The Prize for Best Screenplay ( French: Prix du scénario ) is a traditional award at the Cannes Film Festival , which the jury awarded the film with the best screenplay in their opinion. The prize is awarded to the screenwriter.
Laureates
| Year | Film | Screenwriter | A country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | Lost Boundaries | Alfred L. Werker | USA |
| 1950 | The festival was not held | ||
| 1951 | The Browning Version | Terence Rettigen | United Kingdom |
| 1952 | Police and thieves / Guardie e ladri | Pierrot Tellini | Italy |
| 1953 - 1957 | Not handed | ||
| 1958 | Young husbands / Giovani mariti | Pier Paolo Pasolini , Massimo Franchioza , Pasquale Festa Campanile | Italy |
| 1959 - 1962 | Not handed | ||
| 1963 | Codine / Codine | Dumitru Karabat , Henri Colpy , Yves Jamiac | Romania France |
| 1964 | Not handed | ||
| 1965 | 317th platoon / La 317ème section | Pierre Schonderffer | France |
| Hill / The Hill | Ray rigby | United Kingdom | |
| 1966 | Not handed | ||
| 1967 | To each his own / A ciascuno il suo | Elio Petri | Italy |
| The game of bloodshed / Jeu de massacre | Alain Jessois | France | |
| 1968 | The festival was not held | ||
| 1969 - 1973 | Not handed | ||
| 1974 | Sugarland Express / The Sugarland Express | Steven Spielberg Hal Burwood , Matthew Robbins | USA |
| 1975 - 1979 | Not handed | ||
| 1980 | Terrace / La terrazza | Furio Scarpelli , Agenori Incrocci , Ettore Chipping | Italy |
| 1981 | Mephisto / Mephisto | Istvan Szabo | Hungary |
| 1982 | Moonlight / moonlighting | Jerzy Skolimovsky | Poland |
| 1983 | Not handed | ||
| 1984 | Travel to Kiteriya / Taxidi sta Kithira | Theo Angelopoulos , Thanasis Valtinos , Tonino Guerra | Greece Italy |
| 1985 - 1993 | Not handed | ||
| 1994 | The treachery of glory / Grosse fatigue | Michelle Blanc | France |
| 1995 | Not handed | ||
| 1996 | Unknown Hero / Un héros très discret | Jacques Odiar , Alain Leanry | France |
| 1997 | Ice / Ice storm | Rick Moody | USA |
| 1998 | Henry Fool | Hal Hartley | USA |
| 1999 | Moloch / Moloch | Yuri Arabov | Russia |
| 2000 | Sister Betty / Nurse Betty | John C. Richards | USA |
| 2001 | No man's land | Danis Tanovich | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 2002 | Cute sixteen years / Sweet sixteen | Paul Laverty | United Kingdom |
| 2003 | Barbarian Invasion / Les Invasions barbares | Denis Arcan | Canada |
| 2004 | Look at me / Comme une image | Jean-Pierre Bakri , Agnes Jouy | France |
| 2005 | The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada | Guillermo Arriaga | Mexico |
| 2006 | Return / Volver | Pedro Almodovar | Spain |
| 2007 | On the edge of paradise / Auf der anderen Seite | Fatih Akin | Germany |
| 2008 | The silence of Lorna / Le silence de Lorna | Jean-Pierre Dardenne Luke Dardenne | Belgium |
| 2009 | Spring Fever / 春风 沉醉 的 晚上 | Mae Feng | China |
| 2010 | Poetry / 시 | Lee Chan Dong | The Republic of Korea |
| 2011 | Footnote / הערת שוליים | Yosef cedar | Israel |
| 2012 | Over the hills / După dealuri | Christian Mungiu | Romania |
| 2013 | Touch of Sin / 天 注定 | Jia Zhangke | China |
| 2014 | Leviathan | Oleg Negin , Andrey Zvyagintsev | Russia |
| 2015 | Chronicles / Chronic | Michelle Franco | Mexico |
| 2016 | Salesman / فروشنده | Asgar Farhadi | Iran |
| 2017 | Killing the Sacred Deer / The Killing of a Sacred Deer | Yorgos Lantimos , Eftimis Philippu | Greece |
| You Were Never Really Here | Lynn Ramsey | United Kingdom | |
| 2018 | Three faces / سه رخ | Jafar Panahi , Nader Saeivar | Iran |
| Happy Lazzaro / Lazzaro Felice | Alice Rohrwacher | Italy | |
| 2019 | Portrait de la jeune fille en feu | Celine Skyamma | France |