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The Best Screenplay Award (French: Prix du scénario) is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It was first awarded in 1949.

[edit] Award Winners

Year	Film	Original title	Writer
1949	Lost Boundaries		Alfred L. Werker
1950	festival not held
1951	The Browning Version		Terence Rattigan
1952	Guardie e ladri		Piero Tellini
1953-57	no award these years
1958¹	Giovani mariti		Pier Paolo Pasolini, Massimo Franciosa and Pasquale Festa Campanile
1959-62	no award these years
1963	Codine		Dumitru Carabat, Henri Colpi and Yves Jamiaque
1964	no award this year
1965	The 317th Platoon		Pierre Schoendoerffer
1965	The Hill		Ray Rigby
1966	no award this year
1967	We Still Kill the Old Way	A ciascuno il suo	Elio Petri
1967	The Killing Game	Jeu de massacre	Alain Jessua
1968	festival not held
1969-73	no award these years
1974	The Sugarland Express		Steven Spielberg, Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins
1975-79	no award these years
1980²	La Terrazza		Furio Scarpelli, Agenore Incrocci and Ettore Scola
1981	Mephisto		István Szabó
1982	Moonlighting		Jerzy Skolimowski
1983	no award this year
1984³	Voyage to Cythera		Thanassis Valtinos, Tonino Guerra and Theodoros Angelopoulos
1985-93	no award these years
1994	Grosse fatigue		Michel Blanc
1995	no award this year
1996	*A Self Made Hero*	Un héros très discret	Jacques Audiard and Alain Le Henry
1997	The Ice Storm		James Schamus
1998	Henry Fool		Hal Hartley
1999	Moloch		Aleksandr Sokurov
2000	Nurse Betty		James Flamberg and John C. Richards
2001	No Man's Land		Danis Tanovic
2002	Sweet Sixteen		Paul Laverty
2003	*The Barbarian Invasions*	Les invasions barbares	Denys Arcand
2004	*Look at Me*	Comme une image	Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri
2005	The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada		Guillermo Arriaga
2006	*To Return*	Volver	Pedro Almodóvar
2007	*The Edge of Heaven*	Auf der anderen Seite	Fatih Akin
2008	*The Silence of Lorna*	Le silence de Lorna	Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
2009	Spring Fever	春风沉醉的晚上	Mei Feng

Note 1: This year the award received the name Prix du scénario original (Original Screenplay Award).

Note 2: This year the award received the name Prix du scénario et des dialogues au Festival International du Film (Screenplay and Dialogues Award).

Note 3: This year the award received the name Prix du meilleur scénario original (Best Original Screenplay Award).

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