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Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay

Film award category

Summary

Film award category

Field	Value
name	Best Screenplay Award
subheader	fr
image	Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne awardee interview at 2025 Cannes Film Festival.jpg
image_upright	1.2
caption	2025 recipients: Dardenne Brothers
awarded_for	Best Achievement in Writing
country	France
presenter	Cannes Film Festival
holder	Dardenne Brothers
Young Mothers (2025)
year	1949
website

Young Mothers (2025)

The Best Screenplay Award () is an award presented by the Jury to the best screenwriter for their work on a film of the Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival.

History

It was first awarded to Alfred L. Werker, & for Lost Boundaries (1949).

Winners Denys Arcand for The Barbarian Invasions (2003), & for (2021) and Coralie Fargeat for The Substance were later nominated Academy Awards for their screenplays.

Winners

[[Steven Spielberg]] won for ''[[The Sugarland Express]]'' (1974)

[[Pedro Almodóvar]] won for ''[[Volver]]'' (2006)

The [[Dardenne Brothers]] won twice for ''[[Lorna's Silence]]'' (2008) and ''[[Young Mothers]]'' (2025)

[[Alice Rohrwacher]] won for ''[[Happy as Lazzaro]]'' (2018)

[[Coralie Fargeat]] won for ''[[The Substance]]'' (2024)

1940s

Year	Screenwriter(s)	English Title	1949
, and

1950s

Year	Screenwriter(s)	English Title	Original Title	1951	1952	1958
		Guardie e ladri
, and		Giovani mariti

1960s

Year	Screenwriter(s)	English Title	Original Title	1963	1965	1967
, and
		La 317ème section
		Jeu de massacre
		A ciascuno il suo

1970s

Year	Screenwriter(s)	English Title	1974
, and

1980s

Year	Screenwriter(s)	English Title	Original Title	1980	1981	1982	1984
, and
, and		Ταξίδι στα Κύθηρα

1990s

Year	Screenwriter(s)	English Title	Original Title	1994	1996	1997	1998	1999
and		Un héros très discret
		Молох

2000s

Year	Screenwriter(s)	English Title	Original Title	2001
and
		Ničija zemlja / Ничија земља
		Les Invasions barbares
and		Comme une image
		Auf der anderen Seite
		Le Silence de Lorna
{{sortname	Mei	Feng	Mei, Feng}}	春風沉醉的夜晚

2010s

Year	Screenwriter(s)	English Title	Original Title	2011
{{sortname	Lee	Chang-dong	Lee, Chang-dong}}	시
		הערת שוליים
and		După dealuri
{{sortname	Jia	Zhangke	Jia, Zhangke}}	天注定
and		Левиафан
		فروشنده
and
and		سه رخ
		Lazzaro felice
		Portrait de la jeune fille en feu

2020s

Year	Screenwriter(s)	English Title
and		ドライブ・マイ・カー
		صبي من الجنة
		怪物
Coralie Fargeat	The Substance
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne	Young Mothers	Jeunes mères

References

Notes

:A: This year the award received the name Prix du scénario original (Original Screenplay Award). :B: This year the award received the name Prix du scénario et des dialogues au Festival International du Film (Screenplay and Dialogues Award). :C: This year the award received the name Prix du meilleur scénario original (Best Original Screenplay Award).

References

[https://www.forbes.com/sites/sheenascott/2021/07/17/cannes-film-festival-2021-the-list-of-winners/ Cannes Film Festival 2021: The List of Winners – Forbes]
[https://variety.com/2022/film/news/cannes-film-festival-2022-winners-1235280493/ Cannes Film Festival 2022 Winners: Full List – Variety]
[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/cannes-2023-award-winners-1235500575/ Cannes 2023 Awards: Full Winners List – The Hollywood Reporter]
[https://newsletter.oscars.org/news/post/2024-cannes-film-festival-winners-list-palme-dor Sean Baker's 'Anora' Wins Palme d'Or at 2024 Cannes Film Festival: See the Full Winners List. Academy.org]
[https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/2024/a-la-rencontre-des-laureats-du-77e-festival/ Meet the 77th Festival winners – Festival de Cannes]

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