César Award for Best Original Screenplay

César Award for Best Original Screenplay
Country	France
Presented by	Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma
First awarded	1983—1985; 2006—present
Currently held by	Mustang (2016)
Official website	academie-cinema.org

The César Award for Best Original Screenplay (French: César du meilleur scénario original) is an award presented by the Académie 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 Writing) was split into two awards, the other being César Award for Best Adaptation.

1980s

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 and Bob Swaim
	A Good Marriage	Le Beau Mariage	Éric Rohmer
1984 (9th)	The Wounded Man	L'Homme blessé	Patrice Chéreau and Hervé 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

The César Award for Best Writing was awarded from 1986 to 2005.

2000s

Year	Winners and nominees	Original title	Writer(s)
2006 (31st)	Live and Become	Va, vis et deviens	Alain-Michel Blanc and Radu Mihaileanu
	The Child	L'enfant	Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
	Hidden	Caché	Michael Haneke
	Merry Christmas	Joyeux Noël	Christian Carion
	The Young Lieutenant	Le petit lieutenant	Xavier Beauvois, Guillaume Bréaud and Jean-Eric Troubat
2007 (32nd)	Days of Glory	Indigènes	Rachid Bouchareb and Olivier Lorelle
	Jean-Philippe		Laurent Tuel and Christophe Turpin
	Orchestra Seats (a.k.a. Avenue Montaigne)	Fauteuils d'orchestre	Christopher and Danièle Thompson
	When I Was a Singer (a.k.a. The Singer)	Quand j'étais chanteur	Xavier Giannoli
	You Are So Beautiful	Je vous trouve très beau	Isabelle Mergault
2008 (33rd)	The Secret of the Grain	La graine et la mulet	Abdel Kechiche
	2 Days in Paris		Julie Delpy
	Molière		Laurent Tirard and Grégoire Vigneron
	Those Who Remain	Ceux qui restent	Anne Le Ny
	La Vie en Rose	La môme	Olivier Dahan
2009 (34th)	Séraphine		Marc Abdelnour and Martin Provost
	A Christmas Tale	Un conte de Noël	Emmanuel Bourdieu and Arnaud Desplechin
	The First Day of the Rest of Your Life	Le premier jour du reste de ta vie	Rémi Bezançon
	I've Loved You So Long	Il y a longtemps que je t'aime	Philippe Claudel
	Welcome to the Sticks	Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis	Dany Boon, Alexandre Charlot and Franck Magnier

2010s

Year	Winners and nominees	Original title	Writer(s)
2010 (35th)	A Prophet	Un prophète	Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri and Nicolas Peufaillit
	In the Beginning	À l'origine	Xavier Giannoli
	Skirt Day	La Journée de la jupe	Jean-Paul Lilienfeld
	Welcome		Philippe Lioret, Emmanuel Courcol and Olivier Adam
	Le Concert		Radu Mihăileanu and Alain-Michel Blanc
2011 (36th)	The Names of Love	Le Nom des gens	Baya Kasmi and Michel Leclerc
	On Tour	Tournée	Mathieu Amalric, Philippe Di Folco, Marcelo Novias Teles and Raphaëlle Valbrune
	The Clink of Ice	Le Bruit des glaçons	Bertrand Blier
	Of Gods and Men	Des hommes et des dieux	Étienne Comar and Xavier Beauvois
	Mammuth		Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern
2012 (37th)	The Minister	L'Exercice de l'État	Pierre Schöller
	Declaration of War	La Guerre est déclarée	Valérie Donzelli and Jérémie Elkaïm
	The Artist		Michel Hazanavicius
	Polisse		Maïwenn and Emmanuelle Bercot
	The Intouchables	Intouchables	Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano
2013 (38th)	Amour		Michael Haneke
	Holy Motors		Leos Carax
	Camille Rewinds	Camille redouble	Noémie Lvovsky, Florence Seyvos, Maud Ameline and Pierre-Olivier Mattei
	Granny's Funeral	Adieu Berthe, l'enterrement de mémé	Bruno Podalydès and Denis Podalydès
	A Few Hours of Spring	Quelques heures de printemps	Floence Vignon and Stéphane Brizé
2014 (39th)	9 Month Stretch	Neuf mois ferme	Albert Dupontel
	Suzanne		Mariette Désert and Katell Quillévéré
	The Past	Le Passé	Asghar Farhadi
	Stranger by the Lake	L'Inconnu du lac	Alain Guiraudie
	Cycling with Moliere	Alceste à bicyclette	Philippe Le Guay
2015 (40th)	Timbuktu		Abderrahmane Sissako and Kessen Tall
	The Bélier Family	La Famille Bélier	Victoria Bedos, Stanislas Carré de Malberg, Eric Lartigau and Thomas Bidegain
	Love at First Fight	Les Combattants	Thomas Cailley and Claude Le Pape
	Hippocrates	Hippocrate	Thomas Lilti, Baya Kasmi, Julien Lilti and Pierre Chosson
	Clouds of Sils Maria	Sils Maria	Olivier Assayas
2016 (41st)
	Mustang		Deniz Gamze Ergüven and Alice Winocour
	Dheepan		Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain and Noé Debré
	Marguerite		Xavier Giannoli
	Standing Tall	La Tête haute	Emmanuelle Bercot and Marcia Romano
	My Golden Days	Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse	Arnaud Desplechin and Julie Peyr

See also

• César Award for Best Adaptation
• César Award for Best Writing
• Lumières Award for Best Screenplay
• Magritte Award for Best Screenplay
• Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
• Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
• BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
• BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay

External links

• Official website
• César Award for Best Original Screenplay at AlloCiné