Best Adapted Screenplay

1985 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay WinnerThe Killing FieldsBruce RobinsonA journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.Amazon1985 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay NomineesA Passage to IndiaDavid LeanAmazonA Soldier's StoryCharles FullerAmazonGreystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the ApesRobert TowneAmazonThe NaturalPhil DusenberryAmazon

1984 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay WinnerReuben, ReubenJulius J. EpsteinA drunken Scottish poet, who has not written a word in years, feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful young woman.Amazon1984 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay NomineesThe Right StuffPhilip KaufmanAmazonThe Year of Living DangerouslyDavid WilliamsonAmazon

1983 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay WinnerMissingCosta-GavrasWhen an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.Amazon1983 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay NomineesSophie's ChoiceAlan J. PakulaAmazonThe VerdictDavid MametAmazonThe World According to GarpSteve TesichAmazon

1995 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay WinnerForrest GumpEric RothThe presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the events of Vietnam, Watergate, and other history unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75.Amazon1995 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay NomineesLittle WomenRobin SwicordAmazonQuiz ShowPaul AttanasioAmazonThe Madness of King GeorgeAlan BennettAmazonThe Shawshank RedemptionFrank DarabontAmazon

1981 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay WinnerOrdinary PeopleAlvin SargentThe accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.Amazon1981 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay NomineesCoal Miner's DaughterThomas RickmanAmazonThe Elephant ManChristopher De VoreAmazonThe Great SantiniLewis John CarlinoAmazonThe Stunt ManLawrence B. MarcusAmazon

1980 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay WinnerKramer vs. KramerRobert BentonTed Kramer's wife leaves him, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son, deepening the wounds left by the separation.Amazon1980 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay NomineesNorma RaeIrving RavetchAmazon

1979 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay WinnerMidnight ExpressOliver StoneBilly Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.Amazon1979 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay NomineesBloodbrothersWalter NewmanAmazonGo Tell the SpartansWendell MayesAmazonInvasion of the Body SnatchersW.D. RichterAmazonWho'll Stop the RainJudith RascoeAmazon

1978 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay WinnerJuliaAlvin SargentAt the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.Amazon1978 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay NomineesI Never Promised You a Rose GardenGavin LambertAmazonIslands in the StreamDenne Bart PetitclercAmazonLooking for Mr. GoodbarRichard BrooksAmazon

1977 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay WinnerAll the President's MenWilliam Goldman"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.Amazon1977 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay NomineesBound for GloryRobert GetchellAmazonMarathon ManWilliam GoldmanAmazonThe Seven-Per-Cent SolutionNicholas MeyerAmazonThe ShootistMiles Hood SwarthoutAmazon

1976 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay WinnerOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestLawrence HaubenA criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.Amazon1976 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay NomineesBarry LyndonStanley KubrickAmazonJawsPeter BenchleyAmazonThe Man in the Glass BoothEdward AnhaltAmazonThe Man Who Would Be KingJohn HustonAmazon