Best Adapted Screenplay - Academy Award, awarded each year to the writer of a screenplay adapted from another source (usually a novel, play, or short story).

Best Adapted Screenplay
Academy Award, awarded each year to the writer of a screenplay adapted from another source (usually a novel, play, or short story).

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See Also: the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay, a similar award for screenplays that are not adapted from elsewhere.

2005: Brokeback Mountain
2004: Sideways
2003: The Lord of The Rings: the Return of The King
2002: The Pianist
2001: A Beautiful Mind
2000: Traffic
1999: The Cider House Rules
1998: Gods and Monsters
1997: L.A. Confidential
1996: Sling Blade
1995: Sense & Sensibility
1994: Forrest Gump
1993: Shindler's List
1992: Howards End
1991: The Silence of The Lambs
1990: Dances with Wolves
1989: Driving Miss Daisy
1988: Dangerous Liaisons
1987: The Last Emperor
1986: A Room with a View
1985: Out of Africa
1984: Amadeus
1983: Terms of Endearment
1982: Missing
1981: On Golden Pond
1980: Ordinary People
1979: Kramer vs. Kramer
1978: Midnight Express
1977: Julia
1976: All The President's Men
1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1974: The Godfather, Part II
1973: The Exorcist
1972: The Godfather
1971: The French Connection
1970: M*A*S*H
1969: Midnight Cowboy
1968: The Lion in Winter
1967: In the Heat of the Night
1966: A Man for All Seasons
1965: Doctor Zhivago
1964: Becket
1963: Tom Jones
1962: To Kill a Mockingbird
1961: Judgment at Nuremberg
1960: Elmer Gantry
1959: Room at the Top
1958: Gigi
1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai
For 1957 the category was renamed Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
1956: Around the World in Eighty Days
1955: Marty
1954: The Country Girl
1953: From Here to Eternity
1952: The Bad and the Beautiful
1951: A Place in the Sun
1950: All About Eve
1949: A Letter to Three Wives
1948: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1947: Miracle on 34th Street
1946: The Best Years of Our Lives
1945: The Lost Weekend
1944: Going My Way
1943: Casablanca
1942: Mrs Miniver
1941: Here Comes Mr. Jordan
1940: The Philadelphia Story
1939: Gone with the Wind
1938: Pygmalion
1937: The Life of Emile Zola
1936: The Story of Louis Pasteur
1935: The Informer
1934: It Happened One Night
1932/1933: Little Women
1931/1932: Bad Girl
1930/1931: Cimarron
For the 1930/31 production year the award was again subdivided, and this one was once again Best Writing, Adaptation.
1929/1930: The Big House
1928/1929: The Patriot
1927/1928: Seventh Heaven
In the 2nd and 3rd years there was only a single writing award for Writing Achievement with no distinction between original works and adaptations.