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{{Infobox award
| name         = Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
| image        =
| caption      = The 2024 recipient: [[Peter Straughan]]
| presenter    = [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] (AMPAS)
| country      = [[United States]]
| year         = [[1st Academy Awards|1929]]
| holder_label = Most recent winner
| holder       = [[Peter Straughan]], <br /> ''[[Conclave (film)|Conclave]]'' ([[97th Academy Awards|2024]])
| website      = {{url|oscars.org}}
}}

The '''Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay''' is the [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for the best [[screenplay]] [[Film adaptation|adapted]] from previously established material. The most frequently adapted media are novels, but other adapted narrative formats include stage plays, musicals, short stories, TV series, and other films and film characters. All sequels are also considered adaptations by this standard, being based on the story and characters of the original film.

Prior to its current name, the award was known as the '''Academy Award for Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium'''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.filmsite.org/bestscreenplays.html |title=Academy Awards Best Screenplays and Writers}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://filmschoolrejects.com/oscar-week-best-adapted-screenplay/ |title=Oscar Week: Best Adapted Screenplay |date=21 February 2008}}</ref> The Best Adapted Screenplay category has been a part of the Academy Awards since their inception.

==Superlatives==
The first person to win twice in this category was [[Joseph L. Mankiewicz]], who won the award in two consecutive years, 1949 and 1950. Others to win twice in this category include [[George Seaton]], [[Robert Bolt]] (who also won in consecutive years), [[Francis Ford Coppola]], [[Mario Puzo]], [[Alvin Sargent]], [[Ruth Prawer Jhabvala]], [[Michael Wilson (writer)|Michael Wilson]], [[Alexander Payne]] and [[Christopher Hampton]]. Payne won both awards as part of a writing team, with [[Jim Taylor (writer)|Jim Taylor]] for ''[[Sideways]]'' and [[Jim Rash]] and [[Nat Faxon]] for ''[[The Descendants]]''. [[Michael Wilson (writer)|Michael Wilson]] was [[Hollywood blacklist|blacklisted]] at the time of his second Oscar, so the award was given to a front (novelist [[Pierre Boulle]]). However, the Academy officially recognized him as the winner several years later.<ref name="oscars1">{{cite news |title=Oscars Go to Writers of 'Kwai' |author=[[Aljean Harmetz]] |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 16, 1985 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/16/movies/oscars-go-to-writers-for-kwai.html}}</ref>

[[Billy Wilder]], [[Charles Brackett]], [[Paddy Chayefsky]], [[Francis Ford Coppola]], [[Horton Foote]], [[William Goldman]], [[Robert Benton]], [[Bo Goldman]], [[Waldo Salt]], and the [[Coen brothers]] have won Oscars for both original and adapted screenplays.

[[Frances Marion]] (''[[The Big House (1930 film)|The Big House]]'') was the first woman to win in any screenplay category, although she won for her original script for Best Writing, which then included both original and adapted screenplays before a separate award for Best Original Screenplay was introduced. [[Sarah Y. Mason]] (''[[Little Women (1933 film)|Little Women]]'') was the first woman to win for adaptation from previously established material; she shared the award with her husband, [[Victor Heerman]]. They are also the first of two married couples to win in this category; [[Peter Jackson]] and [[Fran Walsh]] (''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'') are the others.

[[Pierre Collings]] and [[Sheridan Gibney]] (''[[The Story of Louis Pasteur]]'') were the first to win for adapting their own work.

[[Philip G. Epstein]] and [[Julius J. Epstein]] (''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]'') are the first siblings to win in this category. [[James Goldman]] (''[[The Lion in Winter (1968 film)|The Lion in Winter]]'') and [[William Goldman]] (''[[All the President's Men (film)|All the President's Men]]'') are the first siblings to win for separate films. [[Coen brothers|Joel Coen and Ethan Coen]] (''[[No Country for Old Men (film)|No Country for Old Men]]'') are the third winning siblings.

[[Mario Puzo]] is the one of two writers whose work has been adapted and resulted in two wins. Puzo's novel ''The Godfather'' resulted in wins in 1972 and 1974 for himself and [[Francis Ford Coppola]]. The other is [[E. M. Forster]], whose novels ''[[A Room with a View]]'' and ''[[Howards End]]'' resulted in wins for [[Ruth Prawer Jhabvala]].

[[Larry McMurtry]] is the only person who has won for adapting someone else's work (''[[Brokeback Mountain]]''), and whose own work has been adapted by someone else, resulting in a win (''[[Terms of Endearment]]''{{--)}}.

