Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
The 2024 recipient:Cord Jefferson
Country	United States
Presented by	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences(AMPAS)
First awarded	1929
Most recent winner	Cord Jefferson American Fiction(2023)
Website	oscars.org

TheAcademy Award for Best Adapted Screenplayis theAcademy Awardfor the bestscreenplayadaptedfrom 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 the Academy Award for Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.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 PayneandChristopher Hampton.Payne won both awards as part of a writing team, withJim TaylorforSidewaysandJim RashandNat FaxonforThe Descendants.Michael Wilsonwasblacklistedat 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.

Billy Wilder,Charles Brackett,Paddy Chayefsky,Francis Ford Coppola,Horton Foote,William Goldman,Robert Benton,Bo Goldman,Waldo Salt,and theCoen brothershave 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 JacksonandFran Walsh(The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King) are the others.

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

Philip G. EpsteinandJulius 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 Puzois the one of two writers whose work has been adapted and resulted in two wins. Puzo's novelThe Godfatherresulted in wins in 1972 and 1974 for himself andFrancis Ford Coppola.The other isE. M. Forster,whose novelsA Room with a ViewandHowards Endresulted in wins forRuth Prawer Jhabvala.

Larry McMurtryis 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 JenkinsandTarell Alvin McCraney(Moonlight)are the first African-American writing duo to win;Spike LeeandKevin 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 ofMāoridescent to receive the award.

Emma Thompson(Sense and Sensibility) is the only winner who has also won for acting.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 ZellerandKazuo Ishiguro.

Ted Elliott,Roger S. H. Schulman,Joe Stillman&Terry Rossio,writers ofShrekandMichael 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.

Scott Frank,James MangoldandMichael Green,writers ofLogan,are the first writers to be nominated for a film based on superhero comic books (theX-Men).

Howard Estabrookwon forCimarron(1931).

Victor Heermanco-won forLittle Women(1933).

Sarah Y. Masonco-won forLittle Women(1933).

Robert Riskinwon forIt Happened One Night(1934).

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

Sidney Howardwon the awardposthumouslyforGone with the Wind(1939).

George Froeschelco-won forMrs. Miniver(1942).

Julius J. Epsteinco-won forCasablanca(1943).

Charles Brackettco-won forThe Lost Weekend(1945).

Billy Wilderco-won forThe Lost Weekend(1945).

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

John Hustonwon forThe Treasure of the Sierra Madre(1948).

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

Paddy Chayefskywon forMarty(1955).

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

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

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

Alan Jay Lernerwon forGigi(1958).

Richard Brookswon forElmer Gantry(1960).

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

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

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

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

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

William Goldmanwon forAll the President's Men(1976).

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

Oliver Stonewon forMidnight Express(1978).

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

Costa-Gavrasco-won forMissing(1982).

Donald E. Stewartco-won forMissing(1982).

James L. Brookswon forTerms of Endearment(1983).

Peter Shafferwon forAmadeus(1984).

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

Bernardo Bertoluccico-won forThe Last Emperor(1987).

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

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

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

Emma Thompsonwon forSense and Sensibility(1995).

Billy Bob Thorntonwon forSling Blade(1996).

Curtis Hansonco-won forL.A. Confidential(1997).

Brian Helgelandco-won forL.A. Confidential(1997).

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

Stephen Gaghanwon forTraffic(2000).

Akiva Goldsmanwon forA Beautiful Mind(2001).

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

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

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

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

Larry McMurtryco-won forBrokeback Mountain(2005).

William Monahanwon forThe Departed(2006).

TheCoen brotherswon forNo Country for Old Men(2007).

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

Aaron Sorkinwon forThe Social Network(2010).

Nat Faxonco-won forThe Descendants(2011).

Jim Rashco-won forThe Descendants(2011).

John Ridleywon for12 Years a Slave(2013).

Graham Moorewon forThe Imitation Game(2014).

Adam McKayco-won forThe Big Short(2015).

Barry Jenkinsco-won forMoonlight(2016).

Tarell Alvin McCraneyco-won forMoonlight(2016).

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

Spike Leeco-won forBlacKkKlansman(2018).

Taika Waititiwon forJojo Rabbit(2019).

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

Sian Hederwon forCODA(2021).

Sarah Polleywon forWomen Talking(2022).

Winners and nominees

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

1920s

Year	Film	Nominees	Source Material
1927/28 (1st)	7th Heaven	Benjamin Glazer	The playSeventh Heavenby 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)	The Patriot	Hanns Kräly	The novel byAlfred Neumann,play byAshley Dukes& novelPaul IbyDmitry 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 playbyFrederick Lonsdale
	The Leatherneck	Elliott J. Clawson	–(original)
	Our Dancing Daughters	Josephine Lovett	–(original)
	Sal of Singapore	Elliott J. Clawson	The novelThe SentimentalistsbyDale Collins
	Skyscraper		A story byDudley Murphy
	The Valiant	Tom Barry	The playbyHolworthy Hall&Robert Middlemass
	A Woman of Affairs	Bess Meredyth	The novelThe Green HatbyMichael Arlen
	Wonder of Women		The novelThe Wife of Steffen TromholtbyHermann Sudermann

