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Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Country	United States
Presented by	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
First award	1929
Most recent winner	Peter Straughan, Conclave (2024)
Website	oscars.org

TheAcademy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is theAcademy Award for the bestscreenplay adapted from previously established material. The most frequently adapted media are novels, but other adapted narrative formats include stage plays, musicals, short stories, TV series, and other films and film characters. All sequels are also considered adaptations by this standard, being based on the story and characters of the original film.

Prior to its current name, the award was known as theAcademy Award for Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium.^[1]^[2] The Best Adapted Screenplay category has been a part of the Academy Awards since their inception.

Superlatives

The first person to win twice in this category wasJoseph L. Mankiewicz, who won the award in two consecutive years, 1949 and 1950. Others to win twice in this category includeGeorge Seaton,Robert Bolt (who also won in consecutive years),Francis Ford Coppola,Mario Puzo,Alvin Sargent,Ruth Prawer Jhabvala,Michael Wilson,Alexander Payne andChristopher Hampton. Payne won both awards as part of a writing team, withJim Taylor forSideways andJim Rash andNat Faxon forThe Descendants.Michael Wilson wasblacklisted at the time of his second Oscar, so the award was given to a front (novelistPierre Boulle). However, the Academy officially recognized him as the winner several years later.^[3]

Billy Wilder,Charles Brackett,Paddy Chayefsky,Francis Ford Coppola,Horton Foote,William Goldman,Robert Benton,Bo Goldman,Waldo Salt, and theCoen brothers have won Oscars for both original and adapted screenplays.

Frances Marion (The Big House) was the first woman to win in any screenplay category, although she won for her original script for Best Writing, which then included both original and adapted screenplays before a separate award for Best Original Screenplay was introduced.Sarah Y. Mason (Little Women) was the first woman to win for adaptation from previously established material; she shared the award with her husband,Victor Heerman. They are also the first of two married couples to win in this category; Peter Jackson andFran Walsh (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King) are the others.

Pierre Collings andSheridan Gibney (The Story of Louis Pasteur) were the first to win for adapting their own work.

Philip G. Epstein andJulius J. Epstein (Casablanca) are the first siblings to win in this category.James Goldman (The Lion in Winter) andWilliam Goldman (All the President's Men) are the first siblings to win for separate films.Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men) are the third winning siblings.

Mario Puzo is the one of two writers whose work has been adapted and resulted in two wins. Puzo's novelThe Godfather resulted in wins in 1972 and 1974 for himself andFrancis Ford Coppola. The other isE. M. Forster, whose novelsA Room with a View andHowards End resulted in wins forRuth Prawer Jhabvala.

Larry McMurtry is the only person who has won for adapting someone else's work (Brokeback Mountain), and whose own work has been adapted by someone else, resulting in a win (Terms of Endearment).

William Monahan (The Departed) andSian Heder (CODA) are the only people who have won this award by using another full-length feature film as the credited source of the adaptation.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher (Precious),John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) andCord Jefferson (American Fiction) are the only African-Americans to win solo in this category; Fletcher is also the first African-American to win in any writing category.Barry Jenkins andTarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight) are the first African-American writing duo to win;Spike Lee andKevin Willmott (BlacKkKlansman) are the second, although their co-writers, David Rabinowitz and Charlie Wachtel, are both white.

James Ivory (Call Me by Your Name) is the oldest person to receive the award at age 89. Charlie Wachtel (BlacKkKlansman) is the youngest at age 32.

Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit) is the first person ofMāori descent to receive the award.

Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility) is the only winner who has also won for acting.^[4] WinnersBilly Bob Thornton (Sling Blade) andJohn Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre) have been nominated for acting but not won.

Charles Schnee (The Bad and the Beautiful),Billy Bob Thornton (Sling Blade), andBill Condon (Gods and Monsters) are the only winners whose respective films were not nominated forBest Picture.

Notable nominees

Noted novelists and playwrights nominated in this category include:George Bernard Shaw (who shared an award for an adaptation of his playPygmalion),Graham Greene,Tennessee Williams,Vladimir Nabokov,James Hilton,Dashiell Hammett,Raymond Chandler,Lillian Hellman,Irwin Shaw,James Agee,Norman Corwin,S. J. Perelman,Terence Rattigan,John Osborne,Robert Bolt,Harold Pinter,David Mamet,Larry McMurtry,Arthur Miller,John Irving,David Hare,Tony Kushner,August Wilson,Florian Zeller andKazuo Ishiguro.

Ted Elliott,Roger S. H. Schulman,Joe Stillman &Terry Rossio, writers ofShrek andMichael Arndt,John Lasseter,Andrew Stanton &Lee Unkrich, writers ofToy Story 3, are as of 2020, the only writers to be nominated for an animated film.^[5]^[6]

Scott Frank,James Mangold andMichael Green, writers ofLogan, are the first writers to be nominated for a film based on superhero comic books (theX-Men).^[7]^[8]

Howard Estabrook won forCimarron (1931).

Victor Heerman co-won forLittle Women (1933).

Sarah Y. Mason co-won forLittle Women (1933).

Robert Riskin won forIt Happened One Night (1934).

Pierre Collings co-won forThe Story of Louis Pasteur (1936).

Sidney Howard won the awardposthumously forGone with the Wind (1939).

George Froeschel co-won forMrs. Miniver (1942).

Julius J. Epstein co-won forCasablanca (1943).

Charles Brackett co-won forThe Lost Weekend (1945).

Billy Wilder co-won forThe Lost Weekend (1945).

Robert E. Sherwood won forThe Best Years of Our Lives (1946).

John Huston won forThe Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).

Joseph L. Mankiewicz won the award two years in a row, first forA Letter to Three Wives (1949) and then forAll About Eve (1950).

Paddy Chayefsky won forMarty (1955).

John Farrow co-won forAround the World in 80 Days (1956).

S. J. Perelman co-won forAround the World in 80 Days (1956).

Carl Foreman co-won forThe Bridge on the River Kwai (1957).

Alan Jay Lerner won forGigi (1958).

Richard Brooks won forElmer Gantry (1960).

Ring Lardner Jr. won forM*A*S*H (1970).

Francis Ford Coppola co-won the award twice, first forThe Godfather (1972) and then forThe Godfather Part II (1974).

Mario Puzo co-won the award twice, first forThe Godfather (1972) and then forThe Godfather Part II (1974).

William Peter Blatty won forThe Exorcist (1973), an adaptation ofhis novel of the same name.

Bo Goldman co-won forOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975).

William Goldman won forAll the President's Men (1976).

Alvin Sargent won the award twice, first forJulia (1977) and then forOrdinary People (1980).

Oliver Stone won forMidnight Express (1978).

Ernest Thompson won forOn Golden Pond (1981), an adaptation ofhis play of the same name.

Costa-Gavras co-won forMissing (1982).

Donald E. Stewart co-won forMissing (1982).

James L. Brooks won forTerms of Endearment (1983).

Peter Shaffer won forAmadeus (1984).

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala won the award twice, first forA Room with a View (1986) and then forHowards End (1992).

Bernardo Bertolucci co-won forThe Last Emperor (1987).

Christopher Hampton won the award twice, first as a solo writer forDangerous Liaisons (1988) and then as a co-writer forThe Father (2020).

Alfred Uhry won forDriving Miss Daisy (1989), an adaptation ofhis play of the same name.

Michael Blake won forDances with Wolves (1990), an adaptation ofhis novel of the same name.

Emma Thompson won forSense and Sensibility (1995).

Billy Bob Thornton won forSling Blade (1996).

Curtis Hanson co-won forL.A. Confidential (1997).

Brian Helgeland co-won forL.A. Confidential (1997).

John Irving won forThe Cider House Rules (1999), an adaptation ofhis novel of the same name.

Stephen Gaghan won forTraffic (2000).

Akiva Goldsman won forA Beautiful Mind (2001).

Philippa Boyens co-won forThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).

Peter Jackson co-won forThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).

Fran Walsh co-won forThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).

Alexander Payne co-won the award twice, first forSideways (2004) and then forThe Descendants (2011).

Larry McMurtry co-won forBrokeback Mountain (2005).

William Monahan won forThe Departed (2006).

TheCoen brothers won forNo Country for Old Men (2007).

Geoffrey S. Fletcher won forPrecious (2009); firstBlack winner in this category.

Aaron Sorkin won forThe Social Network (2010).

Nat Faxon co-won forThe Descendants (2011).

