What is BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay?
{{Redlinks|date=March 2015}} The '''BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay''' is a [[British Academy Film Awards|British Academy Film Award]] for the best [[screenplay|script]]. It was awarded from 1968 to 1982. In 1983 it was split into [[BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay]] and [[BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay]]. * '''1982''' - '''''[[Missing (film)|Missing]]''''' - '''[[Costa-Gavras]] and [[Donald E. Stewart]]''' ** ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial]]'' - [[Melissa Mathison]] ** ''[[Gandhi (film)|Gandhi]]'' - [[John Briley]] ** ''[[On Golden Pond (1981 film)|On Golden Pond]]'' - [[Ernest Thompson]] * '''1981''' - '''''[[Gregory's Girl]]''''' - '''[[Bill Forsyth]]''' ** ''[[Atlantic City (1980 film)|Atlantic City]]'' - [[John Guare]] ** ''[[Chariots of Fire]]'' - [[Colin Welland]] ** ''[[The French Lieutenant's Woman (film)|The French Lieutenant's Woman]]'' - [[Harold Pinter]] * '''1980''' - '''''[[Being There]]''''' - '''[[Jerzy Kosinski]]''' ** ''[[Airplane!]]'' - [[Jim Abrahams]], [[David Zucker (filmmaker)|David Zucker]], [[Jerry Zucker (film director)|Jerry Zucker]] ** ''[[The Elephant Man (film)|The Elephant Man]]'' - [[Christopher De Vore]], [[Eric Bergren]] and [[David Lynch]] ** ''[[Kramer vs. Kramer]]'' - [[Robert Benton]] * '''1979''' - '''''[[Manhattan (film)|Manhattan]]''''' - '''[[Woody Allen]] and [[Marshall Brickman]]''' ** ''[[The China Syndrome]]'' - [[Mike Gray]], [[T.S. Cook]] and [[James Bridges]] ** ''[[The Deer Hunter]]'' - [[Deric Washburn]] ** ''[[Yanks]]'' - [[Colin Welland]] and [[Walter Bernstein]] * '''1978''' - '''''[[Julia (1977 film)|Julia]]''''' - '''[[Alvin Sargent]]''' ** ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]'' - [[Steven Spielberg]] ** ''[[The Goodbye Girl]]'' - [[Neil Simon]] ** ''[[A Wedding]]'' - [[John Considine (actor)|John Considine]], [[Patricia Resnick]], [[Allan F. Nicholls]] and [[Robert Altman]] * '''1977''' - '''''[[Annie Hall]]''''' - '''[[Woody Allen]] and [[Marshall Brickman]]''' ** ''[[Network (film)|Network]]'' - [[Paddy Chayefsky]] ** ''[[Roc