1976 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay Winner and Nominees

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Lawrence Hauben

A criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.

Barry Lyndon

Stanley Kubrick

Jaws

Peter Benchley

The Man in the Glass Booth

Edward Anhalt

The Man Who Would Be King

John Huston