The Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for best screenplay.
Winners and nominees
This category existed between 1998 and 2004. It was reintroduced in 2011. Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.
Original run
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!Year
!Nominated Film / Series
!Screenwriter
!Result
!Ref
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! rowspan="4" |1998
|Dark City
|Alex Proyas
| rowspan="2" |Won (tie)
| rowspan="2" |
|- style="background: lightyellow"
|Gods and Monsters
|Bill Condon
|-
|Fallen
|Nicholas Kazan
| rowspan="2" |Nominated
| rowspan="2" |
|-
|The Blair Witch Project
|Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez
| rowspan="3" |Nominated
| rowspan="3" |
|-
|The Cell
|Mark Protosevich
| rowspan="4" |Nominated
| rowspan="4" |
|-
|From Hell
|Terry Hayes and Rafael Yglesias (based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell)
| rowspan="3" |Nominated
| rowspan="3" |
|-
|Minority Report
|Jon Cohen and Scott Frank (based on the story by Philip K. Dick)
| rowspan="3" |Nominated
| rowspan="3" |
|-
|Identity
|Michael Cooney
| rowspan="2" |Nominated
| rowspan="2" |
|- style="background: lightyellow"
|Shaun of the Dead
|Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright
|-
|Dawn of the Dead
|James Gunn
| rowspan="2" |Nominated
| rowspan="2" |
|-
|The Adjustment Bureau
|George Nolfi
| rowspan="5" |Nominated
| rowspan="5" |
|-
|American Horror Story: Asylum (Season 2, Episode 7: "Dark Cousin")
|Tim Minear
| rowspan="4" |Nominated
| rowspan="4" |
|-
|American Horror Story: Asylum (Season 2, Episode 11: "Spilt Milk")
|Brad Falchuk
| rowspan="4" |Nominated
| rowspan="4" |
|-
|American Horror Story: Coven (Season 3, Episode 10: "The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks")
|James Wong
| rowspan="4" |Nominated
| rowspan="4" |
|-
|Crimson Peak
|Guillermo del Toro and Matthew Robbins
| rowspan="4" |Nominated
| rowspan="4" |
|-
|10 Cloverfield Lane
|Josh Campbell, Damien Chazelle, and Matthew Stuecken
| rowspan="4" |Nominated
| rowspan="4" |
|-
|It
|Chase Palmer, Cary Fukunaga, and Gary Dauberman
| rowspan="4" |Nominated
| rowspan="4" |
|-
|Annihilation
|Alex Garland
| rowspan="4" |Nominated
| rowspan="4" |
|-
|Doctor Sleep
|Mike Flanagan
| rowspan="4" |Nominated
| rowspan="4" |
|-
|Color Out of Space
|Scarlett Amaris and Richard Stanley<br>(SpectreVision)
| rowspan="4" |Nominated
| rowspan="4" |
|-
|Antlers
|C. Henry Chaisson, Nick Antosca, and Scott Cooper<br>(Searchlight Pictures)
| rowspan="4" |Nominated
| rowspan="4" |
|- style="background: lightyellow"
|Stranger Things (Season 4, Episode 1: "Chapter One: The Hellfire Club")
|The Duffer Brothers
|-
|The Pale Blue Eye
|Scott Cooper
| rowspan="3" |Nominated
| rowspan="3" |
|-
|Black Mirror (Season 6, Episode 3: "Beyond the Sea")
|Charlie Brooker
| rowspan="4" |Nominated
| rowspan="4" |
|-
|Nosferatu
|Robert Eggers, Henrik Galeen, & Bram Stoker
| rowspan="4" |Nominated
| rowspan="4" |
|-
|Heretic
|Scott Beck & Bryan Wood
|-
|Longlegs
|Osgood Perkins
|-
|I Saw the TV Glow
|Jane Schoenbrun
|-
! rowspan="5" |2025
|Sinners
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| rowspan="5" |TBA
|rowspan=5|
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|Weapons
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|28 Years Later
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|Companion
|
|-
|Bring Her Back
| &
|}
References
External links
- Stoker Award on the HWA web page
- Graphical listing of all Bram Stoker award winners and nominees