Jim Rash co-won forThe Descendants (2011).

John Ridley won for12 Years a Slave (2013).

Graham Moore won forThe Imitation Game (2014).

Adam McKay co-won forThe Big Short (2015).

Barry Jenkins co-won forMoonlight (2016).

Tarell Alvin McCraney co-won forMoonlight (2016).

James Ivory co-won forCall Me by Your Name (2017).

Spike Lee co-won forBlacKkKlansman (2018).

Taika Waititi won forJojo Rabbit (2019).

Florian Zeller co-won forThe Father (2020), an adaptation ofhis play of the same name.

Sian Heder won forCODA (2021).

Sarah Polley won forWomen Talking (2022).

Cord Jefferson won forAmerican Fiction (2023).

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first in colored row, followed by the other nominees.

1920s

Year	Film	Nominees	Source Material
1927/28 (1st) ^{[note 1]}	7th Heaven	Benjamin Glazer	The playSeventh Heaven by Austin Strong
	Glorious Betsy	Anthony Coldeway	The play byRida Johnson Young
	The Jazz Singer	Alfred A. Cohn	The play & short story "The Day of Atonement" bySamson Raphaelson
1928/29 (2nd) ^{[note 2]}	The Patriot	Hanns Kräly	The novel byAlfred Neumann, play byAshley Dukes & novelPaul I byDmitry Merezhkovsky
	The Cop	Elliott J. Clawson	–(original)
	In Old Arizona	Tom Barry	The short story "The Caballero's Way" byO. Henry
	The Last of Mrs. Cheyney	Hanns Kräly	The play byFrederick Lonsdale
	The Leatherneck	Elliott J. Clawson	–(original)
	Our Dancing Daughters	Josephine Lovett	–(original)
	Sal of Singapore	Elliott J. Clawson	The novelThe Sentimentalists byDale Collins
	Skyscraper	Elliott J. Clawson	A story byDudley Murphy
	The Valiant	Tom Barry	The play byHolworthy Hall &Robert Middlemass
	A Woman of Affairs	Bess Meredyth	The novelThe Green Hat byMichael Arlen
	Wonder of Women	Bess Meredyth	The novelThe Wife of Steffen Tromholt byHermann Sudermann

1930s

Year	Film	Nominees	Source Material
1929/30 (3rd) ^{[note 3]}	The Big House	Frances Marion	–(original)
	All Quiet on the Western Front	Screenplay:George Abbott; Adaptation:Maxwell Anderson &Del Andrews; Dialogue: Anderson	The novel byErich Maria Remarque
	Disraeli	Julien Josephson	The play byLouis N. Parker
	The Divorcee	John Meehan	The novelEx-Wife byUrsula Parrott
	Street of Chance	Howard Estabrook	A story byOliver H.P. Garrett
1930/31 (4th) ^{[note 1]}	Cimarron	Howard Estabrook	The novel byEdna Ferber
	The Criminal Code	Seton I. Miller &Fred Niblo Jr.	The play byMartin Flavin
	Holiday	Horace Jackson	The play byPhilip Barry
	Little Caesar	Screenplay:Francis Edward Faragoh; Continuity:Robert N. Lee	The novel byW. R. Burnett
	Skippy	Joseph L. Mankiewicz &Sam Mintz	The comic strip byPercy Crosby
1931/32 (5th) ^{[note 1]}	Bad Girl	Edwin J. Burke	The novel byViña Delmar and play by Delmar and Brian Marlowe
	Arrowsmith	Sidney Howard	The novel bySinclair Lewis
	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Percy Heath &Samuel Hoffenstein	The novellaStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde byRobert Louis Stevenson
1932/33 (6th) ^{[note 1]}^{[note 4]}	Little Women	Victor Heerman &Sarah Y. Mason	The novel byLouisa May Alcott
	Lady for a Day	Robert Riskin	The short story "Madame La Gimp" byDamon Runyon
	State Fair	Paul Green &Sonya Levien	The novel byPhil Stong
1934 (7th) ^{[note 1]}^{[note 5]}	It Happened One Night	Robert Riskin	The short story "Night Bus" bySamuel Hopkins Adams
	The Thin Man	Frances Goodrich &Albert Hackett	The novel byDashiell Hammett
	Viva Villa!	Ben Hecht	The bookViva Villa! A Recovery of the Real Pancho Villa, Peon, Bandit, Soldier, Patriot by Edgecumb Pinchon & O. B. Stade
1935 (8th)^{[note 6]} ^{[note 7]}^{[note 8]}	The Informer	Dudley Nichols^{[note 9]}^[9]	The novel byLiam O'Flaherty
	The Lives of a Bengal Lancer	Screenplay:Achmed Abdullah,John L. Balderston &Waldemar Young; Adaptation:Grover Jones &William Slavens McNutt	The memoir byFrancis Yeats-Brown
	Mutiny on the Bounty	Jules Furthman,Talbot Jennings &Carey Wilson	The novel byJames Norman Hall &Charles Nordhoff
1936 (9th)	The Story of Louis Pasteur	Pierre Collings &Sheridan Gibney	(original)
	After the Thin Man	Frances Goodrich &Albert Hackett	The novelThe Thin Man byDashiell Hammett
	Dodsworth	Sidney Howard	The play by Howard &novel bySinclair Lewis
	Mr. Deeds Goes to Town	Robert Riskin	The short story "Opera Hat" byBud Kelland
	My Man Godfrey	Eric S. Hatch &Morrie Ryskind	The novel1101 Park Avenue by Hatch
1937 (10th)	The Life of Emile Zola	Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg &Norman Reilly Raine	The bookZola and His Time byMatthew Josephson
	The Awful Truth	Viña Delmar	The play by Arthur Richman
	Captains Courageous	Marc Connelly,Dale Van Every &John Lee Mahin	The novelCaptain Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks byRudyard Kipling
	Stage Door	Morrie Ryskind &Anthony Veiller	The play byEdna Ferber &George S. Kaufman
	A Star Is Born	Alan Campbell,Robert Carson &Dorothy Parker	A story byWilliam A. Wellman & Carson
1938 (11th)	Pygmalion	Screenplay & Dialogue:George Bernard Shaw; Adaptation:Ian Dalrymple,Cecil Arthur Lewis &W. P. Lipscomb	The play by Shaw
	Boys Town	John Meehan &Dore Schary	A story by Schary &Eleanore Griffin
	The Citadel	Dalrymple,Betty Hill &Spig Wead	The novel byA. J. Cronin
	Four Daughters	Lenore Coffee &Julius J. Epstein	The short story "Sister Act" byFannie Hurst
	You Can't Take It with You	Robert Riskin	The play byGeorge S. Kaufman &Moss Hart
1939 (12th)	Gone with the Wind	Sidney Howard(p.r.)	The novel byMargaret Mitchell
	Goodbye, Mr. Chips	Holt Marvell,R. C. Sherriff &Claudine West	The novella byJames Hilton
	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	Sidney Buchman	A story byLewis R. Foster
	Ninotchka	Charles Brackett,Walter Reisch &Billy Wilder	A story byMelchior Lengyel
	Wuthering Heights	Ben Hecht &Charles MacArthur	The novel byEmily Brontë

