The European Film Award for Best Screenwriter is an award given out at the annual European Film Awards to recognize a screenwriter who has delivered an outstanding screenplay in a film industry. The award is presented by the European Film Academy (EFA) and was first presented in 1988 to French director and screenwriter Louis Malle for Goodbye Children.
| European Film Award for Best Screenwriter | |
|---|---|
  The 2023 recipients: Justine Triet and Arthur Harari | |
| Awarded for | Best Achievement in Screenwriting |
| Presented by | European Film Academy |
| First awarded | Louis Malle Au revoir les enfants (1988) |
| Currently held by | Justine Triet Arthur Harari Anatomy of a Fall (2023) |
| Website | europeanfilmacademy |
István Szabó, Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Thomas Vinterberg, Tobias Lindholm, Ruben Östlund and Paweł Pawlikowski are the only writers who have received this award more than once, with two wins each.
Winners and nominees edit
1980s edit
| Year | Winner and nominees | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 (1st) |
 Louis Malle |
Goodbye Children | Au Revoir Les Enfants |
 Manoel de Oliveira |
The Cannibals | Os Canibais | |
 Terence Davies |
Distant Voices, Still Lives | ||
 Daniele Luchetti Franco Bernini Angelo Pasquini |
It's Happening Tomorrow | Domani accadrà | |
 Wolfgang Held |
Bear Ye One Another's Burden | Einer trage des anderen Last | |
| 1989 (2nd) |
  Mariya Khmelik |
Little Vera | Ма́ленькая Ве́ра |
 Géza Bereményi |
The Midas Touch | Eldorádó | |
 Þráinn Bertelsson |
Magnus | ||
 Theodoros Angelopoulos Tonino Guerra Thanassis Valtinos |
Landscape in the Mist | Topio stin omichli | |
 Maciej Dejczer Cezary Harasimowicz |
300 Miles to Heaven | 300 mil do nieba | |
1990s edit
2000s edit
2010s edit
2020s edit
Most wins by screenwriter edit
| Screenwriter | Awards | Nominations |
|---|---|---|
| Paweł Pawlikowski | 2 | 2 |
| István Szabó | 2 | 2 |
| Ruben Östlund | 2 | 2 |
| Tobias Lindholm | 2 | 2 |
| Thomas Vinterberg | 2 | 2 |
| Michael Haneke | 1 | 4 |
| Pedro Almodóvar | 1 | 4 |
| François Ozon | 1 | 3 |
| Dardenne brothers | 1 | 2 |
| Roman Polanski | 1 | 2 |
| Fatih Akin | 1 | 2 |
| Ugo Chiti | 1 | 2 |
| Efthimis Filippou | 1 | 2 |
| Matteo Garrone | 1 | 2 |
| Massimo Gaudioso | 1 | 2 |
| Yorgos Lanthimos | 1 | 2 |
| Paolo Sorrentino | 0 | 4 |
| Paul Laverty | 0 | 4 |
| Aki Kaurismäki | 0 | 3 |
| Cristian Mungiu | 0 | 3 |
| Lars von Trier | 0 | 3 |
| Ali Abbasi | 0 | 2 |
| Andrey Zvyagintsev | 0 | 2 |
| Radu Jude | 0 | 2 |
| Maurizio Braucci | 0 | 2 |
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