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2020 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Jojo Rabbit
Taika Waititi
2019 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
BlacKkKlansman
Charlie Wachtel
2018 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Call Me by Your Name
James Ivory
2017 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Moonlight
Barry Jenkins
2016 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Big Short
Charles Randolph
2015 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Imitation Game
Graham Moore
2014 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
12 Years a Slave
John Ridley
2013 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Argo
Chris Terrio
2012 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Descendants
Alexander Payne
2011 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Social Network
Aaron Sorkin
2010 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Precious
Geoffrey Fletcher
2009 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Slumdog Millionaire
Simon Beaufoy
2008 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
No Country for Old Men
Joel Coen
2007 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Departed
William Monahan
2006 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Brokeback Mountain
Larry McMurtry
2005 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Sideways
Alexander Payne
2004 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Fran Walsh
2003 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Pianist
Ronald Harwood
2002 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
A Beautiful Mind
Akiva Goldsman
2001 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Traffic
Stephen Gaghan
2000 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Cider House Rules
John Irving
1999 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Gods and Monsters
Bill Condon
1998 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
L.A. Confidential
Brian Helgeland
1997 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Sling Blade
Billy Bob Thornton
1996 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Sense and Sensibility
Emma Thompson
1995 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Forrest Gump
Eric Roth
1994 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Schindler’s List
Steven Zaillian
1993 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Howards End
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1992 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Silence of the Lambs
Ted Tally
1991 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Dances with Wolves
Michael Blake
1990 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Driving Miss Daisy
Alfred Uhry
1989 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Dangerous Liaisons
Christopher Hampton
1988 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Last Emperor
Mark Peploe
1987 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
A Room with a View
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1986 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Out of Africa
Kurt Luedtke
1985 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Amadeus
Peter Shaffer
1984 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Terms of Endearment
James L. Brooks
1983 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Missing
Costa-Gavras
1982 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
On Golden Pond
Ernest Thompson
1981 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Ordinary People
Alvin Sargent
1980 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Kramer vs. Kramer
Robert Benton
1979 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Midnight Express
Oliver Stone
1978 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Julia
Alvin Sargent
1977 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
All the President’s Men
William Goldman
1976 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Lawrence Hauben
1975 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Godfather: Part II
Francis Ford Coppola
1974 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Exorcist
William Peter Blatty
1973 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Godfather
Mario Puzo
1972 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The French Connection
Ernest Tidyman
1971 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
MASH
Ring Lardner Jr.
1970 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Midnight Cowboy
Waldo Salt
1969 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Lion in Winter
James Goldman
1968 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
In the Heat of the Night
Stirling Silliphant
1967 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
A Man for All Seasons
Robert Bolt
1966 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Doctor Zhivago
Robert Bolt
1965 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Becket
Edward Anhalt
1964 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Tom Jones
John Osborne
1963 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Horton Foote
1962 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Judgment at Nuremberg
Abby Mann
1961 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Elmer Gantry
Richard Brooks
1960 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Room at the Top
Neil Paterson
1959 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Gigi
Alan Jay Lerner
1958 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Pierre Boulle
1957 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Around the World in 80 Days
James Poe
1956 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Marty
Paddy Chayefsky
1955 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Country Girl
George Seaton
1954 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
From Here to Eternity
Daniel Taradash
1953 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Bad and the Beautiful
Charles Schnee
1952 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
A Place in the Sun
Michael Wilson
1951 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
All About Eve
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1950 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
A Letter to Three Wives
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1949 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Huston
1948 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Miracle on 34th Street
George Seaton
1947 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Best Years of Our Lives
Robert E. Sherwood
1946 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Lost Weekend
Charles Brackett
1945 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Going My Way
Frank Butler
1944 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Casablanca
Julius J. Epstein
1943 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Mrs. Miniver
George Froeschel
1942 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Sidney Buchman
1941 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Philadelphia Story
Donald Ogden Stewart
1940 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Gone with the Wind
Sidney Howard
1939 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
1938 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Life of Emile Zola
Heinz Herald
1937 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Story of Louis Pasteur
Pierre Collings
1936 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Informer
Dudley Nichols
1935 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
It Happened One Night
Robert Riskin
1934 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Little Women
Victor Heerman
1932 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Bad Girl
Edwin J. Burke
1931 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Cimarron
Howard Estabrook
1930s Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Big House
Frances Marion
1930 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
The Patriot
Hanns Kräly
1929 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
