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

Year Screenwriters(s) English Title Original Title
1940s
1949 Alfred L. Werker, Eugene Ling & Virginia Shaler Lost Boundaries
1950s
1951 Terence Rattigan The Browning Version
1952 Piero Tellini Cops and Robbers Guardie e ladri
1958 Pier Paolo Pasolini, Massimo Franciosa & Pasquale Festa Campanile [A] Young Husbands Giovani mariti
1960s
1963 Dumitru Carabat, Henri Colpi & Yves Jamiaque Codine
1965 Ray Rigby The Hill
Pierre Schoendoerffer The 317th Platoon
1967 Alain Jessua The Killing Game Jeu de massacre
Elio Petri We Still Kill the Old Way A ciascuno il suo
1970s
1974 Steven Spielberg, Hal Barwood & Matthew Robbins The Sugarland Express
1980s
1980 Furio Scarpelli, Agenore Incrocci & Ettore Scola [B] La Terrazza
1981 István Szabó Mephisto
1982 Jerzy Skolimowski Moonlighting
1984 Thanassis Valtinos, Theo Angelopoulos & Tonino Guerra [C] Voyage to Cythera Taxidi sta Kythira
1990s
1994 Michel Blanc Grosse fatigue
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
2021 Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe Drive My Car ドライブ・マイ・カー
2022 Tarik Saleh Boy from Heaven
2023 Yuji Sakamoto Monster 怪物

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
Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay
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