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British Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay - Wikipedia

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British Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay
Awarded for	Best Screenplay
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	BIFA
Currently held by	Andrew Haigh for All of Us Strangers (2023)
Website	www.bifa.org.uk

The British Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay is an annual award given by the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) to recognize the best screenplay in a British independent film. The award was first presented in the 1998 ceremony with Paul Laverty being the first recipient of this award for his work in Ken Loach's My Name is Joe.

Steven Knight, Armando Iannucci and Simon Blackwell are the only nominees who have received this award more than once with two wins each while Paul Laverty has received the most nominations for this category with six followed by Lynne Ramsay with four.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
1998 (1st) ^[1]	My Name is Joe	Paul Laverty
	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels	Guy Ritchie
	My Son the Fanatic	Hanif Kureishi
	Nil by Mouth	Gary Oldman
	Orphans	Peter Mullan
1999 (2nd) ^[2]	East Is East	Ayub Khan-Din
	Beautiful People	Jasmin Dizdar
	Ratcatcher	Lynne Ramsay
	A Room for Romeo Brass	Paul Fraser, Shane Meadows
	This Year's Love	David Kane

2000s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
2000 (3rd) ^[3]	Billy Elliot	Lee Hall
	Gangster No. 1	Johnny Ferguson
	Last Resort	Rowan Joffé, Paweł Pawlikowski
	Purely Belter	Mark Herman
	Saving Grace	Craig Ferguson, Mark Crowdey
2001 (4th) ^[4]	Sexy Beast	Louis Mellis, David Scinto
	Bread and Roses	Paul Laverty
	The Claim	Frank Cottrell Boyce
	Jump Tomorrow	Joel Hopkins
2002 (5th) ^[5]^[6]	Lawless Heart	Tom Hunsinger, Neil Hunter
	Bloody Sunday	Paul Greengrass
	Morvern Callar	Lynne Ramsay, Liana Dognini
	Sweet Sixteen	Paul Laverty
2003 (6th) ^[7]^[8]	Dirty Pretty Things	Steven Knight
	Buffalo Soldiers	Gregor Jordan, Eric Weiss, Nora Maccoby
	Calendar Girls	Tim Firth, Juliette Towhidi
	The Magdalene Sisters	Peter Mullan
	Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself	Anders Thomas Jensen, Lone Scherfig
2004 (7th) ^[9]	Shaun of the Dead	Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg
	Ae Fond Kiss...	Paul Laverty
	Dead Man's Shoes	Paddy Considine, Shane Meadows
	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers	Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
	Vera Drake	Mike Leigh
2005 (8th) ^[10]	Millions	Frank Cottrell Boyce
	A Cock and Bull Story	Martin Hardy
	The Constant Gardener	Jeffrey Caine
	Kinky Boots	Tim Firth, Geoff Deane
	Mrs Henderson Presents	Martin Sherman
2006 (9th) ^[11]^[12]	The Queen	Peter Morgan
	The History Boys	Alan Bennet
	The Last King of Scotland	Jeremy Brock, Peter Morgan
	This Is England	Shane Meadows
	Venus	Hanif Kureishi
2007 (10th) ^[13]^[14]	Notes on a Scandal	Patrick Marber
	And When Did You Last See Your Father?	David Nicholls
	Control	Matt Greenhalgh
	Eastern Promises	Steven Knight
	Hallam Foe	David Mackenzie, Ed Whitmore
2008 (11th) ^[15]^[16]	In Bruges	Martin McDonagh
	Hunger	Enda Walsh, Steve McQueen
	Slumdog Millionaire	Simon Beaufoy
	Somers Town	Paul Fraser
	Son of Rambow	Garth Jennings
2009 (12th) ^[17]^[18]	In the Loop	Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche
	An Education	Nick Hornby
	Fish Tank	Andrea Arnold
	Moon	Nathan Parker
	Nowhere Boy	Matt Greenhalgh

