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Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay

The Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States. It is awarded each year to the writer of a screenplay adapted from another source (usually a novel or play).

See also the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay, a similar award for screenplays that are not adapted from elsewhere.

Following is a listing of people who have won the award.

This award started with the name Best Writing, Adaptation

Table of contents

1 1920s 2 1930s 3 1940s 4 1950s 5 1960s 6 1970s 7 1980s 8 1990s 9 2000s

1920s

• 1927/1928 Seventh Heaven - Benjamin Glazer from a play by Austin Stong
  • Glorious Betsy - Anthony Coldeway from a play by Rida Johnson Young
  • The Jazz Singer - Alfred A. Cohn from the play Day of Atonement by Samson Raphaelson

In the 2nd and 3rd years there was only a single writing award for Writing Achievement with no distinction between original works and adaptations.

• 1928/1929 The Patriot - Hanns Kräly from a play by Ashley Dukes translated from the play Der Patriot by Alfred Neumann derived from the story Paul I by Dmitri Merezhkovsky
  • The Cop - William Taylor Garnett from a story by Elliott Judd Clawson
  • In Old Arizona - Tom Barry from the story The Caballero's Way by O. Henry
  • The Last of Mrs. Cheyney - Hanns Kräly from a play by Frederick Lonsdale
  • The Leatherneck - Elliott Judd Clawson original
  • Our Dancing Daughters - Josephine Lovett original
  • Sal of Singapore - Elliott Judd Clawson from the story The Sentimentalists by Dale Collins
  • Skyscraper - Elliott Judd Clawson, William Taylor Garnett from a story by Dudley Murphy
  • The Valiant - Tom Barry, John Hunter Booth from a play by Halworthy Hall and Robert Middlemass
  • A Woman of Affairs - Bess Meredyth fom the novel The Green Hat by Michael Arlen
  • Wonder of Women - Bess Meredyth from the novel Die Frau des Steffen Tromholt by Hermann Sudermann
• 1929/1930 The Big House - Joseph Farnham, Martin Flavin, Frances Marion, Lennox Marion original
  • All Quiet on the Western Front - Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott, Del Andrews from a novel by Erich Maria Remarque
  • Disraeli - Julien Josephson from a play by Louis N. Parker
  • The Divorcee - John Meehan from the novel Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott
  • Street of Chance - Lenore J. Coffee, Howard Estabrook from the story by Oliver H. P. Garrett

1930s

For the 1930/31 production year the award was again subdivided, and this one was once again Best Writing, Adaptation.

• 1930/1931 Cimarron - Howard Estabrook from the novel by Edna Ferber
  • The Criminal Code - Seton I. Miller, Fred Niblo Jr from a play by Martin Flavin
  • Holiday - Horace Jackson from the play by Philip Barry
  • Little Caesar - Francis Edward Faragoli, Robert N. Lee, Robert Lord, Darryl F. Zanuck from the novel by William R. Burnett
  • Skippy - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Don Marquis, Norman Z. McLeod, Sam Mintz from the comic strip by Percy Crosby
• 1931/1932 Bad Girl - Edwin J. Burke from the novel and play by Viña Delmar
  • Arrowsmith - Sidney Howard from the novel by Sinclair Lewis
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Samuel Hoffenstein, Percy Heath from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 1932/1933 Little Women - Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason from the novel by Louisa May Alcott
  • Lady for a Day - Robert Riskin from the story Madame la Gimp by Damon Runyon
  • State Fair - Paul Green, Sonya Levien from the novel by Philip Stong
• 1934 It Happened One Night - Robert Riskin from the story Night Busa by Samuel Hopkins Adams
  • The Thin Man - Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich from a novel by Dashiell Hammett
  • Viva Villa - Ben Hecht from the book by Edgecumb Pinchon and O. B. Stade

