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1998 Critics Choice Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay WinnerL.A. ConfidentialBrian HelgelandAs corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen -- one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy -- investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.Amazon

1999 Critics Choice Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay WinnerA Simple PlanScott B. SmithWhen three blue collar acquaintances come across millions of dollars in lost cash they make a plan to keep their find from the authorities but find complications and mistrust weaving its way into their plan.Amazon

2000 Critics Choice Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay WinnerThe Green MileFrank DarabontThe lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.Amazon

2001 Critics Choice Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay WinnerTrafficStephen GaghanA conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the fAmazonWonder BoysSteve KlovesAn English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in.Amazon

2010 Critics Choice Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay WinnerUp in the AirJason ReitmanRyan Bingham enjoys living out of a suitcase for his job, travelling around the country firing people, but finds that lifestyle threatened by the presence of a potential love interest, and a new hire.Amazon2010 Critics Choice Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay NomineesA Single ManTom FordAmazonAn EducationNick HornbyAmazonDistrict 9Neill BlomkampAmazonFantastic Mr. FoxWes AndersonAmazonPreciousGeoffrey FletcherAmazon

2011 Critics Choice Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay WinnerThe Social NetworkAaron SorkinAs Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea, and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.Amazon2011 Critics Choice Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay Nominees127 HoursSimon BeaufoyAmazonThe TownPeter CraigAmazonToy Story 3Michael ArndtAmazonTrue GritJoel CoenAmazonWinter's BoneDebra GranikAmazon

2012 Critics Choice Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay WinnerMoneyballSteven ZaillianOakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players.Amazon2012 Critics Choice Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay NomineesExtremely Loud & Incredibly CloseEric RothAmazonHugoJohn LoganAmazonThe DescendantsAlexander PayneAmazonThe HelpTate TaylorAmazon

2013 Critics Choice Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay WinnerLincolnTony KushnerAs the American Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves.Amazon2013 Critics Choice Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay NomineesArgoChris TerrioAmazonLife of PiDavid MageeAmazonSilver Linings PlaybookDavid O. RussellAmazonThe Perks of Being a WallflowerStephen ChboskyAmazon

2014 Critics Choice Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay Winner12 Years a SlaveJohn RidleyIn the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.Amazon2014 Critics Choice Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay NomineesAugust: Osage CountyTracy LettsAmazonBefore MidnightRichard LinklaterAmazonCaptain PhillipsBilly RayAmazonPhilomenaSteve CooganAmazonThe Wolf of Wall StreetTerence WinterAmazon

2015 Critics Choice Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay WinnerGone GirlGillian FlynnWith his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.Amazon2015 Critics Choice Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay NomineesInherent VicePaul Thomas AndersonAmazonThe Imitation GameGraham MooreAmazonThe Theory of EverythingAnthony McCartenAmazonUnbrokenJoel CoenAmazonWildNick HornbyAmazon