[[William Monahan]] (''[[The Departed]]''{{--)}} and [[Sian Heder]] (''[[CODA (2021 film)|CODA]]'') are the only people who have won this award by using another full-length feature film as the credited source of the adaptation.

[[Geoffrey S. Fletcher]] (''[[Precious (film)|Precious]]''), [[John Ridley]] (''[[12 Years a Slave (film)|12 Years a Slave]]'') and [[Cord Jefferson]] (''[[American Fiction (film)|American Fiction]]'') are the only African-Americans to win solo in this category; Fletcher is also the first African-American to win in any writing category. [[Barry Jenkins]] and [[Tarell Alvin McCraney]] (''[[Moonlight (2016 film)|Moonlight]]''{{--)}} are the first African-American writing duo to win; [[Spike Lee]] and [[Kevin Willmott]] (''[[BlacKkKlansman]]'') are the second, although their co-writers, David Rabinowitz and Charlie Wachtel, are both white.

[[James Ivory]] (''[[Call Me by Your Name (film)|Call Me by Your Name]]'') is the oldest person to receive the award at age 89. Charlie Wachtel (''[[BlacKkKlansman]]'') is the youngest at age 32.

[[Taika Waititi]] (''[[Jojo Rabbit]]''{{--)}} is the first person of [[Māori people|Māori]] descent to receive the award.

[[Emma Thompson]] (''[[Sense and Sensibility (1995 film)|Sense and Sensibility]]'') is the only winner who has also won for acting.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/emma-thompson-how-jane-austen-saved-me-from-going-under-1929510.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100406024256/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/emma-thompson-how-jane-austen-saved-me-from-going-under-1929510.html |archive-date=2010-04-06 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |title=Emma Thompson: How Jane Austen saved me from going under |work=[[The Independent]] |first=Andrew |last=Johnson |date=28 March 2010 |access-date=18 August 2011}}</ref> Winners [[Billy Bob Thornton]] (''[[Sling Blade (film)|Sling Blade]]'') and [[John Huston]] (''[[The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film)|The Treasure of the Sierra Madre]]'') have been nominated for acting but not won.

[[Charles Schnee]] (''[[The Bad and the Beautiful]]''{{--)}}, [[Billy Bob Thornton]] (''[[Sling Blade (film)|Sling Blade]]''), and [[Bill Condon]] (''[[Gods and Monsters (film)|Gods and Monsters]]'') are the only winners whose respective films were not nominated for [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]].

==Notable nominees==
Noted novelists and playwrights nominated in this category include: [[George Bernard Shaw]] (who shared an award for an adaptation of his play ''Pygmalion''), [[Graham Greene]], [[Tennessee Williams]], [[Vladimir Nabokov]], [[James Hilton (novelist)|James Hilton]], [[Dashiell Hammett]], [[Raymond Chandler]], [[Lillian Hellman]], [[Irwin Shaw]], [[James Agee]], [[Norman Corwin]], [[S. J. Perelman]], [[Terence Rattigan]], [[John Osborne]], [[Robert Bolt]], [[Harold Pinter]], [[David Mamet]], [[Larry McMurtry]], [[Arthur Miller]], [[John Irving]], [[David Hare (playwright)|David Hare]], [[Tony Kushner]], [[August Wilson]], [[Florian Zeller]] and [[Kazuo Ishiguro]].

[[Ted Elliott (screenwriter)|Ted Elliott]], [[Roger S. H. Schulman]], [[Joe Stillman]] & [[Terry Rossio]], writers of ''[[Shrek]]'' and [[Michael Arndt]], [[John Lasseter]], [[Andrew Stanton]] & [[Lee Unkrich]], writers of ''[[Toy Story 3]]'', are as of 2020, the only writers to be nominated for an animated film.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6TRPHx7_e8 A Beautiful Mind Wins Adapted Screenplay: 2002 Oscars]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VP5mFHl_lY Aaron Sorkin Wins Adapted Screenplay: 2011 Oscars]</ref>

[[Scott Frank]], [[James Mangold]] and [[Michael Green (writer)|Michael Green]], writers of ''[[Logan (film)|Logan]]'', are the first writers to be nominated for a film based on superhero comic books (the [[X-Men]]).<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNtvTr4hADk "Call Me by Your Name" wins Best Adapted Screenplay-Oscars on YouTube]</ref><ref>[https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2018 2018|Oscars.org]</ref>