1930s

Year	Film	Nominees	Source Material
1929/30 (3rd)	The Big House	Frances Marion	–(original)
	All Quiet on the Western Front	Screenplay:George Abbott;Adaptation:Maxwell Anderson&Del Andrews;Dialogue: Anderson	The novelbyErich Maria Remarque
	Disraeli	Julien Josephson	The playbyLouis N. Parker
	The Divorcee	John Meehan	The novelEx-WifebyUrsula Parrott
	Street of Chance	Howard Estabrook	A story byOliver H.P. Garrett
1930/31 (4th)	Cimarron	Howard Estabrook	The novelbyEdna Ferber
	The Criminal Code	Seton I. Miller&Fred Niblo Jr.	The play byMartin Flavin
	Holiday	Horace Jackson	The playbyPhilip Barry
	Little Caesar	Screenplay:Francis Edward Faragoh;Continuity:Robert N. Lee	The novel byW. R. Burnett
	Skippy	Joseph L. Mankiewicz&Sam Mintz	The comic stripbyPercy Crosby
1931/32 (5th)	Bad Girl	Edwin J. Burke	The novel byViña Delmarand play by Delmar and Brian Marlowe
	Arrowsmith	Sidney Howard	The novelbySinclair Lewis
	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Percy Heath&Samuel Hoffenstein	The novellaStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydebyRobert Louis Stevenson
1932/33 (6th)	Little Women	Victor Heerman&Sarah Y. Mason	The novelbyLouisa May Alcott
	Lady for a Day	Robert Riskin	The short story "Madame La Gimp" byDamon Runyon
	State Fair	Paul Green&Sonya Levien	The novelbyPhil Stong
1934 (7th)	It Happened One Night	Robert Riskin	The short story "Night Bus" bySamuel Hopkins Adams
	The Thin Man	Frances Goodrich&Albert Hackett	The novelbyDashiell Hammett
	Viva Villa!	Ben Hecht	The bookViva Villa! A Recovery of the Real Pancho Villa, Peon, Bandit, Soldier, Patriotby Edgecumb Pinchon & O. B. Stade
1935 (8th)	The Informer	Dudley Nichols	The novelbyLiam O'Flaherty
	The Lives of a Bengal Lancer	Screenplay:Achmed Abdullah,John L. Balderston&Waldemar Young;Adaptation:Grover Jones&William Slavens McNutt	The memoirbyFrancis Yeats-Brown
	Mutiny on the Bounty	Jules Furthman,Talbot Jennings&Carey Wilson	The novelbyJames 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 ManbyDashiell Hammett
	Dodsworth	Sidney Howard	The playby Howard &novelbySinclair 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 Avenueby Hatch
1937 (10th)	The Life of Emile Zola	Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg &Norman Reilly Raine	The bookZola and His TimebyMatthew 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 BanksbyRudyard Kipling
	Stage Door	Morrie Ryskind&Anthony Veiller	The playbyEdna 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 playby Shaw
	Boys Town	John Meehan&Dore Schary	A story by Schary &Eleanore Griffin
	The Citadel	Dalrymple,Betty Hill&Spig Wead	The novelbyA. 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 playbyGeorge S. Kaufman&Moss Hart
1939 (12th)	Gone with the Wind	Sidney Howard(p.r.)	The novelbyMargaret Mitchell
	Goodbye, Mr. Chips	Holt Marvell,R. C. Sherriff&Claudine West	The novellabyJames 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 novelbyEmily Brontë

