AACTA Award for Best Screenplay, Original or Adapted

The Australian Film Institute Award for Best Screenplay, Original or Adapted is an award in the annual Australian Film Institute Awards. It has been awarded annually since 1967. In 2011, it was changed to the AACTA Awards.

While the category of Best Screenplay is given out in two different forms (Original or Adapted), some years involved the AACTA Awards handing out both types of screenplays in the same ceremony. The winners and nominees for those few years are listed below.

Winners and nominees In the following table, films and screenwriters listed in bold, and in a blue background have received the special award; those listed in boldface and highlighted in gold are the winners of the competitive awards. Films and screenwriters that are not in boldface or highlighted are the nominees.Winners and nominees by year: 1974-75: 1976: 1977: 1980: 1981: 1982: 1990: 1991: 1992: 2000: 2007:

Year Film Screenwriter(s) Source 1970s1975PetersenDavid WilliamsonOriginal screenplay1976The Devil's PlaygroundFred SchepisiOriginal screenplayCaddieJoan LongThe novel Caddie, A Sydney Barmaid by Catherine EdmondsPicnic at Hanging RockCliff GreenThe novel of the same name by Joan LindsayThe TrespassersJohn DuiganOriginal screenplay1977Don's PartyDavid WilliamsonThe play of the same name by WilliamsonThe Fourth WishMichael CraigBased on television series of the same name by CraigThe Picture Show ManJoan LongThe memoirs by Lyle PennStorm BoySonia BorgThe novel Storm Boy by Colin Thiele 1980s1980Breaker MorantJonathan Hardy, David Stevens and Bruce BeresfordOriginal screenplayHard KnocksDon McLennan and Hilton BonnerOriginal screenplayMaybe This TimeBob Ellis and Anne BrooksbankStirBob Jewson1981GallipoliDavid WilliamsonOriginal screenplayThe ClubDavid WilliamsonThe play of the same name by WilliamsonHoodwinkKen QuinnellOriginal screenplayWinter of Our DreamsJohn Duigan1982Goodbye ParadiseBob Ellis and Denny LawrenceOriginal screenplayLonely HeartsPaul Cox and John ClarkeOriginal screenplayMoving OutJan SardiWe of the Never NeverPeter SchreckThe novel of the same name by Jeannie Gunn 1990s1990The Big StealDavid ParkerOriginal screenplayBlood OathDenis Whitburn and Brian A. WilliamsOriginal screenplayGolden BraidPaul Cox and Barry DickinsThe story La Chevelure by Guy de MaupassantStruck by LightningTrevor FarrantOriginal screenplay1991ProofJocelyn MoorhouseOriginal screenplayDeath in BrunswickBoyd Oxlade and John RuaneThe graphic novel of the same name by OxladeSpotswoodMax Dann and Andrew KnightOriginal screenplayA Woman's TalePaul Cox and Barry Dickins1992Strictly BallroomBaz Luhrmann and Craig PearceOriginal screenplayBlack RobeBrian MooreThe novel of the same name by MooreGreenkeepingDavid CaesarOriginal screenplayThe Last Days of Chez NousHelen Garner 2000s2007The Home Song StoriesTony AyresOriginal screenplayClublandKeith ThompsonOriginal screenplayLucky MilesHelen Barnes and Michael James RowlandNoiseMatthew SavilleRomulus, My FatherNick DrakeThe memoir of the same name by Raimond Gaita 2010s2019The NightingaleJennifer KentOriginal screenplayHotel MumbaiJohn Collee and Anthony MarasOriginal screenplayJudy and PunchMirrah FoulkesThe KingDavid Michod and Joel EdgertonThe plays Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2 & Henry V by William Shakespeare 2020s2020BabyteethRita KalnejaisThe play of the same name by KalnejaisThe Invisible ManLeigh WhannellOriginal screenplay; characters and concept created by H. G. Wells for the novel of the same nameLittle MonstersAbe ForsytheOriginal screenplayRelicNatalie Erika James and Christian WhiteTrue History of the Kelly GangShaun GrantThe novel of the same name by Peter Carey2022The StrangerThomas M. WrightThe non-fiction book The Sting: The Undercover Operation That Caught Daniel Morcombe's Killer by Kate KyriacouThe Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly JohnsonLeah PurcellOriginal screenplayElvisBaz Luhrmann, Sam Bromell, Craig Pearce and Jeremy DonerNude TuesdayJackie van BeekThree Thousand Years of LongingGeorge Miller and Augusta GoreThe short story The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A. S. Byatt2023Talk to MeDanny Philippou and Bill HinzmanOriginal screenplayThe New BoyWarwick ThorntonOriginal screenplayOf an AgeGoran StolevskiThe Royal HotelKitty Green and Oscar ReddingBased on the documentary film Hotel Coolgardie by Pete GleesonShaydaNoora NiasariOriginal screenplay2024Better ManSimon Gleeson, Oliver Cole and Michael GraceyOriginal screenplayFuriosa: A Mad Max SagaGeorge Miller and Nico LathourisBased on the characters created by Miller, Byron Kennedy & LathourisHow to Make GravyMegan Washington and Nick WatermanBased on the song of the same name by Paul KellyLate Night with the DevilColin and Cameron CairnesOriginal screenplayMemoir of a SnailAdam Elliot2025The CorrespondentPeter DuncanBased on The First Casualty by Peter GresteBring Her Back Danny Philippou and Bill HinzmanOriginal screenplayInside Charles WilliamsLesbian Space Princess Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela VargheseTogether Michael Shanks

External links AACTA Awards AACTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay AACTA Award for Best Original Screenplay

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