BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay

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• 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