Golden Lotus Award for Best Writing is the main category of Competition of Golden Lotus Awards, awarding to screenplay writer.
| Year | Winner and nominees (English) | Winner and nominees (Chinese) | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Juan Fischer & Erwin Goggel | Buscando a Miguel | ||
| Zhang Hui | White Mountain | |||
| Xie Xiaodong | Invisible Killer | |||
| Zhou Juan & Bao Lide | Seeking Naadam |
| Year | Winner and nominees (English) | Winner and nominees (Chinese) | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Pei Bei | Unworldly | [1] | |
| Cui Zi'en & Chen Bing | Wild Strawberries | |||
| Lingzi | Happiness Pursuit | |||
| Cheng Hsiao Tse | More Than Close |
| Year | Winner and nominees (English) | Winner and nominees (Chinese) | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Zhang Qi & Huang Wei | The Devil Inside Me | ||
| Siu Fai Mak & Felix Chong | The Lost Bladesman | |||
| Pan Hao | The Struggling Ants | |||
| Zha Muchun | House Mania | |||
| Wang Haiping | Be a Mother |
| Year | Winner and nominees (English) | Winner and nominees (Chinese) | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Ma Daishan | Iron Man: Wang Jinxi | ||
| Liu Yihan | When the Meteor Across the Sky | |||
| He Wenchao | Sweet Eighteen | |||
| Ibrahim Wang | Shadow Player |
| Year | Winner and nominees (English) | Winner and nominees (Chinese) | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Wang Bing & Diana Pang | Nanniwan | ||
| Dante Lam | The Viral Factor | |||
| Li Min | ||||
| Heiward Mak | Diva |
| Year | Winner and nominees (English) | Winner and nominees (Chinese) | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Zou Jingzhi | Coming Home | [2] | |
| Chen Sicheng | Beijing Love Story | |||
| He Lan | A Person's Love | |||
| Jiang Ping | Feeling the Love Flute | |||
| Barbara Wong | 708090 |
| Year | Winner and nominees (English) | Winner and nominees (Chinese) | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Zhang Juexi | The Kid from the Big Apple | ||
| Yiu-Fai Law | Happiness | |||
| Qin Yi | Qinghai Lake | |||
| Ho Leung Lau | To the Fore | |||
| Edmond Wong | Ip Man 3 |
| Year | Winner and nominees (English) | Winner and nominees (Chinese) | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | He Lan | Lonely Garden | ||
| Jeffery Lau | A Chinese Odyssey Part Three | |||
| Zou Jingzhi | Xuanzang | |||
| Liu Heng | My War | |||
| Ding Xiaoyang | Tik Tok | |||
| Chen Huasen | Perfection Imperfection |
| Year | Winner and nominees (English) | Winner and nominees (Mandarin) | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Sherwood Hu | Lord of Shanghai | ||
| Fruit Chan | Kill Time | |||
| Oxide Pang | My War | |||
| Lin Yu-Hsien | Never Said Goodbye | |||
| Chen Bin | Perfect Imperfection | |||
| Meng Haojun | Being A Cop |
| Year | Winner and nominees (English) | Winner and nominees (Mandarin) | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Geling Yan | 严歌苓 | Youth | |
| Li Zhiying / Zhang Hui | 李祉萤 / 张辉 | A Paper Marriage | ||
| Xing Xiao | 邢潇 | A Loner | ||
| Song Liying | Puppy Love | |||
| Zhou Ziyang | Old Beast | |||