Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay
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The Best Screenplay Award (French: Prix du scénario) 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.
| Best Screenplay Award | |
|---|---|
| Prix du scénario (French) | |
 2026 recipient: Emmanuel Marre | |
| Awarded for | Best Achievement in Writing |
| Country | France |
| Presented by | Cannes Film Festival |
| First award | 1949 |
| Currently held by | Emmanuel Marre for A Man of His Time (2026) |
| Website | www |
It's most recent winner was Emmanuel Marre for A Man of His Time at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.
History
editIt was first awarded to Alfred L. Werker, Eugene Ling & Virginia Shaler for Lost Boundaries (1949).
Winners Denys Arcand for The Barbarian Invasions (2003), Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe for Drive My Car (2021) and Coralie Fargeat for The Substance were later nominated Academy Awards for their screenplays.
To date, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are the only people to have won the award twice, having won it in 2007 for Lorna's Silence and in 2025 for Young Mothers.
Winners
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1940s
edit| Year | Screenwriter(s) | English Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1949 | Alfred L. Werker, Eugene Ling and Virginia Shaler | Lost Boundaries |
1950s
edit| Year | Screenwriter(s) | English Title | Original Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Terence Rattigan | The Browning Version | |
| 1952 | Piero Tellini | Cops and Robbers | Guardie e ladri |
| 1958 | Pier Paolo Pasolini, Massimo Franciosa and Pasquale Festa Campanile | Young Husbands[A] | Giovani mariti |
1960s
edit| Year | Screenwriter(s) | English Title | Original Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | Dumitru Carabat, Henri Colpi and Yves Jamiaque | Codine | |
| 1965 | Ray Rigby | The Hill | |
| Pierre Schoendoerffer | The 317th Platoon | La 317ème section | |
| 1967 | Alain Jessua | The Killing Game | Jeu de massacre |
| Elio Petri | We Still Kill the Old Way | A ciascuno il suo | |
1970s
edit| Year | Screenwriter(s) | English Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Steven Spielberg, Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins | The Sugarland Express |
1980s
edit| Year | Screenwriter(s) | English Title | Original Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Furio Scarpelli, Agenore Incrocci and Ettore Scola[B] | La Terrazza | |
| 1981 | István Szabó | Mephisto | |
| 1982 | Jerzy Skolimowski | Moonlighting | |
| 1984 | Thanassis Valtinos, Theo Angelopoulos and Tonino Guerra[C] | Voyage to Cythera | Ταξίδι στα Κύθηρα |
1990s
edit| Year | Screenwriter(s) | English Title | Original Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Michel Blanc | Grosse fatigue | |
| 1996 | Jacques Audiard and Alain Le Henry | A Self Made Hero | Un héros très discret |
| 1997 | James Schamus | The Ice Storm | |
| 1998 | Hal Hartley | Henry Fool | |
| 1999 | Yuri Arabov | Moloch | Молох |
2000s
edit| Year | Screenwriter(s) | English Title | Original Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | James Flamberg and John C. Richards | Nurse Betty | |
| 2001 | Danis Tanović | No Man's Land | Ničija zemlja / Ничија земља |
| 2002 | Paul Laverty | Sweet Sixteen | |
| 2003 | Denys Arcand | The Barbarian Invasions | Les Invasions barbares |
| 2004 | Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri | Look at Me | Comme une image |
| 2005 | Guillermo Arriaga | The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada | |
| 2006 | Pedro Almodóvar | Volver | |
| 2007 | Fatih Akin | The Edge of Heaven | Auf der anderen Seite |
| 2008 | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | Lorna's Silence | Le Silence de Lorna |
| 2009 | Mei Feng | Spring Fever | 春風沉醉的夜晚 |
2010s
edit| Year | Screenwriter(s) | English Title | Original Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Lee Chang-dong | Poetry | 시 |
| 2011 | Joseph Cedar | Footnote | הערת שוליים |
| 2012 | Cristian Mungiu and Tatiana Niculescu Bran | Beyond the Hills | După dealuri |
| 2013 | Jia Zhangke | A Touch of Sin | 天注定 |
| 2014 | Andrey Zvyagintsev and Oleg Negin | Leviathan | Левиафан |
| 2015 | Michel Franco | Chronic | |
| 2016 | Asghar Farhadi | The Salesman | فروشنده |
| 2017 | Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou | The Killing of a Sacred Deer | |
| Lynne Ramsay | You Were Never Really Here | ||
| 2018 | Jafar Panahi and Nader Saeivar | 3 Faces | سه رخ |
| Alice Rohrwacher | Happy as Lazzaro | Lazzaro felice | |
| 2019 | Céline Sciamma | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Portrait de la jeune fille en feu |
2020s
edit| Year | Screenwriter(s) | English Title | Original Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe | Drive My Car[1] | ドライブ・マイ・カー |
| 2022 | Tarik Saleh | Boy from Heaven[2] | صبي من الجنة |
| 2023 | Yuji Sakamoto | Monster[3] | 怪物 |
| 2024 | Coralie Fargeat | The Substance[4][5] | |
| 2025 | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | Young Mothers | Jeunes mères |
| 2026 | Emmanuel Marre | A Man of His Time[6] | Notre Salut |
See also
editReferences
edit- ↑ Cannes Film Festival 2021: The List of Winners – Forbes
- ↑ Cannes Film Festival 2022 Winners: Full List – Variety
- ↑ Cannes 2023 Awards: Full Winners List – The Hollywood Reporter
- ↑ Sean Baker's 'Anora' Wins Palme d'Or at 2024 Cannes Film Festival: See the Full Winners List|Academy.org
- ↑ Meet the 77th Festival winners – Festival de Cannes
- ↑ Goodfellow, Melanie (2026-05-23). "Cannes 2026 Winners: 'Fjord' Wins Palme D'Or". Deadline. Retrieved 2026-05-23.
Notes
edit- 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).
External links
edit- Cannes Film Festival Official Website
- Cannes Film Festival at IMDB Archived 2010-04-11 at the Wayback Machine.