Oscars – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

List of winners and nominees for the Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay)!

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2020 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Jojo Rabbit

Taika Waititi

2019 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

BlacKkKlansman

Charlie Wachtel

2018 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Call Me by Your Name

James Ivory

2017 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Moonlight

Barry Jenkins

2016 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Big Short

Charles Randolph

2015 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Imitation Game

Graham Moore

2014 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

12 Years a Slave

John Ridley

2013 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Argo

Chris Terrio

2012 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Descendants

Alexander Payne

2011 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Social Network

Aaron Sorkin

2010 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Precious

Geoffrey Fletcher

2009 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Slumdog Millionaire

Simon Beaufoy

2008 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

No Country for Old Men

Joel Coen

2007 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Departed

William Monahan

2006 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Brokeback Mountain

Larry McMurtry

2005 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Sideways

Alexander Payne

2004 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Fran Walsh

2003 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Pianist

Ronald Harwood

2002 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

A Beautiful Mind

Akiva Goldsman

2001 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Traffic

Stephen Gaghan

2000 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Cider House Rules

John Irving

1999 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Gods and Monsters

Bill Condon

1998 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

L.A. Confidential

Brian Helgeland

1997 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Sling Blade

Billy Bob Thornton

1996 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Sense and Sensibility

Emma Thompson

1995 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Forrest Gump

Eric Roth

1994 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Schindler’s List

Steven Zaillian

1993 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Howards End

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

1992 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Silence of the Lambs

Ted Tally

1991 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Dances with Wolves

Michael Blake

1990 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Driving Miss Daisy

Alfred Uhry

1989 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Dangerous Liaisons

Christopher Hampton

1988 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Last Emperor

Mark Peploe

1987 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

A Room with a View

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

1986 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Out of Africa

Kurt Luedtke

1985 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Amadeus

Peter Shaffer

1984 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Terms of Endearment

James L. Brooks

1983 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Missing

Costa-Gavras

1982 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

On Golden Pond

Ernest Thompson

1981 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Ordinary People

Alvin Sargent

1980 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Kramer vs. Kramer

Robert Benton

1979 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Midnight Express

Oliver Stone

1978 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Julia

Alvin Sargent

1977 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

All the President’s Men

William Goldman

1976 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Lawrence Hauben

1975 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Godfather: Part II

Francis Ford Coppola

1974 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Exorcist

William Peter Blatty

1973 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Godfather

Mario Puzo

1972 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The French Connection

Ernest Tidyman

1971 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

MASH

Ring Lardner Jr.

1970 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Midnight Cowboy

Waldo Salt

1969 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Lion in Winter

James Goldman

1968 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

In the Heat of the Night

Stirling Silliphant

1967 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

A Man for All Seasons

Robert Bolt

1966 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Doctor Zhivago

Robert Bolt

1965 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Becket

Edward Anhalt

1964 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Tom Jones

John Osborne

1963 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

To Kill a Mockingbird

Horton Foote

1962 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Judgment at Nuremberg

Abby Mann

1961 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Elmer Gantry

Richard Brooks

1960 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Room at the Top

Neil Paterson

1959 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Gigi

Alan Jay Lerner

1958 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Pierre Boulle

1957 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Around the World in 80 Days

James Poe

1956 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Marty

Paddy Chayefsky

1955 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Country Girl

George Seaton

1954 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

From Here to Eternity

Daniel Taradash

1953 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Bad and the Beautiful

Charles Schnee

1952 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

A Place in the Sun

Michael Wilson

1951 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

All About Eve

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

1950 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

A Letter to Three Wives

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

1949 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

John Huston

1948 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Miracle on 34th Street

George Seaton

1947 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Best Years of Our Lives

Robert E. Sherwood

1946 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Lost Weekend

Charles Brackett

1945 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Going My Way

Frank Butler

1944 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Casablanca

Julius J. Epstein

1943 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Mrs. Miniver

George Froeschel

1942 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Sidney Buchman

1941 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Philadelphia Story

Donald Ogden Stewart

1940 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Gone with the Wind

Sidney Howard

1939 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

1938 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Life of Emile Zola

Heinz Herald

1937 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Story of Louis Pasteur

Pierre Collings

1936 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Informer

Dudley Nichols

1935 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

It Happened One Night

Robert Riskin

1934 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Little Women

Victor Heerman

1932 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Bad Girl

Edwin J. Burke

1931 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Cimarron

Howard Estabrook

1930s Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Big House

Frances Marion

1930 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

The Patriot

Hanns Kräly

1929 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

7th Heaven

Benjamin Glazer