1968 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay) Winner
![In the Heat of the Night Stirling Silliphant](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/in-the-heat-of-the-night-norman-jewison-image.jpg)
In the Heat of the Night
Stirling Silliphant
An African-American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.
1968 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay) Nominees
![Cool Hand Luke Donn Pearce](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cool-hand-luke-stuart-rosenberg-image.jpg)
Cool Hand Luke
Donn Pearce
![In Cold Blood Richard Brooks](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/in-cold-blood-richard-brooks-image.jpg)
In Cold Blood
Richard Brooks
![The Graduate Calder Willingham](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-graduate-mike-nichols-image.jpg)
The Graduate
Calder Willingham
![Ulysses Joseph Strick](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ulysses-joseph-strick-image.jpg)