WGA – Best Adapted Screenplay

List of winners and nominees for the Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay!

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2020 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Jojo Rabbit

Taika Waititi

2019 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Nicole Holofcener

2018 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Call Me by Your Name

James Ivory

2017 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Arrival

Eric Heisserer

2016 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

The Big Short

Charles Randolph

2015 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

The Imitation Game

Graham Moore

2014 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Captain Phillips

Billy Ray

2013 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Argo

Chris Terrio

2012 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

The Descendants

Alexander Payne

2011 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

The Social Network

Aaron Sorkin

2010 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Up in the Air

Jason Reitman

2009 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Slumdog Millionaire

Simon Beaufoy

2008 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

No Country for Old Men

Ethan Coen

2007 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

The Departed

William Monahan

2006 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Brokeback Mountain

Larry McMurtry

2005 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Sideways

Alexander Payne

2004 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

American Splendor

Robert Pulcini

2003 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

The Hours

David Hare

2002 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

A Beautiful Mind

Akiva Goldsman

2001 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Traffic

Stephen Gaghan

2000 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Election

Alexander Payne

1999 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Out of Sight

Scott Frank

1998 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

L.A. Confidential

Brian Helgeland

1997 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Sling Blade

Billy Bob Thornton

1996 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Sense and Sensibility

Emma Thompson

1995 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Forrest Gump

Eric Roth

1994 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Schindler’s List

Steven Zaillian

1993 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

The Player

Michael Tolkin

1992 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

The Silence of the Lambs

Ted Tally

1991 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Dances with Wolves

Michael Blake

1990 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Driving Miss Daisy

Alfred Uhry

1989 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Dangerous Liaisons

Christopher Hampton

1988 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Roxanne

Steve Martin

1987 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

A Room with a View

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

1986 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Prizzi’s Honor

Richard Condon

1985 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

The Killing Fields

Bruce Robinson

1984 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Reuben, Reuben

Julius J. Epstein

1983 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Missing

Costa-Gavras

1982 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

On Golden Pond

Ernest Thompson

1981 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Ordinary People

Alvin Sargent

1980 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Kramer vs. Kramer

Robert Benton

1979 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Midnight Express

Oliver Stone

1978 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Julia

Alvin Sargent

1977 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

All the President’s Men

William Goldman

1976 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Lawrence Hauben

1975 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

The Godfather: Part II

Francis Ford Coppola

1974 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Serpico

Waldo Salt

1973 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

The Godfather

Mario Puzo

1972 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

The French Connection

Ernest Tidyman

1971 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

I Never Sang for My Father

Robert Anderson

1970 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay

Midnight Cowboy

Waldo Salt