| Year | Screenplay Writer | Film |
| 2010 | 1.P. F. Mathews & Harikrishna (Original Screenplay) 2.Gopal Krishan Pai & Girish Kasaravalli (best adapted screenplay) 3.Pandiraj (Dialogues) |
1.Kutty Srank(Malayalam) 2.Kanasemba Kudureyaneri(Kannada) 3.Pasanga(Tamil) |
| 2009 | Sachin Kundalkar | Gandha(Marathi) |
| 2008 | Feroz Abbas Khan | Gandhi, My Father(Hindi) |
| 2007 | Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra | Lage Raho Munna Bhai(Hindi) |
| 2006 | Prakash Jha, Manoj Tyagi & Shridhar Raghavan | Apaharan(Hindi) |
| 2005 | Manoj Tyagi & Nina Arora | Page 3(Hindi) |
| 2004 | Gautam Ghose | Abar Aranye(Bengali) |
| 2003 | Aparna Sen | Mr. and Mrs. Iyer(English) |
| 2002 | Neelakanta | Show(Telugu) |
| 2001 | Bharathiraja | Kadal Pookkal(Tamil) |
| 2000 | Madampu Kunjukuttan | Karunam(Malayalam) |
| 1999 | Ashok Mishra | Samar(Hindi) |
| 1998 | Rituparno Ghosh | Dahan(Bengali) |
| 1997 | Agathiyan | Kadhal Kottai(Tamil) |
| 1996 | Saeed Akhtar Mirza & Ashok Mishra | Naseem(Hindi) |
| 1995 | M.T. Vasudevan Nair | Parinayam(Malayalam) |
| 1994 | Satyajit Ray | Uttoran(Bengali) |
| 1993 | M.T. Vasudevan Nair | Sadayam(Malayalam) |
| 1992 | M.T. Vasudevan Nair | Kadavu(Malayalam) |
| 1991 | K.S. Sethu Madhavan | Marupakkam(Tamil) |
| 1990 | M.T. Vasudevan Nair | Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha(Malayalam) |
| 1989 | Arundhati Roy | In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones(English) |
| 1988 | Adoor Gopalakrishnan | Anantharam(Malayalam) |
| 1987 | Budhdhadeb Dasgupta | Phera(Bengali) |
| 1986 | Bhabendra Nath Saikia | Agni Snaan(Assamese) |
| 1985 | Adoor Gopalakrishnan | Mukhamukham(Malayalam) |
| 1984 | G V Iyer | Adi Shankaracharya(Sanskrit) |
| 1983 | Mrinal Sen | Kharij(Bengali) |
| 1982 | K. Balachander | Thanneer Thanneer(Tamil) |
| 1981 | Mrinal Sen | Akaler Sandhane(Bengali) |
| 1980 | Sai Paranjpye | Sparsh(Hindi) |
| 1979 | T.S. Ranga & T.S. Nagabharana | Grahana(Kannada) |
| 1978 | Satyadev Dubey, Shyam Benegal & Girish Karnad | Bhumika(Hindi) |
| 1977 | Vijay Tendulkar | Manthan(Hindi) |
| 1976 | no award | - |
| 1975 | Satyajit Ray | Sonar Kella(Bengali) |
| 1974 | Mrinal Sen & Ashish Burman | Padatik(Bengali) |
| 1973 | Gulzar | Koshish(Hindi) |
| 1972 | Tapan Sinha | Ekhonee(Bengali) |
| 1971 | Satyajit Ray | Pratidwandi(Bengali) |
| 1970 | Puttanna Kanagal | Gejje Pooje(Kannada) |
| 1969 | Pandit Anand Kumar | Anokhi Raat(Hindi) |
| 1968 | S. L. Puram Sadanandan | Agni Puthri(Malayalam) |
| 1967 | Satyajit Ray | Nayak(Bengali) |
Silver Lotus Award For Best Screenplay
The Silver Lotus Award for Best Screenplay was initiated in 1967 and by 2016, 63 awards have been presented for Original Screenplay writing, 11 for Adapted Screenplay writing, and 9 for dialogue.
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