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Adapted Screenplay
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1928 | 7th Heaven - Bernard Glazer (The play Seventh Heaven by Austin Strong) |
| 1929 | The Patriot - Hanns Kraly (Ashley Duke's translation of the play Der Parriot by Alfred Neumann & story Paul I by Dmitry Merezhkovsky |
| 1930 | The Big House Frances Marion (Original) |
| 1931 | Cimarron - Howard Estabrook (The Novel by Edna Ferber) |
| 1932 | Bad Girl - Edwin J. Burke (The Novel and Play by Vina Delmar) |
| 1933 | Little Women - Victor Heerman & Sarah J. Mason (The Novel by Louisa May Alcott) |
| 1934 | It Happened One Night - Robert Riskin (The story Night Bus by Samuel Hopkins Adams) |
| 1935 | The Informer - Dudley Nichols (The Novel by Liam O'Flaherty |
| 1936 | The Story of Louis Pasteur - Pierre Collings & Sheridan Gibney (Original) |
| 1937 | The Life of Emile Zola - Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg & Norman Reilly Raine (The book Zola and His Time by Matthew Josephson |
| 1938 | Pygmalion - Screenplay & Dialogue G. B. Shaw Adaptation Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Arthur Lewis & W. P. Lipscomb (The play by Shaw) |
| 1939 | Gone with the Wind - Sidney Howard (Posthumous) (The Novel by Margaret Mitchell. |
| 1940 | The Philadelphia Story- Donald Ogden Stewart (The play by Philip Barry) |
| 1941 | Here Comes Mr. Jordan - Sidney Buchman & Seton I. Miller The Play Heaven Can Wait by Harry Segall |
| 1942 | Mrs. Miniver - George Froeschel James Hilton Claudine West & Arthur Wimperis Mrs. Miniver newspaper column by Jan Struther |
| 1943 | Casablanca - Phikip G. Julius J. Epstein & Howard Koch The play Everybody Comes to Rick's by Joan Alison & Murray Burnett |
| 1944 | Going My Way - Frank Butler & Frank Cavett A Story by Leo McCarey |
| 1945 | The Lost Weekend - Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder The novel by Charles R. Jackson |
| 1946 | The Best Years of Our Lives - Robert E. Sherwood The novel Glory for Me by MacKinlay Kantor |
| 1947 | Miracle on 34th St. - George Seaton A story by Valentine Davies |
| 1948 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - John Huston The novel by B. Traven |
| 1949 | A Letter to Three Wives - Joseph L. Mankiewicz The novel Letter to Five Wives by John Klempner |
| 1950 | All About Eve - Joseph L. Mankiewicz The short story The Wisdom of Eve by Mary Orr |
| 1951 | A Place in the Sun - Harry Brown & Michael Wilson The novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser & play by Parrick Kearney |
| 1952 | The Bad and the Beautiful - Charles Schnee The story A Tribute to a Badman by George Bradshaw |
| 1953 | From Here to Eternity - Daniel Taradash The novel by James Jones |
| 1954 | The Country Girl - George Seaton The play by Clifford Odets |
| 1955 | Marty - Paddy Chayefsky (teleplay by Chayefsky) |
| 1956 | Around the World in 80 Days - John Farrow, S.J. Perelman & James Poe The novel Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne |
| 1957 | The Bridge on the River Kwai - Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman & Michael Wilson The novel by Boulle |
| 1958 | Gigi - Alan J. Lerner The novel by Colette |
| 1959 | Room at the Top - Neil Paterson The novel by John Braine |
| 1960 | Elmer Gantry - Richard Brooks The novel by Sinclair Lewis |
| 1961 | Judgment at Nuremberg - Abby Mann Teleplay by Mann |
| 1962 | To Kill a Mockingbird - Horton Foote Novel by Harper Lee |
| 1963 | Tom Jones - John Osborne The novel The History of Tom Jones a Foundling by Henry Fielding |
| 1964 | Becket - Edward Anhalt The play by Jean Anouilh |
| 1965 | Doctor Zhivago - Robert Bolt Novel by Boris Pasternak |
| 1966 | A Man for All Seasons - Robert Bolt The play by Bolt |
| 1967 | In the Heat of the Night - Stirling Silliphant The novel by John Ball |
| 1969 | Midnight Cowboy - Waldo Salt The novel by James Leo Herlihy |
| 1970 | MASH - Ring Lardner Jr. The novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker |
| 1971 | The French Connection - Ernest Tidyman The book The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy by Robin Moore |
| 1972 | The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo The novel by Puzo |
| 1973 | The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty The novel by Blatty |
| 1974 | The Godfather Part II - Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo The novel by Puzo |
| 1975 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Bo Goldman & Lawrence Hauben Novel by Ken Kesey |
| 1976 | All the President's Men - William Goldman The book by Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward |
