European Film Award for Best Screenwriter
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Awarded forBest Achievement in Screenwriting
Presented byEuropean Film Academy
First awardLouis Malle
Au revoir les enfants (1988)
Au revoir les enfants (1988)
Currently held byJoachim Trier and Eskil Vogt
Sentimental Value (2025)
Sentimental Value (2025)
| European Film Award for Best Screenwriter | |
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 ![](#/media/File:"Blind"_Wins_the_World_Cinema_Dramatic_Screenwriting_Award_(12186266463)_(cropped).jpg) The 2025 recipients: Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt | |
| Awarded for | Best Achievement in Screenwriting |
| Presented by | European Film Academy |
| First award | Louis Malle Au revoir les enfants (1988) |
| Currently held by | Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt Sentimental Value (2025) |
| Website | europeanfilmacademy |
The European Film Award for Best Screenwriter is an award given out at the annual European Film Awards to recognize a screenwriter who has delivered an outstanding screenplay in a film industry. The award is presented by the European Film Academy (EFA) and was first presented in 1988 to French director and screenwriter Louis Malle for Goodbye Children.
István Szabó, Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Thomas Vinterberg, Tobias Lindholm, Ruben Östlund and Paweł Pawlikowski are the only writers who have received this award more than once, with two wins each.
1980s
| Year | Winner and nominees | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 (1st) | Louis Malle | Goodbye Children | Au Revoir Les Enfants |
| Manoel de Oliveira | The Cannibals | Os Canibais | |
| Terence Davies | Distant Voices, Still Lives | ||
| Daniele Luchetti Franco Bernini Angelo Pasquini | It's Happening Tomorrow | Domani accadrà | |
| Wolfgang Held | Bear Ye One Another's Burden | Einer trage des anderen Last | |
| 1989 (2nd) | Mariya Khmelik | Little Vera | Ма́ленькая Ве́ра |
| Géza Bereményi | The Midas Touch | Eldorádó | |
| Þráinn Bertelsson | Magnus | ||
| Theodoros Angelopoulos Tonino Guerra Thanassis Valtinos | Landscape in the Mist | Topio stin omichli | |
| Maciej Dejczer Cezary Harasimowicz | 300 Miles to Heaven | 300 mil do nieba | |