1940s

Year	Film	Nominees	Source Material
1940 (13th)	The Philadelphia Story	Donald Ogden Stewart	The play byPhilip Barry
	The Grapes of Wrath	Nunnally Johnson	The novel byJohn Steinbeck
	Kitty Foyle	Dalton Trumbo	The novel byChristopher Morley
	The Long Voyage Home	Dudley Nichols	The playsThe Moon of the Caribees,In the Zone,Bound East for Cardiff &The Long Voyage Home byEugene O'Neill
	Rebecca	Joan Harrison &Robert E. Sherwood	The novel byDaphne du Maurier
1941 (14th)	Here Comes Mr. Jordan	Sidney Buchman &Seton I. Miller	The playHeaven Can Wait byHarry Segall
	Hold Back the Dawn	Charles Brackett &Billy Wilder	The novel byKetti Frings
	How Green Was My Valley	Philip Dunne	The novel byRichard Llewellyn
	The Little Foxes	Lillian Hellman	The play by Hellman
	The Maltese Falcon	John Huston	The novel byDashiell Hammett
1942 (15th)	Mrs. Miniver	George Froeschel,James Hilton,Claudine West &Arthur Wimperis	The characterMrs. Miniver from the articles byJan Struther
	49th Parallel	Rodney Ackland &Emeric Pressburger	A story by Pressburger
	The Pride of the Yankees	Herman J. Mankiewicz &Jo Swerling	A story byPaul Gallico
	Random Harvest	Froeschel, West & Wimperis	The novel by Hilton
	The Talk of the Town	Sidney Buchman &Irwin Shaw	A story bySidney Harmon
1943 (16th)	Casablanca	Philip G. Epstein,Julius J. Epstein &Howard Koch	The playEverybody Comes to Rick's byJoan Alison &Murray Burnett
	Holy Matrimony	Nunnally Johnson	The novelBuried Alive byArnold Bennett
	The More the Merrier	Richard Flournoy,Lewis R. Foster,Frank Ross &Robert W. Russell	A story by Ross & Russell
	The Song of Bernadette	George Seaton	The novel byFranz Werfel
	Watch on the Rhine	Dashiell Hammett	The play byLillian Hellman
1944 (17th)	Going My Way	Frank Butler &Frank Cavett	A story byLeo McCarey
	Double Indemnity	Raymond Chandler &Billy Wilder	The novelDouble Indemnity in Three of a Kind byJames M. Cain
	Gaslight	John L. Balderston,Walter Reisch &John Van Druten	The playGas Light byPatrick Hamilton
	Laura	Jay Dratler,Samuel Hoffenstein &Elizabeth Reinhardt	The novel byVera Caspary
	Meet Me in St. Louis	Irving Brecher &Fred F. Finklehoffe	The novel bySally Benson
1945 (18th) ^[10]	The Lost Weekend	Charles Brackett &Billy Wilder	The novel byCharles R. Jackson
	G. I. Joe	Leopold Atlas,Guy Endore &Philip Stevenson	The memoirsBrave Men &Here Is Your War byErnie Pyle
	Mildred Pierce	Ranald MacDougall	The novel byJames M. Cain
	Pride of the Marines	Albert Maltz	The bookAl Schmid, Marine by Roger Butterfield
	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	Frank Davis &Tess Slesinger(p.n.)	The novel byBetty Smith
1946 (19th)	The Best Years of Our Lives	Robert E. Sherwood	The novellaGlory for Me byMacKinlay Kantor
	Anna and the King of Siam	Sally Benson &Talbot Jennings	The novel byMargaret Landon
	Brief Encounter	Anthony Havelock-Allan,David Lean &Ronald Neame	The playStill Life byNoël Coward
	The Killers	Anthony Veiller	The short story byErnest Hemingway
	Rome, Open City	Sergio Amidei &Federico Fellini	A story by Amidei & Alberto Consiglio
1947 (20th)	Miracle on 34th Street	George Seaton	A story byValentine Davies
	Boomerang	Richard Murphy	The article "The Perfect Case" byAnthony Abbot
	Crossfire	John Paxton	The novelThe Brick Foxhole byRichard Brooks
	Gentleman's Agreement	Moss Hart	The novel byLaura Z. Hobson
	Great Expectations	David Lean,Anthony Havelock-Allan, &Ronald Neame	The novel byCharles Dickens
1948 (21st)	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	John Huston	The novel byB. Traven
	A Foreign Affair	Charles Brackett,Richard L. Breen &Billy Wilder	A story by David Shaw
	Johnny Belinda	Allen Vincent &Irma von Cube	The play byElmer Blaney Harris
	The Search	Richard Schweizer &David Wechsler [de]	–(original screenplay)
	The Snake Pit	Millen Brand &Frank Partos	The novel byMary Jane Ward
1949 (22nd)	A Letter to Three Wives	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	The novel by John Klempner
	All the King's Men	Robert Rossen	The novel byRobert Penn Warren
	The Bicycle Thief	Cesare Zavattini	The novel byLuigi Bartolini
	Champion	Carl Foreman	The short story byRing Lardner
	The Fallen Idol	Graham Greene	The short story "The Basement Room" by Greene

1950s

Year	Film	Nominees	Source Material
1950 (23rd)	All About Eve	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	The short story "The Wisdom of Eve" byMary Orr
	The Asphalt Jungle	John Huston &Ben Maddow	The novel byW. R. Burnett
	Born Yesterday	Albert Mannheimer	The play byGarson Kanin
	Broken Arrow	Albert Maltz^{[note 10]}	The novelBlood Brother byElliott Arnold
	Father of the Bride	Frances Goodrich &Albert Hackett	The novel byE. Streeter
1951 (24th)	A Place in the Sun	Harry Brown &Michael Wilson	The novelAn American Tragedy byTheodore Dreiser & play byPatrick Kearney
	The African Queen	James Agee &John Huston	The novel byC. S. Forester
	Detective Story	Robert Wyler &Philip Yordan	The play bySidney Kingsley
	La Ronde	Jacques Natanson &Max Ophüls	The play byArthur Schnitzler
	A Streetcar Named Desire	Tennessee Williams	The play by Williams
1952 (25th)	The Bad and the Beautiful	Charles Schnee	A story byGeorge Bradshaw
	5 Fingers	Michael Wilson	The novelOperation Cicero byLudwig Carl Moyzisch
	High Noon	Carl Foreman	The short story "The Tin Star" byJohn W. Cunningham
	The Man in the White Suit	John Dighton,Alexander Mackendrick &Roger MacDougall	A story by MacDougall
	The Quiet Man	Frank Nugent	The short story byMaurice Walsh
1953 (26th)	From Here to Eternity	Daniel Taradash	The novel byJames Jones
	The Cruel Sea	Eric Ambler	The novel byNicholas Monsarrat
	Lili	Helen Deutsch	The short story "The Man Who Hated People" byPaul Gallico
	Roman Holiday	John Dighton &Ian McLellan Hunter	A story byDalton Trumbo(front:Ian McLellan Hunter)
	Shane	A. B. Guthrie Jr.	The novel byJack Schaefer
1954 (27th)	The Country Girl	George Seaton	The play byClifford Odets
	The Caine Mutiny	Stanley Roberts	The novel byHerman Wouk
	Rear Window	John Michael Hayes	The short story "It Had to Be Murder" byCornell Woolrich
	Sabrina	Ernest Lehman,Samuel A. Taylor &Billy Wilder	The playSabrina Fair by Taylor
	Seven Brides for Seven Brothers	Frances Goodrich,Albert Hackett &Dorothy Kingsley	The short story "The Sobbin' Women" byStephen Vincent Benét
1955 (28th)	Marty	Paddy Chayefsky	The television play onThe Philco Television Playhouse by Chayefsky
	Bad Day at Black Rock	Millard Kaufman	The short story "Bad Time at Honda" byHoward Breslin
	Blackboard Jungle	Richard Brooks	The novel byEvan Hunter
	East of Eden	Paul Osborn	The novel byJohn Steinbeck
	Love Me or Leave Me	Daniel Fuchs &Isobel Lennart	A story by Fuchs
1956 (29th)	Around the World in 80 Days	John Farrow,S. J. Perelman &James Poe	The novel byJules Verne
	Baby Doll	Tennessee Williams	The plays27 Wagons Full of Cotton &The Long Stay Cut Short, or The Unsatisfactory Supper by Williams
	Friendly Persuasion	Michael Wilson^{[note 11]}	The novel byJessamyn West
	Giant	Fred Guiol &Ivan Moffat	The novel byEdna Ferber
	Lust for Life	Norman Corwin	The novel byIrving Stone
1957 (30th)	The Bridge on the River Kwai	Pierre Boulle,Carl Foreman, &Michael Wilson^{[note 12]}	The novelThe Bridge over the River Kwai by Boulle
	12 Angry Men	Reginald Rose	The teleplay onWestinghouse Studio One andplay by Rose
	Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison	John Huston &John Lee Mahin	The novel byCharles Shaw
	Peyton Place	John Michael Hayes	The novel byGrace Metalious
	Sayonara	Paul Osborn	The novel byJames A. Michener
1958 (31st)	Gigi	Alan Jay Lerner	The novella byColette
	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Richard Brooks &James Poe	The play & short story "Three Players of a Summer Game" byTennessee Williams
	The Horse's Mouth	Alec Guinness	The novel byJoyce Cary
	I Want to Live!	Nelson Gidding &Don Mankiewicz	Articles byEdward S. Montgomery & letters byBarbara Graham
	Separate Tables	John Gay &Terence Rattigan	The plays by Rattigan
1959 (32nd)	Room at the Top	Neil Paterson	The novel byJohn Braine
	Anatomy of a Murder	Wendell Mayes	The novel byJohn D. Voelker
	Ben-Hur	Karl Tunberg	The novelBen-Hur: A Tale of the Christ byLew Wallace
	The Nun's Story	Robert Anderson	The novel byKathryn Hulme
	Some Like It Hot	I. A. L. Diamond &Billy Wilder	The 1935 French filmFanfare of Love written by Max Bronnet, Michael Logan,Pierre Prévert,René Pujol andRobert Thoeren & the 1951 German remakeFanfares of Love written by Logan, Thoeren andHeinz Pauck

