The BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay is the British Academy Film Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. It has been awarded since 1984. In 1984 the category BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay was split into two awards, this one and the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Winners and nominees
1980s
1983: The King of Comedy – Paul D. Zimmerman
Local Hero – Bill Forsyth
Trading Places – Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod
Zelig – Woody Allen
1984: Broadway Danny Rose – Woody Allen
The Big Chill – Barbara Benedek and Lawrence Kasdan
Comfort and Joy – Bill Forsyth
A Private Function – Alan Bennett
1985: The Purple Rose of Cairo – Woody Allen
Back to the Future – Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis
My Beautiful Laundrette – Hanif Kureishi
Witness – William Kelley and Earl W. Wallace
1986: Hannah and Her Sisters – Woody Allen
Crocodile Dundee – John Cornell, Paul Hogan and Ken Shadie
The Mission – Robert Bolt
Mona Lisa – Neil Jordan and David Leland
1987: Wish You Were Here – David Leland
Hope and Glory – John Boorman
Personal Services – David Leland
Radio Days – Woody Allen
1988: A World Apart – Shawn Slovo
Au revoir, les enfants – Louis Malle
A Fish Called Wanda – John Cleese
Moonstruck – John Patrick Shanley
1989: When Harry Met Sally... – Nora Ephron
Dead Poets Society – Tom Schulman
Rain Man – Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow
Sex, Lies, and Videotape – Steven Soderbergh
1990s
1990: Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo cinema Paradiso) – Giuseppe Tornatore
Crimes and Misdemeanors – Woody Allen
Ghost – Bruce Joel Rubin
Pretty Woman – J.F. Lawton
1991: Truly, Madly, Deeply – Anthony Minghella
The Fisher King – Richard LaGravenese
Green Card – Peter Weir
Thelma & Louise – Callie Khouri
1992: Husbands and Wives – Woody Allen
The Crying Game – Neil Jordan
Hear My Song – Peter Chelsom and Adrian Dunbar
Unforgiven – David Webb Peoples
1993: Groundhog Day – Harold Ramis and Danny Rubin
In the Line of Fire – Jeff Maguire
The Piano – Jane Campion
Sleepless in Seattle – Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron and David S. Ward
1994: Pulp Fiction – Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – Stephan Elliott
Four Weddings and a Funeral – Richard Curtis
Philadelphia – Ron Nyswaner
1995: The Usual Suspects – Christopher McQuarrie
Bullets Over Broadway – Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath
Muriel's Wedding – P.J. Hogan
Se7en – Andrew Kevin Walker
1996: Secrets & Lies – Mike Leigh
Brassed Off – Mark Herman
Fargo – Ethan and Joel Coen
Lone Star – John Sayles
Shine – Jan Sardi
1997: Nil by Mouth – Gary Oldman
Boogie Nights – Paul Thomas Anderson
The Full Monty – Simon Beaufoy
Mrs. Brown – Jeremy Brock
1998: The Truman Show – Andrew Niccol
Elizabeth – Michael Hirst
Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella) – Roberto Benigni and Vincenzo Cerami
Shakespeare in Love – Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard
1999: Being John Malkovich – Charlie Kaufman
All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre) – Pedro Almodóvar
American Beauty – Alan Ball
The Sixth Sense – M. Night Shyamalan
Topsy-Turvy – Mike Leigh
2000s
2000: Almost Famous – Cameron Crowe
Billy Elliot – Lee Hall
Erin Brockovich – Susannah Grant
Gladiator – David Franzoni, John Logan and William Nicholson
O Brother, Where Art Thou? – Ethan and Joel Coen
2001: Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain) – Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant Gosford Park – Julian Fellowes and Steven Zaillian Kenneth Lonergan Moulin Rouge! – Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce The Others – Alejandro Amenábar The Royal Tenenbaums – Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson