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2020 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Jojo Rabbit
Taika Waititi
2019 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Nicole Holofcener
2018 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Call Me by Your Name
James Ivory
2017 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Arrival
Eric Heisserer
2016 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
The Big Short
Charles Randolph
2015 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
The Imitation Game
Graham Moore
2014 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Captain Phillips
Billy Ray
2013 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Argo
Chris Terrio
2012 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
The Descendants
Alexander Payne
2011 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
The Social Network
Aaron Sorkin
2010 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Up in the Air
Jason Reitman
2009 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Slumdog Millionaire
Simon Beaufoy
2008 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
No Country for Old Men
Ethan Coen
2007 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
The Departed
William Monahan
2006 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Brokeback Mountain
Larry McMurtry
2005 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Sideways
Alexander Payne
2004 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
American Splendor
Robert Pulcini
2003 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
The Hours
David Hare
2002 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
A Beautiful Mind
Akiva Goldsman
2001 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Traffic
Stephen Gaghan
2000 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Election
Alexander Payne
1999 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Out of Sight
Scott Frank
1998 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
L.A. Confidential
Brian Helgeland
1997 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Sling Blade
Billy Bob Thornton
1996 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Sense and Sensibility
Emma Thompson
1995 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Forrest Gump
Eric Roth
1994 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Schindler’s List
Steven Zaillian
1993 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
The Player
Michael Tolkin
1992 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
The Silence of the Lambs
Ted Tally
1991 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Dances with Wolves
Michael Blake
1990 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Driving Miss Daisy
Alfred Uhry
1989 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Dangerous Liaisons
Christopher Hampton
1988 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Roxanne
Steve Martin
1987 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
A Room with a View
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1986 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Prizzi’s Honor
Richard Condon
1985 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
The Killing Fields
Bruce Robinson
1984 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Reuben, Reuben
Julius J. Epstein
1983 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Missing
Costa-Gavras
1982 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
On Golden Pond
Ernest Thompson
1981 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Ordinary People
Alvin Sargent
1980 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Kramer vs. Kramer
Robert Benton
1979 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Midnight Express
Oliver Stone
1978 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Julia
Alvin Sargent
1977 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
All the President’s Men
William Goldman
1976 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Lawrence Hauben
1975 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
The Godfather: Part II
Francis Ford Coppola
1974 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
Serpico
Waldo Salt
1973 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
The Godfather
Mario Puzo
1972 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
The French Connection
Ernest Tidyman
1971 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
I Never Sang for My Father
Robert Anderson
1970 Writers Guild of America Awards – Best Adapted Screenplay
