Award Winners
| Year | Film | Original title | Writer | Nationality of the film |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | Lost Boundaries | Alfred L. Werker | United States | |
| 1950 | festival not held | |||
| 1951 | The Browning Version | Terence Rattigan | United Kingdom | |
| 1952 | Guardie e ladri | Piero Tellini | Italy | |
| 1953-57 | no award these years | |||
| 19581 | Giovani mariti | Pier Paolo Pasolini, Massimo Franciosa and Pasquale Festa Campanile |
Italy | |
| 1959-62 | no award these years | |||
| 1963 | Codine | Dumitru Carabat, Henri Colpi and Yves Jamiaque |
France | |
| 1964 | no award this year | |||
| 1965 | The 317th Platoon | Pierre Schoendoerffer | France | |
| The Hill | Ray Rigby | United Kingdom | ||
| 1966 | no award this year | |||
| 1967 | We Still Kill the Old Way | A ciascuno il suo | Elio Petri |
Italy |
| The Killing Game | Jeu de massacre | Alain Jessua | France | |
| 1968 | festival not held | |||
| 1969-73 | no award these years | |||
| 1974 | The Sugarland Express | Steven Spielberg, Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins |
United States | |
| 1975-79 | no award these years | |||
| 19802 | La Terrazza | Furio Scarpelli, Agenore Incrocci and Ettore Scola | Italy | |
| 1981 | Mephisto | István Szabó | Hungary | |
| 1982 | Moonlighting | Jerzy Skolimowski | Poland | |
| 1983 | no award this year | |||
| 19843 | Voyage to Cythera | Thanassis Valtinos, Tonino Guerra and Theodoros Angelopoulos |
Greece | |
| 1985-93 | no award these years | |||
| 1994 | Grosse fatigue | Michel Blanc | France | |
| 1995 | no award this year | |||
| 1996 | A Self Made Hero | Un héros très discret | Jacques Audiard and Alain Le Henry | France |
| 1997 | The Ice Storm | James Schamus | United States | |
| 1998 | Henry Fool | Hal Hartley | United States | |
| 1999 | Moloch | Yuri Arabov | Russia | |
| 2000 | Nurse Betty | James Flamberg and John C. Richards | United States | |
| 2001 | No Man's Land | Danis Tanovic | Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
| 2002 | Sweet Sixteen | Paul Laverty | United Kingdom | |
| 2003 | The Barbarian Invasions | Les invasions barbares | Denys Arcand | Canada/ France |
| 2004 | Look at Me | Comme une image | Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri | France |
| 2005 | The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada | Guillermo Arriaga | United States | |
| 2006 | To Return | Volver | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| 2007 | The Edge of Heaven | Auf der anderen Seite | Fatih Akin | Germany/ Turkey |
| 2008 | Lorna's Silence | Le silence de Lorna | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | Belgium |
| 2009 | Spring Fever | 春风沉醉的晚上 | Mei Feng | China |
| 2010 | Poetry | 시 | Lee Chang-dong | South Korea |
| 2011 | Footnote | Hearat Shulayim | Joseph Cedar | Israel |
| 2012 | Beyond the Hills | După dealuri | Cristian Mungiu and Tatiana Niculescu Bran | Romania |
^1 This year the award received the name Prix du scénario original (Original Screenplay Award).
^2 This year the award received the name Prix du scénario et des dialogues au Festival International du Film (Screenplay and Dialogues Award).
^3 This year the award received the name Prix du meilleur scénario original (Best Original Screenplay Award).
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