European Film Award for Best Screenwriter
| European Film Award for Best Screenwriter | |
|---|---|
 The 2020 recipient: Thomas Vinterberg | |
| Awarded for | Best Achievement in Screenwriting |
| Presented by | European Film Academy |
| First awarded | Louis Malle Au revoir les enfants (1988) |
| Currently held by | Thomas Vinterberg, Tobias Lindholm Another Round (2020) |
| Website | europeanfilmacademy |
The European Film Award for Best Screenwriter is an award given out at the annual European Film Awards to recognize a screenwriter who has delivered an outstanding screenplay in a film industry. The award is presented by the European Film Academy (EFA) and was first presented in 1988.
Winners and nominees[]
1980s[]
| Year | Winner and nominees | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 (1st) |
 Louis Malle |
Goodbye Children | Au Revoir Les Enfants |
 Manoel de Oliveira |
The Cannibals | Os Canibais | |
 Terence Davies |
Distant Voices, Still Lives | ||
 Daniele Luchetti Franco Bernini Angelo Pasquini |
It's Happening Tomorrow | Domani accadrà | |
 Wolfgang Held |
Bear Ye One Another's Burden | Einer trage des anderen Last | |
| 1989 (2nd) |
  Mariya Khmelik |
Little Vera | Ма́ленькая Ве́ра |
 Géza Bereményi |
The Midas Touch | Eldorádó | |
 Þráinn Bertelsson |
Magnus | ||
 Theodoros Angelopoulos Tonino Guerra Thanassis Valtinos |
Landscape in the Mist | Topio stin omichli | |
 Maciej Dejczer Cezary Harasimowicz |
300 Miles to Heaven | 300 mil do nieba | |
1990s[]
| Year | Winner and nominees | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 (3rd) |
Vitali Kanevsky |
Freeze Die Come to Life | Замри, умри, воскресни |
| Ryszard Bugajski Janusz Dymek |
Interrogation | Przesłuchanie | |
 Etienne Glaser Madeleine Gustafsson Suzanne Osten |
The Guardian Angel | Skyddsängeln | |
| 1991 (4th) |
 Jaco Van Dormael |
Toto the Hero | Toto le Héros |
| 1992 (5th) |
István Szabó |
Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe | Édes Emma, drága Böbe - vázlatok, aktok |
| 1993 (6th) |
No award given | ||
| 1994 (7th) |
No award given | ||
| 1995 (8th) |
No award given | ||
| 1996 (9th) |
 Arif Aliev Sergei Bodrov Boris Giller |
Prisoner of the Mountains | Кавказский пленник |
| 1997 (10th) |
Chris Vander StappenAlain Berliner |
Ma Vie en Rose | |
 Ademir Kenović Abdulah Sidran |
The Perfect Circle | Savršeni krug | |
 Andrei Kurkov |
A Friend of the Deceased | Priyatel pokoynika | |
| 1998 (11th) |
Peter Howitt |
Sliding Doors | |
 Lars von Trier |
The Idiots | Idioterne | |
 Alex van Warmerdam |
Little Tony | Kleine Teun | |
| Jean-Pierre Bacri Agnès Jaoui |
Same Old Song | On connaît la chanson | |
| 1999 (12th) |
István Szabó  Israel Horovitz |
Sunshine | |
 Saša Gedeon |
The Idiot Returns | Návrat idiota | |
| Ayub Khan Din |
East is East | ||
2000s[]
| Year | Winner and nominees | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 (13th) [1] |
Agnès Jaoui Jean-Pierre Bacri |
The Taste of Others | Le goût des autres |
 Rafael Azcona |
Butterfly's Tongue | La lengua de las mariposas | |
 Wolfgang Kohlhaase |
The Legend of Rita | Die Stille nach dem Schuß | |
 Nana Djordjadze Svereva Djordjadze |
27 Missing Kisses | 27 დაკარგული კოცნა | |
| Doriana Leondeff Silvio Soldini |
Bread and Tulips | Pane e tulipani | |
| Dominik Moll Gilles Marchand |
Harry, He's Here to Help | Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien | |
| 2001 (14th) [2] |
Danis Tanović[C] |
No Man's Land | Ničija zemlja |
Laurent Cantet Robin Campillo |
Time Out | L'Emploi du temps | |
 Michael Haneke |
The Piano Teacher | Lla pianiste | |
| Achero Mañas |
Pellet | El Bola | |
| Jean-Louis Milesi Robert Guédiguian |
The Town Is Quiet | La ville est tranquille | |