1960s

Year	Film	Nominees	Source Material
1960 (33rd)	Elmer Gantry	Richard Brooks	The novel bySinclair Lewis
	Inherit the Wind	Harold Jacob Smith &Nedrick Young^{[note 13]}	The play byJerome Lawrence &Robert E. Lee
	Sons and Lovers	T. E. B. Clarke &Gavin Lambert	The novel byD. H. Lawrence
	The Sundowners	Isobel Lennart	The novel byJon Cleary
	Tunes of Glory	James Kennaway	The novel by Kennaway
1961 (34th)	Judgment at Nuremberg	Abby Mann	The television play onPlayhouse 90 by Mann
	Breakfast at Tiffany's	George Axelrod	The novella byTruman Capote
	The Guns of Navarone	Carl Foreman	The novel byAlistair MacLean
	The Hustler	Sidney Carroll &Robert Rossen	The novel byWalter Tevis
	West Side Story	Ernest Lehman	The musical byArthur Laurents
1962 (35th)	To Kill a Mockingbird	Horton Foote	The novel byHarper Lee
	David and Lisa	Eleanor Perry	The novellaLisa and David byDr. Theodore Isaac Rubin
	Lawrence of Arabia	Robert Bolt &Michael Wilson^{[note 14]}	The memoirSeven Pillars of Wisdom byT. E. Lawrence
	Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	The novel by Nabokov
	The Miracle Worker	William Gibson	The play & television play onPlayhouse 90 by Gibson
1963 (36th)	Tom Jones	John Osborne	The novelThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling byHenry Fielding
	Captain Newman, M.D.	Richard L. Breen,Henry &Phoebe Ephron	The novel byLeo Rosten
	Hud	Harriet Frank Jr. &Irving Ravetch	The novelHorseman, Pass By byLarry McMurtry
	Lilies of the Field	James Poe	The novel byWilliam Edmund Barrett
	Sundays and Cybele	Scenario:Serge Bourguignon & Antoine Tudal; Dialogue: Bourguignon	The novelLes dimanches de Ville d'Avray by Bernard Eschassériaux
1964 (37th)	Becket	Edward Anhalt	The play byJean Anouilh
	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	Stanley Kubrick,Peter George &Terry Southern	The novelRed Alert by George
	Mary Poppins	Don DaGradi &Bill Walsh	The novel series byP. L. Travers
	My Fair Lady	Alan Jay Lerner	The musical by Lerner
	Zorba the Greek	Michael Cacoyannis	The novel byNikos Kazantzakis
1965 (38th)	Doctor Zhivago	Robert Bolt	The novel byBoris Pasternak
	Cat Ballou	Walter Newman &Frank Pierson	The novelThe Ballad of Cat Ballou by Roy Chanslor
	The Collector	John Kohn &Stanley Mann	The novel byJohn Fowles
	Ship of Fools	Abby Mann	The novel byKatherine Anne Porter
	A Thousand Clowns	Herb Gardner	The play by Gardner
1966 (39th)	A Man for All Seasons	Robert Bolt	The play by Bolt
	Alfie	Bill Naughton	The play by Naughton
	The Professionals	Richard Brooks	The novelA Mule for the Marquesa byFrank O'Rourke
	The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming	William Rose	The novelThe Off-Islanders byNathaniel Benchley
	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Ernest Lehman	The play byEdward Albee
1967 (40th)	In the Heat of the Night	Stirling Silliphant	The novel byJohn Ball
	Cool Hand Luke	Donn Pearce &Frank Pierson	The novel by Pearce
	The Graduate	Buck Henry &Calder Willingham	The novella byCharles Webb
	In Cold Blood	Richard Brooks	The book byTruman Capote
	Ulysses	Fred Haines &Joseph Strick	The novel byJames Joyce
1968 (41st)	The Lion in Winter	James Goldman	The play by Goldman
	The Odd Couple	Neil Simon	The play by Simon
	Oliver!	Vernon Harris	The musical byLionel Bart
	Rachel, Rachel	Stewart Stern	The novelA Jest of God byMargaret Laurence
	Rosemary's Baby	Roman Polanski	The novel byIra Levin
1969 (42nd)	Midnight Cowboy	Waldo Salt	The novel byJames Leo Herlihy
	Anne of the Thousand Days	Screenplay:Bridget Boland & John Hale; Adaptation: Richard Sokolove	The play byMaxwell Anderson
	Goodbye, Columbus	Arnold Schulman	The novella byPhilip Roth
	They Shoot Horses, Don't They?	James Poe &Robert E. Thompson	The novel byHorace McCoy
	Z	Costa-Gavras &Jorge Semprún	The novel byVassilis Vassilikos

1970s

Year	Film	Nominees	Source Material
1970 (43rd)	*MASH**	Ring Lardner Jr.	The novelMASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors byRichard Hooker
	Airport	George Seaton	The novel byArthur Hailey
	I Never Sang for My Father	Robert Anderson	The play by Anderson
	Lovers and Other Strangers	Joseph Bologna,David Zelag Goodman &Renée Taylor	The play by Bologna & Taylor
	Women in Love	Larry Kramer	The novel byD. H. Lawrence
1971 (44th)	The French Connection	Ernest Tidyman	The bookThe French Connection: The World's Most Crucial Narcotics Investigation byRobin Moore
	A Clockwork Orange	Stanley Kubrick	The novel byAnthony Burgess
	The Conformist	Bernardo Bertolucci	The novel byAlberto Moravia
	The Garden of the Finzi-Continis	Vittorio Bonicelli &Ugo Pirro	The novel byGiorgio Bassani
	The Last Picture Show	Peter Bogdanovich &Larry McMurtry	The novel by McMurtry
1972 (45th)	The Godfather	Francis Ford Coppola &Mario Puzo	The novel by Puzo
	Cabaret	Jay Presson Allen	The musical byJoe Masteroff
	The Emigrants	Bengt Forslund &Jan Troell	The novelsThe Emigrants &Unto a Good Land byVilhelm Moberg
	Pete 'n' Tillie	Julius J. Epstein	The novellaWitch's Milk byPeter De Vries
	Sounder	Lonne Elder III	The novel byWilliam H. Armstrong
1973 (46th)	The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty	The novel by Blatty
	The Last Detail	Robert Towne	The novel byDarryl Ponicsan
	The Paper Chase	James Bridges	The novel byJohn Jay Osborn Jr.
	Paper Moon	Alvin Sargent	The novelAddie Pray byJoe David Brown
	Serpico	Waldo Salt &Norman Wexler	The bookSerpico: The Cop Who Defied the System byPeter Maas
1974 (47th)	The Godfather Part II	Francis Ford Coppola &Mario Puzo	The novelThe Godfather by Puzo
	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz	Screenplay:Mordecai Richler; Adaptation:Lionel Chetwynd	The novel by Richler
	Lenny	Julian Barry	The play by Barry
	Murder on the Orient Express	Paul Dehn	The novel byAgatha Christie
	Young Frankenstein	Mel Brooks &Gene Wilder	The novelFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus byMary Shelley
1975 (48th)	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Bo Goldman &Lawrence Hauben	The novel byKen Kesey
	Barry Lyndon	Stanley Kubrick	The novelThe Luck of Barry Lyndon byWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
	The Man Who Would Be King	Gladys Hill &John Huston	The short story byRudyard Kipling
	Profumo di donna	Ruggero Maccari &Dino Risi	The novelIl buio e il mare byGiovanni Arpino
	The Sunshine Boys	Neil Simon	The play by Simon
1976 (49th)	All the President's Men	William Goldman	The memoir byCarl Bernstein &Bob Woodward
	Bound for Glory	Robert Getchell	The memoir byWoody Guthrie
	Fellini's Casanova	Federico Fellini &Bernardino Zapponi	The memoirHistory of My Life byGiacomo Casanova
	The Seven-Per-Cent Solution	Nicholas Meyer	The novelThe Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. by Meyer
	Voyage of the Damned	David Butler &Steve Shagan	The book byGordon Thomas &Max Morgan-Witts
1977 (50th)	Julia	Alvin Sargent	The memoirPentimento: A Book of Portraits byLillian Hellman
	Equus	Peter Shaffer	The play by Shaffer
	I Never Promised You a Rose Garden	Lewis John Carlino &Gavin Lambert	The novel byJoanne Greenberg
	Oh, God!	Larry Gelbart	The novel byAvery Corman
	That Obscure Object of Desire	Scenario:Luis Buñuel; Collaboration:Jean-Claude Carrière	The novelThe Woman and the Puppet byPierre Louÿs
1978 (51st)	Midnight Express	Oliver Stone	The memoir byBilly Hayes & William Hoffer
	Bloodbrothers	Walter Newman	The novel byRichard Price
	California Suite	Neil Simon	The play by Simon
	Heaven Can Wait	Warren Beatty &Elaine May	The play byHarry Segall
	Same Time, Next Year	Bernard Slade	The play by Slade
1979 (52nd)	Kramer vs. Kramer	Robert Benton	The novel byAvery Corman
	Apocalypse Now	Francis Ford Coppola &John Milius	The novelHeart of Darkness byJoseph Conrad
	La Cage aux Folles	Marcello Danon,Édouard Molinaro,Jean Poiret &Francis Veber	The play by Poiret
	A Little Romance	Allan Burns	The novelE=mc² Mon Amour byPatrick Cauvin
	Norma Rae	Harriet Frank Jr. &Irving Ravetch	The bookCrystal Lee, a Woman of Inheritance by Hank Leiferman