For 1935 the award became Best Writing, Screenplay

• 1935 The Informer - Dudley Nichols from the novel by Liam O'Flaherty. This was the first Academy Award ever to be declined.
  • Captain Blood - write-in candidate Casey Robinson from the novel by Rafael Sabatini
  • The Lives of a Bengal Lancer - Waldemar Young, John L. Balderston, Achmed Abdullah, Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt from the novel by Francis Yeats-Brown
  • Mutiny on the Bounty - Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman, Carey Wilson from the novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
• 1936 The Story of Louis Pasteur - Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney from their own story
  • After the Thin Man - Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett from a story by Dashiell Hammett
  • Dodsworth - Sidney Howard from the novel by Sinclair Lewis
  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town - Robert Riskin from the story Opera Hat by Clarence Budington Kelland
  • My Man Godfrey - Morrie Ryskind, Eric Hatch from the novel by Eric Hatch
• 1937 The Life of Emile Zola - Heinz Herald, Geza Herczag, Norman Raine from the book Zola and His Time by Matthew Josephson
  • The Awful Truth - Viña Delmar from the play by Arthur Richman
  • Captains Courageous - Marc Connelly, John Lee Mahin, Dale Van Every from the novel by Rudyard Kipling
  • Stage Door - Morrie Ryskind, Anthony Veiller from the play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman
  • A Star Is Born - Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, Robert Carson from a story by William A. Wellman and Robert Carson
• 1938 Pygmalion - Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis, W.P. Lipscomb, George Bernard Shaw from the play by George Bernard Shaw
  • Boys Town - John Meehan, Dore Schary from the story by Dore Schary and Eleanore Griffin
  • The Citadel - Ian Dalrymple, Frank Wead, Elizabeth Hill from the novel by A. J. Cronin
  • Four Daughters - Lenore J. Coffee, Julius J. Epstein from the novel Sister Act by Fannie Hurst
  • You Can't Take It with You - Robert Riskin from the play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
• 1939 Gone with the Wind - Sidney Howard from the novel by Margaret Mitchell
  • Goodbye, Mr. Chips - R. C. Sherriff, Claudine West, Eric Maschwitz from the novel by James Hilton
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Sidney Buchman from the story by Lewis R. Foster
  • Ninotchka - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch from the story by Melchior Lengyel
  • Wuthering Heights - Charles MacArthur, Ben Hecht from the novel by Emily Brontë

1940s

• 1940 The Philadelphia Story - Donald Ogden Stewart from the play by Philip Barry
  • The Grapes of Wrath - Nunnally Johnson from the novel by John Steinbeck
  • - Donald Ogden Stewart, Dalton Trumbo from the novel by Christopher Morley
  • The Long Voyage Home - Dudley Nichols from a composite of the short plays The Moon of the Caribees, In the Zone, Bound East for Cardiff and The Long Voyage Home by Eugene O'Neill
  • Rebecca - Philip MacDonald, Michael Hogan from the novel by Daphne Du Maurier
• 1941 Here Comes Mr. Jordan - Sidney Buchman, Seton Miller from the play Heaven Can Wait by Harry Segall
  • Hold Back the Dawn - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder from the book by Ketti Frings
  • How Green Was My Valley - Philip Dunne from the novel by Richard Llewellyn
  • The Little Foxes - Lillian Hellman from her own play
  • The Maltese Falcon - John Huston from the novel by Dashiell Hammett
• 1942 Mrs. Miniver - George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, Arthur Wimperis
• 1943 Casablanca - Philip Epstein, Julius Epstein, Howard Koch
• 1944 Going My Way - Frank Butler, Frank Cavett
• 1945 The Lost Weekend - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder
• 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives - Robert Sherwood
• 1947 Miracle on 34th Street - George Seaton
• 1948 Treasure of the Sierra Madre - John Huston
• 1949 A Letter to Three Wives - Joseph Mankiewicz

