1985 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay) Winner and Nominees

Amadeus

Peter Shaffer

The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart’s talent and claimed to have murdered him.

A Passage to India

David Lean

A Soldier’s Story

Charles Fuller

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

Robert Towne

The Killing Fields

Bruce Robinson