The BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is a film award presented annually at the British Academy Film Awards to a screenwriter for a specific film. It is awarded by the British Academy of Film an
The 2025 recipient: Paul Thomas Anderson
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala won for Heat and Dust (1983)
Philip Kaufman won The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Christopher Hampton won twice for Dangerous Liaisons (1987) and The Father (2020)
The BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts to a screenwriter for a specific film.
The 2025 recipient: Ryan Coogler
Woody Allen won four times for Broadway Danny Rose (1984), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), and Husbands and Wives (1992)
Nora Ephron won for When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Harold Ramis won for Groundhog Day (1993)