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| image1              = Howard Estabrook 1916.jpg
| caption1            = [[Howard Estabrook]] won for ''[[Cimarron (1931 film)|Cimarron]]'' (1931).
| image2              = Victor Heerman - Feb 1920 EH.jpg
| caption2            = [[Victor Heerman]] co-won for ''[[Little Women (1933 film)|Little Women]]'' (1933).
| image3              = Sarah Y Mason - Aug 1920 EH.jpg
| caption3            = [[Sarah Y. Mason]] co-won for ''[[Little Women (1933 film)|Little Women]]'' (1933).
| image4              = Robert Riskin (1934).jpg
| caption4            = [[Robert Riskin]] won for ''[[It Happened One Night]]'' (1934).
| image5              = Pierre Collings 1926.jpg
| caption5            = [[Pierre Collings]] co-won for ''[[The Story of Louis Pasteur]]'' (1936).
| image6              = Sidney Coe Howard 1909 (cropped).jpg
| caption6            = [[Sidney Howard]] won the award [[Posthumous award|posthumously]] for ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'' (1939).
| image7              = Froeschel-george-in-50-jahre-ullstein-1877-1927-berlin-ullstein-1927-s301.jpg
| caption7            = [[George Froeschel]] co-won for ''[[Mrs. Miniver]]'' (1942).
| image8              = Julius Epstein.jpg
| caption8            = [[Julius J. Epstein]] co-won for ''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]'' (1943).
| image9              = Charles Brackett.jpg
| caption9            = [[Charles Brackett]] co-won for ''[[The Lost Weekend (film)|The Lost Weekend]]'' (1945).
| image10              = Billy Wilder.jpg
| caption10            = [[Billy Wilder]] co-won for ''[[The Lost Weekend (film)|The Lost Weekend]]'' (1945).
| image11              = Robert-Sherwood-1928.jpg
| caption11            = [[Robert E. Sherwood]] won for ''[[The Best Years of Our Lives]]'' (1946).
| image12              = John Huston - publicity.JPG
| caption12            = [[John Huston]] won for ''[[The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film)|The Treasure of the Sierra Madre]]'' (1948).
| image13              = Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950).jpg
| caption13            = [[Joseph L. Mankiewicz]] won the award two years in a row, first for ''[[A Letter to Three Wives]]'' (1949) and then for ''[[All About Eve]]'' (1950).
| image14              = Paddy Chayefsky NYWTS edited.jpg
| caption14            = [[Paddy Chayefsky]] won for ''[[Marty (film)|Marty]]'' (1955).
| image15              = John Farrow 1934 crop.jpg
| caption15            = [[John Farrow]] co-won for ''[[Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film)|Around the World in 80 Days]]'' (1956).
| image16              = SJ Perelman (cropped).jpg
| caption16            = [[S. J. Perelman]] co-won for ''[[Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film)|Around the World in 80 Days]]'' (1956).
| image17              = Carl Foreman 1961.jpg
| caption17            = [[Carl Foreman]] co-won for ''[[The Bridge on the River Kwai]]'' (1957).
| image18              = Alan Jay Lerner (1962).jpg
| caption18            = [[Alan Jay Lerner]] won for ''[[Gigi (1958 film)|Gigi]]'' (1958).
| image19              = RichardBrooks45.JPG
| caption19            = [[Richard Brooks]] won for ''[[Elmer Gantry (film)|Elmer Gantry]]'' (1960).
| image20              = Ring Lardner Jr. (cropped).jpg
| caption20            = [[Ring Lardner Jr.]] won for ''[[M*A*S*H (film)|M*A*S*H]]'' (1970).
| image21              = Francis Ford Coppola (33906700778) (cropped).jpg
| caption21            = [[Francis Ford Coppola]] co-won the award twice, first for ''[[The Godfather (film)|The Godfather]]'' (1972) and then for ''[[The Godfather Part II]]'' (1974).
| image22              = Mario Puzo 1972 (cropped).jpg
| caption22            = [[Mario Puzo]] co-won the award twice, first for ''[[The Godfather (film)|The Godfather]]'' (1972) and then for ''[[The Godfather Part II]]'' (1974).
| image23              = William-Peter-Blatty-2009.jpg