1980s

Year	Film	Nominees	Source Material
1980 (53rd)	Ordinary People	Alvin Sargent	The novel byJudith Guest
	Breaker Morant	Bruce Beresford,Jonathan Hardy &David Stevens	The playBreaker Morant: A Play in Two Acts byKenneth G. Ross
	Coal Miner's Daughter	Thomas Rickman	The memoirLoretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter byLoretta Lynn &George Vecsey
	The Elephant Man	Eric Bergren, Christopher De Vore &David Lynch	The memoirThe Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences byFrederick Treves & bookThe Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity byAshley Montagu
	The Stunt Man	Screenplay:Lawrence B. Marcus; Adaptation:Richard Rush	The novel byPaul Brodeur
1981 (54th)	On Golden Pond	Ernest Thompson	The play by Thompson
	The French Lieutenant's Woman	Harold Pinter	The novel byJohn Fowles
	Pennies from Heaven	Dennis Potter	The television series by Potter
	Prince of the City	Jay Presson Allen &Sidney Lumet	The bookPrince of the City: The True Story of a Cop Who Knew Too Much byRobert Daley
	Ragtime	Michael Weller	The novel byE. L. Doctorow
1982 (55th)	Missing	Costa-Gavras &Donald E. Stewart	The bookThe Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice byThomas Hauser
	Das Boot	Wolfgang Petersen	The novel byLothar-Günther Buchheim
	Sophie's Choice	Alan J. Pakula	The novel byWilliam Styron
	The Verdict	David Mamet	The novel byBarry Reed
	Victor/Victoria	Blake Edwards	The filmVictor and Victoria byReinhold Schünzel
1983 (56th)	Terms of Endearment	James L. Brooks	The novel byLarry McMurtry
	Betrayal	Harold Pinter	The play by Pinter
	The Dresser	Ronald Harwood	The play by Harwood
	Educating Rita	Willy Russell	The play by Russell
	Reuben, Reuben	Julius J. Epstein	The playSpofford byHerman Shumlin & novel byPeter De Vries
1984 (57th)	Amadeus	Peter Shaffer	The play by Shaffer
	Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes	Michael Austin &Robert Towne^{[note 15]}^[11]	The novelTarzan of the Apes byEdgar Rice Burroughs
	The Killing Fields	Bruce Robinson	The article "The Death and Life of Dith Pran: A Story of Cambodia" bySydney Schanberg
	A Passage to India	David Lean	The novel byE. M. Forster
	A Soldier's Story	Charles Fuller	The playA Soldier's Play by Fuller
1985 (58th)	Out of Africa	Kurt Luedtke	The memoir byKaren Blixen & booksSilence Will Speak: A Study of the Life of Denys Finch Hatton and His Relationship With Karen Blixen byErrol Trzebinski &Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller byJudith Thurman
	The Color Purple	Menno Meyjes	The novel byAlice Walker
	Kiss of the Spider Woman	Leonard Schrader	The novel byManuel Puig
	Prizzi's Honor	Richard Condon & Janet Roach	The novel by Condon
	The Trip to Bountiful	Horton Foote	The play & television film by Foote
1986 (59th)	A Room with a View	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	The novel byE. M. Forster
	Children of a Lesser God	Hesper Anderson &Mark Medoff	The play by Medoff
	The Color of Money	Richard Price	The novel byWalter Tevis
	Crimes of the Heart	Beth Henley	The play by Henley
	Stand by Me	Bruce A. Evans & Raynold Gideon	The novellaThe Body byStephen King
1987 (60th)	The Last Emperor	Bernardo Bertolucci &Mark Peploe	The memoirFrom Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi byPuyi
	The Dead	Tony Huston	The short story byJames Joyce
	Fatal Attraction	James Dearden	The television filmDiversion by Dearden
	Full Metal Jacket	Gustav Hasford,Michael Herr &Stanley Kubrick	The novelThe Short-Timers by Hasford
	My Life as a Dog	Per Berglund,Brasse Brännström,Lasse Hallström &Reidar Jönsson	The novelMitt liv som hund by Jönsson
1988 (61st)	Dangerous Liaisons	Christopher Hampton	The playLes Liaisons Dangereuses by Hampton &novel byPierre Choderlos de Laclos
	The Accidental Tourist	Frank Galati &Lawrence Kasdan	The novel byAnne Tyler
	Gorillas in the Mist	Screenplay:Anna Hamilton Phelan; Story:Tab Murphy & Phelan	The article byHarold Hayes
	Little Dorrit	Christine Edzard	The novel byCharles Dickens
	The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Jean-Claude Carrière &Philip Kaufman	The novel byMilan Kundera
1989 (62nd)	Driving Miss Daisy	Alfred Uhry	The play by Uhry
	Born on the Fourth of July	Ron Kovic &Oliver Stone	The memoir by Kovic
	Enemies, A Love Story	Paul Mazursky &Roger L. Simon	The novel byIsaac Bashevis Singer
	Field of Dreams	Phil Alden Robinson	The novelShoeless Joe byW. P. Kinsella
	My Left Foot	Shane Connaughton &Jim Sheridan	The memoir byChristy Brown

