The BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay is a British Academy Film Award for the best 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 – Costa-Gavras and Donald E. StewartE.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – Melissa MathisonGandhi – John BrileyOn Golden Pond – Ernest Thompson1981: Gregory's Girl – Bill ForsythAtlantic City – John GuareChariots of Fire – Colin WellandThe French Lieutenant's Woman – Harold Pinter1980: Being There – Jerzy KosińskiAirplane! – Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry ZuckerThe Elephant Man – Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren, and David LynchKramer vs. Kramer – Robert Benton1979: Manhattan – Woody Allen and Marshall BrickmanThe China Syndrome – Mike Gray, T. S. Cook, and James BridgesThe Deer Hunter – Deric WashburnYanks – Colin Welland and Walter Bernstein1978: Julia – Alvin SargentClose Encounters of the Third Kind – Steven SpielbergThe Goodbye Girl – Neil SimonA Wedding – John Considine, Patricia Resnick, Allan F. Nicholls, and Robert Altman1977: Annie Hall – Woody Allen and Marshall BrickmanEquus – Peter ShafferNetwork – Paddy ChayefskyRocky – Sylvester Stallone1976: Bugsy Malone – Alan ParkerAll the President's Men – William GoldmanOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Lawrence Hauben and Bo GoldmanThe Sunshine Boys – Neil Simon1975: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore – Robert GetchellDog Day Afternoon – Frank PiersonJaws – Peter Benchley and Carl GottliebNashville – Joan Tewkesbury1974: Chinatown – Robert Towne / The Last Detail – Robert Towne (TIE)Blazing Saddles – Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, and Alan UgerThe Conversation – Francis Ford CoppolaLacombe, Lucien – Louis Malle and Patrick Modiano1973: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie – Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude CarrièreThe Day of the Jackal – Kenneth RossSleuth – Anthony ShafferA Touch of Class – Melvin Frank and Jack Rose1972: The Hospital – Paddy Chayefsky / The Last Picture Show – Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich (TIE)Cabaret – Jay Presson AllenA Clockwork Orange – Stanley Kubrick1971: The Go-Between – Harold PinterGumshoe – Neville SmithSunday Bloody Sunday – Penelope GilliattTaking Off – Miloš Forman, John Guare, Jean-Claude Carrière, and Jon Klein1970: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – William GoldmanBob & Carol & Ted & Alice – Paul Mazursky and Larry TuckerKes – Barry Hines, Ken Loach, and Tony GarnettThey Shoot Horses, Don't They? – James Poe and Robert E. Thompson1969: Midnight Cowboy – Waldo SaltGoodbye, Columbus – Arnold SchulmanWomen in Love – Larry KramerZ – Costa-Gavras, Jorge Semprún1968: The Graduate – Calder Willingham and Buck Henryif.... – David SherwinThe Lion in Winter – James Goldman