BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay
British film industry award
BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay | |
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Awarded for | Best British Screenplay |
Location | United Kingdom |
Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
First awarded | 1954 (presented 1955) |
Last awarded | 1967 (presented 1968) |
Website | http://www.bafta.org/ |
The BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay was a British Academy Film Award from 1954 to 1967. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, children's film and television, and interactive media.
In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees. The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released, not the year of the ceremony, which always takes place the following year.
Winner and nominees
indicates the winner
1950s
Year | Film | Screenwriter(s) |
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1954 (8th) | The Young Lovers | George Tabori and Robin Estridge |
The Divided Heart | Jack Whittingham | |
Doctor in the House | Nicholas Phipps | |
Hobson's Choice | David Lean, Norman Spencer and Wynyard Browne | |
The Maggie | William Rose | |
Monsieur Ripois | Hugh Mills and René Clément | |
The Purple Plain | Eric Ambler | |
Romeo and Juliet | Renato Castellani | |
1955 (9th) | The Ladykillers | William Rose |
The Constant Husband | Sidney Gilliat and Val Valentine | |
The Dam Busters | R. C. Sherriff | |
The Deep Blue Sea | Terence Rattigan | |
Doctor at Sea | Nicholas Phipps and Jack Davies | |
The Night My Number Came Up | R. C. Sherriff | |
The Prisoner | Bridget Boland | |
Touch and Go | William Rose | |
1956 (10th) | The Man Who Never Was | Nigel Balchin |
The Battle of the River Plate | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | |
The Green Man | Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder | |
Private's Progress | Frank Harvey and John Boulting | |
Reach for the Sky | Lewis Gilbert | |
Smiley | Moore Raymond and Anthony Kimmins | |
Three Men in a Boat | Hubert Gregg and Vernon Harris | |
A Town Like Alice | W. P. Lipscomb and Richard Mason | |
Yield to the Night | John Cresswell and Joan Henry | |
The Bridge on the River Kwai | Pierre Boulle | |
Anastasia | Arthur Laurents | |
The Birthday Present | Jack Whittingham | |
Hell Drivers | John Kruse and Cy Endfield | |
The Man in the Sky | William Rose and John Eldridge | |
The Prince and the Showgirl | Terence Rattigan | |
The Smallest Show on Earth | William Rose and John Eldridge | |
The Story of Esther Costello | Charles Kaufman | |
Windom's Way | Jill Craigie | |
Woman in a Dressing Gown | Ted Willis | |
Orders to Kill | Paul Dehn | |
Bonjour Tristesse | Arthur Laurents | |
A Cry from the Streets | Vernon Harris | |
Ice Cold in Alex | T. J. Morrison | |
Indiscreet | Norman Krasna | |
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness | Isobel Lennart | |
The Key | Carl Foreman | |
The Man Upstairs | Alun Falconer | |
A Night To Remember | Eric Ambler | |
Violent Playground | James Kennaway | |
I'm All Right Jack | Frank Harvey, John Boulting and Alan Hackney | |
Blind Date | Ben Barzman and Millard Lampell | |
Expresso Bongo | Wolf Mankowitz | |
The Horse's Mouth | Alec Guinness | |
Look Back in Anger | Nigel Kneale | |
No Trees in the Street | Ted Willis | |
North West Frontier | Robin Estridge | |
Sapphire | Janet Green | |
Tiger Bay | John Hawkesworth and Shelley Smith |
1960s
References
- ^ "Film in 1957 | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 2021-11-19.
- ^ "BAFTA | Film in 1959". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
- ^ "BAFTA | Film in 1960". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
- ^ "BAFTA | Film in 1961". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
- ^ "BAFTA | Film in 1962". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
- ^ "BAFTA | Film in 1963". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
- ^ "BAFTA | Film in 1964". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
- ^ "BAFTA | Film in 1965". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
- ^ "BAFTA | Film in 1966". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
- ^ "BAFTA | Film in 1967". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
- ^ "BAFTA | Film in 1968". bafta.org. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
External links
- Official site at BAFTA.org
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BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay
- George Tabori and Robin Estridge (1954)
- William Rose (1955)
- Nigel Balchin (1956)
- Pierre Boulle (1957)
- Paul Dehn (1958)
- Frank Harvey, John Boulting and Alan Hackney (1959)
- Bryan Forbes (1960)
- Wolf Mankowitz and Val Guest / Shelagh Delaney and Tony Richardson (1961)
- Robert Bolt (1962)
- John Osborne (1963)
- Harold Pinter (1964)
- Frederic Raphael (1965)
- David Mercer (1966)
- Robert Bolt (1967)