1990s

Year	Film	Nominees	Source Material
1990 (63rd)	Dances with Wolves	Michael Blake	The novel by Blake
	Awakenings	Steven Zaillian	The memoir byOliver Sacks
	Goodfellas	Nicholas Pileggi &Martin Scorsese	The bookWiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Pileggi
	The Grifters	Donald E. Westlake	The novel byJim Thompson
	Reversal of Fortune	Nicholas Kazan	The memoirReversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow Case byAlan Dershowitz
1991 (64th)	The Silence of the Lambs	Ted Tally	The novel byThomas Harris
	Europa Europa	Agnieszka Holland	The memoirI Was Hitler Youth Salomon bySolomon Perel
	Fried Green Tomatoes	Fannie Flagg &Carol Sobieski(p.n.)	The novelFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Flagg
	JFK	Zachary Sklar &Oliver Stone	The memoirOn the Trail of the Assassins byJim Garrison & bookCrossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy byJim Marrs
	The Prince of Tides	Pat Conroy &Becky Johnston	The novel by Conroy
1992 (65th)	Howards End	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	The novel byE. M. Forster
	Enchanted April	Peter Barnes	The novel byElizabeth von Arnim
	The Player	Michael Tolkin	The novel by Tolkin
	A River Runs Through It	Richard Friedenberg	The novella byNorman Maclean
	Scent of a Woman	Bo Goldman	The novelIl buio e il miele byGiovanni Arpino &film byRuggero Maccari &Dino Risi
1993 (66th)	Schindler's List	Steven Zaillian	The novelSchindler's Ark byThomas Keneally
	The Age of Innocence	Jay Cocks &Martin Scorsese	The novel byEdith Wharton
	In the Name of the Father	Terry George &Jim Sheridan	The memoirProved Innocent: The Story of Gerry Conlon of the Guildford Four byGerry Conlon
	The Remains of the Day	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	The novel byKazuo Ishiguro
	Shadowlands	William Nicholson	The play &television film by Nicholson
1994 (67th)	Forrest Gump	Eric Roth	The novel byWinston Groom
	The Madness of King George	Alan Bennett	The playThe Madness of George III by Bennett
	Nobody's Fool	Robert Benton	The novel byRichard Russo
	Quiz Show	Paul Attanasio	The bookRemembering America: A Voice from the Sixties byRichard N. Goodwin
	The Shawshank Redemption	Frank Darabont	The novella "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" byStephen King
1995 (68th)	Sense and Sensibility	Emma Thompson	The novel byJane Austen
	Apollo 13	William Broyles Jr. &Al Reinert	The memoirLost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 byJeffrey Kluger &Jim Lovell
	Babe	George Miller &Chris Noonan	The novelThe Sheep-Pig byDick King-Smith
	Leaving Las Vegas	Mike Figgis	The novel byJohn O'Brien
	Il Postino: The Postman	Screenplay:Anna Pavignano,Michael Radford,Furio &Giacomo Scarpelli &Massimo Troisi(p.n.); Story: F. & G. Scarpelli	The novelArdiente Paciencia byAntonio Skármeta
1996 (69th)	Sling Blade	Billy Bob Thornton	The short filmSome Folks Call It a Sling Blade written by Thornton
	The Crucible	Arthur Miller	The play by Miller
	The English Patient	Anthony Minghella	The novel byMichael Ondaatje
	Hamlet	Kenneth Branagh	The playThe Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark byWilliam Shakespeare
	Trainspotting	John Hodge	The novel byIrvine Welsh
1997 (70th)	L.A. Confidential	Curtis Hanson &Brian Helgeland	The novel byJames Ellroy
	Donnie Brasco	Paul Attanasio	The memoirDonnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia byJoseph D. Pistone & Richard Woodley
	The Sweet Hereafter	Atom Egoyan	The novel byRussell Banks
	Wag the Dog	Hilary Henkin &David Mamet	The novelAmerican Hero byLarry Beinhart
	The Wings of the Dove	Hossein Amini	The novel byHenry James
1998 (71st)	Gods and Monsters	Bill Condon	The novelFather of Frankenstein byChristopher Bram
	Out of Sight	Scott Frank	The novel byElmore Leonard
	Primary Colors	Elaine May	The novelPrimary Colors: A Novel of Politics byJoe Klein
	A Simple Plan	Scott Smith	The novel by Smith
	The Thin Red Line	Terrence Malick	The novel byJames Jones
1999 (72nd)	The Cider House Rules	John Irving	The novel by Irving
	Election	Alexander Payne &Jim Taylor	The novel byTom Perrotta
	The Green Mile	Frank Darabont	The novel byStephen King
	The Insider	Michael Mann &Eric Roth	The article "The Man Who Knew Too Much" byMarie Brenner
	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Anthony Minghella	The novel byPatricia Highsmith

2000s

Year	Film	Nominees	Source Material
2000 (73rd)	Traffic	Stephen Gaghan	The television seriesTraffik bySimon Moore
	Chocolat	Robert Nelson Jacobs	The novel byJoanne Harris
	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Wang Hui-ling,James Schamus & Kuo Jung Tsai	The novel byWang Dulu
	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Joel and Ethan Coen	The epic poem theOdyssey byHomer
	Wonder Boys	Steve Kloves	The novel byMichael Chabon
2001 (74th)	A Beautiful Mind	Akiva Goldsman	The book bySylvia Nasar
	Ghost World	Daniel Clowes &Terry Zwigoff	The graphic novel by Clowes
	In the Bedroom	Rob Festinger &Todd Field	The short story "Killings" byAndre Dubus
	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Philippa Boyens,Peter Jackson &Fran Walsh	The novelThe Fellowship of the Ring byJ. R. R. Tolkien
	Shrek	Ted Elliott,Roger S. H. Schulman,Joe Stillman &Terry Rossio	The picture book byWilliam Steig
2002 (75th)	The Pianist	Ronald Harwood	The memoir byWładysław Szpilman
	About a Boy	Peter Hedges,Chris &Paul Weitz	The novel byNick Hornby
	Adaptation	Charlie & Donald Kaufman^{[note 16]}^[11]	The bookThe Orchid Thief bySusan Orlean
	Chicago	Bill Condon	The musical byFred Ebb &Bob Fosse
	The Hours	David Hare	The novel byMichael Cunningham
2003 (76th)	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Philippa Boyens,Peter Jackson &Fran Walsh	The novelThe Return of the King byJ. R. R. Tolkien
	American Splendor	Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini	The comic books byHarvey Pekar & graphic novelOur Cancer Year by Pekar &Joyce Brabner
	City of God	Bráulio Mantovani	The novel byPaulo Lins
	Mystic River	Brian Helgeland	The novel byDennis Lehane
	Seabiscuit	Gary Ross	The bookSeabiscuit: An American Legend byLaura Hillenbrand
2004 (77th)	Sideways	Alexander Payne &Jim Taylor	The novel byRex Pickett
	Before Sunset	Screenplay:Julie Delpy,Ethan Hawke &Richard Linklater; Story:Kim Krizan & Linklater	Characters from the filmBefore Sunrise by Krizan & Linklater
	Finding Neverland	David Magee	The playThe Man Who Was Peter Pan byAllan Knee
	Million Dollar Baby	Paul Haggis	The short story collectionRope Burns: Stories from the Corner byF.X. Toole
	The Motorcycle Diaries	José Rivera	The memoirsTraveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary byAlberto Granado &The Motorcycle Diaries byChe Guevara
2005 (78th)	Brokeback Mountain	Larry McMurtry &Diana Ossana	The short story byAnnie Proulx
	Capote	Dan Futterman	The book byGerald Clarke
	The Constant Gardener	Jeffrey Caine	The novel byJohn le Carré
	A History of Violence	Josh Olson	The graphic novel byVince Locke &John Wagner
	Munich	Tony Kushner &Eric Roth	The bookVengeance byGeorge Jonas
2006 (79th)	The Departed	William Monahan	The filmInfernal Affairs written byFelix Chong &Alan Mak
	Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan	Screenplay:Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines,Peter Baynham &Dan Mazer; Story: Baron Cohen, Baynham, Hines &Todd Phillips	The characterBorat Sagdiyev from the television seriesDa Ali G Show by Baron Cohen
	Children of Men	Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton,David Arata,Mark Fergus &Hawk Ostby	The novel byP. D. James
	Little Children	Todd Field &Tom Perrotta	The novel by Perrotta
	Notes on a Scandal	Patrick Marber	The novel byZoë Heller
2007 (80th)	No Country for Old Men	Coen Brothers	The novel byCormac McCarthy
	Atonement	Christopher Hampton	The novel byIan McEwan
	Away from Her	Sarah Polley	The short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" byAlice Munro
	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	Ronald Harwood	The memoir byJean-Dominique Bauby
	There Will Be Blood	Paul Thomas Anderson	The novelOil! byUpton Sinclair
2008 (81st)	Slumdog Millionaire	Simon Beaufoy	The novelQ & A byVikas Swarup
	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Screenplay:Eric Roth; Story: Roth &Robin Swicord	The short story byF. Scott Fitzgerald
	Doubt	John Patrick Shanley	The playDoubt: A Parable by Shanley
	Frost/Nixon	Peter Morgan	The play by Morgan
	The Reader	David Hare	The novel byBernhard Schlink
2009 (82nd)	Precious	Geoffrey S. Fletcher	The novelPush bySapphire
	District 9	Neill Blomkamp &Terri Tatchell	The short filmAlive in Joburg by Blomkamp
	An Education	Nick Hornby	The memoir byLynn Barber
	In the Loop	Jesse Armstrong,Simon Blackwell,Armando Iannucci &Tony Roche	The characterMalcolm Tucker from the television seriesThe Thick of It by Iannucci
	Up in the Air	Jason Reitman &Sheldon Turner	The novel byWalter Kirn

