Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay
The Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association for "superior achievement" in horror writing for best screenplay.Winners and nominees
This category existed between 1998 and 2004. It was reintroduced in 2011. Nominees are listed below the winner for each year.
- 1998: Dark City by Alex Proyas / Gods and Monsters by Bill Condon '
- * Fallen by Nicholas Kazan
- * Millennium by Darin Morgan
- 1999: The Sixth Sense by M. Night Shyamalan
- * The Blair Witch Project by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez
- * Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Joss Whedon
- * The Green Mile by Frank Darabont
- 2000: Shadow of the Vampire by Steven Katz
- * The Cell by Mark Protosevich
- * Pitch Black by David Twohy, Ken Wheat, and Jim Wheat
- * Requiem for a Dream by Darren Aronofsky and Hubert Selby Jr.
- * Unbreakable by M. Night Shyamalan
- 2001: Memento by Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan
- * From Hell by Terry Hayes and Rafael Yglesias
- * ' by Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh
- * The Others by Alejandro Amenábar
- 2002: Frailty by Brent Hanley
- * Minority Report by Scott Frank and Jon Cohen
- * The Ring by Ehren Kruger
- * Signs by M. Night Shyamalan
- 2003: Bubba Ho-Tep by Don Coscarelli
- * Identity by Michael Cooney
- * ' by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio
- 2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, and Pierre Bismuth / Shaun of the Dead by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright '
- * Dawn of the Dead by James Gunn
- * Hellboy by Guillermo del Toro
- 2011: American Horror Story by Jessica Sharzer
- * The Adjustment Bureau by George Nolfi
- * Priest by Cory Goodman
- * True Blood by Alan Ball
- * The Walking Dead by Scott M. Gimple
- * The Walking Dead by Scott M. Gimple
- 2012: The Cabin in the Woods by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard
- * American Horror Story by Tim Minear
- * The Hunger Games by Gary Ross, Suzanne Collins, and Billy Ray
- * The Walking Dead by Sang Kyu Kim
- * The Woman in Black by Jane Goldman
- 2013: The Walking Dead by Glen Mazzara
- * ' by Brad Falchuk
- * Dracula by Daniel Knauf
- * Hannibal by Bryan Fuller
- * The Returned by Frédéric Adda and Fabrice Gobert
- 2014: The Babadook by Jennifer Kent
- * ' by James Wong
- * Doctor Who by Steven Moffat
- * Penny Dreadful by John Logan
- * The Walking Dead by Scott M. Gimple
- 2015: It Follows by David Robert Mitchell
- * Crimson Peak by Guillermo del Toro and Matthew Robbins
- * Penny Dreadful by John Logan
- * Penny Dreadful by John Logan
- * What We Do in the Shadows by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
- 2016: The Witch by Robert Eggers
- * 10 Cloverfield Lane by Josh Campbell, Damien Chazelle, and Matthew Stuecken
- * Penny Dreadful by John Logan
- * Stranger Things by The Duffer Brothers
- * Stranger Things by The Duffer Brothers
- 2017: Get Out by Jordan Peele
- * The Shape of Water by Guillermo Del Toro and Vanessa Taylor
- * Stranger Things by The Duffer Brothers
- * Twin Peaks by Mark Frost and David Lynch
- * It by Chase Palmer, Cary Fukunaga, and Gary Dauberman
- 2018: The Haunting of Hill House: "The Bent-Neck Lady" by Meredith Averill
- *Hereditary by Ari Aster
- * Annihilation by Alex Garland
- * Bird Box by Eric Heisserer
- * A Quiet Place by Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, and John Krasinski
- 2019:
- *Midsommar by Ari Aster
- *Stranger Things by Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer
- *The Lighthouse by Robert Eggers and Max Eggers
- *Doctor Sleep by Mike Flanagan
- *Us by Jordan Peele