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2019 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Céline Sciamma
2018 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
3 Faces
Jafar Panahi
2018 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
Happy as Lazzaro
Alice Rohrwacher
2017 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Yorgos Lanthimos
2017 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
You Were Never Really Here
Lynne Ramsay
2016 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
The Salesman
Asghar Farhadi
2015 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
Chronic
Michel Franco
2014 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
Leviathan
Andrey Zvyagintsev
2013 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
A Touch of Sin
Zhangke Jia
2012 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
Beyond the Hills
Cristian Mungiu
2011 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
Footnote
Joseph Cedar
2010 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
Poetry
Chang-dong Lee
2009 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
Spring Fever
Feng Mei
2008 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
Lorna’s Silence
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
2007 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
The Edge of Heaven
Fatih Akin
2006 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
Volver
Pedro Almodóvar
2005 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
Three Burials
Guillermo Arriaga
2004 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
Look at Me
Agnès Jaoui
2003 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
The Barbarian Invasions
Denys Arcand
2002 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
Sweet Sixteen
Paul Laverty
2001 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
No Man’s Land
Danis Tanovic
2000 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
Nurse Betty
James Flamberg
1999 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
Moloch
Yuriy Arabov
1998 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
Henry Fool
Hal Hartley
1997 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
The Ice Storm
James Schamus
1996 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
A Self-Made Hero
Jacques Audiard
1994 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
Dead Tired
Michel Blanc
1984 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
Voyage to Cythera
Theodoros Angelopoulos
1982 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
Moonlighting
Jerzy Skolimowski
1981 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
Mephisto
István Szabó
1980 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
La terrazza
Ettore Scola
1974 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
The Sugarland Express
Hal Barwood
1967 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
The Killing Game
Alain Jessua
1967 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
We Still Kill the Old Way
Elio Petri
1965 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
The 317th Platoon
Pierre Schoendoerffer
1965 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
The Hill
Ray Rigby
1963 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
Codine
Dumitru Carabat
1958 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
Giovani mariti
Massimo Franciosa
1952 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
Cops and Robbers
Piero Tellini
1951 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
The Browning Version
Terence Rattigan
1949 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay
