Each year, the Fargo Film Festival juries nominate and vote on an overall Best Screenplay from movies in competition.

2024: J.D. Shields (Blue Hour)
2023: Michael Goorjian (Amerikatsi)
2022: KD Davila and Omer Levin Menekse (Please Hold)
2021: Deepak Sethi (Coffee Shop Names)
2020: Floor Adams (Mind My Mind)

2019: Trevor Jimenez (Weekends)
2018: Don Hertzfeldt (World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People’s Thoughts)
2017: Lawrence Michael Levine (Always Shine)
2016: No award given
2015: Sonja Bennett (Preggoland)
2014: Benoit Cohen, Eleonore Pourriat, Jules Sagot (Tu seras un homme)
2013: Neil LaBute (Double or Nothing)
2012: No award given
2011: No award given
2010: Eli Akira Kaufman (California King)

2009: Don Hertzfeldt (I Am So Proud of You)
2008: Gabrielle Berberich and Greg Chwerchak (Greetings from the Shore)
2007: Jeff Solylo (East of Euclid)