2010s

Year	Film	Nominees	Source Material
2010 (83rd)	The Social Network	Aaron Sorkin	The bookThe Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal byBen Mezrich
	127 Hours	Danny Boyle &Simon Beaufoy	The memoirBetween a Rock and a Hard Place byAron Ralston
	Toy Story 3	Screenplay:Michael Arndt; Story:John Lasseter,Andrew Stanton &Lee Unkrich	Characters from the filmToy Story byPete Docter, Lasseter,Joe Ranft, & Stanton
	True Grit	Coen Brothers	The novel byCharles Portis
	Winter's Bone	Debra Granik &Anne Rosellini	The novel byDaniel Woodrell
2011 (84th)	The Descendants	Alexander Payne andNat Faxon &Jim Rash	The novel byKaui Hart Hemmings
	Hugo	John Logan	The novelThe Invention of Hugo Cabret byBrian Selznick
	The Ides of March	George Clooney &Grant Heslov andBeau Willimon	The playFarragaut North by Willimon
	Moneyball	Screenplay:Steven Zaillian &Aaron Sorkin; Story:Stan Chervin	The bookMoneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game byMichael Lewis
	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	Bridget O'Connor(p.n.) &Peter Straughan	The novel byJohn le Carré
2012 (85th)	Argo	Chris Terrio	The memoirThe Master of Disguise byTony Mendez & article "The Great Escape: How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran" byJoshuah Bearman
	Beasts of the Southern Wild	Lucy Alibar &Benh Zeitlin	The playJuicy and Delicious by Alibar
	Life of Pi	David Magee	The novel byYann Martel
	Lincoln	Tony Kushner	The bookTeam of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln byDoris Kearns Goodwin
	Silver Linings Playbook	David O. Russell	The novel byMatthew Quick
2013 (86th)	12 Years a Slave	John Ridley	The memoir bySolomon Northup
	Before Midnight	Richard Linklater,Julie Delpy &Ethan Hawke	Characters from the filmBefore Sunrise byKim Krizan & Linklater
	Captain Phillips	Billy Ray	The memoirA Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea byRichard Phillips & Stephan Talty
	Philomena	Steve Coogan &Jeff Pope	The bookThe Lost Child of Philomena Lee byMartin Sixsmith
	The Wolf of Wall Street	Terence Winter	The memoir byJordan Belfort
2014 (87th)	The Imitation Game	Graham Moore	The bookAlan Turing: The Enigma byAndrew Hodges
	American Sniper	Jason Hall	The memoirAmerican Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Jim DeFelice,Chris Kyle & Scott McEwan
	Inherent Vice	Paul Thomas Anderson	The novel byThomas Pynchon
	The Theory of Everything	Anthony McCarten	The memoirTravelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen byJane Hawking
	Whiplash	Damien Chazelle	The short film by Chazelle
2015 (88th)	The Big Short	Charles Randolph &Adam McKay	The bookThe Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine byMichael Lewis
	Brooklyn	Nick Hornby	The novel byColm Tóibín
	Carol	Phyllis Nagy	The novelThe Price of Salt byPatricia Highsmith
	The Martian	Drew Goddard	The novel byAndy Weir
	Room	Emma Donoghue	The novel by Donoghue
2016 (89th) ^[12]	Moonlight	Screenplay:Barry Jenkins; Story:Tarell Alvin McCraney	The unpublished playIn Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by McCraney
	Arrival	Eric Heisserer	The novella "Story of Your Life" byTed Chiang
	Fences	August Wilson(p.n.)	The play by Wilson
	Hidden Figures	Allison Schroeder &Theodore Melfi	The bookHidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race byMargot Lee Shetterly
	Lion	Luke Davies	The memoirA Long Way Home bySaroo Brierley &Larry Buttrose
2017 (90th) ^[13]	Call Me by Your Name	James Ivory	The novel byAndré Aciman
	The Disaster Artist	Scott Neustadter &Michael H. Weber	The memoirThe Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made byGreg Sestero &Tom Bissell
	Logan	Screenplay:Scott Frank &James Mangold andMichael Green; Story: Mangold	The characterWolverine from the comic books byJohn Romita Sr. &Len Wein
	Molly's Game	Aaron Sorkin	The memoir byMolly Bloom
	Mudbound	Virgil Williams &Dee Rees	The novel byHillary Jordan
2018 (91st) ^[14]	BlacKkKlansman	Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz andKevin Willmott &Spike Lee	The memoirBlack Klansman byRon Stallworth
	The Ballad of Buster Scruggs	Coen Brothers	The short stories "All Gold Canyon" byJack London & "The Gal Who Got Rattled" byStewart Edward White
	Can You Ever Forgive Me?	Nicole Holofcener &Jeff Whitty	The memoir byLee Israel
	If Beale Street Could Talk	Barry Jenkins	The novel byJames Baldwin
	A Star Is Born	Eric Roth andBradley Cooper & Will Fetters	The1954 film byMoss Hart,1976 film byJoan Didion,John Gregory Dunne &Frank Pierson &1937 film byRobert Carson &William A. Wellman
2019 (92nd) ^[15]	Jojo Rabbit	Taika Waititi	The novelCaging Skies byChristine Leunens
	The Irishman	Steven Zaillian	The memoirI Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa byCharles Brandt
	Joker	Todd Phillips &Scott Silver	The character from the comic books byBill Finger,Bob Kane &Jerry Robinson
	Little Women	Greta Gerwig	The novel byLouisa May Alcott
	The Two Popes	Anthony McCarten	The playThe Pope by McCarten

2020s

Year	Film	Nominees	Source Material
2020/21 (93rd) ^[16]	The Father	Christopher Hampton &Florian Zeller	The play by Zeller
	Borat Subsequent Moviefilm	Screenplay:Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines,Dan Swimer,Peter Baynham,Erica Rivinoja,Dan Mazer,Jena Friedman & Lee Kern; Story: Baron Cohen, Hines, Swimer & Nina Pedrad	The characterBorat Sagdiyev from the television seriesDa Ali G Show by Baron Cohen
	Nomadland	Chloé Zhao	The bookNomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century byJessica Bruder
	One Night in Miami...	Kemp Powers	The play by Powers
	The White Tiger	Ramin Bahrani	The novel byArvind Adiga
2021 (94th) ^[17]	CODA	Sian Heder	The filmLa Famille Bélier byVictoria Bedos,Thomas Bidegain, Stanislas Carré de Malberg &Éric Lartigau
	Drive My Car	Ryusuke Hamaguchi &Takamasa Oe	The short story byHaruki Murakami
	Dune	Jon Spaihts,Denis Villeneuve &Eric Roth	The novel byFrank Herbert
	The Lost Daughter	Maggie Gyllenhaal	The novel byElena Ferrante
	The Power of the Dog	Jane Campion	The novel byThomas Savage
2022 (95th) ^[18]	Women Talking	Sarah Polley	The novel byMiriam Toews
	All Quiet on the Western Front	Edward Berger,Lesley Paterson & Ian Stokell	The novel byErich Maria Remarque
	Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery	Rian Johnson	The character Benoit Blanc from the filmKnives Out by Johnson
	Living	Kazuo Ishiguro	The filmIkiru byShinobu Hashimoto,Akira Kurosawa &Hideo Oguni
	Top Gun: Maverick	Screenplay:Ehren Kruger,Eric Warren Singer &Christopher McQuarrie; Story:Peter Craig &Justin Marks	Characters from the filmTop Gun byJim Cash &Jack Epps Jr.
2023 (96th) ^[19]	American Fiction	Cord Jefferson	The novelErasure byPercival Everett
	Barbie	Greta Gerwig &Noah Baumbach	Thecharacters created byRuth Handler
	Oppenheimer	Christopher Nolan	The bookAmerican Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer byKai Bird &Martin J. Sherwin
	Poor Things	Tony McNamara	The novelPoor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer byAlisdair Gray
	The Zone of Interest	Jonathan Glazer	The novel byMartin Amis
2024 (97th) ^[20]	*Conclave*	Peter Straughan	The novel byRobert Harris
	A Complete Unknown	James Mangold &Jay Cocks	The bookDylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties byElijah Wald
	Emilia Pérez	Jacques Audiard, in collaboration withThomas Bidegain,Léa Mysius & Nicolas Livecchi	The novelÉcoute by Boris Razon & the opera libretto by Audiard
	Nickel Boys	RaMell Ross &Joslyn Barnes	The novelThe Nickel Boys byColson Whitehead
	Sing Sing	Screenplay: Clint Bentley &Greg Kwedar; Story: Bentley, Kwedar,Clarence Maclin & John "Divine G" Whitfield	The bookThe Sing Sing Follies by John H. Richardson & the playBreakin' the Mummy's Code by Brent Buell

