London Screenwriters' Festival

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It’s about time someone put the originators and architects of great storytelling front and centre. And we rose to the challenge and launched the British Screenwriters’ Awards.

This year at the London Screenwriters Festival we will run the fourth British Screenwriters Awards, honouring outstanding writing from newcomers and established screenwriters in both film and television. And we will be expanding categories this year too, championing even more great British screenwriting.

The Nominations for 2017

Outstanding Newcomer for British Feature Film Writing

100 Streets by Leon Butler
Eddie The Eagle by Sean Macaulay
The Girl with all the Gifts by Mike Carey
The Pass by John Donnelly
Prevenge by Alice Lowe
Under The Shadow by Babak Anvari

Best British Children’s Television

The Amazing World of Gumball by the writing team
Class Dismissed by the writing team
Counterfeit Cat by the writing team
Eve by the writing team
The Worst Witch by the writing team

Outstanding Newcomer for British Television Writing

Apple Tree Yard by Amanda Coe and Louise Doughty
Damilola, Our Beloved Boy by Levi David Addai
Fleabag by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
The Hollow Crown by Ben Power
NW by Rachel Bennette (Based on novel by Zadie Smith)

Best British TV Drama Writing

3 Girls by Nicole Taylor
The Crown by Peter Morgan
Little Boy Blue by Jeff Pope
The Moorside by Neil McKay
National Treasure by Jack Thorne

Best Crime Writing on Television (Series/Single Drama)

Broadchurch by Chris Chibnall
Born to Kill by Kate Ashfield, Tracey Malone and Kate Gartside
Broken by Jimmy McGovern, Shaun Duggan, Colette Kane and Nick Leather
Line of Duty by Jed Mercurio
The Missing by Harry Williams and Jack Williams
Unforgotten by Chris Lang

Best Comedy Writing on Television

Camping by Julia Davis
This Country by Charlie Cooper and Daisy May Cooper
The Durrells by Simon Nye and Gerald Durrell
Flowers by Will Sharpe
People Just Do Nothing by Asim Chaudhry, Steve Stamp and Allan Mustafa
Upstart Crow by Ben Elton

Best British Feature Film Writing

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie by Jennifer Saunders
American Honey by Andrea Arnold
Free Fire by Amy Jump and Ben Wheatley
T2 by John Hodge (Based on the novel by Irvine Welsh)
A United Kingdom by Guy Hibbert (Based on the novel by Susan Williams)

Lifetime Achievement Award To Be Announced On The Evening

The Nominations for 2016 (winners in bold)

Outstanding Newcomer for British Television Writing

Doctor Foster by Mike Bartlett
Black Work by Matt Charman
The Night Manager by David Farr
Partners in Crime by Zinnie Harris / Claire Wilson

Best British TV Drama Writing

Jericho by David Ramage / Steve Thompson / Chris Dunlop / Caroline Henry
This is England 90 by Shane Meadows / Jack Thorne
Peaky Blinders by Steven Knight
Penny Dreadful by John Logan / Andrew Hinderaker
Murdered By My Father by Vinay Patel

Outstanding Newcomer for British Feature Film Writing

Kill Your Friends by John Niven
Carol by Phyllis Nagy
The Danish Girl by Lucina Coxon
My Name is Emily by Simon Fitzmaurice
Macbeth by Jacob Koskoff / Michael Lesslie / Todd Louiso

Best Crime Writing on Television (Series/Single Drama)

Lucky Man by James Allen / Rachel Anthony / Neil Biswas / Stephen Gallagher / Ben Schiffer / Alan Westaway
No Offence by Paul Abbott / Paul Tomalin / Jimmy Dowdall / Mark Greig / Jack Lothian
Luther by Neil Cross by
The Night Manager by David Farr
Marcella by Marston Bloom / Mark Greig / Ben Harris / Hans Rosenfeldt

Best Comedy Writing on Television

Chewing Gum by Michaela Coel
Stag by Jim Field Smith / George Kay
Siblings by Keith Akushie / Daran Johnson / Joe Parham / Lucien Young
Car Share by Peter Kay / Paul Coleman / Sian Gibson / Tim Reid
Catastrophe by Rob Delaney / Sharon Horgan

Best British Children’s Television

Hetty Feather by the Writing Team
Thunderbirds are Go by the Writing Team
The Dumping Ground by the Writing Team
Dangermouse by the Writing Team
Sarah and Duck by Benjamin Thomas Cook / Sarah Gomes Harris

Best British Feature Film Writing

Brooklyn by Nick Hornby
Legend by Brian Helgeland
The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett
Suffragette by Abi Morgan
45 Years by Andrew Haigh

Lifetime Achievement Award TBA on the night

Simon Fitzmaurice

Create50 Awards

The Impact 50 Best Screenplay

More by Phil Charles
Sing Mummy by Tracey Parsons
Silent Ruin by Chris Vanderhorst
Without Sin by Kerry Dye
Meet Anne by Tyler Pierreson

Twisted 50 Best Story

Five Days by Susan Bodnar
Shenanigans by Chris Jeal
The Sugar Loaf and The Red Shoes by Marie Gethins
The Beholder by Stephanie Wessell
The Audition Altar by Leo Robertson

The Nominations in 2015 were (winners in bold)

Outstanding New Talent in British Television Writing

‘Not Safe for Work’ by DC Moore
‘Prey’ by Chris Lunt
‘Cyberbully’ by David Lobatto / Ben Chanan
‘Our World War’ by Joe Barton / Marco Crivellari

Outstanding Newcomer for British Feature Film Writing

‘71’ by Gregory Burke
‘The Falling’ by Carol Morley
‘Suite Francaise’ by Matt Charman / Saul Dibb
‘X+Y’ by James Graham

Best British TV Drama Writing

‘Humans’ by Joe Barton, Jonathan Brackley, Sam Vincent and Emily Ballou
‘The Missing’ by Harry Williams and Jack Williams
‘Call the Midwife’ by Heidi Thomas
‘Sherlock’ by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat

Best British Feature Film Writing

‘Ex Machina’ by Alex Garland
‘Far from the Madding Crowd’ by David Nicholls
‘Paddington’ by Paul King
‘Kajaki’ by Tom Williams

Best British Children’s Television

‘Wolfblood’ by Debbie Moon, Sophie Petzal, James Whitehouse and Hannah George, Catrin Clarke, Paul Mousley, Neil Jones and Lee Walters
‘Katie Morag’ by Sergio Casci, Martin McCardie, Stuart Hepburn, Linda Cameron
‘Harriet’s Army’ by Guy Burt
‘Eve’ by Emma Reeves, Andrew Yerlett, Joe Williams, Ann Marie Di Mambro, Vivien Adam and Kirstie Swain