European Film Award for Best Screenwriter
European Film Award for Best Screenwriter | |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 Stappen Alain 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
References[]
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External links[]
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- Screenwriting awards for film
- Awards established in 1988
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