Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay

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Nominees and winners (bold font) of the Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay:

2007
- Atonement - Christopher Hampton
- Away from Her - Sarah Polley
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Ronald Harwood
- No Country for Old Men - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
- There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson
2006
- Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham, Dan Mazer
- Children of Men - Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby]
- The Departed - William Monahan
- Little Children - Todd Field, Tom Perrotta
- Notes on a Scandal - Patrick Marber
2005
- Brokeback Mountain - Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana
- Capote - Dan Futterman
- The Constant Gardener - Jeffrey Caine
- A History of Violence - Josh Olson
- Munich - Tony Kushner, Eric Roth
2004
- Before Sunset - Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater, Kim Krizan
- Finding Neverland - David Magee
- Million Dollar Baby - Paul Haggis
- The Motorcycle Diaries - José Rivera
- Sideways - Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
2003
- American Splendor - Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman
- City of God - Braulio Mantovani
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson
- Mystic River - Brian Helgeland
- Seabiscuit - Gary Ross
2002
- About a Boy - Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz
- Adaptation - Charlie Kaufman, Donald Kaufman
- Chicago - Bill Condon
- The Hours - David Hare
- The Pianist - Ronald Harwood
2001
- A Beautiful Mind - Akiva Goldsman
- Ghost World - Daniel Clowes, Terry Zwigoff
- In the Bedroom - Rob Festinger, Todd Field
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson
- Shrek - Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman, Roger S.H. Schulman
2000
- Chocolat - Robert Nelson Jacobs
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Wang Hui Ling, James Schamus,Tsai Kuo Jung
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- Traffic - Stephen Gaghan
- Wonder Boys - Steve Kloves
1999
- The Cider House Rules - John Irving
- Election - Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
- The Green Mile - Frank Darabont
- The Insider - Eric Roth, Michael Mann
- The Talented Mr. Ripley - Anthony Minghella
1998
- Gods and Monsters - Bill Condon
- Out of Sight - Scott Frank
- Primary Colors - Elaine May
- A Simple Plan - Scott B. Smith
- The Thin Red Line - Terrence Malick
1997
- Donnie Brasco - Paul Attanasio
- L.A. Confidential - Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson
- The Sweet Hereafter - Atom Egoyan
- Wag the Dog - Hilary Henkin, David Mamet
- The Wings of the Dove - Hossein Amini
1996
- The Crucible - Arthur Miller (writer)
- The English Patient - Anthony Minghella
- Hamlet (1996) - Kenneth Branagh
- Sling Blade - Billy Bob Thornton
- Trainspotting - John Hodge
1995
- Apollo 13 - William Broyles, Jr., Al Reinert
- Babe - George Miller, Chris Noonan
- Leaving Las Vegas - Mike Figgis
- The Postman (Il Postino) - Anna Pavignano, Michael Radford, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli, Massimo Troisi
- Sense and Sensibility - Emma Thompson
1994
- Forrest Gump - Eric Roth
- The Madness of King George - Alan Bennett
- Nobody's Fool - Robert Benton
- Quiz Show - Paul Attanasio
- The Shawshank Redemption - Frank Darabont
1993
- The Age of Innocence - Jay Cocks, Martin Scorsese
- In the Name of the Father - Terry George, Jim Sheridan
- The Remains of the Day - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Schindler's List - Steven Zaillian
- Shadowlands - William Nicholson
1992
- Enchanted April - Peter Barnes
- Howards End - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- The Player - Michael Tolkin
- A River Runs Through It - Richard Friedenberg
- Scent of a Woman (1992) - Bo Goldman
1991
- Europa Europa - Agnieszka Holland
- Fried Green Tomatoes - Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski
- JFK - Oliver Stone, Zachary Sklar
- The Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy, Becky Johnston
- The Silence of the Lambs - Ted Tally
1990
- Awakenings - Steven Zaillian
- Dances With Wolves - Michael Blake
- Good Fellas - Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese
- The Grifters - Donald E. Westlake
- Reversal of Fortune - Nicholas Kazan
1989
- Born on the Fourth of July - Oliver Stone, Ron Kovic
- Driving Miss Daisy - Alfred Uhry
- Enemies, A Love Story - Roger L. Simon, Paul Mazursky
