Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

1974 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) WinnerThe ExorcistWilliam Peter BlattyWhen a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.Amazon1974 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) NomineesPaper MoonAlvin SargentAmazonSerpicoWaldo SaltAmazonThe Last DetailRobert TowneAmazonThe Paper ChaseJames BridgesAmazon

1973 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) WinnerThe GodfatherMario PuzoThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.Amazon1973 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) NomineesCabaretJay Presson AllenAmazonPete 'n' TillieJulius J. EpsteinAmazonSounderLonne Elder IIIAmazonThe EmigrantsJan TroellAmazon

1972 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) WinnerThe French ConnectionErnest TidymanA pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.Amazon1972 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) NomineesA Clockwork OrangeStanley KubrickAmazonThe ConformistBernardo BertolucciAmazonThe Garden of the Finzi-ContinisUgo PirroAmazonThe Last Picture ShowLarry McMurtryAmazon

1971 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) WinnerMASHRing Lardner Jr.The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.Amazon1971 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) NomineesAirportGeorge SeatonAmazonI Never Sang for My FatherRobert AndersonAmazonLovers and Other StrangersJoseph BolognaAmazonWomen in LoveLarry KramerAmazon

1970 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) WinnerMidnight CowboyWaldo SaltA naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.Amazon1970 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) NomineesAnne of the Thousand DaysJohn HaleAmazonGoodbye, ColumbusArnold SchulmanAmazonThey Shoot Horses, Don't They?James PoeAmazonZJorge SemprúnAmazon

1969 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) WinnerThe Lion in WinterJames Goldman1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.Amazon1969 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) NomineesOliver!Vernon HarrisAmazonRachel, RachelStewart SternAmazonRosemary's BabyRoman PolanskiAmazonThe Odd CoupleNeil SimonAmazon

1968 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) WinnerIn the Heat of the NightStirling SilliphantAn African-American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.Amazon1968 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) NomineesCool Hand LukeDonn PearceAmazonIn Cold BloodRichard BrooksAmazonThe GraduateCalder WillinghamAmazonUlyssesJoseph StrickAmazon

1967 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) WinnerA Man for All SeasonsRobert BoltThe story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.Amazon1967 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) NomineesAlfieBill NaughtonAmazonThe ProfessionalsRichard BrooksAmazonThe Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!William RoseAmazonWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Ernest LehmanAmazon

1966 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) WinnerDoctor ZhivagoRobert BoltThe life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.Amazon1966 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) NomineesA Thousand ClownsHerb GardnerAmazonCat BallouWalter NewmanAmazonShip of FoolsAbby MannAmazonThe CollectorStanley MannAmazon

1965 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) WinnerBecketEdward AnhaltKing Henry II of England comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant Thomas Becket, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the King's.Amazon1965 Academy Awards - Writing (Adapted Screenplay) NomineesDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the BombStanley KubrickAmazonMary PoppinsBill WalshAmazonMy Fair LadyAlan Jay LernerAmazonZorba the GreekMichael CacoyannisAmazon