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| César Award for Best Original Screenplay | |
|---|---|
_B.png) 2025 recipient:Boris Lojkine | |
| Country | France |
| Presented by | Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma |
| First award | 1983—1985; 2006—present |
| Currently held by | Boris Lojkine and Delphine Agut forSouleymane's Story (2025) |
| Website | academie-cinema |
TheCésar Award for Best Original Screenplay (French:César du meilleur scénario original) is an award presented by theAcadémie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma. It was initially awarded from 1983 to 1985, and then awarded again in 2006, when the original category (César Award for Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation) was split into two awards, the other beingCésar Award for Best Adaptation.
| Year | Winners and nominees | Original title | Writer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 (8th) | The Return of Martin Guerre | Le Retour de Martin Guerre | Jean-Claude Carrière and Daniel Vigne |
| Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David? | Élie Chouraqui | ||
| La Balance | Mathieu Fabiani andBob Swaim | ||
| A Good Marriage | Le Beau Mariage | Éric Rohmer | |
| 1984 (9th) | The Wounded Man | L'Homme blessé | Patrice Chéreau andHervé Guibert |
| Entre Nous | Coup de foudre | Diane Kurys and Alain Le Henry | |
| The ComDads | Les Compères | Francis Veber | |
| 1985 (10th) | Our Story | Notre histoire | Bertrand Blier |
| Full Moon in Paris | Les Nuits de la pleine lune | Éric Rohmer | |
| My New Partner | Les Ripoux | Claude Zidi | |
TheCésar Award for Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation was awarded from1986 to2005.
| Year | Winners and nominees | Original title | Writer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (45th) | La Belle Époque | Nicolas Bedos | |
| By the Grace of God | Grâce à Dieu | François Ozon | |
| The Specials | Hors normes | Éric Toledano andOlivier Nakache | |
| Les Misérables | Ladj Ly, Giordano Gederlini andAlexis Manenti | ||
| Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Portrait de la jeune fille en feu | Céline Sciamma | |
| 2021 (46th) [1] | Bye Bye Morons | Adieu les cons | Albert Dupontel |
| My Donkey, My Lover & I | Antoinette dans les Cévennes | Caroline Vignal | |
| Love Affair(s) | Les Choses qu'on dit, les choses qu'on fait | Emmanuel Mouret | |
| Two of Us | Deux | Filippo Meneghetti and Malysone Bovorashy | |
| Delete History | Effacer l'historique | Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kerven | |
| 2022 (47th) | Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle | Onoda, 10 000 nuits dans la jungle | Arthur Harari and Vincent Poymiro |
| Aline | Valérie Lemercier and Brigitte Buc | ||
| Annette | Leos Carax,Ron Mael andRussell Mael | ||
| Black Box | Boîte noire | Yann Gozlan, Simon Moutaïrou, and Nicolas Bouvet-Levrard | |
| The Divide | La Fracture | Catherine Corsini, Laurette Polmanss, and Agnès Feuvre | |
| 2023 (48th) | The Innocent | L'innocent | Louis Garrel,Tanguy Viel and Naïla Guiguet |
| Full Time | À plein temps | Éric Gravel | |
| Forever Young | Les Amandiers | Valeria Bruni Tedeschi,Noémie Lvovsky, Agnes de Sacy | |
| Rise | En corps | Cedric Klapisch,Santiago Amigorena | |
| Saint Omer | Alice Diop, Amrita David andMarie NDiaye | ||
| 2024[2] (49th) | Anatomy of a Fall | Anatomie d'une chute | Justine Triet andArthur Harari |
| All Your Faces | Je verrai toujours vos visages | Jeanne Herry | |
| The Animal Kingdom | Le Règne animal | Thomas Cailley and Pauline Munier | |
| The Goldman Case | Le Procès Goldman | Cédric Kahn and Nathalie Hertzberg | |
| Junkyard Dog | Chien de la casse | Jean-Baptiste Durand | |
| 2025 (50th) | Souleymane's Story | L'Histoire de Souleymane | Boris Lojkine and Delphine Agut |
| Borgo | Stéphane Demoustier | ||
| Holy Cow | Vingt Dieux | Louise Courvoisier and Théo Abadie | |
| The Marching Band | En Fanfare | Emmanuel Courcol and Irène Muscari | |
| Misericordia | Miséricorde | Alain Guiraudie | |