2000s | |||
| 2000 | James Flamberg & John C. Richards
|
Nurse Betty | |
| 2001 |  Danis Tanović
|
No Man's Land | |
| 2002 |  Paul Laverty
|
Sweet Sixteen | |
| 2003 |  Denys Arcand
|
The Barbarian Invasions | Les invasions barbares |
| 2004 | Agnès Jaoui & Jean-Pierre Bacri
|
Look at Me | Comme une image |
| 2005 |  Guillermo Arriaga
|
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada | |
| 2006 |  Pedro Almodóvar
|
Volver | |
| 2007 |  Fatih Akin
|
The Edge of Heaven | Auf der anderen Seite |
| 2008 |  Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
|
Lorna's Silence | Le silence de Lorna |
| 2009 |  Mei Feng
|
Spring Fever | 春风沉醉的夜晚 |
| 2010s | |||
| 2010 |  Lee Chang-dong
|
Poetry | 시 |
| 2011 |  Joseph Cedar
|
Footnote | Hearat Shulayim |
| 2012 | Cristian Mungiu & Tatiana Niculescu Bran
|
Beyond the Hills | După dealuri |
| 2013 | Jia Zhangke
|
A Touch of Sin | 天注定 |
| 2014 | Andrey Zvyagintsev & Oleg Negin
|
Leviathan | Левиафан |
| 2015 | Michel Franco
|
Chronic | |
| 2016 |  Asghar Farhadi
|
The Salesman | فروشنده |
| 2017 | Yorgos Lanthimos & Efthymis Filippou #
|
The Killing of a Sacred Deer | |
| Lynne Ramsay #
|
You Were Never Really Here | ||
| 2018 | Jafar Panahi & Nader Saeivar #
|
3 Faces | سه رخ |
| Alice Rohrwacher #
|
Happy as Lazzaro | Lazzaro felice | |
| 2019 | Céline Sciamma
|
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 |  Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe
|
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