What is BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay?
{{multiple issues| {{no sources|date=December 2020}} {{redlinks|date=December 2020}} }} The '''BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay''' is the [[British Academy Film Awards|British Academy Film Award]] for the best [[screenplay|script]] not based upon previously published material. It has been awarded since 1984. In 1984 the category [[BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay]] was split into two awards, this one and the [[BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay]]. ==Winners and nominees== ===1980s=== '''1983: ''[[The King of Comedy (1983 film)|The King of Comedy]]''''' &ndash; Paul D. Zimmerman * ''[[Local Hero]]'' &ndash; [[Bill Forsyth]] * ''[[Trading Places]]'' &ndash; [[Timothy Harris]] and [[Herschel Weingrod]] * ''[[Zelig]]'' &ndash; [[Woody Allen]] '''1984: ''[[Broadway Danny Rose]]''''' &ndash; [[Woody Allen]] * ''[[The Big Chill (film)|The Big Chill]]'' &ndash; Barbara Benedek and [[Lawrence Kasdan]] * ''[[Comfort and Joy (1984 film)|Comfort and Joy]]'' &ndash; [[Bill Forsyth]] * ''[[A Private Function]]'' &ndash; [[Alan Bennett]] '''1985: ''[[The Purple Rose of Cairo]]''''' &ndash; [[Woody Allen]] * ''[[Back to the Future]]'' &ndash; [[Bob Gale]] and [[Robert Zemeckis]] * ''[[My Beautiful Laundrette]]'' &ndash; [[Hanif Kureishi]] * ''[[Witness (1985 film)|Witness]]'' &ndash; [[William Kelley (screenwriter)|William Kelley]] and [[Earl W. Wallace]] '''1986: ''[[Hannah and Her Sisters]]''''' &ndash; [[Woody Allen]] * ''[[Crocodile Dundee]]'' &ndash; [[John Cornell]], [[Paul Hogan]] and Ken Shadie * ''[[The Mission (1986 film)|The Mission]]'' &ndash; [[Robert Bolt]] * ''[[Mona Lisa (film)|Mona Lisa]]'' &ndash; [[Neil Jordan]] and [[David Leland]] '''1987: ''[[Wish You Were Here (1987 film)|Wish You Were Here]]''''' &ndash; [[David Leland]] * ''[[Hope and Glory (film)|Hope and Glory]]'' &ndash; [[John Boorman]] * ''[[Personal Services]]'' &ndash; [[David Leland]] * ''[[Radio Days]]'' &ndash; [[Woody Allen]] '''1988: ''[[A World Apart (film)|A World Apart]]''''' &ndash; [[Shawn Slovo]] * ''[[Au revoir, les