1991 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay) Winner
![Dances with Wolves Michael Blake](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/dances-with-wolves-kevin-costner-image.jpg)
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.
1991 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay) Nominees
![Awakenings Steven Zaillian](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/awakenings-penny-marshall-image.jpg)
Awakenings
Steven Zaillian
![Goodfellas Nicholas Pileggi](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/goodfellas-martin-scorsese-image.jpg)
Goodfellas
Nicholas Pileggi
![Reversal of Fortune Nicholas Kazan](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/reversal-of-fortune-image.jpg)
Reversal of Fortune
Nicholas Kazan
![The Grifters Donald E. Westlake](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-grifters-stephen-frears-image.jpg)