BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay

*1982 - "Missing" - Costa-Gavras, Donald 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, David Lynch
**"Kramer vs. Kramer" - Robert Benton

*1979 - "Manhattan" - Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
**"The China Syndrome" - Mike Gray, T.S. Cook, James Bridges
**"The Deer Hunter" - Deric Washburn
**"Yanks" - Colin Welland, 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, Robert Altman

*1977 - "Annie Hall" - Woody Allen,, 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, Bo Goldman
**"The Sunshine Boys" - Neil Simon

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

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

*1973 - "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" - Luis Buñuel, 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 & "The Last Picture Show" - Larry McMurtry, 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" - Milos Forman, John Guare, Jean-Claude Carrière, Jon Klein

*1970 - "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" - William Goldman
**"Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" - Paul Mazursky, Larry Tucker
**"Kes" - Barry Hines, Ken Loach, Tony Garnett
**"They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" - James Poe, 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 Buck Henry
**"If...." - David Sherwin
**"The Lion in Winter" - James Goldman