Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay - Statistics

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Answer Stats
Year Screenwriter(s) Best Adapted Screenplay Winner % Correct
2025 Paul Thomas Anderson One Battle After Another
78%
1972 Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo The Godfather
76%
2019 Taika Waititi Jojo Rabbit
70%
2007 Coen Brothers No Country For Old Men
68%
2003 Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson & Fran Walsh The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
65%
1974 Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo The Godfather Part II
59%
2018 Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz
and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee
BlacKkKlansman
57%
1995 Emma Thompson Sense and Sensibility
54%
1939 Sidney Howard Gone With the Wind
49%
1987 Bernardo Bertolucci & Mark Peploe The Last Emperor
49%
2016 Screenplay: Barry Jenkins; Story: Tarell Alvin McCraney Moonlight
43%
1996 Billy Bob Thornton Sling Blade
43%
2015 Charles Randolph & Adam McKay The Big Short
41%
2010 Aaron Sorkin The Social Network
38%
2022 Sarah Polley Women Talking
38%
2021 Siân Heder CODA
35%
1991 Ted Tally The Silence of the Lambs
35%
1984 Peter Shaffer Amadeus
32%
1992 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Howard's End
32%
1983 James L. Brooks Terms of Endearment
32%
2017 James Ivory Call Me By Your Name
30%
1979 Robert Benton Kramer vs. Kramer
30%
1993 Steven Zaillian Schindler's List
30%
2023 Cord Jefferson American Fiction
27%
1994 Eric Roth Forrest Gump
27%
2004 Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor Sideways
27%
1973 William Peter Blatty The Exorcist
27%
1943 Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein & Howard Koch Casablanca
24%
2011 Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash The Descendants
24%
2020 Christopher Hampton& Florian Zeller The Father
24%
2012 Chris Terrio Argo
22%
1989 Alfred Uhry Driving Miss Daisy
22%
1975 Bo Goldman & Lawrence Hauben One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
22%
1999 John Irving The Cider House Rules
22%
2001 Akiva Goldsman A Beautiful Mind
19%
1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz All About Eve
19%
1976 William Goldman All the President's Men
19%
2005 Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana Brokeback Mountain
19%
1997 Curtis Hanson & Brian Helgeland L.A. Confidential
19%
1955 Paddy Chayefsky Marty
19%
1985 Kurt Luedtke Out of Africa
19%
1938 George Bernard Shaw, Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Arthur Lewis
& W. P. Lipscomb
Pygmalion
19%
2008 Simon Beaufoy Slumdog Millionaire
19%
1962 Horton Foote To Kill a Mockingbird
19%
2013 John Ridley 12 Years A Slave
16%
1966 Robert Bolt A Man for All Seasons
16%
1982 Costa-Gavras & Donald E. Stewart Missing
16%
1948 John Huston The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
16%
2000 Stephen Gaghan Traffic
16%
1986 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala A Room with a View
14%
2024 Peter Straughan Conclave
14%
1990 Michael Blake Dances with Wolves
14%
1942 George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West & Arthur Wimperis Mrs. Miniver
14%
2006 William Monahan The Departed
14%
1945 Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder The Lost Weekend
14%
2002 Ronald Harwood The Pianist
14%
1956 John Farrow, S. J. Perelman & James Poe Around the World in 80 Days
11%
1988 Christopher Hampton Dangerous Liaisons
11%
1958 Alan Jay Lerner Gigi
11%
1967 Stirling Silliphant In the Heat of the Night
11%
1934 Robert Riskin It Happened One Night
11%
1977 Alvin Sargent Julia
11%
1978 Oliver Stone Midnight Express
11%
1980 Alvin Sargent Ordinary People
11%
2009 Geoffrey S. Fletcher Precious
11%
1971 Ernest Tidyman The French Connection
11%
1963 John Osborne Tom Jones
11%
1931 Howard Estabrook Cimarron
8%
1960 Richard Brooks Elmer Gantry
8%
1953 Daniel Taradash From Here to Eternity
8%
1998 Bill Condon Gods and Monsters
8%
1944 Frank Butler& Frank Cavett Going my Way
8%
1961 Abby Mann Judgment at Nuremberg
8%
1970 Ring Lardner Jr. M*A*S*H
8%
1969 Waldo Salt Midnight Cowboy
8%
1946 Robert E. Sherwood The Best Years of Our Lives
8%
1957 Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman, & Michael Wilson The Bridge on the River Kwai
8%
1940 Donald Ogden Stewart The Philadelphia Story
8%
1928 Benjamin Glazer 7th Heaven
5%
1949 Joseph L. Mankiewicz A Letter to Three Wives
5%
1951 Harry Brown & Michael Wilson A Place in the Sun
5%
1965 Robert Bolt Doctor Zhivago
5%
1933 Victor Heerman & Sarah Y. Mason Little Women
5%
1981 Ernest Thompson On Golden Pond
5%
2014 Graham Moore The Imitation Game
5%
1935 Dudley Nichols The Informer
5%
1959 Neil Paterson A Room at the Top
3%
1932 Edwin J. Burke Bad Girl
3%
1964 Edward Anhalt Becket
3%
1941 Sidney Buchman & Seton I. Miller Here Comes Mr. Jordan
3%
1947 George Seaton Miracle on 34th Street
3%
1952 Charles Schnee The Bad and the Beautiful
3%
1930 Frances Marion The Big House
3%
1954 George Seaton The Country Girl
3%
1937 Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg & Norman Reilly Raine The Life of Emile Zola
3%
1968 James Goldman The Lion in Winter
3%
1929 Hanns Kräly The Patriot
3%
1936 Pierre Collings & Sheridan Gibney The Story of Louis Pasteur
3%
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