AACTA Award for Best Screenplay, Original or Adapted

The Australian Film Institute Award for Best Screenplay, Original or Adapted is an award in the annual Australian Film Institute Awards. It has been awarded annually since 1967. In 2011, it was changed to the AACTA Awards.

While the category of Best Screenplay is given out in two different forms (Original or Adapted), some years involved the AACTA Awards handing out both types of screenplays in the same ceremony. The winners and nominees for those few years are listed below.

Winners and nominees

Year	Film	Screenwriter(s)	Source
1980s
1980	Breaker Morant	Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens, Bruce Beresford	Original screenplay
	Hard Knocks	Don McLennan, Hilton Bonner	Original screenplay
	Maybe This Time	Bob Ellis, Anne Brooksbank
	Stir	Bob Jewson
1981	Gallipoli	David Williamson	Original screenplay
	The Club	David Williamson	Adaptation of the play of the same name by Williamson
	Hoodwink	Ken Quinnell	Original screenplay
	Winter of Our Dreams	John Duigan
1982	Goodbye Paradise	Bob Ellis, Denny Lawrence	Original screenplay
	Lonely Hearts	Paul Cox, John Clarke	Original screenplay
	Moving Out	Jan Sardi
	We of the Never Never	Peter Schreck	Adaptation of the novel of the same name by Jeannie Gunn
1990s
1990	The Big Steal	David Parker	Original screenplay
	Blood Oath	Denis Whitburn, Brian A. Williams	Original screenplay
	Golden Braid	Paul Cox, Barry Dickins	Adaptation of the story La Chevelure by Guy de Maupassant
	Struck by Lightning	Trevor Farrant	Original screenplay
1991	Proof	Jocelyn Moorhouse	Original screenplay
	Death in Brunswick	Boyd Oxlade, John Ruane	Adaptation of the graphic novel of the same name by Oxlade
	Spotswood	Max Dann, Andrew Knight	Original screenplay
	A Woman's Tale	Paul Cox, Barry Dickins
1992	Strictly Ballroom	Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce	Original screenplay
	Black Robe	Brian Moore	Adaptation of the novel of the same name by Moore
	Greenkeeping	David Caesar	Original screenplay
	The Last Days of Chez Nous	Helen Garner
2000s
2007	The Home Song Stories	Tony Ayres	Original screenplay
	Clubland	Keith Thompson	Original screenplay
	Lucky Miles	Helen Barnes, Michael James Rowland
	Noise	Matthew Saville
	Romulus, My Father	Nick Drake	Adaptation of the memoir of the same name by Raimond Gaita
2010s
2019	The Nightingale	Jennifer Kent	Original screenplay
	Hotel Mumbai	John Collee, Anthony Maras	Original screenplay
	Judy and Punch	Mirrah Foulkes
	The King	David Michod, Joel Edgerton	Adaptation of the plays Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2 & Henry V by William Shakespeare
2020s
2020	Babyteeth	Rita Kalnejais	Adaptation of the play of the same name by Kalnejais
	The Invisible Man	Leigh Whannell	Original screenplay; characters and concept created by H. G. Wells for the novel of the same name
	Little Monsters	Abe Forsythe	Original screenplay
	Relic	Natalie Erika James, Christian White
	True History of the Kelly Gang	Shaun Grant	Adaptation of the novel of the same name by Peter Carey
2022	The Stranger	Thomas M. Wright	Adaptation of the non-fiction book The Sting: The Undercover Operation That Caught Daniel Morcombe's Killer by Kate Kyriacou
	The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson	Leah Purcell	Original screenplay
	Elvis	Baz Luhrmann, Sam Bromell, Craig Pearce, Jeremy Doner
	Nude Tuesday	Jackie van Beek
	Three Thousand Years of Longing	George Miller, Augusta Gore	Adaptation of the short story The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A. S. Byatt
2023	Talk to Me	Danny Philippou, Bill Hinzman	Original screenplay
	The New Boy	Warwick Thornton	Original screenplay
	Of an Age	Goran Stolevski
	The Royal Hotel	Kitty Green, Oscar Redding	Adaptation of the documentary film Hotel Coolgardie by Pete Gleeson
	Shayda	Noora Niasari	Original screenplay
2024	Better Man	Simon Gleeson, Oliver Cole, Michael Gracey	Original screenplay
	Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga	George Miller, Nico Lathouris	Based on the characters created by Miller, Byron Kennedy, Lathouris
	How to Make Gravy	Megan Washington, Nick Waterman	Based on the song of the same name by Paul Kelly
	Late Night with the Devil	Colin Cairnes, Cameron Cairnes	Original screenplay
	Memoir of a Snail	Adam Elliot

External links

• AACTA Awards
• AACTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
• AACTA Award for Best Original Screenplay