1950s

• 1950 All About Eve - Joseph Mankiewicz
• 1951 A Place in the Sun - Harry Brown, Michael Wilson
• 1952 The Bad and the Beautiful - Charles Schnee
• 1953 From Here to Eternity - Daniel Taradash
• 1954 The Country Girl - George Seaton
• 1955 Marty - Paddy Chayefsky
• 1956 Around the World in Eighty Days - John Farrow, S. J. Perelman, James Poe
• 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai - Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson
• 1958 Gigi - Alan Lerner
• 1959 Room at the Top - Neil Paterson

1960s

• 1960 Elmer Gantry - Richard Brooks
• 1961 Judgment at Nuremberg - Abby Man
• 1962 To Kill a Mockingbird - Horton Foote
• 1963 Tom Jones - John Osborne
• 1964 Becket - Edward Anhalt
• 1965 Doctor Zhivago - Robert Bolt
• 1966 A Man for All Seasons - Robert Bolt
• 1967 In the Heat of the Night - Stirling Siliphant
• 1968 The Lion in Winter - James Goldman
• 1969 Midnight Cowboy - Waldo Salt

1970s

• 1970 MASH - Ring Lardner
• 1971 The French Connection - Ernest Tidyman
• 1972 The Godfather - Francis Coppola, Mario Puzo
• 1973 The Exorcist - William Blatty
• 1974 The Godfather, Part II - Francis Coppola, Mario Puzo
• 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Bo Goldman, Laurence Hauben
• 1976 All the President's Men - William Goldman
• 1977 Julia - Alvin Sargent
• 1978 Midnight Express - Oliver Stone
• 1979 Kramer vs. Kramer - Robert Benton

1980s

• 1980 Ordinary People - Alvin Sargent
• 1981 On Golden Pond - Ernest Thompson
• 1982 Missing - Constantin Costa-Gavras, Donald Stewart
• 1983 Terms of Endearment - James Brooks
• 1984 Amadeus - Peter Shaffer
• 1985 Out of Africa - Kurt Luedtke
• 1986 A Room with a View - Ruth Jhabvala
• 1987 The Last Emperor - Bernardo Bertolucci, Mark Peploe
• 1988 Dangerous Liaisons - Christopher Hampton
• 1989 Driving Miss Daisy - Alfred Uhry

