AACTA Award for Best Screenplay, Original or Adapted

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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

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In the following table, films and screenwriters listed in bold, and in a blue background have received the special award; those listed in boldface and highlighted in gold are the winners of the competitive awards. Films and screenwriters that are not in boldface or highlighted are the nominees.[1]

  Winner of competitive award
  Winner of special award
Year Film Screenwriter(s) Source
1970s
1975 Petersen David Williamson Original screenplay
1976 The Devil's Playground Fred Schepisi Original screenplay
Caddie Joan Long The novel Caddie, A Sydney Barmaid by Catherine Edmonds
Picnic at Hanging Rock Cliff Green The novel of the same name by Joan Lindsay
The Trespassers John Duigan Original screenplay
1977 Don's Party David Williamson The play of the same name by Williamson
The Fourth Wish Michael Craig Based on television series of the same name by Craig
The Picture Show Man Joan Long The memoirs by Lyle Penn
Storm Boy Sonia Borg The novel Storm Boy by Colin Thiele
1980s
1980 Breaker Morant Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens and Bruce Beresford Original screenplay
Hard Knocks Don McLennan and Hilton Bonner Original screenplay
Maybe This Time Bob Ellis and Anne Brooksbank
Stir Bob Jewson
1981 Gallipoli David Williamson Original screenplay
The Club David Williamson The play of the same name by Williamson
Hoodwink Ken Quinnell Original screenplay
Winter of Our Dreams John Duigan
1982 Goodbye Paradise Bob Ellis and Denny Lawrence Original screenplay
Lonely Hearts Paul Cox and John Clarke Original screenplay
Moving Out Jan Sardi
We of the Never Never Peter Schreck The novel of the same name by Jeannie Gunn
1990s
1990 The Big Steal David Parker Original screenplay
Blood Oath Denis Whitburn and Brian A. Williams Original screenplay
Golden Braid Paul Cox and Barry Dickins 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 and John Ruane The graphic novel of the same name by Oxlade
Spotswood Max Dann and Andrew Knight Original screenplay
A Woman's Tale Paul Cox and Barry Dickins
1992 Strictly Ballroom Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce Original screenplay
Black Robe Brian Moore 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 and Michael James Rowland
Noise Matthew Saville
Romulus, My Father Nick Drake The memoir of the same name by Raimond Gaita
2010s
2019 The Nightingale Jennifer Kent Original screenplay
Hotel Mumbai John Collee and Anthony Maras Original screenplay
Judy and Punch Mirrah Foulkes
The King David Michod and Joel Edgerton The plays Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2 & Henry V by William Shakespeare
2020s
2020 Babyteeth Rita Kalnejais 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 and Christian White
True History of the Kelly Gang Shaun Grant The novel of the same name by Peter Carey
2022 The Stranger Thomas M. Wright 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 and Jeremy Doner
Nude Tuesday Jackie van Beek
Three Thousand Years of Longing George Miller and Augusta Gore The short story The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A. S. Byatt
2023 Talk to Me Danny Philippou and Bill Hinzman Original screenplay
The New Boy Warwick Thornton Original screenplay
Of an Age Goran Stolevski
The Royal Hotel Kitty Green and Oscar Redding Based on the documentary film Hotel Coolgardie by Pete Gleeson
Shayda Noora Niasari Original screenplay
2024 Better Man Simon Gleeson, Oliver Cole and Michael Gracey Original screenplay
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga George Miller and Nico Lathouris Based on the characters created by Miller, Byron Kennedy & Lathouris
How to Make Gravy Megan Washington and Nick Waterman Based on the song of the same name by Paul Kelly
Late Night with the Devil Colin and Cameron Cairnes Original screenplay
Memoir of a Snail Adam Elliot
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References

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  1. ^ Winners and nominees by year:
    • 1974-75: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1970-1979 - 1974-75". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.[permanent dead link]
    • 1976: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1970-1979 - 1976". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.
    • 1977: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1970-1979 - 1977". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.
    • 1980: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1980-1989 - 1980". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.
    • 1981: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1980-1989 - 1981". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.
    • 1982: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1980-1989 - 1982". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.
    • 1990: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1990-1999 - 1990". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.
    • 1991: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1990-1999 - 1991". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.
    • 1992: "AACTA - Past Winners - 1990-1999 - 1992". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.
    • 2000: "AACTA - Past Winners - 2000-2010 - 2000". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.
    • 2007: "AACTA - Past Winners - 2000-2010 - 2007". Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Retrieved 4 January 2011.