1973 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay Winner
![The Godfather Mario Puzo](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-godfather-francis-ford-coppola-image.jpg)
The Godfather
Mario Puzo
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
1973 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay Nominees
![Deliverance James Dickey](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/deliverance-john-boorman-image.jpg)
Deliverance
James Dickey
![Pete 'n' Tillie Julius J. Epstein](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/pete-n-tillie-martin-ritt-image.jpg)
Pete ‘n’ Tillie
Julius J. Epstein
![Slaughterhouse-Five Stephen Geller](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/slaughterhouse-five-george-roy-hill-image.jpg)
Slaughterhouse-Five
Stephen Geller
![Sounder Lonne Elder III](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/sounder-martin-ritt-image.jpg)