1940s

Year	Film	Nominees	Source Material
1940 (13th)	The Philadelphia Story	Donald Ogden Stewart	The playbyPhilip Barry
	The Grapes of Wrath	Nunnally Johnson	The novelbyJohn Steinbeck
	Kitty Foyle	Dalton Trumbo	The novelbyChristopher Morley
	The Long Voyage Home	Dudley Nichols	The playsThe Moon of the Caribees,In the Zone,Bound East for Cardiff&The Long Voyage HomebyEugene O'Neill
	Rebecca	Joan Harrison&Robert E. Sherwood	The novelbyDaphne du Maurier
1941 (14th)	Here Comes Mr. Jordan	Sidney Buchman&Seton I. Miller	The playHeaven Can WaitbyHarry Segall
	Hold Back the Dawn	Charles Brackett&Billy Wilder	The novel byKetti Frings
	How Green Was My Valley	Philip Dunne	The novelbyRichard Llewellyn
	The Little Foxes	Lillian Hellman	The playby Hellman
	The Maltese Falcon	John Huston	The novelbyDashiell Hammett
1942 (15th)	Mrs. Miniver	George Froeschel,James Hilton,Claudine West&Arthur Wimperis	The characterMrs. Miniverfrom 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 novelby 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'sbyJoan Alison&Murray Burnett
	Holy Matrimony	Nunnally Johnson	The novelBuried AlivebyArnold 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 novelbyFranz Werfel
	Watch on the Rhine	Dashiell Hammett	The playbyLillian 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 KindbyJames M. Cain
	Gaslight	John L. Balderston,Walter Reisch&John Van Druten	The playGas LightbyPatrick Hamilton
	Laura	Jay Dratler,Samuel Hoffenstein&Elizabeth Reinhardt	The novelbyVera Caspary
	Meet Me in St. Louis	Irving Brecher&Fred F. Finklehoffe	The novelbySally Benson
1945 (18th)	The Lost Weekend	Charles Brackett&Billy Wilder	The novelbyCharles R. Jackson
	G. I. Joe	Leopold Atlas,Guy Endore&Philip Stevenson	The memoirsBrave Men&Here Is Your WarbyErnie Pyle
	Mildred Pierce	Ranald MacDougall	The novelbyJames M. Cain
	Pride of the Marines	Albert Maltz	The bookAl Schmid, Marineby Roger Butterfield
	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	Frank Davis &Tess Slesinger(p.n.)	The novelbyBetty Smith
1946 (19th)	The Best Years of Our Lives	Robert E. Sherwood	The novellaGlory for MebyMacKinlay Kantor
	Anna and the King of Siam	Sally Benson&Talbot Jennings	The novelbyMargaret Landon
	Brief Encounter	Anthony Havelock-Allan,David Lean&Ronald Neame	The playStill LifebyNoël Coward
	The Killers	Anthony Veiller	The short storybyErnest Hemingway
	Rome, Open City	Sergio Amidei&Federico Fellini	A story by Amidei & Alberto Consiglio
1947 (20th)	Miracle on 34th Street	George Seaton	A storybyValentine Davies
	Boomerang	Richard Murphy	The article "The Perfect Case" byAnthony Abbot
	Crossfire	John Paxton	The novelThe Brick FoxholebyRichard Brooks
	Gentleman's Agreement	Moss Hart	The novelbyLaura Z. Hobson
	Great Expectations	David Lean,Anthony Havelock-Allan,&Ronald Neame	The novelbyCharles Dickens
1948 (21st)	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	John Huston	The novelbyB. Traven
	A Foreign Affair	Charles Brackett,Richard L. Breen&Billy Wilder	A story by David Shaw
	Johnny Belinda	Allen Vincent &Irma von Cube	The playbyElmer Blaney Harris
	The Search	Richard Schweizer&David Wechsler	–(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 novelbyRobert 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 playbyGarson Kanin
	Broken Arrow	Albert Maltz	The novelBlood BrotherbyElliott Arnold
	Father of the Bride	Frances Goodrich&Albert Hackett	The novelbyE. Streeter
1951 (24th)	A Place in the Sun	Harry Brown&Michael Wilson	The novelAn American TragedybyTheodore Dreiser& play byPatrick Kearney
	The African Queen	James Agee&John Huston	The novelbyC. S. Forester
	Detective Story	Robert Wyler&Philip Yordan	The playbySidney Kingsley
	La Ronde	Jacques Natanson&Max Ophüls	The playbyArthur Schnitzler
	A Streetcar Named Desire	Tennessee Williams	The playby Williams
1952 (25th)	The Bad and the Beautiful	Charles Schnee	A story byGeorge Bradshaw
	5 Fingers	Michael Wilson	The novelOperation CicerobyLudwig 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 novelbyJames Jones
	The Cruel Sea	Eric Ambler	The novelbyNicholas 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 novelbyJack Schaefer
1954 (27th)	The Country Girl	George Seaton	The playbyClifford Odets
	The Caine Mutiny	Stanley Roberts	The novelbyHerman 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 Fairby 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 playonThe Philco Television Playhouseby 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 novelbyJohn 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 novelbyJules Verne
	Baby Doll	Tennessee Williams	The plays27 Wagons Full of Cotton&The Long Stay Cut Short, or The Unsatisfactory Supperby Williams
	Friendly Persuasion	Michael Wilson	The novelbyJessamyn West
	Giant	Fred Guiol&Ivan Moffat	The novel byEdna Ferber
	Lust for Life	Norman Corwin	The novelbyIrving Stone
1957 (30th)	The Bridge on the River Kwai	Pierre Boulle,Carl Foreman,&Michael Wilson	The novelThe Bridge over the River Kwaiby Boulle
	12 Angry Men	Reginald Rose	The teleplayonWestinghouse Studio Oneandplayby Rose
	Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison	John Huston&John Lee Mahin	The novelbyCharles Shaw
	Peyton Place	John Michael Hayes	The novelbyGrace Metalious
	Sayonara	Paul Osborn	The novelbyJames A. Michener
1958 (31st)	Gigi	Alan Jay Lerner	The novellabyColette
	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 novelbyJoyce Cary
	I Want to Live!	Nelson Gidding&Don Mankiewicz	Articles byEdward S. Montgomery& letters byBarbara Graham
	Separate Tables	John Gay&Terence Rattigan	The playsby Rattigan
1959 (32nd)	Room at the Top	Neil Paterson	The novelbyJohn Braine
	Anatomy of a Murder	Wendell Mayes	The novel byJohn D. Voelker
	Ben-Hur	Karl Tunberg	The novelBen-Hur: A Tale of the ChristbyLew Wallace
	The Nun's Story	Robert Anderson	The novelbyKathryn Hulme
	Some Like It Hot	I. A. L. Diamond&Billy Wilder	The 1935 French filmFanfare of Lovewritten by Max Bronnet, Michael Logan,Pierre Prévert,René PujolandRobert Thoeren& the 1951 German remakeFanfares of Lovewritten by Logan, Thoeren andHeinz Pauck

1960s

Year	Film	Nominees	Source Material
1960 (33rd)	Elmer Gantry	Richard Brooks	The novelbySinclair Lewis
	Inherit the Wind	Harold Jacob Smith&Nedrick Young	The playbyJerome Lawrence&Robert E. Lee
	Sons and Lovers	T. E. B. Clarke&Gavin Lambert	The novelbyD. H. Lawrence
	The Sundowners	Isobel Lennart	The novelbyJon Cleary
	Tunes of Glory	James Kennaway	The novelby Kennaway
1961 (34th)	Judgment at Nuremberg	Abby Mann	The television playonPlayhouse 90by Mann
	Breakfast at Tiffany's	George Axelrod	The novellabyTruman Capote
	The Guns of Navarone	Carl Foreman	The novelbyAlistair MacLean
	The Hustler	Sidney Carroll&Robert Rossen	The novelbyWalter Tevis
	West Side Story	Ernest Lehman	The musicalbyArthur Laurents
1962 (35th)	To Kill a Mockingbird	Horton Foote	The novelbyHarper Lee
	David and Lisa	Eleanor Perry	The novellaLisa and DavidbyDr. Theodore Isaac Rubin
	Lawrence of Arabia	Robert Bolt&Michael Wilson	The memoirSeven Pillars of WisdombyT.E. Lawrence
	Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	The novelby Nabokov
	The Miracle Worker	William Gibson	The play& television play onPlayhouse 90by Gibson
1963 (36th)	Tom Jones	John Osborne	The novelThe History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingbyHenry Fielding
	Captain Newman, M.D.	Richard L. Breen,Henry&Phoebe Ephron	The novel byLeo Rosten
	Hud	Harriet Frank Jr.&Irving Ravetch	The novelHorseman, Pass BybyLarry McMurtry
	Lilies of the Field	James Poe	The novelbyWilliam Edmund Barrett
	Sundays and Cybele	Scenario:Serge Bourguignon& Antoine Tudal; Dialogue: Bourguignon	The novelLes dimanches de Ville d'Avrayby Bernard Eschassériaux
1964 (37th)	Becket	Edward Anhalt	The playbyJean Anouilh
	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	Stanley Kubrick,Peter George&Terry Southern	The novelRed Alertby George
	Mary Poppins	Don DaGradi&Bill Walsh	The novel seriesbyP. L. Travers
	My Fair Lady	Alan Jay Lerner	The musicalby Lerner
	Zorba the Greek	Michael Cacoyannis	The novelbyNikos Kazantzakis
1965 (38th)	Doctor Zhivago	Robert Bolt	The novelbyBoris Pasternak
	Cat Ballou	Walter Newman&Frank Pierson	The novelThe Ballad of Cat Ballouby Roy Chanslor
	The Collector	John Kohn&Stanley Mann	The novelbyJohn Fowles
	Ship of Fools	Abby Mann	The novelbyKatherine Anne Porter
	A Thousand Clowns	Herb Gardner	The play by Gardner
1966 (39th)	A Man for All Seasons	Robert Bolt	The playby Bolt
	Alfie	Bill Naughton	The playby Naughton
	The Professionals	Richard Brooks	The novelA Mule for the MarquesabyFrank O'Rourke
	The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming	William Rose	The novelThe Off-IslandersbyNathaniel Benchley
	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Ernest Lehman	The playbyEdward Albee
1967 (40th)	In the Heat of the Night	Stirling Silliphant	The novelbyJohn Ball
	Cool Hand Luke	Donn Pearce&Frank Pierson	The novelby Pearce
	The Graduate	Buck Henry&Calder Willingham	The novellabyCharles Webb
	In Cold Blood	Richard Brooks	The bookbyTruman Capote
	Ulysses	Fred Haines&Joseph Strick	The novelbyJames Joyce
1968 (41st)	The Lion in Winter	James Goldman	The playby Goldman
	The Odd Couple	Neil Simon	The playby Simon
	Oliver!	Vernon Harris	The musicalbyLionel Bart
	Rachel, Rachel	Stewart Stern	The novelA Jest of GodbyMargaret Laurence
	Rosemary's Baby	Roman Polanski	The novelbyIra Levin
1969 (42nd)	Midnight Cowboy	Waldo Salt	The novelbyJames Leo Herlihy
	Anne of the Thousand Days	Screenplay:Bridget Boland& John Hale; Adaptation: Richard Sokolove	The play byMaxwell Anderson
	Goodbye, Columbus	Arnold Schulman	The novellabyPhilip Roth
	They Shoot Horses, Don't They?	James Poe&Robert E. Thompson	The novelbyHorace McCoy
	Z	Costa-Gavras&Jorge Semprún	The novel byVassilis Vassilikos