- Field of Dreams - Phil Alden Robinson
- My Left Foot - Jim Sheridan, Shane Connaughton
1988
- The Accidental Tourist - Frank Galati, Lawrence Kasdan
- Dangerous Liaisons - Christopher Hampton
- Gorillas in the Mist - Anna Hamilton Phelan, Tab Murphy
- Little Dorrit - Christine Edzard
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Jean-Claude Carrière, Philip Kaufman
1987
- The Dead - Tony Huston
- Fatal Attraction - James Dearden
- Full Metal Jacket - Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford
- The Last Emperor - Mark Peploe, Bernardo Bertolucci
- My Life As a Dog - Lasse Hallstrm, Reidar Jnsson, Brasse Brännstrm, Per Berglund
1986
- Children of a Lesser God - Hesper Anderson, Mark Medoff
- The Color of Money - Richard Price
- Crimes of the Heart - Beth Henley
- A Room with a View - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Stand By Me - Raynold Gideon, Bruce A. Evans
1985
- The Color Purple - Menno Meyjes
- Kiss of the Spider Woman - Leonard Schrader
- Out of Africa - Kurt Luedtke
- Prizzi's Honor - Richard Condon, Janet Roach
- The Trip to Bountiful - Horton Foote
1984
- Amadeus - Peter Shaffer
- Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes - P.H. Vazak (a pseudonym of Robert Towne), Michael Austin
- The Killing Fields - Bruce Robinson
- A Passage to India - David Lean
- A Soldier's Story - Charles Fuller
1983
- Betrayal - Harold Pinter
- The Dresser - Ronald Harwood
- Educating Rita - Willy Russell
- Reuben, Reuben - Julius J. Epstein
- Terms of Endearment - James L. Brooks
1982
- Das Boot - Wolfgang Petersen
- Missing - Costa-Gavras, Donald Stewart
- Sophie's Choice - Alan J. Pakula
- The Verdict - David Mamet
- Victor/Victoria - Blake Edwards
1981
- The French Lieutenant's Woman - Harold Pinter
- On Golden Pond - Ernest Thompson
- Pennies from Heaven (1981) - Dennis Potter
- Prince of the City - Jay Presson Allen, Sidney Lumet
- Ragtime - Michael Weller
1980
- Breaker Morant - Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens, Bruce Beresford
- Coal Miner's Daughter - Tom Rickman
- The Elephant Man - Christopher DeVore, Eric Bergren, David Lynch
- Ordinary People - Alvin Sargent
- The Stunt Man - Lawrence B. Marcus, Richard Rush
1979
- Apocalypse Now - John Milius, Francis Coppola
- La Cage aux Folles - Francis Veber, Edouard Molinaro, Marcello Danon, Jean Poiret
- Kramer vs. Kramer - Robert Benton
- A Little Romance - Allan Burns
- Norma Rae - Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank, Jr.
1978
- Bloodbrothers - Walter Newman
- California Suite - Neil Simon
- Heaven Can Wait (1978) - Elaine May, Warren Beatty
- Midnight Express - Oliver Stone
- Same Time, Next Year - Bernard Slade
1977
- Equus - Peter Shaffer
- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden - Gavin Lambert, Lewis John Carlino
- Julia - Alvin Sargent
- Oh, God! - Larry Gelbart
- That Obscure Object of Desire - Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière
1976
- All the President's Men - William Goldman
- Bound for Glory - Robert Getchell
- Fellini's Casanova - Federico Fellini, Bernadino Zapponi
- The Seven-per-cent Solution - Nicholas Meyer
- Voyage of the Damned - Steve Shagan, David Butler
1975
- Barry Lyndon - Stanley Kubrick
- The Man Who Would Be King - John Huston, Gladys Hill
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman
- Scent of a Woman (1975) - Ruggero Maccari, Dino Risi
- The Sunshine Boys - Neil Simon
1974
- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Mordecai Richler, Lionel Chetwynd
- The Godfather Part II - Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo
- Lenny - Julian Barry
- Murder on the Orient Express - Paul Dehn
- Young Frankenstein - Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks
1973
- The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
- The Last Detail - Robert Towne
- The Paper Chase - James Bridges
- Paper Moon - Alvin Sargent
- Serpico - Waldo Salt, Norman Wexler
1972
- Cabaret - Jay Allen
- The Emigrants - Jan Troell, Bengt Forslund
- The Godfather - Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola
- Pete 'n' Tillie - Julius J. Epstein
- Sounder - Lonne Elder, III
1971
- A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick
- The Conformist - Bernardo Bertolucci
- The French Connection - Ernest Tidyman
- The Garden of the Finzi Continis - Ugo Pirro, Vittorio Bonicelli
- The Last Picture Show - Larry McMurtry, Peter Bogdanovich
1970
- Airport - George Seaton
- I Never Sang for My Father - Robert Anderson
- Lovers and Other Strangers - Renee Taylor, Joseph Bologna, David Zelag Goodman
- M*A*S*H - Ring Lardner, Jr.
