1991 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay) Winner and Nominees

Dances with Wolves

Michael Blake

Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.

Awakenings

Steven Zaillian

Goodfellas

Nicholas Pileggi

Reversal of Fortune

Nicholas Kazan

The Grifters

Donald E. Westlake