1970s

Year	Film	Nominees	Source Material
1970 (43rd)	M*A*S*H	Ring Lardner Jr.	The novelMASH: A Novel About Three Army DoctorsbyRichard Hooker
	Airport	George Seaton	The novelbyArthur 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 novelbyD. H. Lawrence
1971 (44th)	The French Connection	Ernest Tidyman	The bookThe French Connection: The World's Most Crucial Narcotics InvestigationbyRobin Moore
	A Clockwork Orange	Stanley Kubrick	The novelbyAnthony Burgess
	The Conformist	Bernardo Bertolucci	The novelbyAlberto Moravia
	The Garden of the Finzi-Continis	Vittorio Bonicelli &Ugo Pirro	The novelbyGiorgio Bassani
	The Last Picture Show	Peter Bogdanovich&Larry McMurtry	The novel by McMurtry
1972 (45th)	The Godfather	Francis Ford Coppola&Mario Puzo	The novelby Puzo
	Cabaret	Jay Presson Allen	The musicalbyJoe Masteroff
	The Emigrants	Bengt Forslund&Jan Troell	The novelsThe Emigrants&Unto a Good LandbyVilhelm Moberg
	Pete 'n' Tillie	Julius J. Epstein	The novellaWitch's MilkbyPeter De Vries
	Sounder	Lonne Elder III	The novelbyWilliam H. Armstrong
1973 (46th)	The Exorcist	William Peter Blatty	The novelby Blatty
	The Last Detail	Robert Towne	The novel byDarryl Ponicsan
	The Paper Chase	James Bridges	The novelbyJohn Jay Osborn Jr.
	Paper Moon	Alvin Sargent	The novelAddie PraybyJoe David Brown
	Serpico	Waldo Salt&Norman Wexler	The bookSerpico: The Cop Who Defied the SystembyPeter Maas
1974 (47th)	The Godfather Part II	Francis Ford Coppola&Mario Puzo	The novelThe Godfatherby Puzo
	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz	Screenplay:Mordecai Richler;Adaptation:Lionel Chetwynd	The novelby Richler
	Lenny	Julian Barry	The play by Barry
	Murder on the Orient Express	Paul Dehn	The novelbyAgatha Christie
	Young Frankenstein	Mel Brooks&Gene Wilder	The novelFrankenstein; or, The Modern PrometheusbyMary Shelley
1975 (48th)	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	Bo Goldman&Lawrence Hauben	The novelbyKen Kesey
	Barry Lyndon	Stanley Kubrick	The novelThe Luck of Barry LyndonbyWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
	The Man Who Would Be King	Gladys Hill&John Huston	The short storybyRudyard Kipling
	Profumo di donna	Ruggero Maccari&Dino Risi	The novelIl buio e il marebyGiovanni Arpino
	The Sunshine Boys	Neil Simon	The playby Simon
1976 (49th)	All the President's Men	William Goldman	The memoirbyCarl Bernstein&Bob Woodward
	Bound for Glory	Robert Getchell	The memoirbyWoody Guthrie
	Fellini's Casanova	Federico Fellini&Bernardino Zapponi	The memoirHistory of My LifebyGiacomo 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 PortraitsbyLillian Hellman
	Equus	Peter Shaffer	The playby Shaffer
	I Never Promised You a Rose Garden	Lewis John Carlino&Gavin Lambert	The novelbyJoanne 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 PuppetbyPierre Louÿs
1978 (51st)	Midnight Express	Oliver Stone	The memoirbyBilly Hayes& William Hoffer
	Bloodbrothers	Walter Newman	The novelbyRichard Price
	California Suite	Neil Simon	The playby Simon
	Heaven Can Wait	Warren Beatty&Elaine May	The play byHarry Segall
	Same Time, Next Year	Bernard Slade	The playby Slade
1979 (52nd)	Kramer vs. Kramer	Robert Benton	The novel byAvery Corman
	Apocalypse Now	Francis Ford Coppola&John Milius	The novelHeart of DarknessbyJoseph Conrad
	La Cage aux Folles	Marcello Danon,Édouard Molinaro,Jean Poiret&Francis Veber	The playby Poiret
	A Little Romance	Allan Burns	The novelE=mc2Mon AmourbyPatrick Cauvin
	Norma Rae	Harriet Frank Jr.&Irving Ravetch	The bookCrystal Lee, a Woman of Inheritanceby Hank Leiferman

