1972 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay) Winner
![The French Connection Ernest Tidyman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-french-connection-william-friedkin-image.jpg)
The French Connection
Ernest Tidyman
A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.
1972 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay) Nominees
![A Clockwork Orange Stanley Kubrick](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-clockwork-orange-stanley-kubrick-image.jpg)
A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick
![The Conformist Bernardo Bertolucci](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-conformist-image.jpg)
The Conformist
Bernardo Bertolucci
![The Garden of the Finzi-Continis Ugo Pirro](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-garden-of-the-finzi-continis-vittorio-de-sica-image.jpg)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Ugo Pirro
![The Last Picture Show Larry McMurtry](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-last-picture-show-peter-bogdanovich-image.jpg)