- Women in Love - Larry Kramer
1969
- Anne of the Thousand Days - John Hale, Bridget Boland, Richard Sokolove
- Goodbye, Columbus - Arnold Schulman
- Midnight Cowboy - Waldo Salt
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - James Poe, Robert E. Thompson
- Z - Jorge Semprun, Costa-Gavras
1968
- The Lion in Winter - James Goldman
- The Odd Couple - Neil Simon
- Oliver! - Vernon Harris
- Rachel, Rachel - Stewart Stern
- Rosemary's Baby - Roman Polanski
1967
- Cool Hand Luke - Donn Pearce, Frank R. Pierson
- The Graduate - Calder Willingham, Buck Henry
- In Cold Blood - Richard Brooks
- In the Heat of the Night - Stirling Silliphant
- Ulysses - Joseph Strick, Fred Haines
1966
- Alfie - Bill Naughton
- A Man for All Seasons - Robert Bolt
- The Professionals - Richard Brooks
- The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming - William Rose
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Ernest Lehman
1965
- Cat Ballou - Walter Newman, Frank R. Pierson
- The Collector - Stanley Mann, John Kohn
- Doctor Zhivago - Robert Bolt
- Ship of Fools - Abby Mann
- A Thousand Clowns - Herb Gardner
1964
- Becket - Edward Anhalt
- Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Stanley Kubrick, Peter George, Terry Southern
- Mary Poppins - Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi
- My Fair Lady - Alan Jay Lerner
- Zorba the Greek - Michael Cacoyannis
1963
- Captain Newman, M.D. - Richard L. Breen, Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron
- Hud - Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank, Jr.
- Lilies of the Field - James Poe
- Sundays and Cybele - Serge Bourguignon, Antoine Tudal
- Tom Jones - John Osborne
1962
- David and Lisa - Eleanor Perry
- Lawrence of Arabia - Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- The Miracle Worker - William Gibson
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Horton Foote
1961
- Breakfast at Tiffany's - George Axelrod
- The Guns of Navarone - Carl Foreman
- The Hustler - Sidney Carroll, Robert Rossen
- Judgment at Nuremberg - Abby Mann
- West Side Story - Ernest Lehman
1960
- Elmer Gantry - Richard Brooks
- Inherit the Wind - Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith
- Sons and Lovers - Gavin Lambert, T. E. B. Clarke
- The Sundowners - Isobel Lennart
- Tunes of Glory - James Kennaway
1959
- Anatomy of a Murder - Wendell Mayes
- Ben-Hur - Karl Tunberg
- The Nun's Story - Robert Anderson
- Room at the Top - Neil Paterson
- Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
1958
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Richard Brooks, James Poe
- Gigi - Alan Jay Lerner
- The Horse's Mouth - Alec Guinness
- I Want To Live! - Nelson Gidding, Don Mankiewicz
- Separate Tables - Terence Rattigan, John Gay
1957
- 12 Angry Men - Reginald Rose
- The Bridge on the River Kwai - Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman, Pierre Boulle
- Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison - John Lee Mahin, John Huston
- Peyton Place - John Michael Hayes
- Sayonara - Paul Osborn
1956
- Around the World in 80 Days - James Poe, John Farrow, S.J. Perelman
- Baby Doll - Tennessee Williams
- Friendly Persuasion - Michael Wilson
- Giant - Fred Guiol, Ivan Moffat
- Lust for Life - Norman Corwin
1934
- It Happened One Night - Robert Riskin
- The Thin Man - Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett
- Viva Villa! - Ben Hecht
1932/1933
- Lady for a Day - Robert Riskin
- Little Women (1932/33) - Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason
- State Fair (1932/33) - Paul Green, Sonya Levien
1931/1932
- Arrowsmith - Sidney Howard
- Bad Girl - Edwin Burke
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931/32) - Percy Heath, Samuel Hoffenstein
1930/1931
- Cimarron (1930/31) - Howard Estabrook
- The Criminal Code - Seton I. Miller, Fred Niblo, Jr.
- Holiday (1930/31) - Horace Jackson
- Little Caesar - Francis Faragoh, Robert N. Lee
- Skippy - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Sam Mintz
1927/1928
- 7th Heaven - Benjamin Glazer
- Glorious Betsy - Anthony Coldeway
- The Jazz Singer (1927/28) - Alfred Cohn

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