1980s

Year	Film	Nominees	Source Material
1980 (53rd)	Ordinary People	Alvin Sargent	The novelbyJudith Guest
	Breaker Morant	Bruce Beresford,Jonathan Hardy&David Stevens	The playBreaker Morant: A Play in Two ActsbyKenneth G. Ross
	Coal Miner's Daughter	Thomas Rickman	The memoirLoretta Lynn: Coal Miner's DaughterbyLoretta Lynn&George Vecsey
	The Elephant Man	Eric Bergren,Christopher De Vore &David Lynch	The memoirThe Elephant Man and Other ReminiscencesbyFrederick Treves& bookThe Elephant Man: A Study in Human DignitybyAshley Montagu
	The Stunt Man	Screenplay:Lawrence B. Marcus;Adaptation:Richard Rush	The novel byPaul Brodeur
1981 (54th)	On Golden Pond	Ernest Thompson	The playby Thompson
	The French Lieutenant's Woman	Harold Pinter	The novelbyJohn Fowles
	Pennies from Heaven	Dennis Potter	The television seriesby Potter
	Prince of the City	Jay Presson Allen&Sidney Lumet	The bookPrince of the City: The True Story of a Cop Who Knew Too MuchbyRobert Daley
	Ragtime	Michael Weller	The novelbyE. L. Doctorow
1982 (55th)	Missing	Costa-Gavras&Donald E. Stewart	The bookThe Execution of Charles Horman: An American SacrificebyThomas Hauser
	Das Boot	Wolfgang Petersen	The novelbyLothar-Günther Buchheim
	Sophie's Choice	Alan J. Pakula	The novelbyWilliam Styron
	The Verdict	David Mamet	The novel byBarry Reed
	Victor/Victoria	Blake Edwards	The filmVictor and VictoriabyReinhold Schünzel
1983 (56th)	Terms of Endearment	James L. Brooks	The novel byLarry McMurtry
	Betrayal	Harold Pinter	The playby Pinter
	The Dresser	Ronald Harwood	The playby Harwood
	Educating Rita	Willy Russell	The playby Russell
	Reuben, Reuben	Julius J. Epstein	The playSpoffordbyHerman Shumlin& novel byPeter De Vries
1984 (57th)	Amadeus	Peter Shaffer	The playby Shaffer
	Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes	Michael Austin &Robert Towne	The novelTarzan of the ApesbyEdgar 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 novelbyE. M. Forster
	A Soldier's Story	Charles Fuller	The playA Soldier's Playby Fuller
1985 (58th)	Out of Africa	Kurt Luedtke	The memoirbyKaren Blixen& booksSilence Will Speak: A Study of the Life of Denys Finch Hatton and His Relationship With Karen BlixenbyErrol Trzebinski&Isak Dinesen: The Life of a StorytellerbyJudith Thurman
	The Color Purple	Menno Meyjes	The novelbyAlice Walker
	Kiss of the Spider Woman	Leonard Schrader	The novelbyManuel Puig
	Prizzi's Honor	Richard Condon& Janet Roach	The novelby Condon
	The Trip to Bountiful	Horton Foote	The play& television film by Foote
1986 (59th)	A Room with a View	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	The novelbyE. M. Forster
	Children of a Lesser God	Hesper Anderson &Mark Medoff	The playby Medoff
	The Color of Money	Richard Price	The novelbyWalter Tevis
	Crimes of the Heart	Beth Henley	The playby Henley
	Stand by Me	Bruce A. Evans& Raynold Gideon	The novellaThe BodybyStephen King
1987 (60th)	The Last Emperor	Bernardo Bertolucci&Mark Peploe	The memoirFrom Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu YibyPuyi
	The Dead	Tony Huston	The short storybyJames Joyce
	Fatal Attraction	James Dearden	The television filmDiversionby Dearden
	Full Metal Jacket	Gustav Hasford,Michael Herr&Stanley Kubrick	The novelThe Short-Timersby Hasford
	My Life as a Dog	Per Berglund,Brasse Brännström,Lasse Hallström&Reidar Jönsson	The novelMitt liv som hundby Jönsson
1988 (61st)	Dangerous Liaisons	Christopher Hampton	The playLes Liaisons Dangereusesby Hampton &novelbyPierre Choderlos de Laclos
	The Accidental Tourist	Frank Galati&Lawrence Kasdan	The novelbyAnne Tyler
	Gorillas in the Mist	Screenplay:Anna Hamilton Phelan;Story:Tab Murphy& Phelon	The article byHarold Hayes
	Little Dorrit	Christine Edzard	The novelbyCharles Dickens
	The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Jean-Claude Carrière&Philip Kaufman	The novelbyMilan Kundera
1989 (62nd)	Driving Miss Daisy	Alfred Uhry	The playby Uhry
	Born on the Fourth of July	Ron Kovic&Oliver Stone	The memoirby Kovic
	Enemies, A Love Story	Paul Mazursky&Roger L. Simon	The novelbyIsaac Bashevis Singer
	Field of Dreams	Phil Alden Robinson	The novelShoeless JoebyW. P. Kinsella
	My Left Foot	Shane Connaughton&Jim Sheridan	The memoirbyChristy Brown

