The IIFA Award for Best Screenplay is a technical award chosen ahead of the ceremonies.
The winners are listed below:-
| Year |
Winner |
Film
|
| 2024
|
Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Jaskunwar Kohli, Anurag Pathak, Aayush Saxena, Vikas Divyakirti
|
12th Fail
|
| 2023
|
Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Utkarshini Vashishtha
|
Gangubai Kathiawadi
|
| 2022
|
Sandeep Shrivastava
|
Shershaah
|
| 2020 |
Anubhav Sinha & Gaurav Solanki |
Article 15
|
| 2019 |
Sriram Raghavan, Hemanth Rao, Arijit Biswas, Pooja Ladha Surti & Yogesh Chandekar |
Andhadhun
|
| 2018 |
Nitesh Tiwari, Shreyas Jain |
Bareilly Ki Barfi
|
| 2017 |
Ritesh Shah |
Pink
|
| 2016 |
Kabir Khan and Parveez Shaikh |
Bajrangi Bhaijaan[1]
|
| 2015 |
Vikas Bahl, Chaitally Parmar & Parveez Shaikh |
Queen
|
| 2014 |
Prasoon Joshi |
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
|
| 2013 |
Anurag Basu and Tani Basu |
Barfi!
|
| 2012 |
Reema Kagti and Zoya Akhtar |
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
|
| 2011 |
Abhinav Kashyap and Dilip Shukla |
Dabangg
|
| 2010 |
Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani & Vidhu Vinod Chopra |
3 Idiots
|
| 2009 |
Neeraj Pandey |
A Wednesday!
|
| 2008 |
Anurag Basu
Jaideep Sahni |
Life in a... Metro
Chak De India
|
| 2007 |
Rensil D'Silva and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra |
Rang De Basanti
|
| 2006 |
Pradeep Sarkar and Vidhu Vinod Chopra |
Parineeta
|
| 2005 |
Abbas Tyrewala and Vishal Bhardwaj |
Maqbool
|
| 2004 |
Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Lajan Joseph |
Munnabhai M.B.B.S.
|
| 2003 |
Mahesh Bhatt |
Raaz
|
| 2002 |
Farhan Akhtar |
Dil Chahta Hai
|
| 2001 |
Honey Irani and Farhan Akhtar |
Kya Kehna
|
| 2000 |
Sanjay Leela Bhansali |
Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
|