| European Film Award for Best Screenwriter | |
|---|---|
  The 2023 recipients: Justine Triet and Arthur Harari | |
| Awarded for | Best Achievement in Screenwriting |
| Presented by | European Film Academy |
| First awarded | Louis Malle Au revoir les enfants (1988) |
| Currently held by | Justine Triet Arthur Harari Anatomy of a Fall (2023) |
| Website | europeanfilmacademy |
The European Film Award for Best Screenwriter is an award given out at the annual European Film Awards to recognize a screenwriter who has delivered an outstanding screenplay in a film industry. The award is presented by the European Film Academy (EFA) and was first presented in 1988 to French director and screenwriter Louis Malle for Goodbye Children.
István Szabó, Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Thomas Vinterberg, Tobias Lindholm, Ruben Östlund and Paweł Pawlikowski are the only writers who have received this award more than once, with two wins each.