Best Screenplay Award (Cannes Film Festival)
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The Best Screenplay Award (French: Prix du scénario) is an award presented by the Jury to the best screenwriter for his work on a film of the Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival. It was first awarded in 1949.
Award Winners
| Year | Writer | Film | Original title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 - 47 | No award this year | |||
| 1949 | Alfred L. Werker, Eugene Ling & Virginia Shaler (United States) | Lost Boundaries | ||
| 1951 | Terence Rattigan (United Kingdom) | The Browning Version | ||
| 1952 | Piero Tellini (Italy) | Cops and Robbers | Guardie e ladri | |
| 1953 - 57 | No award this year | |||
19581 | Pier Paolo Pasolini, Massimo Franciosa & Pasquale Festa Campanile (Italy) | Young Husbands | Giovani mariti | |
| 1959 - 62 | No award this year | |||
| 1963 | Dumitru Carabat (Romania), Henri Colpi & Yves Jamiaque (France) | Codine | ||
| 1964 | No award this year | |||
| 1965 | Pierre Schoendoerffer (France) | The 317th Platoon | ||
Ray Rigby (United Kingdom) | The Hill | |||
| 1966 | No award this year | |||
| 1967 | Elio Petri (Italy) | We Still Kill the Old Way | A ciascuno il suo | |
Alain Jessua (France) | The Killing Game | Jeu de massacre | ||
| 1968 | Festival interrupted, no awards this year | |||
| 1969 - 73 | No award this year | |||
| 1974 | Steven Spielberg, Hal Barwood & Matthew Robbins (United States) | The Sugarland Express | ||
| 1975 - 79 | No award this year | |||
19802 | Furio Scarpelli, Agenore Incrocci & Ettore Scola (Italy) | La Terrazza | ||
| 1981 | István Szabó (Hungary) | Mephisto | ||
| 1982 | Jerzy Skolimowski (Poland) | Moonlighting | ||
| 1983 | No award this year | |||
19843 | Thanassis Valtinos & Theodoros Angelopoulos (Greece), Tonino Guerra (Italy) | Voyage to Cythera | Taxidi sta Kythira | |
| 1985 - 93 | No award this year | |||
| 1994 | Michel Blanc (France) | Grosse fatigue | ||
| 1995 | No award this year | |||
| 1996 | Jacques Audiard & Alain Le Henry (France) | A Self Made Hero | Un héros très discret | |
| 1997 | James Schamus (United States) | The Ice Storm | ||
| 1998 | Hal Hartley (United States) | Henry Fool | ||
| 1999 | Yuri Arabov (Russia) | Moloch | ||
| 2000 | James Flamberg & John C. Richards (United States) | Nurse Betty | ||
| 2001 | Danis Tanović (Bosnia-Herzegovina) | No Man's Land | ||
| 2002 | Paul Laverty (United Kingdom) | Sweet Sixteen | ||
| 2003 | Denys Arcand (Canada / France) | The Barbarian Invasions | Les invasions barbares | |
| 2004 | Agnès Jaoui & Jean-Pierre Bacri (France) | Look at Me | Comme une image | |
| 2005 | Guillermo Arriaga (Mexico) | The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada | ||
| 2006 | Pedro Almodóvar (Spain) | To Return | Volver | |
| 2007 | Fatih Akin (Germany / Turkey) | The Edge of Heaven | Auf der anderen Seite | |
| 2008 | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Belgium) | Lorna's Silence | Le silence de Lorna | |
| 2009 | Mei Feng (China) | Spring Fever | 春风沉醉的晚上 (Chun feng chen zui de ye wan) | |
| 2010 | Lee Chang-dong (South Korea) | Poetry | 시 (Si) | |
| 2011 | Joseph Cedar (Israel) | Footnote | Hearat Shulayim | |
| 2012 | Cristian Mungiu & Tatiana Niculescu Bran (Romania) | Beyond the Hills | După dealuri | |
| 2013 | Jia Zhangke (China) | A Touch of Sin | 天注定 (Tiān zhùdìng) | |
| 2014 | Andrey Zvyagintsev & Oleg Negin (Russia) | Leviathan | Левиафан | |
| 2015 | Michel Franco (Mexico) | Chronic | ||
| 2016 | Asghar Farhadi (Iran) | The Salesman | فروشنده (Forušande) | |
| 2017 | Yorgos Lanthimos & Efthymis Filippou (Greece) | The Killing of a Sacred Deer | ||
Lynne Ramsay (United Kingdom) | You Were Never Really Here | |||
| 2018 | Jafar Panahi & Nader Saeivar (Iran) | 3 Faces | ||
Alice Rohrwacher (Italy) | Happy as Lazzaro | |||
^1 This year the award received the name Prix du scénario original (Original Screenplay Award).
^2 This year the award received the name Prix du scénario et des dialogues au Festival International du Film (Screenplay and Dialogues Award).
^3 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.