Multiple wins and nominations

Multiple wins

Wins	Writer
2	Robert Bolt
	Francis Ford Coppola
	Christopher Hampton
	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
	Alexander Payne
	Mario Puzo
	Alvin Sargent
	George Seaton
	Michael Wilson

Three or more nominations

Nominations	Writer
7	Billy Wilder
6	John Huston
6	Eric Roth
5	Richard Brooks
4	Michael Wilson
	Carl Foreman
	Albert Hackett
	Charles Brackett
	Frances Goodrich
	Julius J. Epstein
	Stanley Kubrick
	Joel Coen
	Ethan Coen
	Steven Zaillian
3	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
	Ernest Lehman
	Robert Bolt
	Neil Simon
	Francis Ford Coppola
	Alexander Payne
	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
	Oliver Stone
	Aaron Sorkin
	Christopher Hampton
	Claudine West

Age superlatives

Record	Writer	Film	Age	Ref.
Oldest winner	James Ivory	Call Me by Your Name	89 years, 270 days	^[21]
Oldest nominee	James Ivory	Call Me by Your Name	89 years, 230 days	^[22]
Youngest winner	Charlie Wachtel	BlacKkKlansman	*32 years	^[23]
Youngest nominee	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	Skippy	22 years, 236 days

Notes

^^a ^b ^c ^d ^eDuring these years, the award was bestowed asBest Writing, Adaptation.
^The 2nd Academy Awards is unique in being the only occasion where there were no official nominees. Subsequent research by AMPAS has resulted in a list of unofficial or de facto nominees, based on records of which films were evaluated by the judges.
^During this year, the award was bestowed asBest Writing and included both original and adapted screenplays.
^The Academy also announced that Robert Riskin came in second and Paul Green and Sonya Levien third.
^The Academy also announced that Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett came in second and Ben Hecht third.
^From 1935 until 1955, the award was bestowed asBest Writing, Screenplay.
^Captain Blood, written byCasey Robinson from the novelCaptain Blood: His Odyssey byRafael Sabatini, was not officially nominated for this award, but appears in Academy records because it placed third in voting as a write-in candidate in 1935.
^The Academy also announced that Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman, and Carey Wilson came in second and Casey Robinson third. This means Waldemar Young, John L. Balderston, Achmed Abdullah, Grover Jones, and William Slavens McNutt came in fourth.
^Dudley Nichols refused to accept the award, but was in possession of it by 1949 according to Academy records.
^Michael Blankfort was originally nominated as the screenwriter ofBroken Arrow. In 1991, research proved blacklistedAlbert Maltz was the screenwriter and his credit was restored. Blankfort was removed from the nomination and it was given to Maltz.
^Michael Wilson was originally credited as the screenwriter ofFriendly Persuasion, butAllied Artists, acting in agreement with theScreen Writers Guild, removed his credit because he was blacklisted. Early in 1957, the Academy revised its bylaws so the film would be eligible for a writing nomination without naming Wilson as a nominee.Friendly Persuasion was initially announced a nominee without a writer's name attached. The Academy's Board of Governors voted to strike the nomination altogether and it was not included on the final ballot. The Board of Governors, however, reinstated the nomination with Wilson's name attached in 2002.
^Pierre Boulle was credited as the screenwriter ofThe Bridge on the River Kwai and ultimately won the award. Blacklisted writersMichael Wilson andCarl Foreman, who actually wrote the screenplay, were awardedposthumous Oscars by the Academy's Board of Governors in 1984.
^Due to blacklisting, Young wrote under the pseudonym Nathan E. Douglas.
^In 1995, research proved blacklistedMichael Wilson was also a screenwriter ofLawrence of Arabia. He was added as a nominee by the Academy's Board of Governors.
^Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes was initially adapted by screenwriterRobert Towne, but he removed his name from the credits because he was unhappy with co-writer Michael Austin's alterations and the finished film itself. He instead used the pseudonym P.H. Vazak, the name of his late Hungarian sheepdog.
^ScreenwriterCharlie Kaufman is a character in his own script forAdaptation, as is his fictional twin brother Donald. The nonexistent Donald was credited as a screenwriter and was nominated for an Academy Award. The film's end credits claimed he had died during pre-production.

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Academy Awards

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)

Awards of Merit

Proposed awards	Popular Film

Special awards

Governors Awards	Academy Honorary Award Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Special Achievement Academy Award
Academy Scientific and Technical Awards	Academy Award of Merit (non-competitive) Scientific and Engineering Award Technical Achievement Award John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation Gordon E. Sawyer Award
Student Awards	Student Academy Award

Former awards

Merit Awards	Assistant Director Dance Direction Sound Editing Story
Special Awards	Academy Juvenile Award

Ceremonies
(years of film release)

Category

v t e Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
1928–1975	Benjamin Glazer (1928) Hanns Kräly (1929) Frances Marion (1930) Howard Estabrook (1931) Edwin J. Burke (1932) Victor Heerman andSarah Y. Mason (1933) Robert Riskin (1934) Dudley Nichols (1935) Pierre Collings andSheridan Gibney (1936) Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, andNorman Reilly Raine (1937) Ian Dalrymple,Cecil Arthur Lewis,W. P. Lipscomb, andGeorge Bernard Shaw (1938) Sidney Howard (1939) Donald Ogden Stewart (1940) Sidney Buchman andSeton I. Miller (1941) George Froeschel,James Hilton,Claudine West, andArthur Wimperis (1942) Philip G. Epstein,Julius J. Epstein, andHoward Koch (1943) Frank Butler andFrank Cavett (1944) Charles Brackett andBilly Wilder (1945) Robert Sherwood (1946) George Seaton (1947) John Huston (1948) Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949) Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950) Harry Brown andMichael Wilson (1951) Charles Schnee (1952) Daniel Taradash (1953) George Seaton (1954) Paddy Chayefsky (1955) John Farrow,S. J. Perelman, andJames Poe (1956) Pierre Boulle,Carl Foreman andMichael Wilson (1957) Alan Jay Lerner (1958) Neil Paterson (1959) Richard Brooks (1960) Abby Mann (1961) Horton Foote (1962) John Osborne (1963) Edward Anhalt (1964) Robert Bolt (1965) Robert Bolt (1966) Stirling Silliphant (1967) James Goldman (1968) Waldo Salt (1969) Ring Lardner Jr. (1970) Ernest Tidyman (1971) Francis Ford Coppola andMario Puzo (1972) William Peter Blatty (1973) Francis Ford Coppola andMario Puzo (1974) Bo Goldman andLawrence Hauben (1975)
1976–present	William Goldman (1976) Alvin Sargent (1977) Oliver Stone (1978) Robert Benton (1979) Alvin Sargent (1980) Ernest Thompson (1981) Costa-Gavras andDonald E. Stewart (1982) James L. Brooks (1983) Peter Shaffer (1984) Kurt Luedtke (1985) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1986) Bernardo Bertolucci andMark Peploe (1987) Christopher Hampton (1988) Alfred Uhry (1989) Michael Blake (1990) Ted Tally (1991) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1992) Steven Zaillian (1993) Eric Roth (1994) Emma Thompson (1995) Billy Bob Thornton (1996) Curtis Hanson andBrian Helgeland (1997) Bill Condon (1998) John Irving (1999) Stephen Gaghan (2000) Akiva Goldsman (2001) Ronald Harwood (2002) Philippa Boyens,Peter Jackson, andFran Walsh (2003) Alexander Payne andJim Taylor (2004) Larry McMurtry andDiana Ossana (2005) William Monahan (2006) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2007) Simon Beaufoy (2008) Geoffrey S. Fletcher (2009) Aaron Sorkin (2010) Alexander Payne,Jim Rash, andNat Faxon (2011) Chris Terrio (2012) John Ridley (2013) Graham Moore (2014) Adam McKay andCharles Randolph (2015) Barry Jenkins andTarell Alvin McCraney (2016) James Ivory (2017) Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz,Kevin Willmott andSpike Lee (2018) Taika Waititi (2019) Christopher Hampton andFlorian Zeller (2020) Sian Heder (2021) Sarah Polley (2022) Cord Jefferson (2023) Peter Straughan (2024)

Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

1928–1975