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 |
| 1982 |
Goodbye Paradise |
Bob Ellis, Denny Lawrence |
Original screenplay |
| Lonely Hearts |
Paul Cox, John Clarke |
Original screenplay |
| Moving Out |
Jan Sardi |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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