| Ettore Scola Silvia Scola Giacomo Scarpelli Furio Scarpelli |
Unfair Competition | Concorrenza sleale | |
| 2002 (15th) [3] |
Pedro Almodóvar |
Talk to Her | Hable con ella |
| Jacques Audiard Tonino Benacquista |
Read My Lips | Sur mes lèvres | |
| Paul Greengrass |
Bloody Sunday | ||
 Aki Kaurismäki |
The Man Without a Past | Mies vailla menneisyyttä | |
| Krzysztof Kieślowski Krzysztof Piesiewicz |
Heaven | ||
| Paul Laverty[C] |
Sweet Sixteen | ||
| François Ozon |
8 Women | 8 Femmes | |
| 2003 (16th) [4] |
Bernd Lichtenberg |
Good Bye, Lenin! | Comme une image |
| Lars von Trier |
Dogville | ||
| Sandro Petraglia Stefano Rulli |
The Best of Youth | La meglio gioventù | |
| Hanif Kureishi |
The Mother | ||
 Dušan Kovačević |
The Professional | Професионалац | |
| Steven Knight |
Dirty Pretty Things | ||
| 2004 (17th) [5] |
Agnès Jaoui[C] Jean-Pierre Bacri[C] |
Look at Me | Comme une image |
| Paul Laverty |
Just a Kiss | Ae Fond Kiss… | |
 Jean-Luc Godard |
Our Music | Notre musique | |
| Pedro Almodóvar |
Bad Education | La mala educación | |
| Alejandro Amenábar Mateo Gil |
The Sea Inside | Mar adentro | |
 Fatih Akin |
Head-On | Gegen die Wand / Duvara Karşı | |
| 2005 (18th) [6] |
 Hany Abu-Assad Bero Beyer |
Paradise Now | الجنّة الآن |
| Anders Thomas Jensen |
Adam's Apples | Adams Æbler | |
| Brothers | Brødre | ||
 Cristi Puiu Răzvan Rădulescu |
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu | Moartea domnului Lăzărescu | |
| Dani Levy Holger Franke |
Go for Zucker! | Alles auf Zucker! | |
| Michael Haneke |
Hidden | Caché | |
 Mark O'Halloran |
Adam & Paul | ||
| 2006 (19th) [7] |
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck |
The Lives of Others | Das Leben der Anderen |
| Pedro Almodóvar[C] |
Volver | ||
| Paul Laverty |
The Wind That Shakes the Barley | ||
| Corneliu Porumboiu |
12:08 East of Bucharest | A fost sau n-a fost? | |
| 2007 (20th) [8] |
Fatih Akin[C] |
The Edge of Heaven | Auf der anderen Seite |
 Eran Kolirin |
The Band's Visit | ביקור התזמורת | |
| Peter Morgan[V] |
The Queen | ||
| Cristian Mungiu |
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | 4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile | |
| 2008 (21st) [9] |
Matteo Garrone Roberto Saviano Maurizio Braucci Ugo Chiti Gianni Di Gregorio Massimo Gaudioso |
Gomorrah | Gomorra |
| Ari Folman |
Waltz with Bashir | ואלס עם באשיר | |
| Suha Arraf Eran Riklis |
Lemon Tree | شجرة ليمون / עץ לימון | |
| Paolo Sorrentino |
Il Divo | ||
| 2009 (22nd) [10] |
Michael Haneke |
The White Ribbon | Das weiße Band |
| Jacques Audiard Thomas Bidegain |
A Prophet | Un prophète | |
| Simon Beaufoy |
Slumdog Millionaire | ||
| Gianni Di Gregorio |
Mid-August Lunch | Pranzo di ferragosto | |
2010s[]
| Year | Winner and nominees | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 (23rd) [11] |
Robert Harris Roman Polanski |
The Ghost Writer | |
| Jorge Guerricaechevarría Daniel Monzón |
Cell 211 | Celda 211 | |
| Samuel Maoz |
Lebanon | ||
| Radu Mihăileanu |
The Concert | Le concert | |
| 2011 (24th) [12] |
Jean-Pierre Dardenne Luc Dardenne |
The Kid with a Bike | Le Gamin au vélo |
| Anders Thomas Jensen |
In a Better World | Hævnen | |
| Aki Kaurismäki |
Le Havre | ||
| Lars von Trier |
Melancholia | ||
| 2012 (25th) [13] |
Tobias Lindholm Thomas Vinterberg |
The Hunt | Jagten |
| Cristian Mungiu[C] |
Beyond the Hills | După dealuri | |
| Michael Haneke |
Amour | ||
| Roman Polanski Yasmina Reza |
Carnage | ||
| Olivier Nakache Éric Toledano |
Untouchable | Intouchables | |
| 2013 (26th) [14] |
François Ozon |
In the House | Dans la maison |
| Paolo Sorrentino Umberto Contarello |
The Great Beauty | La grande bellezza | |
| Tom Stoppard |