| caption23            = [[William Peter Blatty]] won for ''[[The Exorcist]]'' (1973), an adaptation of [[The Exorcist (novel)|his novel of the same name]].
| image24              = Goldman bo (cropped).jpg
| caption24            = [[Bo Goldman]] co-won for ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]'' (1975).
| image25              = William Goldman, author, screenwriter.jpg
| caption25            = [[William Goldman]] won for ''[[All the President's Men (film)|All the President's Men]]'' (1976).
| image26              = Alvin Sargent.jpg
| caption26            = [[Alvin Sargent]] won the award twice, first for ''[[Julia (1977 film)|Julia]]'' (1977) and then for ''[[Ordinary People]]'' (1980).
| image27              = Oliver Stone by Gage Skidmore.jpg
| caption27            = [[Oliver Stone]] won for ''[[Midnight Express (film)|Midnight Express]]'' (1978).
| image28              = Academy Award Winner Ernest Thompson.jpg
| caption28            = [[Ernest Thompson]] won for ''[[On Golden Pond (1981 film)|On Golden Pond]]'' (1981), an adaptation of [[On Golden Pond (play)|his play of the same name]].
| image29              = Costa-Gavras Césars 2017.jpg
| caption29            = [[Costa-Gavras]] co-won for ''[[Missing (1982 film)|Missing]]'' (1982).
| image30              = Donald E. Stewart (cropped).jpg
| caption30            = [[Donald E. Stewart]] co-won for ''[[Missing (1982 film)|Missing]]'' (1982).
| image31              = Jameslbrooks.jpg
| caption31            = [[James L. Brooks]] won for ''[[Terms of Endearment]]'' (1983).
| image32              = Peter Shaffer, 1966.jpg
| caption32            = [[Peter Shaffer]] won for ''[[Amadeus (film)|Amadeus]]'' (1984).
| image33              = Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 1987.jpg
| caption33            = [[Ruth Prawer Jhabvala]] won the award twice, first for ''[[A Room with a View (1986 film)|A Room with a View]]'' (1986) and then for ''[[Howards End (film)|Howards End]]'' (1992).
| image34              = Bernardo Bertolucci, film director.jpg
| caption34            = [[Bernardo Bertolucci]] co-won for ''[[The Last Emperor]]'' (1987).
| image35              = Hampton3.jpg
| caption35            = [[Christopher Hampton]] won the award twice, first as a solo writer for ''[[Dangerous Liaisons]]'' (1988) and then as a co-writer for ''[[The Father (2020 film)|The Father]]'' (2020).
| image36              = Alfred Uhry headshots-4.jpg
| caption36            = [[Alfred Uhry]] won for ''[[Driving Miss Daisy]]'' (1989), an adaptation of [[Driving Miss Daisy (play)|his play of the same name]].
| image37              = Michael Blake (2).jpg
| caption37            = [[Michael Blake (author)|Michael Blake]] won for ''[[Dances with Wolves]]'' (1990), an adaptation of [[Dances with Wolves (novel)|his novel of the same name]].
| image38              = EmmaThompson05 (cropped).jpg
| caption38            = [[Emma Thompson]] won for ''[[Sense and Sensibility (1995 film)|Sense and Sensibility]]'' (1995).
| image39              = BillyBobThorntonHWOFFeb2012crop.JPG
| caption39            = [[Billy Bob Thornton]] won for ''[[Sling Blade (film)|Sling Blade]]'' (1996).
| image40              = Curtis Hanson.JPG
| caption40            = [[Curtis Hanson]] co-won for ''[[L.A. Confidential (film)|L.A. Confidential]]'' (1997).
| image41              = Brian Helgeland (P040213CK-0212) (cropped).jpg
| caption41            = [[Brian Helgeland]] co-won for ''[[L.A. Confidential (film)|L.A. Confidential]]'' (1997).
| image42              = JohnIrving1989.jpg
| caption42            = [[John Irving]] won for ''[[The Cider House Rules (film)|The Cider House Rules]]'' (1999), an adaptation of [[The Cider House Rules|his novel of the same name]].
| image43              = Stephen Gaghan (cropped).jpg
| caption43            = [[Stephen Gaghan]] won for ''[[Traffic (2000 film)|Traffic]]'' (2000).
| image44              = Akiva Goldsman by Gage Skidmore.jpg
| caption44            = [[Akiva Goldsman]] won for ''[[A Beautiful Mind (film)|A Beautiful Mind]]'' (2001).
| image45              = Philippa Boyens 2023.jpg
| caption45            = [[Philippa Boyens]] co-won for ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'' (2003).
| image46              = Peter Jackson01.jpg
| caption46            = [[Peter Jackson]] co-won for ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'' (2003).
| image47              = Fran Walsh DNZM (cropped).jpg
| caption47            = [[Fran Walsh]] co-won for ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'' (2003).
| image48              = Alexander Payne Cannes 2012.jpg
| caption48            = [[Alexander Payne]] co-won the award twice, first for ''[[Sideways]]'' (2004) and then for ''[[The Descendants]]'' (2011).
| image49              = Larry McMurtry Photo Last Picture Show 1966.png
| caption49            = [[Larry McMurtry]] co-won for ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'' (2005).
| image50              = WilliamMonahan at LowesBostonCommon cropped higherquality.jpg
| caption50            = [[William Monahan]] won for ''[[The Departed]]'' (2006).
| image51              = Coen brothers Cannes 2015 2 (CROPPED).jpg
| caption51            = The [[Coen brothers]] won for ''[[No Country for Old Men]]'' (2007).
| image52              = Geoffrey Fletcher by David Shankbone.jpg
| caption52            = [[Geoffrey S. Fletcher]] won for ''[[Precious (film)|Precious]]'' (2009); first [[List of black Academy Award winners and nominees|Black winner in this category]].
| image53              = Aaron Sorkin (27566400913).jpg
| caption53            = [[Aaron Sorkin]] won for ''[[The Social Network]]'' (2010).
| image54              = Nat Faxon July 14, 2014 (cropped).jpg
| caption54            = [[Nat Faxon]] co-won for ''[[The Descendants]]'' (2011).
| image55              = Jim Rash by Gage Skidmore (cropped).jpg
| caption55            = [[Jim Rash]] co-won for ''[[The Descendants]]'' (2011).
| image56              = John Ridley in Nov 2013.jpg
| caption56            = [[John Ridley]] won for ''[[12 Years a Slave (film)|12 Years a Slave]]'' (2013).
| image57              = Graham Moore, Photo by Matt Sayles.jpg
| caption57            = [[Graham Moore (writer)|Graham Moore]] won for ''[[The Imitation Game]]'' (2014).
| image58              = Adam McKay (cropped).jpg
| caption58            = [[Adam McKay]] co-won for ''[[The Big Short (film)|The Big Short]]'' (2015).
| image59              = Filmmaker Barry Jenkins.jpg
| caption59            = [[Barry Jenkins]] co-won for ''[[Moonlight (2016 film)|Moonlight]]'' (2016).
| image60              = Tarell McCraney (32303406504).jpg
| caption60            = [[Tarell Alvin McCraney]] co-won for ''[[Moonlight (2016 film)|Moonlight]]'' (2016).
| image61              = James Ivory (1991.09).jpg
| caption61            = [[James Ivory]] co-won for ''[[Call Me by Your Name (film)|Call Me by Your Name]]'' (2017).
| image62              = Spike Lee Cannes 2018 (cropped).jpg
| caption62            = [[Spike Lee]] co-won for ''[[BlacKkKlansman]]'' (2018).
| image63              = Taika Waititi by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg
| caption63            = [[Taika Waititi]] won for ''[[Jojo Rabbit]]'' (2019).
| image64              = Florian Zeller 2021.jpg
| caption64            = [[Florian Zeller]] co-won for ''[[The Father (2020 film)|The Father]]'' (2020), an adaptation of [[Le Père|his play of the same name]].
| image65              = Sian Heder during an interview, March 2022.jpg
| caption65            = [[Sian Heder]] won for ''[[CODA (2021 film)|CODA]]'' (2021).
| image66              = Sarah Polley cropped 2009.jpg
| caption66            = [[Sarah Polley]] won for ''[[Women Talking (film)|Women Talking]]'' (2022).
| image67              = Cord Jefferson at TIFF.jpg
| caption67            = [[Cord Jefferson]] won for ''[[American Fiction (film)|American Fiction]]'' (2023).
}}