2010s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
2010 (13th) ^[19]^[20]	The King's Speech	David Seidler
	Four Lions	Jesse Armstrong
	Kick-Ass	Jane Goldman
	Made in Dagenham	William Ivory
	Never Let Me Go	Alex Garland
2011 (14th) ^[21]^[22]	Submarine	Richard Ayoade
	The Guard	John Michael McDonagh
	Kill List	Ben Wheatley
	Shame	Steve McQueen, Abi Morgan
	We Need to Talk About Kevin	Lynne Ramsay, Rory Stewart Kinnear
2012 (15th) ^[23]^[24]	Sightseers	Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, Amy Jump
	Berberian Sound Studio	Peter Strickland
	Broken	Mark O'Rowe
	The Iron Lady	Abi Morgan
	Song for Marion	Paul Andrew Williams
2013 (16th) ^[25]^[26]	Locke	Steven Knight
	Le Week-End	Hanif Kureishi
	Philomena	Jeff Pope, Steve Coogan
	The Selfish Giant	Clio Barnard
	Starred Up	Jonathan Asser
2014 (17th) ^[27]^[28]	Frank	Jon Ronson, Peter Straughan
	'71	Gregory Burke
	Calvary	John Michael McDonagh
	The Imitation Game	Graham Moore
	Pride	Stephen Beresford
2015 (18th) ^[29]^[30]	Ex Machina	Alex Garland
	45 Years	Andrew Haigh
	Brooklyn	Nick Hornby
	High-Rise	Amy Jump
	The Lobster	Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou
2016 (19th) ^[31]^[32]	Under the Shadow	Babak Anvari
	I, Daniel Blake	Paul Laverty
	Adult Life Skills	Rachel Tunnard
	American Honey	Andrea Arnold
	I Am Not a Serial Killer	Christopher Hyde, Billy O'Brien
2017 (20th) ^[33]^[34]	Lady Macbeth	Alice Birch
	The Death of Stalin	Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin
	God's Own Country	Francis Lee
	I Am Not a Witch	Rungano Nyoni
	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Martin McDonagh
2018 (21st) ^[35]^[36]	The Favourite	Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara
	American Animals	Bart Layton
	Beast	Michael Pearce
	Disobedience	Sebastián Lelio, Rebecca Lenkiewicz
	You Were Never Really Here	Lynne Ramsay
2019 (22nd) ^[37]^[38]	The Personal History of David Copperfield	Armando Iannucci, Simon Blackwell
	In Fabric	Peter Strickland
	Sorry We Missed You	Paul Laverty
	The Souvenir	Joanna Hogg
	Wild Rose	Nicole Taylor

2020s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
2020 (23rd) ^[39]^[40]	The Father	Florian Zeller, Christopher Hampton
	His House	Remi Weekes
	Mogul Mowgli	Bassam Tariq, Riz Ahmed
	Rocks	Theresa Ikoko, Claire Wilson
	Saint Maud	Rose Glass
2021 (24th) ^[41]	After Love	Aleem Khan
	Ali & Ava	Clio Barnard
	Benediction	Terence Davis
	The Nest	Sean Durkin
	The Souvenir Part II	Joanna Hogg
2022 (25th) ^[42]	Aftersun	Charlotte Wells
	Blue Jean	Georgia Oakley
	Good Luck to You, Leo Grande	Katy Brand
	Living	Kazuo Ishiguro
	The Wonder	Sebastián Lelio, Alice Birch and Emma Donoghue
2023 (26th) ^[43]	All of Us Strangers	Andrew Haigh
	Femme	Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping
	How to Have Sex	Molly Manning Walker
	Rye Lane	Nathan Bryon and Tom Melia
	Scrapper	Charlotte Regan
2024 (27th) ^[44]	The Outrun	Nora Fingscheidt and Amy Liptrot
	Love Lies Bleeding	Rose Glass and Weronika Tofilska
	On Becoming a Guinea Fowl	Rungano Nyoni
	Kneecap	Rich Peppiatt
	Santosh	Sandhya Suri

Multiple nominations

6 nominations

Paul Laverty

4 nominations

Lynne Ramsay

3 nominations

2 nominations

Multiple wins

2 wins

References

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