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
* ''Accident'' – Harold Pinter
* '' The Deadly Affair'' – Paul Dehn
* '' Two for the Road'' – Frederic Raphael

{{BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay

British Academy Film Awards

Screenwriting awards for film