| Year | Film | Recipient(s) | Source material |
|---|
1970
(23rd)
[3] | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
|---|
| I Never Sang for My Father | Robert Anderson | The play byRobert Anderson |
| Airport | George Seaton | Thenovel byArthur Hailey |
| Catch-22 | Buck Henry | Thenovel byJoseph Heller |
| The Great White Hope | Howard Sackler | Theplay byHoward Sackler |
| Little Big Man | Calder Willingham | Thenovel byThomas Berger |
| Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
|---|
| M*A*S*H † | Ring Lardner Jr. | The novelMASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors byRichard Hooker |
| Lovers and Other Strangers | Renée Taylor,Joseph Bologna,David Zelag Goodman | The play byRenée Taylor andJoseph Bologna |
| The Owl and the Pussycat | Buck Henry | The play byBill Manhoff |
| The Twelve Chairs | Mel Brooks | Thenovel byIlf and Petrov |
| Where's Poppa | Robert Klane | The novel byRobert Klane |
1971
(24th)
[4] | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
|---|
| The French Connection † | Ernest Tidyman | Thebook byRobin Moore |
| A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick | Thenovel byAnthony Burgess |
| Johnny Got His Gun | Dalton Trumbo | Thenovel byDalton Trumbo |
| The Last Picture Show | Larry McMurtry, andPeter Bodganovich | The novel byLarry McMurtry |
| McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Robert Altman, and Brian McKay | The novelMcCabe byEdmund Naughton |
| Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
|---|
| Kotch | John Paxton | The novel byKatharine Topkins |
| The Boy Friend | Ken Russell | Themusical bySandy Wilson |
| Fiddler on the Roof | Joseph Stein | Themusical byJerry Bock,Sheldon Harnick andJoseph Stein and the novel bySholem Aleichem |
| Little Murders | Jules Feiffer | The play byJules Feiffer |
| A New Leaf | Elaine May | The short story "The Green Heart" byJack Ritchie |
1972
(25th)
[5] | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
|---|
| The Godfather † | Mario Puzo, andFrancis Ford Coppola | Thenovel byMario Puzo |
| Deliverance | James Dickey | Thenovel byJames Dickey |
| Pete 'n' Tillie | Julius J. Epstein | The novellaWitch's Milk byPeter De Vries |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | Stephen Geller | Thenovel byKurt Vonnegut |
| Sounder | Lonne Elder III | Thenovel byWilliam H. Armstrong |
| Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
|---|
| Cabaret | Jay Presson Allen | Themusical byJohn Van Druten and the book byJoe Masteroff |
| Avanti! | Billy Wilder, andI.A.L. Diamond | The play bySamuel A. Taylor |
| Butterflies Are Free | Leonard Gershe | Theplay byLeonard Gershe |
| The Heartbreak Kid | Neil Simon | The short story "A Change of Plan" byBruce Jay Friedman |
| Travels with My Aunt | Jay Presson Allen, andHugh Wheeler | Thenovel byGraham Greene |
1973
(26th)
[6] | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
|---|
| Serpico | Waldo Salt, andNorman Wexler | The book byPeter Maas |
| Cinderella Liberty | Darryl Ponicsan | The novel byDarryl Ponicsan |
| The Exorcist † | William Peter Blatty | Thenovel byWilliam Peter Blatty |
| The Last Detail | Robert Towne | The novel byDarryl Ponicsan |
| The Paper Chase | James Bridges | Thenovel byJohn Jay Osborn Jr. |
| Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
|---|
| Paper Moon | Alvin Sargent | The novelAddie Pray byJoe David Brown |
| 40 Carats | Leonard Gershe | Theplay byJay Presson Allen based on the playQuarante carats byPierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy |
| Godspell | David Greenne, andJohn-Michael Tebelak | Themusical byStephen Schwartz andJohn-Michael Tebelak |
1974
(27th)
[7] | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
|---|
| The Godfather Part II † | Francis Ford Coppola, andMario Puzo | The novelThe Godfather byMario Puzo |
| Conrack | Irving Ravetch, andHarriet Frank Jr. | The memoirThe Water Is Wide byPat Conroy |
| Lenny | Julian Barry | The play byJulian Barry |
| The Parallax View | David Giler andLorenzo Sempler Jr. | The novel byLoren Singer |
| The Talking of Pelham One Two Three | Peter Stone | Thenovel byJohn Godey |
| Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
|---|
| The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | Mordecai Richler, andLionel Chetwynd | Thenovel byMordecai Richler |
