BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay

The BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay was a British Academy Film Award from 1954 to 1967.

1950s

1954

The Young Lovers – George Tabori, Robin Estridge

The Divided Heart – Jack Whittingham
Doctor in the House – Nicholas Phipps
Hobson's Choice – David Lean, Norman Spencer, and Wynyard Browne
The Maggie – William Rose
Monsieur Ripois – Hugh Mills and René Clément
The Purple Plain – Eric Ambler
Romeo and Juliet – Renato Castellani

1955

The Ladykillers – William Rose

The Constant Husband – Sidney Gilliat and Val Valentine
The Dam Busters – R. C. Sherriff
The Deep Blue Sea – Terence Rattigan
Doctor at Sea – Nicholas Phipps and Jack Davies
The Night My Number Came Up – R. C. Sherriff
The Prisoner – Bridget Boland
Touch and Go – William Rose

1956

The Man Who Never Was – Nigel Balchin

The Battle of the River Plate – Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
The Green Man – Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder
Private's Progress – Frank Harvey and John Boulting
Reach for the Sky – Lewis Gilbert
Smiley – Moore Raymond and Anthony Kimmins
Three Men in a Boat – Hubert Gregg and Vernon Harris
A Town Like Alice – W. P. Lipscomb and Richard Mason
Yield to the Night – John Cresswell and Joan Henry

1957

The Bridge on the River Kwai – Pierre Boulle

Anastasia – Arthur Laurents
The Birthday Present – Jack Whittingham
Hell Drivers – John Kruse and Cy Endfield
The Man in the Sky – William Rose and John Eldridge
The Prince and the Showgirl – Terence Rattigan
The Smallest Show on Earth – William Rose and John Eldridge
The Story of Esther Costello – Charles Kaufman
Windom's Way – Jill Craigie
Woman in a Dressing Gown – Ted Willis

1958

Orders to Kill – Paul Dehn

Bonjour Tristesse - Arthur Laurents
A Cry from the Streets - Vernon Harris
Ice Cold in Alex - T. J. Morrison
Indiscreet - Norman Krasna
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness - Isobel Lennart
The Key - Carl Foreman
The Man Upstairs - Alun Falconer
A Night To Remember - Eric Ambler
Violent Playground - James Kennaway

1959

I'm All Right Jack – Frank Harvey, John Boulting, and Alan Hackney

Blind Date – Ben Barzman and Millard Lampell
Expresso Bongo – Wolf Mankowitz
The Horse's Mouth – Alec Guinness
Look Back in Anger – Nigel Kneale
No Trees in the Street – Ted Willis
North West Frontier – Robin Estridge
Sapphire – Janet Green
Tiger Bay – John Hawkesworth and Shelley Smith

1960s

1960

The Angry Silence – Bryan Forbes

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England – Howard Clewes
The Entertainer – John Osborne and Nigel Kneale
Hell Is a City – Val Guest
The League of Gentlemen – Bryan Forbes
The Millionairess – Wolf Mankowitz
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
A Touch of Larceny – Roger MacDougall, Guy Hamilton, and Ivan Foxwell
The Trials of Oscar Wilde – Ken Hughes
Tunes of Glory – James Kennaway

1961

The Day the Earth Caught Fire – Wolf Mankowitz and Val Guest (TIE)
A Taste of Honey – Shelagh Delaney and Tony Richardson (TIE)

Flame in the Streets – Ted Willis
The Guns of Navarone – Carl Foreman
Victim – Janet Green and John McCormick
Whistle Down the Wind – Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall

1962

Lawrence of Arabia – Robert Bolt

Billy Budd – Peter Ustinov and DeWitt Bodeen
A Kind of Loving – Willis Hall and Keith Waterhouse
Only Two Can Play – Bryan Forbes
Tiara Tahiti – Geoffrey Cotterell and Ivan Foxwell
Waltz of the Toreadors – Wolf Mankowitz

1963

Tom Jones – John Osborne

Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall
The Servant – Harold Pinter
This Sporting Life – David Storey

1964

The Pumpkin Eater – Harold Pinter

Becket – Edward Anhalt
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb – Stanley Kubrick, Peter George, and Terry Southern
Séance on a Wet Afternoon – Bryan Forbes

1965

Darling – Frederic Raphael

The Hill – Ray Rigby
The Ipcress File – Bill Canaway and James Doran
The Knack ...and How to Get It – Charles Wood

1966

Morgan! – David Mercer

Alfie – Bill Naughton
It Happened Here – Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo
The Quiller Memorandum – Harold Pinter

1967

A Man for All Seasons – Robert Bolt

BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay

George Tabori and Robin Estridge (1954)
William Rose (1955)
Nigel Balchin (1956)
Pierre Boulle (1957)
Paul Dehn (1958)
Frank Harvey, John Boulting and Alan Hackney (1959)
Bryan Forbes (1960)
Wolf Mankowitz and Val Guest / Shelagh Delaney and Tony Richardson (1961)
Robert Bolt (1962)
John Osborne (1963)
Harold Pinter (1964)
Frederic Raphael (1965)
David Mercer (1966)
Robert Bolt (1967)

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