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