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	Subject	Source
1980s
1980	Breaker Morant	Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens, Bruce Beresford	Original screenplay, based on a true story
	Hard Knocks	Don McLennan, Hilton Bonner	Original screenplay
	Maybe This Time	Bob Ellis, Anne Brooksbank
	Stir	Bob Jewson
1981	Gallipoli	David Williamson	Original screenplay, based on a true story
	The Club	David Williamson	Stage play by David Williamson
	Hoodwink	Ken Quinnell	Original screenplay
	Winter of Our Dreams	John Duigan	Original screenplay
1982	Goodbye Paradise	Bob Ellis, Denny Lawrence	Original screenplay
	Lonely Hearts	Paul Cox, John Clarke	Original screenplay
	Moving Out	Jan Sardi	Original screenplay
	We of the Never Never	Jeannie Gunn	Autobiographical book We of the Never Never 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	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	Graphic novel Death in Brunswick by Boyd Oxlade
	Spotswood	Max Dann, Andrew Knight	Original screenplay
	A Woman's Tale	Paul Cox, Barry Dickins	Original screenplay
1992	Strictly Ballroom	Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce	Original screenplay
	Black Robe	Brian Moore	Novel Black Robe by Brian Moore
	Greenkeeping	David Caesar	Original screenplay
	The Last Days of Chez Nous	Helen Garner	Original screenplay
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	Memoir Romulus, My Father by Raimond Gaita
2010s
2019	The Nightingale	Jennifer Kent	Original screenplay
	Hotel Mumbai	John Collee, Anthony Maras	Original screenplay, based on a true story
	Judy and Punch	Mirrah Foulkes	Original screenplay, based on a true story
	The King	David Michod, Joel Edgerton	Based on the plays Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2 & Henry V by William Shakespeare
2020s
2020	Babyteeth	Rita Kalnejais	*Based on the play Babyteeth* by Rita Kalnejais**
	Little Monsters	Abe Forsythe	Original screenplay
	The Invisible Man	Leigh Whannell	Original screenplay, characters and concept created by H. G. Wells for The Invisible Man novel
	Relic	Natalie Erika James, Christian White	Original screenplay
	True History of the Kelly Gang	Shaun Grant	Based on the novel True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
2022	The Stranger	Thomas M. Wright	*Based on the novel The Sting: The Undercover Operation That Caught Daniel Morcombe's Killer* by Kate Kyriacou**
	Elvis	Baz Luhrmann, Sam Bromell, Craig Pearce, Jeremy Doner	Original screenplay
	Nude Tuesday	Jackie van Beek	Original screenplay
	The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson	Leah Purcell	Original screenplay
	Three Thousand Years of Longing	George Miller, Augusta Gore	Based on the short story The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A. S. Byatt

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