1990s

• 1990 Dances with Wolves - Michael Blake from the novel by Michael Blake
  • Awakenings - Steven Zaillian from the novel by Oliver Sacks M.D
  • Goodfellas - Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese from the novel Wise Guy by Nicholas Pileggi
  • The Grifters - Donald E. Westlake from the novel by Jim Thompson
  • Reversal of Fortune - Nicholas Kazan from the novel by Alan M. Dershowitz
• 1991 The Silence of the Lambs - Ted Tally from the novel by Thomas Harris
  • Europa Europa - Agnieszka Holland from the autobiography by Salomon Perel
  • Fried Green Tomatoes - Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski from the novel Fried Green Tomatoes At the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
  • JFK - Oliver Stone, Zachary Sklar from the novel by Jim Marrs and the novel On the Trail of the Assasins by Jim Garrison
  • The Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy, Becky Johnston from the novel by Pat Conroy
• 1992 Howards End - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by E.M. Forster
  • Enchanted April - Peter Barnes from the novel by Elizabeth von Arnim
  • The Player - Michael Tolkin from the novel by Michael Tolkin
  • A River Runs Through It - Richard Friedenberg from the story by Norman Maclean
  • Scent of a Woman - Bo Goldman from the novel Il Buio E Il Miele by Giovanni Arpino
• 1993 Schindler's List - Steven Zaillian from the novel by Thomas Kenneally
  • The Age of Innocence - Jay Cocks, Martin Scorsese from the novel by Edith Wharton
  • In the Name of the Father - Terry George, Jim Sheridan from the autobiography Proved Innocent by Gerry Conlon
  • The Remains of the Day - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Shadowlands - William Nicholson from the play by William Nicholson
• 1994 Forrest Gump - Eric Roth from the novel by Winston Groom
  • The Madness of King George - Alan Bennett from the play The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett
  • Nobody's Fool - Robert Benton from the novel by Richard Russo
  • Quiz Show - Paul Attanasio from the novel by Richard N. Goodwin
  • The Shawshank Redemption - Frank Darabont from the short story Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
• 1995 Sense and Sensibility - Emma Thompson from the novel by Jane Austen
  • Apollo 13 - William Broyles Jr, Al Reinert from the novel Lost Moon by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger
  • Babe - George Miller, Chris Noonan from the novel The Sheep Pig by Dick King-Smith
  • Leaving Las Vegas - Mike Figgis from the novel by John O'Brien
  • Il Postino - Anna Pavignano, Michael Radford, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli, Massimo Troisi from the novel Ardiente Paciencia by Antonio Skármeta
• 1996 Sling Blade - Billy Bob Thornton from the play by Billy Bob Thornton
  • The Crucible - Arthur Miller from the play by Arthur Miller
  • The English Patient - Anthony Minghella from the novel by Michael Ondaatje
  • Hamlet - Kenneth Branagh from the play by William Shakespeare
  • Trainspotting - John Hodge from the novel by Irvine Welsh
• 1997 L.A. Confidential - Curtis Hanson, Brian Helgeland from the novel by James Ellroy
  • Donnie Brasco - Paul Attanasio from the novel by Joseph D. Pistone and Richard Woodley
  • The Sweet Hereafter - Atom Egoyan from the novel by Russell Banks
  • Wag the Dog - Hilary Henkin, David Mamet from the novel American Hero by Larry Beinhart
  • The Wings of the Dove - Hossein Amini from the novel by Henry James
• 1998 Gods and Monsters - Bill Condon from the novel by Christopher Bram
  • Out of Sight - Scott Frank from the novel by Elmore Leonard
  • Primary Colors - Elaine May from the nobel by Joe Klein
  • A Simple Plan - Scott B. Smith from the novel by Scott B. Smith
  • The Thin Red Line - Terrence Malick from the novel by James Jones
• 1999 The Cider House Rules - John Irving from the novel by John Irving
  • Election - Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor from the novel by Tom Perrotta
  • The Green Mile - Frank Darabont from the novel by Stephen King
  • The Insider - Eric Roth, Michael Mann from the article The Man Who Knew Too Much by Marie Brenner
  • The Talented Mr. Ripley - Anthony Minghella from the novel by Patricia Highsmith

2000s

• 2000 Traffic - Stephen Gaghan from the teleplay Traffik by Simon Moore
  • Chocolat - Robert Nelson Jacobs from the novel by Joanne Harris
  • O Brother, Where Art Thou - Ethan Coen, Joel Coen from the poem The Odyssey by Homer
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Hui-Ling Wang, James Schamus, Kuo Jung Tsai from the novel by Du Lu Wang
  • Wonder Boys - Steven Kloves from the novel by Michael Chabon
• 2001 A Beautiful Mind - Akiva Goldsman from the novel by Sylvia Nasar
  • Ghost World - Daniel Clowes, Terry Zwigoff from the comic book by Daniel Clowes
  • In the Bedroom - Todd Field, Robert Festinger from the short story Killings by Andre Dubus
  • - Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson from the novel by J.R.R. Tolien
  • Shrek - Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman, Roger S.H. Schulman from the children's book by William Steig
• 2002 The Pianist - Ronald Harwood from the book by Wladyslaw Szpilman
  • About a Boy - Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz from the novel by Nick Hornby
  • Adaptation - Charlie Kaufman, Donald Kaufman from the book The Orchard Thief by Susan Orlean
  • Chicago - Bill Condon from the play by Maurine Dallas Watkins
  • The Hours - David Hare from the novel by Michael Cunningham
• 2003 - Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson from the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • American Splendor - Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman from the comic book series by Harvey Pekar and the comic book series Our Cancer Year by Joyce Brabner
  • City of God - Braulio Mantovani from the novel by Paulo Lins
  • Mystic River - Brian Helgeland from the novel by Dennis Lehane
  • Seabiscuit - Gary Ross from the book by Laura Hillenbrand

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