| The Front Page | Billy Wilder, andI.A.L. Diamond | Thecomedy byBen Hecht andCharles MacArthur |
| Young Frankenstein | Gene Wilder, andMel Brooks | The characters on the novelFrankenstein byMary Shelley |
1975
(28th)
[8] | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
|---|
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest † | Lawrence Hauben, andBo Goldman | Thenovel byKen Kesey |
| Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick | The novelThe Luck of Barry Lyndon byWilliam Makepeace Thackeray |
| Jaws | Peter Benchley, andCarl Gottlieb | Thenovel byPeter Benchley |
| The Man in the Glass Booth | Edward Anhalt | The novel and play byRobert Shaw |
| The Man Who Would Be King | John Huston, andGladys Hill | Thenovella byRudyard Kipling |
| Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
|---|
| The Sunshine Boys | Neil Simon | Theplay byNeil Simon |
| Hester Street | Joan Micklin Silver | The novellaYekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto byAbraham Cahan |
| The Prisoner of Second Avenue | Neil Simon | The play byNeil Simon |
1976
(29th)
[9] | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
|---|
| All the President's Men † | William Goldman | Thebook byCarl Bernstein andBob Woodward |
| Bound for Glory | Robert Getchell | Thebook byWoody Guthrie |
| Marathon Man | William Goldman | Thenovel byWilliam Goldman |
| The Seven-Per-Cent Solution | Nicholas Meyer | Thenovel byNicholas Meyer |
| The Shootist | Miles Hood Swarthout, and Scott Hale | The novel byGlendon Swarthout |
| Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
|---|
| The Pink Panther Strikes Again | Frank Waldman, andBlake Edwards | The film seriesThe Pink Panther |
| The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings | Hal Barwood, andMatthew Robbins | The novel byWilliam Brashler |
| Family Plot | Ernest Lehman | The novelThe Rainbird Pattern byVictor Canning |
| The Ritz | Terrence McNally | Theplay byTerrence McNally |
| Stay Hungry | Charles Gaines, andBob Rafelson | The novel byCharles Gaines |
1977
(30th)
[10] | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
|---|
| Julia † | Alvin Sargent | A chapter from the bookPentimento byLillian Hellman |
| I Never Promised You a Rose Garden | Gavin Lambert, andLewis John Carlino | Thenovel byJoanne Greenberg |
| Islands in the Stream | Denne Bart Petitclerc | Thenovel byErnest Hemingway |
| Looking for Mr. Goodbar | Richard Brooks | Thenovel byJudith Rossner |
| Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
|---|
| Oh, God! | Larry Gelbart | The novel byAvery Corman |
| Semi-Tough | Walter Bernstein | The novel byDan Jenkins |
| The Spy Who Loved Me | Christopher Wood, andRichard Maibaum | The characters byIan Fleming |
1978
(31st)
[11] | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
|---|
| Midnight Express † | Oliver Stone | Thebook byBilly Hayes |
| Bloodbrothers | Walter Newman | Thenovel byRichard Price |
| Go Tell the Spartans | Wendell Mayes | The novelIncident at Muc Wa byDaniel Ford |
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers | W.D. Richter | The novelThe Body Snatchers byJack Finney |
| Who'll Stop the Rain | Judith Rascoe, and Robert Stone | The novelDog Soldiers byRobert Stone |
| Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
|---|
| Heaven Can Wait | Elaine May, andWarren Beatty | The play byHarry Segall |
| California Suite | Neil Simon | Theplay byNeil Simon |
| Same Time, Next Year | Bernard Slade | Theplay byBernard Slade |
| Superman | Mario Puzo,David Newman,Leslie Newman, andRobert Benton | The characterSuperman byJerry Siegel andJoe Shuster |
| Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? | Peter Stone | The novel by Nan Lyons and Ivan Lyons |
1979
(32nd)
[12] | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
|---|
| Kramer vs. Kramer † | Robert Benton | The novel byAvery Corman |
| Norma Rae | Irving Ravetch, andHarriet Frank Jr. | The bookCrystal Lee, a Woman of Inheritance by Henry P. Leifermann |
| Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
|---|
| Being There | Jerzy Kosinski | Thenovel byJerzy Kosinski |
| A Little Romance | Allan Burns | The novelE=mc2 Mon Amour byPatrick Cauvin |
| Starting Over | James L. Brooks | The novel byDan Wakefield |