1990s

Year	Film	Nominees	Source Material
1990 (63rd)	Dances with Wolves	Michael Blake	The novelby Blake
	Awakenings	Steven Zaillian	The memoirbyOliver Sacks
	Goodfellas	Nicholas Pileggi&Martin Scorsese	The bookWiseguy: Life in a Mafia Familyby Pileggi
	The Grifters	Donald E. Westlake	The novelbyJim Thompson
	Reversal of Fortune	Nicholas Kazan	The memoirReversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow CasebyAlan Dershowitz
1991 (64th)	The Silence of the Lambs	Ted Tally	The novelbyThomas Harris
	Europa Europa	Agnieszka Holland	The memoirI Was Hitler Youth SalomonbySolomon Perel
	Fried Green Tomatoes	Fannie Flagg&Carol Sobieski(p.n.)	The novelFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafeby Flagg
	JFK	Zachary Sklar &Oliver Stone	The memoirOn the Trail of the AssassinsbyJim Garrison& bookCrossfire: The Plot That Killed KennedybyJim Marrs
	The Prince of Tides	Pat Conroy&Becky Johnston	The novelby Conroy
1992 (65th)	Howards End	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	The novelbyE. M. Forster
	Enchanted April	Peter Barnes	The novelbyElizabeth von Arnim
	The Player	Michael Tolkin	The novel by Tolkin
	A River Runs Through It	Richard Friedenberg	The novellabyNorman Maclean
	Scent of a Woman	Bo Goldman	The novelIl buio e il mielebyGiovanni Arpino&filmbyRuggero Maccari&Dino Risi
1993 (66th)	Schindler's List	Steven Zaillian	The novelSchindler's ArkbyThomas Keneally
	The Age of Innocence	Jay Cocks&Martin Scorsese	The novelbyEdith Wharton
	In the Name of the Father	Terry George&Jim Sheridan	The memoirProved Innocent: The Story of Gerry Conlon of the Guildford FourbyGerry Conlon
	The Remains of the Day	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	The novelbyKazuo Ishiguro
	Shadowlands	William Nicholson	The play&television filmby Nicholson
1994 (67th)	Forrest Gump	Eric Roth	The novelbyWinston Groom
	The Madness of King George	Alan Bennett	The playThe Madness of George IIIby Bennett
	Nobody's Fool	Robert Benton	The novel byRichard Russo
	Quiz Show	Paul Attanasio	The bookRemembering America: A Voice from the SixtiesbyRichard N. Goodwin
	The Shawshank Redemption	Frank Darabont	The novella "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption"byStephen King
1995 (68th)	Sense and Sensibility	Emma Thompson	The novelbyJane Austen
	Apollo 13	William Broyles Jr.&Al Reinert	The memoirLost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13byJeffrey Kluger&Jim Lovell
	Babe	George Miller&Chris Noonan	The novelThe Sheep-PigbyDick King-Smith
	Leaving Las Vegas	Mike Figgis	The novelbyJohn O'Brien
	Il Postino: The Postman	Screenplay:Anna Pavignano,Michael Radford,Furio&Giacomo Scarpelli&Massimo Troisi(p.n.);Story: F. & G. Scarpelli	The novelArdiente PacienciabyAntonio Skármeta
1996 (69th)	Sling Blade	Billy Bob Thornton	The short filmSome Folks Call It a Sling Bladewritten by Thornton
	The Crucible	Arthur Miller	The playby Miller
	The English Patient	Anthony Minghella	The novelbyMichael Ondaatje
	Hamlet	Kenneth Branagh	The playThe Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of DenmarkbyWilliam Shakespeare
	Trainspotting	John Hodge	The novelbyIrvine Welsh
1997 (70th)	L.A. Confidential	Curtis Hanson&Brian Helgeland	The novelbyJames Ellroy
	Donnie Brasco	Paul Attanasio	The memoirDonnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the MafiabyJoseph D. Pistone& Richard Woodley
	The Sweet Hereafter	Atom Egoyan	The novelbyRussell Banks
	Wag the Dog	Hilary Henkin&David Mamet	The novelAmerican HerobyLarry Beinhart
	The Wings of the Dove	Hossein Amini	The novelbyHenry James
1998 (71st)	Gods and Monsters	Bill Condon	The novelFather of FrankensteinbyChristopher Bram
	Out of Sight	Scott Frank	The novelbyElmore Leonard
	Primary Colors	Elaine May	The novelPrimary Colors: A Novel of PoliticsbyJoe Klein
	A Simple Plan	Scott Smith	The novelby Smith
	The Thin Red Line	Terrence Malick	The novelbyJames Jones
1999 (72nd)	The Cider House Rules	John Irving	The novelby Irving
	Election	Alexander Payne&Jim Taylor	The novelbyTom Perrotta
	The Green Mile	Frank Darabont	The novelbyStephen King
	The Insider	Michael Mann&Eric Roth	The article "The Man Who Knew Too Much" byMarie Brenner
	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Anthony Minghella	The novelbyPatricia Highsmith

2000s

Year	Film	Nominees	Source Material
2000 (73rd)	Traffic	Stephen Gaghan	The television seriesTraffikbySimon Moore
	Chocolat	Robert Nelson Jacobs	The novelbyJoanne Harris
	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Wang Hui-ling,James Schamus& Kuo Jung Tsai	The novelbyWang Dulu
	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Joel and Ethan Coen	The epic poem theOdysseybyHomer
	Wonder Boys	Steve Kloves	The novelbyMichael Chabon
2001 (74th)	A Beautiful Mind	Akiva Goldsman	The bookbySylvia Nasar
	Ghost World	Daniel Clowes&Terry Zwigoff	The graphic novelby 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 RingbyJ. R. R. Tolkien
	Shrek	Ted Elliott,Roger S. H. Schulman,Joe Stillman&Terry Rossio	The picture bookbyWilliam Steig
2002 (75th)	The Pianist	Ronald Harwood	The memoirbyWładysław Szpilman
	About a Boy	Peter Hedges,Chris&Paul Weitz	The novelbyNick Hornby
	Adaptation	Charlie& Donald Kaufman	The bookThe Orchid ThiefbySusan Orlean
	Chicago	Bill Condon	The musicalbyFred Ebb&Bob Fosse
	The Hours	David Hare	The novelbyMichael Cunningham
2003 (76th)	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	Philippa Boyens,Peter Jackson&Fran Walsh	The novelThe Return of the KingbyJ. R. R. Tolkien
	American Splendor	Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini	The comic booksbyHarvey Pekar& graphic novelOur Cancer Yearby Pekar &Joyce Brabner
	City of God	Bráulio Mantovani	The novelbyPaulo Lins
	Mystic River	Brian Helgeland	The novelbyDennis Lehane
	Seabiscuit	Gary Ross	The bookSeabiscuit: An American LegendbyLaura Hillenbrand
2004 (77th)	Sideways	Alexander Payne&Jim Taylor	The novelbyRex Pickett
	Before Sunset	Screenplay:Julie Delpy,Ethan Hawke&Richard Linklater;Story:Kim Krizan& Linklater	Characters from the filmBefore Sunriseby Krizan & Linklater
	Finding Neverland	David Magee	The playThe Man Who Was Peter PanbyAllan Knee
	Million Dollar Baby	Paul Haggis	The short story collectionRope Burns: Stories from the CornerbyF.X. Toole
	The Motorcycle Diaries	José Rivera	The memoirsTraveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a RevolutionarybyAlberto Granado&The Motorcycle DiariesbyChe Guevara
2005 (78th)	Brokeback Mountain	Larry McMurtry&Diana Ossana	The short storybyAnnie Proulx
	Capote	Dan Futterman	The book byGerald Clarke
	The Constant Gardener	Jeffrey Caine	The novelbyJohn le Carré
	A History of Violence	Josh Olson	The graphic novelbyVince Locke&John Wagner
	Munich	Tony Kushner&Eric Roth	The bookVengeancebyGeorge Jonas
2006 (79th)	The Departed	William Monahan	The filmInfernal Affairswritten byFelix Chong&Alan Mak
	Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan	Screenplay:Sacha Baron Cohen,Peter Baynham,Anthony Hines &Dan Mazer;Story: Baron Cohen, Baynham, Hines &Todd Phillips	The characterBorat Sagdiyevfrom the television seriesDa Ali G Showby Baron Cohen
	Children of Men	David Arata,Alfonso Cuarón,Mark Fergus,Hawk Ostby& Timothy J. Sexton	The novelbyP. D. James
	Little Children	Todd Field&Tom Perrotta	The novelby Perrotta
	Notes on a Scandal	Patrick Marber	The novelbyZoë Heller
2007 (80th)	No Country for Old Men	Coen Brothers	The novelbyCormac McCarthy
	Atonement	Christopher Hampton	The novelbyIan 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 memoirbyJean-Dominique Bauby
	There Will Be Blood	Paul Thomas Anderson	The novelOil!byUpton Sinclair
2008 (81st)	Slumdog Millionaire	Simon Beaufoy	The novelQ & AbyVikas Swarup
	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Screenplay:Eric Roth;Story: Roth &Robin Swicord	The short storybyF. Scott Fitzgerald
	Doubt	John Patrick Shanley	The playDoubt: A Parableby Shanley
	Frost/Nixon	Peter Morgan	The playby Morgan
	The Reader	David Hare	The novelbyBernhard Schlink
2009 (82nd)	Precious	Geoffrey S. Fletcher	The novelPushbySapphire
	District 9	Neill Blomkamp&Terri Tatchell	The short filmAlive in Joburgby Blomkamp
	An Education	Nick Hornby	The memoir byLynn Barber
	In the Loop	Jesse Armstrong,Simon Blackwell,Armando Iannucci&Tony Roche	The characterMalcolm Tuckerfrom the television seriesThe Thick of Itby Iannucci
	Up in the Air	Jason Reitman&Sheldon Turner	The novelbyWalter 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 BetrayalbyBen Mezrich
	127 Hours	Simon Beaufoy&Danny Boyle	The memoirBetween a Rock and a Hard PlacebyAron Ralston
	Toy Story 3	Screenplay:Michael Arndt;Story:John Lasseter,Andrew Stanton&Lee Unkrich	Charactersfrom the filmToy StorybyPete Docter,Lasseter,Joe Ranft,& Stanton
	True Grit	Coen Brothers	The novelbyCharles Portis
	Winter's Bone	Debra Granik&Anne Rosellini	The novel byDaniel Woodrell
2011 (84th)	The Descendants	Nat Faxon,Alexander Payne&Jim Rash	The novelbyKaui Hart Hemmings
	Hugo	John Logan	The novelThe Invention of Hugo CabretbyBrian Selznick
	The Ides of March	George Clooney,Grant Heslov&Beau Willimon	The playFarragut Northby Willimon
	Moneyball	Screenplay:Aaron Sorkin&Steven Zaillian;Story:Stan Chervin	The bookMoneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair GamebyMichael Lewis
	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	Bridget O'Connor(p.n.)&Peter Straughan	The novelbyJohn le Carré
2012 (85th)	Argo	Chris Terrio	The memoirThe Master of DisguisebyTony 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 Deliciousby Alibar
	Life of Pi	David Magee	The novelbyYann Martel
	Lincoln	Tony Kushner	The bookTeam of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham LincolnbyDoris Kearns Goodwin
	Silver Linings Playbook	David O. Russell	The novelbyMatthew Quick
2013 (86th)	12 Years a Slave	John Ridley	The memoirbySolomon Northup
	Before Midnight	Julie Delpy,Ethan Hawke&Richard Linklater	Characters from the filmBefore SunrisebyKim Krizan& Linklater
	Captain Phillips	Billy Ray	The memoirA Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at SeabyRichard Phillips& Stephan Talty
	Philomena	Steve Coogan&Jeff Pope	The bookThe Lost Child of Philomena LeebyMartin Sixsmith
	The Wolf of Wall Street	Terence Winter	The memoirbyJordan Belfort
2014 (87th)	The Imitation Game	Graham Moore	The bookAlan Turing: The EnigmabyAndrew Hodges
	American Sniper	Jason Hall	The memoirAmerican Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military Historyby Jim DeFelice,Chris Kyle& Scott McEwan
	Inherent Vice	Paul Thomas Anderson	The novelbyThomas Pynchon
	The Theory of Everything	Anthony McCarten	The memoirTravelling to Infinity: My Life with StephenbyJane Hawking
	Whiplash	Damien Chazelle	The short filmby Chazelle
2015 (88th)	The Big Short	Charles Randolph&Adam McKay	The bookThe Big Short: Inside the Doomsday MachinebyMichael Lewis
	Brooklyn	Nick Hornby	The novelbyColm Tóibín
	Carol	Phyllis Nagy	The novelThe Price of SaltbyPatricia Highsmith
	The Martian	Drew Goddard	The novelbyAndy Weir
	Room	Emma Donoghue	The novelby Donoghue
2016 (89th)	Moonlight	Screenplay:Barry Jenkins;Story:Tarell Alvin McCraney	The unpublished playIn Moonlight Black Boys Look Blueby McCraney
	Arrival	Eric Heisserer	The novella "Story of Your Life"byTed Chiang
	Fences	August Wilson(p.n.)	The playby Wilson
	Hidden Figures	Theodore Melfi&Allison Schroeder	The bookHidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space RacebyMargot Lee Shetterly
	Lion	Luke Davies	The memoirA Long Way HomebySaroo Brierley&Larry Buttrose
2017 (90th)	Call Me by Your Name	James Ivory	The novelbyAndré Aciman
	The Disaster Artist	Scott Neustadter&Michael H. Weber	The memoirThe Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever MadebyGreg Sestero&Tom Bissell
	Logan	Screenplay:Scott Frank,Michael Green&James Mangold;Story: Mangold	The characterWolverinefrom the comic books byJohn Romita Sr.&Len Wein
	Molly's Game	Aaron Sorkin	The memoir byMolly Bloom
	Mudbound	Dee Rees&Virgil Williams	The novelbyHillary Jordan
2018 (91st)	BlacKkKlansman	Spike Lee,David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel &Kevin Willmott	The memoirBlack KlansmanbyRon 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 novelbyJames Baldwin
	A Star Is Born	Bradley Cooper,Will Fetters &Eric Roth	The1954 filmbyMoss Hart,1976 filmbyJoan Didion,John Gregory Dunne&Frank Pierson&1937 filmbyRobert Carson&William A. Wellman
2019 (92nd)	Jojo Rabbit	Taika Waititi	The novelCaging SkiesbyChristine Leunens
	The Irishman	Steven Zaillian	The memoirI Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy HoffabyCharles Brandt
	Joker	Todd Phillips&Scott Silver	The characterfrom the comic books byBill Finger,Bob Kane&Jerry Robinson
	Little Women	Greta Gerwig	The novelbyLouisa May Alcott
	The Two Popes	Anthony McCarten	The playThe Popeby McCarten

2020s

Year	Film	Nominees	Source Material
2020/21 (93rd)	The Father	Christopher Hampton&Florian Zeller	The playby Zeller
	Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery or Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan	Screenplay:Sacha Baron Cohen,Peter Baynham,Jena Friedman,Anthony Hines, Lee Kern,Dan Mazer,Erica Rivinoja&Dan Swimer;Story: Baron Cohen, Hines, Nina Pedrad & Swimer	The characterBorat Sagdiyevfrom the television seriesDa Ali G Showby Baron Cohen
	Nomadland	Chloé Zhao	The bookNomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First CenturybyJessica Bruder
	One Night in Miami...	Kemp Powers	The playby Powers
	The White Tiger	Ramin Bahrani	The novelbyArvind Adiga
2021 (94th)	CODA	Sian Heder	The filmLa Famille Bélierby Victoria Bedos,Thomas Bidegain,Stanislas Carré de Malberg &Éric Lartigau
	Drive My Car	Ryusuke Hamaguchi&Takamasa Oe	The short storybyHaruki Murakami
	Dune	Eric Roth,Jon Spaihts&Denis Villeneuve	The novelbyFrank Herbert
	The Lost Daughter	Maggie Gyllenhaal	The novelbyElena Ferrante
	The Power of the Dog	Jane Campion	The novelbyThomas Savage
2022 (95th)	Women Talking	Sarah Polley	The novelbyMiriam Toews
	All Quiet on the Western Front	Edward Berger,Lesley Paterson& Ian Stokell	The novelbyErich Maria Remarque
	Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery	Rian Johnson	The character Benoit Blanc from the filmKnives Outby Johnson
	Living	Kazuo Ishiguro	The filmIkirubyShinobu Hashimoto,Akira Kurosawa&Hideo Oguni
	Top Gun: Maverick	Screenplay:Ehren Kruger,Christopher McQuarrie&Eric Warren Singer;Story:Peter Craig&Justin Marks	Characters from the filmTop GunbyJim Cash&Jack Epps Jr.
2023 (96th)	American Fiction	Cord Jefferson	The novelErasurebyPercival Everett
	Barbie	Noah Baumbach&Greta Gerwig	Thecharacterscreated byRuth Handler
	Oppenheimer	Christopher Nolan	The bookAmerican Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert OppenheimerbyKai Bird&Martin J. Sherwin
	Poor Things	Tony McNamara	The novelPoor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health OfficerbyAlisdair Gray
	The Zone of Interest	Jonathan Glazer	The novelbyMartin Amis

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
	Eric Roth
5	Richard Brooks
4	Michael Wilson
	Carl Foreman
	Albert Hackett
	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

Age superlatives

Record	Writer	Film	Age	Ref.
Oldest winner	James Ivory	Call Me by Your Name	89
Oldest nominee
Youngest winner	Charlie Wachtel	BlacKkKlansman	32
Youngest nominee	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	Skippy	22

See also

• Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
• Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay
• BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
• Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay
• Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Screenplay
• List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees
• List of Academy Award–nominated films
• Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay