BAFTA Award voor Beste Originele Scenario

Winnaars en genomineerden

1980s

1983: The King of Comedy - Paul D. Zimmerman

• Lokale held - Bill Forsyth
• Trading Places - Timothy Harris en Herschel Weingrod
• Zelig - Woody Allen

1984: Broadway Danny Rose - Woody Allen

• The Big Chill - Barbara Benedek en Lawrence Kasdan
• Troost en vreugde - Bill Forsyth
• A Private Function - Alan Bennett

1985: The Purple Rose of Cairo - Woody Allen

• Back to the Future - Bob Gale en Robert Zemeckis
• My Beautiful Laundrette - Hanif Kureishi
• Getuige - William Kelley en Earl W. Wallace

1986: Hannah and Her Sisters - Woody Allen

• Crocodile Dundee - John Cornell, Paul Hogan en Ken Shadie
• De missie - Robert Bolt
• Mona Lisa - Neil Jordan en David Leland

1987: Wish You Were Here - David Leland

• Hope and Glory - John Boorman
• Persoonlijke diensten - David Leland
• Radio Days - Woody Allen

1988: A World Apart - Shawn Slovo

• Au revoir, les enfants - Louis Malle
• A Fish Called Wanda - John Cleese
• Moonstruck - John Patrick Shanley

1989: When Harry Met Sally... - Nora Ephron

• Dead Poets Society - Tom Schulman
• Rain Man - Ronald Bass en Barry Morrow
• Sex, Lies, and Videotape - Steven Soderbergh

1990s

1990: Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo cinema Paradiso) - Giuseppe Tornatore

• Crimes and Misdemeanors - Woody Allen
• Ghost - Bruce Joel Rubin
• Pretty Woman - J.F. Lawton

1991: Truly, Madly, Deeply - Anthony Minghella

• The Fisher King - Richard LaGravenese
• Groene kaart - Peter Weir
• Thelma & Louise - Callie Khouri

1992: Husbands and Wives - Woody Allen

• The Crying Game - Neil Jordan
• Hear My Song - Peter Chelsom en Adrian Dunbar
• Unforgiven - David Webb Peoples

1993: Groundhog Day - Harold Ramis en Danny Rubin

• In the Line of Fire - Jeff Maguire
• The Piano - Jane Campion
• Sleepless in Seattle - Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron en David S. Ward.

1994: Pulp Fiction - Roger Avary en Quentin Tarantino

• De avonturen van Priscilla, koningin van de woestijn - Stephan Elliott
• Four Weddings and a Funeral - Richard Curtis
• Philadelphia - Ron Nyswaner

1995: The Usual Suspects - Christopher McQuarrie

• Bullets Over Broadway - Woody Allen en Douglas McGrath
• Muriel's Wedding - P.J. Hogan
• Se7en - Andrew Kevin Walker

1996: Secrets & Lies - Mike Leigh

• Brassed Off - Mark Herman
• Fargo - Ethan en Joel Coen
• Lone Star - John Sayles
• Shine - Jan Sardi

1997: Nil by Mouth - Gary Oldman

• Boogie Nights - Paul Thomas Anderson
• The Full Monty - Simon Beaufoy
• Mrs. Brown - Jeremy Brock

1998: The Truman Show - Andrew Niccol

• Elizabeth - Michael Hirst
• Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella) - Roberto Benigni en Vincenzo Cerami
• Shakespeare in Love - Marc Norman en Tom Stoppard

1999: Being John Malkovich - Charlie Kaufman

• Alles over mijn moeder (Todo sobre mi madre) - Pedro Almodóvar
• American Beauty - Alan Ball
• The Sixth Sense - M. Night Shyamalan
• Topsy-Turvy - Mike Leigh

2000s

2000: Almost Famous - Cameron Crowe

• Billy Elliot - Lee Hall
• Erin Brockovich - Susannah Grant
• Gladiator - David Franzoni, John Logan en William Nicholson
• O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Ethan en Joel Coen

2001: Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) - Jean-Pierre Jeunet en Guillaume Laurant

• Gosford Park - Julian Fellowes en Steven Zaillian Kenneth Lonergan
• Moulin Rouge! - Baz Luhrmann en Craig Pearce
• The Others - Alejandro Amenábar
• The Royal Tenenbaums - Wes Anderson en Owen Wilson

2002: Talk to Her (Hable con ella) - Pedro Almodóvar

• And Your Mother Too (Y tu mamá también) - Alfonso en Carlos Cuarón
• Dirty Pretty Things - Steven Knight
• Gangs of New York - Jay Cocks Steven Zaillian Kenneth Lonergan
• The Magdalene Sisters - Peter Mullan

2003: The Station Agent - Thomas McCarthy

• 21 Grams - Guillermo Arriaga
• De invasies van de barbaren - Denys Arcand
• Finding Nemo - Bob Peterson, David Reynolds en Andrew Stanton
• Lost in Translation - Sofia Coppola

2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Charlie Kaufman

• The Aviator - John Logan
• Collateral - Stuart Beattie
• Ray - James L. White
• Vera Drake - Mike Leigh

2005: Crash - Paul Haggis en Robert Moresco

• Cinderella Man - Akiva Goldsman en Cliff Hollingsworth
• Good Night, and Good Luck - George Clooney en Grant Heslov
• Hotel Rwanda - Terry George en Keir Pearson
• Mevrouw Henderson presenteert - Martin Sherman

2006: Little Miss Sunshine - Michael Arndt

• Babel - Guillermo Arriaga
• Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) - Guillermo del Toro
• De koningin - Peter Morgan
• United 93 - Paul Greengrass

2007: Juno - Diablo Cody

• American Gangster - Steven Zaillian
• Het leven van anderen (Das Leben der Anderen) - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
• Michael Clayton - Tony Gilroy
• This Is England - Shane Meadows

2008: In Bruges - Martin McDonagh

• Burn After Reading - Ethan en Joel Coen
• Changeling - J. Michael Straczynski
• I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime) - Philippe Claudel
• Milk - Dustin Lance Black

2009: The Hurt Locker - Mark Boal

• The Hangover - Jon Lucas en Scott Moore
• Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino
• A Serious Man - Joel Coen en Ethan Coen
• Up - Pete Docter en Bob Peterson

2010s

2010: The King's Speech - David Seidler

• Black Swan - Mark Heyman, Andrés Heinz en John McLaughlin
• The Fighter - Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy en Eric Johnson
• Inception - Christopher Nolan
• The Kids Are All Right - Lisa Cholodenko en Stuart Blumberg

2011: The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius

• Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen
• The Guard - John Michael McDonagh
• The Iron Lady - Abi Morgan
• Bridesmaids - Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig