Best Screenplay — Every Winner and Nominee
Every film recognised in the Cannes Best Screenplay category in CineRoll's records: 41 films across 38 years, 41 of them winners.
The most recent winner is A Man of His Time (2026); the earliest on record is Codine (1963).
The last three winners were A Man of His Time (2026), Young Mothers (2025) and The Substance (2024).
The list is newest first. Each year shows the winner at the top, then the other nominees; a year with enough nominees links to its own page.
Last updated
2026
Winner
2025
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2024
The Substance(2024)Winner
2023
Monster(2023)Winner
2022
Winner
2021
Drive My Car(2021)Winner
2019
Winner
2018
3 Faces(2018)Winner
Happy as Lazzaro(2018)Winner
2017
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Winner
2016
The Salesman(2016)Winner
2015
Chronic(2015)Winner
2014
Leviathan(2014)Winner
2013
A Touch of Sin(2013)Winner
2012
Beyond the Hills(2012)Winner
2011
Footnote(2011)Winner
2010
Poetry(2010)Winner
2009
Spring Fever(2009)Winner
2008
Lorna's Silence(2008)Winner
2007
The Edge of Heaven(2007)Winner
2006
Volver(2006)Winner
2005
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2004
Look at Me(2004)Winner
2003
The Barbarian Invasions(2003)Winner
2002
Sweet Sixteen(2002)Winner
2001
No Man's Land(2001)Winner
2000
Nurse Betty(2000)Winner
1999
Moloch(1999)Winner
1998
Henry Fool(1997)Winner
1997
The Ice Storm(1997)Winner
1996
A Self-Made Hero(1996)Winner
1994
Dead Tired(1994)Winner
1984
Voyage to Cythera(1984)Winner
1982
Moonlighting(1982)Winner
1981
Mephisto(1981)Winner
1980
The Terrace(1980)Winner
1974
The Sugarland Express(1974)Winner
1965
The 317th Platoon(1965)Winner
The Hill(1965)Winner
1963
Codine(1963)Winner