European Film Award for Best Screenwriter

European Film Award for Best Screenwriter
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The 2025 recipients: Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt
Awarded forBest Achievement in Screenwriting
Presented byEuropean Film Academy
First awardLouis Malle
Au revoir les enfants (1988)
Currently held byJoachim Trier and Eskil Vogt
Sentimental Value (2025)
Websiteeuropeanfilmacademy.org

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.