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The BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay is a British Academy Film Award for the best script. It was awarded from 1968 to 1982. In 1983 it was split into BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay and BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

1982 - Missing - Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Melissa Mathison
- Gandhi - John Briley
- On Golden Pond - Ernest Thompson

1981 - Gregory's Girl - Bill Forsyth
- Atlantic City - John Guare
- Chariots of Fire - Colin Welland
- The French Lieutenant's Woman - Harold Pinter

1980 - Being There - Jerzy Kosinski
- Airplane! - Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
- The Elephant Man - Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren and David Lynch
- Kramer vs. Kramer - Robert Benton

1979 - Manhattan - Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
- The China Syndrome - Mike Gray, T.S. Cook and James Bridges
- The Deer Hunter - Deric Washburn
- Yanks - Colin Welland and Walter Bernstein

1978 - Julia - Alvin Sargent
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Steven Spielberg
- The Goodbye Girl - Neil Simon
- A Wedding - John Considine, Patricia Resnick, Allan F. Nicholls and Robert Altman

1977 - Annie Hall - Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
- Network - Paddy Chayefsky
- Rocky - Sylvester Stallone
- Equus - Peter Shaffer

1976 - Bugsy Malone - Alan Parker
- All the President's Men - William Goldman
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman
- The Sunshine Boys - Neil Simon

1975 - Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore - Robert Getchell
- Dog Day Afternoon - Frank Pierson
- Jaws - Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb
- Nashville - Joan Tewkesbury

1974 - Chinatown - Robert Towne and The Last Detail - Robert Towne
- Blazing Saddles - Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor and Alan Uger
- The Conversation - Francis Ford Coppola
- Lacombe Lucien - Louis Malle and Patrick Modiano

1973 - The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière
- The Day of the Jackal - Kenneth Ross
- Sleuth - Anthony Shaffer
- A Touch of Class - Melvin Frank, Jack Rose

1972 - The Hospital - Paddy Chayefsky and The Last Picture Show - Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich
- Cabaret - Jay Presson Allen
- A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick

1971 - The Go-Between - Harold Pinter
- Gumshoe - Neville Smith
- Sunday Bloody Sunday - Penelope Gilliatt
- Taking Off - Miloš Forman, John Guare, Jean-Claude Carrière and Jon Klein

1970 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - William Goldman
- Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice - Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker
- Kes - Barry Hines, Ken Loach, Tony Garnett
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - James Poe and Robert E. Thompson

1969 - Midnight Cowboy - Waldo Salt
- Goodbye, Columbus - Arnold Schulman
- Women in Love - Larry Kramer
- Z - Costa-Gavras, Jorge Semprún

1968 - The Graduate - Calder Willingham and Buck Henry
- If.... - David Sherwin
- The Lion in Winter - James Goldman

Other websites

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"Awards Database – The BAFTA Site". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Retrieved June 16, 2012.

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