Anna Karenina | ||
| Giuseppe Tornatore |
The Best Offer | La migliore offerta | |
| Felix Van Groeningen Carl Joos |
The Broken Circle Breakdown | ||
| 2014 (27th) [15][16] |
Paweł Pawlikowski Rebecca Lenkiewicz |
Ida | |
| Ebru Ceylan Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
Winter Sleep | Kış Uykusu | |
| Jean-Pierre Dardenne Luc Dardenne |
Two Days, One Night | Deux jours, une nuit | |
| Steven Knight |
Locke | ||
| Oleg Negin[C] Andrey Zvyagintsev[C] |
Leviathan | Левиафан | |
| 2015 (28th) [17][18] |
Yorgos Lanthimos Efthimis Filippou |
The Lobster | |
| Radu Jude Florin Lazarescu |
Aferim! | ||
| Alex Garland |
Ex Machina | ||
| Andrew Haigh |
45 Years | ||
| Roy Andersson |
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence | En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron | |
| Paolo Sorrentino |
Youth | Youth - La giovinezza | |
| 2016 (28th) [19] |
Maren Ade |
Toni Erdmann | |
| Paul Laverty |
I, Daniel Blake | ||
 Emma Donoghue |
Room | ||
| Cristian Mungiu |
Graduation | Bacalaureat | |
| Tomasz Wasilewski[B] |
United States of Love | Zjednoczone stany milosci | |
| 2017 (30th) [20] |
Ruben Östlund |
The Square | |
| Ildikó Enyedi |
On Body and Soul | Testről és lélekről | |
| Yorgos Lanthimos[C] Efthimis Filippou[C] |
The Killing of a Sacred Deer | ||
| Oleg Negin Andrey Zvyagintsev |
Loveless | Nelyubov | |
| François Ozon |
Frantz | ||
| 2018 (31st) [21] |
Paweł Pawlikowski |
Cold War | Zimna wojna |
 Ali Abbasi Isabella Eklöf John Ajvide Lindqvist |
Border | Gräns | |
| Matteo Garrone Ugo Chiti Massimo Gaudioso |
Dogman | ||
| Gustav Möller Emil Nygaard Albertsen |
The Guilty | Den skyldige | |
| Alice Rohrwacher[C] |
Happy as Lazzaro | Lazzaro felice | |
| 2019 (32nd) [22] |
Céline Sciamma[C] |
Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Portrait de la jeune fille en feu |
| Pedro Almodóvar |
Pain and Glory | Dolor y gloria | |
| Marco Bellocchio Valia Santella Ludovica Rampoldi Francesco Piccolo Francesco La Licata |
The Traitor | Il traditore | |
Ladj Ly  Giordano Gederlini Alexis Manenti |
Les Misérables | ||
| / Roman Polanski Robert Harris |
An Officer and a Spy | J'Accuse | |
2020s[]
| Year | Winner and nominees | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (33rd) [23][24] |
Thomas Vinterberg Tobias Lindholm |
Another Round | Druk |
| Martin Behnke Burhan Qurbani |
Berlin Alexanderplatz | ||
| Costa-Gavras |
Adults in the Room | Ενήλικοι στην αίθουσα (Enílikoi stin aíthousa) | |
| Damiano and Fabio D'Innocenzo |
Bad Tales | Favolacce | |
| Pietro Marcello Maurizio Braucci |
Martin Eden | ||
| Mateusz Pacewicz |
Corpus Christi | Boże Ciało | |
- ^[B] Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear Award for Best Screenplay
- ^[C] Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay
- ^[V] Venice Film Festival Golden Osella for Best Original Screenplay
Most wins by screenwriter[]
| Screenwriter | Awards | Nominations |
|---|---|---|
| Paweł Pawlikowski | 2 | 2 |
| István Szabó | 2 | 2 |
| Michael Haneke | 1 | 3 |
| Pedro Almodóvar | 1 | 2 |
| Dardenne brothers | 1 | 2 |
| François Ozon | 1 | 2 |
| Fatih Akin | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | |
| Efthimis Filippou | 1 | 1 |
| Matteo Garrone | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | |
| Yorgos Lanthimos | 1 | 1 |
| Roman Polanski | 1 | 1 |
| Cristian Mungiu | 0 | 3 |
| Lars von Trier | 0 | 3 |
| Aki Kaurismäki | 0 | 2 |
| Paolo Sorrentino | 0 | 2 |
| Andrey Zvyagintsev | 0 | 2 |
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External links[]
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- Screenwriting awards for film
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