BAFTA Award untuk Skenario Asli Terbaik

1980an

Tahun	Film	Penulis naskah
1983 ke-37
	The King of Comedy	Paul D. Zimmerman
	Local Hero	Bill Forsyth
	Trading Places	Timothy Harris dan Herschel Weingrod
	Zelig	Woody Allen
1984 ke-38
	Broadway Danny Rose	Woody Allen ‡
	The Big Chill	Barbara Benedek dan Lawrence Kasdan ‡
	Comfort and Joy	Bill Forsyth
	A Private Function	Alan Bennett
1985 ke-39
	The Purple Rose of Cairo	Woody Allen ‡
	Back to the Future	Robert Zemeckis dan Bob Gale ‡
	My Beautiful Laundrette	Hanif Kureishi
	Witness	William Kelley dan Earl W. Wallace †
1986 ke-40
	Hannah and Her Sisters	Woody Allen †
	Crocodile Dundee	John Cornell, Paul Hogan, dan Ken Shadie ‡
	The Mission	Robert Bolt
	Mona Lisa	Neil Jordan and David Leland
1987 ke-41
	Wish You Were Here	David Leland
	Hope and Glory	John Boorman ‡
	Personal Services	David Leland
	Radio Days	Woody Allen ‡
1988 ke-42
	A World Apart	Shawn Slovo
	Au revoir les enfants	Louis Malle ‡
	A Fish Called Wanda	John Cleese ‡
	Moonstruck	John Patrick Shanley †
1989 ke-43
	When Harry Met Sally...	Nora Ephron ‡
	Dead Poets Society	Tom Schulman †
	Rain Man	Ronald Bass dan Barry Morrow †
	Sex, Lies, and Videotape	Steven Soderbergh ‡