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 and 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 - Le Charme discret de la 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