Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay

The Best Screenplay Award is an award presented by the Jury to the best screenwriter for their work on a film of the Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival.

History

It was first awarded to Alfred L. Werker, & for Lost Boundaries.
Winners Denys Arcand for The Barbarian Invasions, & for and Coralie Fargeat for The Substance were later nominated Academy Awards for their screenplays.