==Winners and nominees==
Winners are listed first in colored row, followed by the other nominees.

===1920s===
{| class="wikitable"
! width="10%" | Year
! width="25%" | Film
! width="25%" | Nominees
! width="40%" | Source Material
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="3" |[[1927 in film|1927]]/[[1928 in film|28]]<br /><small>[[1st Academy Awards|(1st)]]</small><br /><ref group="note" name="writingadaptation">During these years, the award was bestowed as ''Best Writing, Adaptation''.</ref>
| '''''[[7th Heaven (1927 film)|7th Heaven]]'''''
| '''[[Benjamin Glazer]]'''
| '''The play ''[[Seventh Heaven (play)|Seventh Heaven]]'' by Austin Strong'''
|-
| ''[[Glorious Betsy]]''
| [[Anthony Coldeway]]
| The play by [[Rida Johnson Young]]
|-
| ''[[The Jazz Singer]]''
| [[Alfred A. Cohn]]
| [[The Jazz Singer (play)|The play]] & short story "The Day of Atonement" by [[Samson Raphaelson]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="11" |[[1928 in film|1928]]/[[1929 in film|29]]<br />[[2nd Academy Awards|(2nd)]] <br /><ref group="note" name="twentynine">The 2nd Academy Awards is unique in being the only occasion where there were no official nominees. Subsequent research by AMPAS has resulted in a list of unofficial or de facto nominees, based on records of which films were evaluated by the judges.</ref>
| '''''[[The Patriot (1928 film)|The Patriot]]'''''
| '''[[Hanns Kräly]]'''
| '''The novel by [[Alfred Neumann (writer)|Alfred Neumann]], play by [[Ashley Dukes]] & novel ''Paul I'' by [[Dmitry Merezhkovsky]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Cop (1928 film)|The Cop]]''
| [[Elliott J. Clawson]]
| – {{small|(original)}}
|-
| ''[[In Old Arizona]]''
| [[Tom Barry (screenwriter)|Tom Barry]]
| The short story "[[The Cisco Kid#"The Caballero's Way" (short story)|The Caballero's Way]]" by [[O. Henry]]
|-
| ''[[The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929 film)|The Last of Mrs. Cheyney]]''
| [[Hanns Kräly]]
| [[The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (play)|The play]] by [[Frederick Lonsdale]]
|-
| ''[[The Leatherneck]]''
| [[Elliott J. Clawson]]
| – {{small|(original)}}
|-
| ''[[Our Dancing Daughters]]''
| [[Josephine Lovett]]
| – {{small|(original)}}
|-
| ''[[Sal of Singapore]]''
| rowspan="2" | [[Elliott J. Clawson]]
| The novel ''The Sentimentalists'' by [[Dale Collins]]
|-
| ''[[Skyscraper (1928 film)|Skyscraper]]''
| A story by [[Dudley Murphy]]
|-
| ''[[The Valiant (1929 film)|The Valiant]]''
| [[Tom Barry (screenwriter)|Tom Barry]]
| [[The Valiant (play)|The play]] by [[Harold Everett Porter|Holworthy Hall]] & [[Robert Middlemass]]
|-
| ''[[A Woman of Affairs]]''
| rowspan="2" |[[Bess Meredyth]]
| The novel ''[[The Green Hat (novel)|The Green Hat]]'' by [[Michael Arlen]]
|-
| ''[[Wonder of Women]]''
| The novel ''The Wife of Steffen Tromholt'' by [[Hermann Sudermann]]
|}

