Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay

Best Screenplay Award
Prix du scénario (French)
The 2024 recipient: Coralie Fargeat
Awarded for	Best Achievement in Writing
Country	France
Presented by	Cannes Film Festival
First awarded	1949
Currently held by	Coralie Fargeat The Substance (2024)
Website	www.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

Year	Screenwriters(s)	English Title	Original Title
1940s
1949	Alfred L. Werker, Eugene Ling & Virginia Shaler	Lost Boundaries
1950s
1951	Terence Rattigan	The Browning Version
1952	Piero Tellini	Cops and Robbers	Guardie e ladri
1958	Pier Paolo Pasolini, Massimo Franciosa & Pasquale Festa Campanile [A]	Young Husbands	Giovani mariti
1960s
1963	Dumitru Carabat, Henri Colpi & Yves Jamiaque	Codine
1965	Ray Rigby	The Hill
	Pierre Schoendoerffer	The 317th Platoon
1967	Alain Jessua	The Killing Game	Jeu de massacre
	Elio Petri	We Still Kill the Old Way	A ciascuno il suo
1970s
1974	Steven Spielberg, Hal Barwood & Matthew Robbins	The Sugarland Express
1980s
1980	Furio Scarpelli, Agenore Incrocci & Ettore Scola [B]	La Terrazza
1981	István Szabó	Mephisto
1982	Jerzy Skolimowski	Moonlighting
1984	Thanassis Valtinos, Theo Angelopoulos & Tonino Guerra [C]	Voyage to Cythera	Taxidi sta Kythira
1990s
1994	Michel Blanc	Grosse fatigue
1996	Jacques Audiard & Alain Le Henry	A Self Made Hero	Un héros très discret
1997	James Schamus	The Ice Storm
1998	Hal Hartley	Henry Fool
1999	Yuri Arabov	Moloch	Молох
2000s
2000	James Flamberg & John C. Richards	Nurse Betty
2001	Danis Tanović	No Man's Land
2002	Paul Laverty	Sweet Sixteen
2003	Denys Arcand	The Barbarian Invasions	Les invasions barbares
2004	Agnès Jaoui & Jean-Pierre Bacri	Look at Me	Comme une image
2005	Guillermo Arriaga	The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
2006	Pedro Almodóvar	Volver
2007	Fatih Akin	The Edge of Heaven	Auf der anderen Seite
2008	Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne	Lorna's Silence	Le silence de Lorna
2009	Mei Feng	Spring Fever	春风沉醉的夜晚
2010s
2010	Lee Chang-dong	Poetry	시
2011	Joseph Cedar	Footnote	Hearat Shulayim
2012	Cristian Mungiu & Tatiana Niculescu Bran	Beyond the Hills	După dealuri
2013	Jia Zhangke	A Touch of Sin	天注定
2014	Andrey Zvyagintsev & Oleg Negin	Leviathan	Левиафан
2015	Michel Franco	Chronic
2016	Asghar Farhadi	The Salesman	فروشنده
2017	Yorgos Lanthimos & Efthymis Filippou	The Killing of a Sacred Deer
	Lynne Ramsay	You Were Never Really Here
2018	Jafar Panahi & Nader Saeivar	3 Faces	سه رخ
	Alice Rohrwacher	Happy as Lazzaro	Lazzaro felice
2019	Céline Sciamma	Portrait of a Lady on Fire	Portrait de la jeune fille en feu
2020s
2021	Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe	Drive My Car	ドライブ・マイ・カー
2022	Tarik Saleh	Boy from Heaven	صبي من الجنة
2023	Yuji Sakamoto	Monster	怪物
2024	Coralie Fargeat	The Substance

See also

• Golden Osella for Best Screenplay
• Silver Bear for Best Screenplay

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).

External links

• Cannes Film Festival Official Website
• Cannes Film Festival at IMDB Archived 2010-04-11 at the Wayback Machine.