Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay

Film award category
Best Screenplay Award
Prix du scénario (French)
The 2024 recipient: Coralie Fargeat
Awarded forBest Achievement in Writing
CountryFrance
Presented byCannes Film Festival
First awarded1949
Currently held byCoralie Fargeat
The Substance (2024)
Websitewww.festival-cannes.com/en/

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.

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Winners

YearScreenwriters(s)English TitleOriginal Title
1940s
1949Alfred L. Werker, Eugene Ling & Virginia ShalerLost Boundaries
1950s
1951Terence RattiganThe Browning Version
1952Piero TelliniCops and RobbersGuardie e ladri
1958Pier Paolo Pasolini, Massimo Franciosa & Pasquale Festa Campanile [A]Young HusbandsGiovani mariti
1960s
1963Dumitru Carabat, Henri Colpi & Yves JamiaqueCodine
1965Ray RigbyThe Hill
Pierre SchoendoerfferThe 317th Platoon
1967Alain JessuaThe Killing GameJeu de massacre
Elio PetriWe Still Kill the Old WayA ciascuno il suo
1970s
1974Steven Spielberg, Hal Barwood & Matthew RobbinsThe Sugarland Express
1980s
1980Furio Scarpelli, Agenore Incrocci & Ettore Scola [B]La Terrazza
1981István SzabóMephisto
1982Jerzy SkolimowskiMoonlighting
1984Thanassis Valtinos, Theo Angelopoulos & Tonino Guerra [C]Voyage to CytheraTaxidi sta Kythira
1990s
1994Michel BlancGrosse fatigue
1996Jacques Audiard & Alain Le HenryA Self Made HeroUn héros très discret
1997James SchamusThe Ice Storm
1998Hal HartleyHenry Fool
1999Yuri ArabovMolochМолох
2000s
2000James Flamberg & John C. RichardsNurse Betty
2001Danis TanovićNo Man's Land
2002Paul LavertySweet Sixteen
2003Denys ArcandThe Barbarian InvasionsLes invasions barbares
2004Agnès Jaoui & Jean-Pierre BacriLook at MeComme une image
2005Guillermo ArriagaThe Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
2006Pedro AlmodóvarVolver
2007Fatih AkinThe Edge of HeavenAuf der anderen Seite
2008Jean-Pierre & Luc DardenneLorna's SilenceLe silence de Lorna
2009Mei FengSpring Fever春风沉醉的夜晚
2010s
2010Lee Chang-dongPoetry
2011Joseph CedarFootnoteHearat Shulayim
2012Cristian Mungiu & Tatiana Niculescu BranBeyond the HillsDupă dealuri
2013Jia ZhangkeA Touch of Sin天注定
2014Andrey Zvyagintsev & Oleg NeginLeviathanЛевиафан
2015Michel FrancoChronic
2016Asghar FarhadiThe Salesmanفروشنده
2017Yorgos Lanthimos & Efthymis FilippouThe Killing of a Sacred Deer
Lynne RamsayYou Were Never Really Here
2018Jafar Panahi & Nader Saeivar3 Facesسه رخ
Alice RohrwacherHappy as LazzaroLazzaro felice
2019Céline SciammaPortrait of a Lady on FirePortrait de la jeune fille en feu
2020s
2021Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa OeDrive My Carドライブ・マイ・カー
2022Tarik SalehBoy from Heavenصبي من الجنة
2023Yuji SakamotoMonster怪物
2024Coralie FargeatThe Substance

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).
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