===1930s===
{| class="wikitable"
! width="10%" | Year
! width="25%" | Film
! width="25%" | Nominees
! width="40%" | Source Material
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1929 in film|1929]]/[[1930 in film|30]]<br />{{small|[[3rd Academy Awards|(3rd)]]}}<br /><ref group="note" name="writing">During this year, the award was bestowed as ''Best Writing'' and included both original and adapted screenplays.</ref>
| '''''[[The Big House (1930 film)|The Big House]]'''''
| '''[[Frances Marion]]'''
| '''– {{small|(original)}}'''
|-
| ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film)|All Quiet on the Western Front]]''
| Screenplay: [[George Abbott]]; Adaptation: [[Maxwell Anderson]] & [[Del Andrews]]; Dialogue: Anderson
| [[All Quiet on the Western Front|The novel]] by [[Erich Maria Remarque]]
|-
| ''[[Disraeli (1929 film)|Disraeli]]''
| [[Julien Josephson]]
| [[Disraeli (play)|The play]] by [[Louis N. Parker]]
|-
| ''[[The Divorcee]]''
| [[John Meehan (screenwriter)|John Meehan]]
| The novel ''Ex-Wife'' by [[Ursula Parrott]]
|-
| ''[[Street of Chance (1930 film)|Street of Chance]]''
| [[Howard Estabrook]]
| A story by [[Oliver H.P. Garrett]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1930 in film|1930]]/[[1931 in film|31]]<br />[[4th Academy Awards|(4th)]]<br /><ref group="note" name="writingadaptation" />
| '''''[[Cimarron (1931 film)|Cimarron]]'''''
| '''[[Howard Estabrook]]'''
| '''[[Cimarron (novel)|The novel]] by [[Edna Ferber]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Criminal Code]]''
| [[Seton I. Miller]] & [[Fred Niblo Jr.]]
| The play by [[Martin Flavin]]
|-
| ''[[Holiday (1930 film)|Holiday]]''
| [[Horace Jackson]]
| [[Holiday (play)|The play]] by [[Philip Barry]]
|-
| ''[[Little Caesar (film)|Little Caesar]]''
| Screenplay: [[Francis Edward Faragoh]]; Continuity: [[Robert N. Lee]]
| The novel by [[W. R. Burnett]]
|-
| ''[[Skippy (film)|Skippy]]''
| [[Joseph L. Mankiewicz]] & [[Sam Mintz]]
| [[Skippy (comic strip)|The comic strip]] by [[Percy Crosby]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="3" |[[1931 in film|1931]]/[[1932 in film|32]]<br />{{small|[[5th Academy Awards|(5th)]]}}<br /><ref group="note" name="writingadaptation" />
| '''''[[Bad Girl (1931 film)|Bad Girl]]'''''
| '''[[Edwin J. Burke]]'''
| '''The novel by [[Viña Delmar]] and play by Delmar and Brian Marlowe'''
|-
| ''[[Arrowsmith (film)|Arrowsmith]]''
| [[Sidney Howard]]
| [[Arrowsmith (novel)|The novel]] by [[Sinclair Lewis]]
|-
| ''[[Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 film)|Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]''
| [[Percy Heath (screenwriter)|Percy Heath]] & [[Samuel Hoffenstein]]
| The novella ''[[Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde]]'' by [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="3" |[[1932 in film|1932]]/[[1933 in film|33]]<br />{{small|[[6th Academy Awards|(6th)]]}} <br /><ref group="note" name="writingadaptation" />{{Efn|The Academy also announced that Robert Riskin came in second and Paul Green and Sonya Levien third.|group=note}}
| '''''[[Little Women (1933 film)|Little Women]]'''''
| '''[[Victor Heerman]] & [[Sarah Y. Mason]]'''
| '''[[Little Women|The novel]] by [[Louisa May Alcott]]'''
|-
| ''[[Lady for a Day]]''
| [[Robert Riskin]]
| The short story "Madame La Gimp" by [[Damon Runyon]]
|-
| ''[[State Fair (1933 film)|State Fair]]''
| [[Paul Green (playwright)|Paul Green]] & [[Sonya Levien]]
| [[State Fair (novel)|The novel]] by [[Phil Stong]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="3" |[[1934 in film|1934]]<br />{{small|[[7th Academy Awards|(7th)]]}} <br /><ref group="note" name="writingadaptation" />{{Efn|The Academy also announced that Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett came in second and Ben Hecht third.|group=note}}
| '''''[[It Happened One Night]]'''''
| '''[[Robert Riskin]]'''
| '''The short story "Night Bus" by [[Samuel Hopkins Adams]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Thin Man (film)|The Thin Man]]''
| [[Frances Goodrich]] & [[Albert Hackett]]
| [[The Thin Man|The novel]] by [[Dashiell Hammett]]
|-
| ''[[Viva Villa!]]''
| [[Ben Hecht]]
| The book ''[[Viva Villa! (book)|Viva Villa! A Recovery of the Real Pancho Villa, Peon, Bandit, Soldier, Patriot]]'' by Edgecumb Pinchon & O. B. Stade
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="3" |[[1935 in film|1935]]<br />[[8th Academy Awards|(8th)]]<ref group="note" name="writingscreenplay">From 1935 until 1955, the award was bestowed as ''Best Writing, Screenplay''.</ref> <br /><ref group="note" name="captainblood">''[[Captain Blood (1935 film)|Captain Blood]]'', written by [[Casey Robinson]] from the novel ''[[Captain Blood (novel)|Captain Blood: His Odyssey]]'' by [[Rafael Sabatini]], was not officially nominated for this award, but appears in Academy records because it placed third in voting as a write-in candidate in 1935.</ref>{{Efn|The Academy also announced that Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman, and Carey Wilson came in second and Casey Robinson third. This means Waldemar Young, John L. Balderston, Achmed Abdullah, Grover Jones, and William Slavens McNutt came in fourth.|group=note}}
