BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay

1960s

• 1968: The Graduate – Calder Willingham and Buck Henry
• * if.... – David Sherwin
• * The Lion in Winter – James Goldman
• 1969: Midnight Cowboy – Waldo Salt
• * Goodbye, Columbus – Arnold Schulman
• * Women in Love – Larry Kramer
• * Z – Costa-Gavras, Jorge Semprún

  1970s

• 1970: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – William Goldman
• * Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice – Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker
• * Kes – Barry Hines, Ken Loach, and Tony Garnett
• * They Shoot Horses, Don't They? – James Poe and Robert E. Thompson
• 1971: The Go-Between – Harold Pinter
• * Gumshoe – Neville Smith
• * Sunday Bloody Sunday – Penelope Gilliatt
• * Taking Off – Miloš Forman, John Guare, Jean-Claude Carrière, and Jon Klein
• 1972: The Hospital – Paddy Chayefsky / The Last Picture Show – Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich
• * Cabaret – Jay Presson Allen
• * A Clockwork Orange – Stanley Kubrick
• 1973: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie – Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière
• * The Day of the Jackal – Kenneth Ross
• * Sleuth – Anthony Shaffer
• * A Touch of Class – Melvin Frank and Jack Rose
• 1974: Chinatown – Robert Towne / The Last Detail – Robert Towne
• * Blazing Saddles – Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, and Alan Uger
• * The Conversation – Francis Ford Coppola
• * Lacombe, Lucien – Louis Malle and Patrick Modiano
• 1975: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore – Robert Getchell
• * Dog Day Afternoon – Frank Pierson
• * Jaws – Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb
• * Nashville – Joan Tewkesbury
• 1976: Bugsy Malone – Alan Parker
• * All the President's Men – William Goldman
• * One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben
• * The Sunshine Boys – Neil Simon
• 1977: Annie Hall – Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
• * Equus – Peter Shaffer
• * Network – Paddy Chayefsky
• * Rocky – Sylvester Stallone
• 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, and Robert Altman
• 1979: Manhattan – Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
• * The China Syndrome – Mike Gray, T. S. Cook, and James Bridges
• * The Deer Hunter – Deric Washburn
• * Yanks – Colin Welland and Walter Bernstein

  1980s

• 1980: Being There – Jerzy Kosiński
• * Airplane! – Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker
• * The Elephant Man – Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren, and David Lynch
• * Kramer vs. Kramer – Robert Benton
• 1981: Gregory's Girl – Bill Forsyth
• * Atlantic City – John Guare
• * Chariots of Fire – Colin Welland
• * The French Lieutenant's Woman – Harold Pinter
• 1982: Missing – Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart
• * E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – Melissa Mathison
• * Gandhi – John Briley
• * On Golden Pond – Ernest Thompson