| 1977 | Julia - Alvin Sargent The novel Pentimento by Lillian Hellman |
| 1978 | Midnight Express - Oliver Stone The book by Billy Hayes & William Hoffer |
| 1979 | Kramer vs Kramer- Robert Benton |
| 1980 | Ordinary People - Alvin Sargent Novel by Judith Guest |
| 1981 | On Golden Pond - Ernest Thompson Play by Thompson |
| 1982 | Missing Costa-Garvas & Donald E. Stewart The book The Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice by Thomas Hauser |
| 1983 | Terms of Endearment - James L. Brooks The novel by Larry McMurtry |
| 1984 | Amadeus - Peter Shaffer The play by Shaffer |
| 1985 | Out of Africa - Kurt Luedtke The memoir by Karen Blixen & books Silence Will Speak by Errol Trzebinski & Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller by Judith Thurman |
| 1986 | A Room with a View - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala The novel by E.M. Forster |
| 1987 | The Last Emperor - Bernardo Bertolucci & Mark Peploe The Autobiography From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi by Puyi |
| 1988 | Dangerous Liasons - Christopher Hampton The play Les Liasions Dangereuses by Hampton and Novel by Pierre Choderlos de Lacios |
| 1989 | Driving Miss Daisy - Alfred Uhry The play by Uhry |
| 1990 | Dances with Wolves - Michael Blake Novel by Blake |
| 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs - Ted Tally The novel by Thomas Harris |
| 1992 | Howard's End - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala The novel by E.M. Forster |
| 1993 | Schindler's List - Steven Zaillian The novel Schindler's Ark by Thomas Kenally |
| 1994 | Forrest Gump - Eric Roth Novel by Winston Groom |
| 1995 | Sense and Sensibility - Emma Thompson Novel by Jane Austen |
| 1996 | Sling Blade - Billy Bob Thornton The short film Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade written by Thornton |
| 1997 | L.A. Confidential - Curtis Hanson & Brian Helgeland The novel by James Ellroy |
| 1998 | Gods and Monsters - Bill Condon The novel Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram |
| 1999 | The Cider House Rules - John Irving The novel by Irving |
| 2000 | Traffic - Stephen Gaghan The teleplay Traffik by Simon Moore |
| 2001 | A Beautiful Mind - Akiva Goldsman The book by Sylva Nasar |
| 2002 | The Pianist - Ronald Harwood The memoir by Wladyslaw Szpilman |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson & Fran Walsh The novel The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien |
| 2004 | Sideways - Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor Novel by Rex Pickett |
| 2005 | Brokeback Mountain - Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana The short story by Annie Proulx |
| 2006 | The Departed - William Monahan The film Internal Affairs written by Felix Chong & Alan Mak |
| 2007 | No Country for Old Men - Coen Brothers Novel by Cormac McCarthy |
| 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire - Simon Beaufoy The Novel Q & A by Vikas Swarup |
| 2009 | Precious - Geoffrey S. Fletcher The novel Push by Sapphire |
| 2010 | The Social Network - Aaron Sorkin The book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich |
| 2011 | The Descendants - Nat Faxon, Alexander Payne & Jim Rash The novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings |
| 2012 | Argo - Chris Terrio The book The Master of Disguise by Tony Mendez & Article The Great Escape by Joshuah Bearman |
| 2013 | 12 Years a Slave - John Ridley The memoir by Solomon Northup |
| 2014 | The Imitation Game - Graham Moore The book Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges |
| 2015 | The Big Short - Adam McKay & Charles Randolph The book by Michael Lewis |
| 2016 | Moonlight - Screenplay: Barry Jenkins Story:Tarell Alvin McCraney The play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by McRaney |
| 2017 | Call Me by Your Name - James Ivory Novel by Andre Avian |
| 2018 | BlacKkKlansman - Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel & Kevin Wilmott The memoir Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth |
| 1968 | The Lion in Winter - James Goldman The play by Goldman |
| 2019 | Jojo Rabbit - Taika Waititi based on the novel Caging Skies by Christine Leunens |
| 2020/21 | The Father - Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller/ the play Le Pere by Zeller |
| 2022 | CODA |
| 2023 | Women Talking - Sarah Polley adapted the film from the 2018 novel of the same name by Miriam Toews |
| 2024 | American Fiction - Cord Jefferson |
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