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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
2010s
2019
The Nightingale
Jennifer Kent
Original screenplay
Hotel Mumbai
John Collee , Anthony Maras
Original screenplay, based on a true story
Judy and Punch
Mirrah Foulkes
The King
David Michod , Joel Edgerton
Based on the plays Henry IV, Part 1 , Henry IV, Part 2 & Henry V by William Shakespeare
2020s
2020
Babyteeth
Rita Kalnejais
Based on the play Babyteeth by Rita Kalnejais
Little Monsters
Abe Forsythe
Original screenplay
The Invisible Man
Leigh Whannell
Original screenplay, characters and concept created by H. G. Wells for The Invisible Man novel
Relic
Natalie Erika James, Christian White
Original screenplay
True History of the Kelly Gang
Shaun Grant
Based on the novel True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
External links
References
Australian Feature film International Feature film Television Documentary and Short film Special awards Retired awards Ceremonies
AFI Awards AACTA Awards (Australia) AACTA Awards (International)