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Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay

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