| '''''[[The Informer (1935 film)|The Informer]]'''''
| '''[[Dudley Nichols]]'''<ref group="note" name="nichols">[[Dudley Nichols]] refused to accept the award, but was in possession of it by 1949 according to Academy records.</ref><ref name="Database">{{cite web |url=http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ |title=The Official Academy Awards Database |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090227145302/http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ |archive-date=February 27, 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| '''[[The Informer (O'Flaherty novel)|The novel]] by [[Liam O'Flaherty]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (film)|The Lives of a Bengal Lancer]]''
| Screenplay: [[Achmed Abdullah]], [[John L. Balderston]] & [[Waldemar Young]]; Adaptation: [[Grover Jones]] & [[William Slavens McNutt]]
| [[The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (book)|The memoir]] by [[Francis Yeats-Brown]]
|-
| ''[[Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)|Mutiny on the Bounty]]''
| [[Jules Furthman]], [[Talbot Jennings]] & [[Carey Wilson (writer)|Carey Wilson]]
| [[Mutiny on the Bounty (novel)|The novel]] by [[James Norman Hall]] & [[Charles Nordhoff]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1936 in film|1936]]<br />{{small|[[9th Academy Awards|(9th)]]}}
| '''''[[The Story of Louis Pasteur]]'''''
| '''[[Pierre Collings]] & [[Sheridan Gibney]]'''
| '''{{small|(original)}}'''
|-
| ''[[After the Thin Man]]''
| [[Frances Goodrich]] & [[Albert Hackett]]
| The novel ''[[The Thin Man]]'' by [[Dashiell Hammett]]
|-
| ''[[Dodsworth (film)|Dodsworth]]''
| [[Sidney Howard]]
| [[Dodsworth (play)|The play]] by Howard & [[Dodsworth (novel)|novel]] by [[Sinclair Lewis]]
|-
| ''[[Mr. Deeds Goes to Town]]''
| [[Robert Riskin]]
| The short story "Opera Hat" by [[Clarence Budington Kelland|Bud Kelland]]
|-
| ''[[My Man Godfrey]]''
| [[Eric S. Hatch]] & [[Morrie Ryskind]]
| The novel ''1101 Park Avenue'' by Hatch
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1937 in film|1937]]<br />{{small|[[10th Academy Awards|(10th)]]}}
| '''''[[The Life of Emile Zola]]'''''
| '''Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg & [[Norman Reilly Raine]]'''
| '''The book ''Zola and His Time'' by [[Matthew Josephson]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Awful Truth]]''
| [[Viña Delmar]]
| The play by Arthur Richman
|-
| ''[[Captains Courageous (1937 film)|Captains Courageous]]''
| [[Marc Connelly]], [[Dale Van Every]] & [[John Lee Mahin]]
| The novel ''[[Captains Courageous|Captain Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks]]'' by [[Rudyard Kipling]]
|-
| ''[[Stage Door]]''
| [[Morrie Ryskind]] & [[Anthony Veiller]]
| [[Stage Door (play)|The play]] by [[Edna Ferber]] & [[George S. Kaufman]]
|-
| ''[[A Star Is Born (1937 film)|A Star Is Born]]''
| [[Alan Campbell (screenwriter)|Alan Campbell]], [[Robert Carson (writer)|Robert Carson]] & [[Dorothy Parker]]
| A story by [[William A. Wellman]] & Carson
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1938 in film|1938]]<br />{{small|[[11th Academy Awards|(11th)]]}}
| '''''[[Pygmalion (1938 film)|Pygmalion]]'''''
| '''Screenplay & Dialogue: [[George Bernard Shaw]]; Adaptation: [[Ian Dalrymple]], [[Cecil Arthur Lewis]] & [[W. P. Lipscomb]]'''
| '''[[Pygmalion (play)|The play]] by Shaw'''
|-
| ''[[Boys Town (film)|Boys Town]]''
| [[John Meehan (screenwriter)|John Meehan]] & [[Dore Schary]]
| A story by Schary & [[Eleanore Griffin]]
|-
| ''[[The Citadel (1938 film)|The Citadel]]''
| Dalrymple, [[Elizabeth Hill (screenwriter)|Betty Hill]] & [[Frank Wead|Spig Wead]]
| [[The Citadel (novel)|The novel]] by [[A. J. Cronin]]
|-
| ''[[Four Daughters (1938 film)|Four Daughters]]''
| [[Lenore Coffee]] & [[Julius J. Epstein]]
| The short story "Sister Act" by [[Fannie Hurst]]
|-
| ''[[You Can't Take It with You (film)|You Can't Take It with You]]''
| [[Robert Riskin]]
| [[You Can't Take It with You (play)|The play]] by [[George S. Kaufman]] & [[Moss Hart]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1939 in film|1939]]<br />{{small|[[12th Academy Awards|(12th)]]}}
| '''''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'''''
| '''[[Sidney Howard]] {{small|([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|p.r.]])}}'''
| '''[[Gone with the Wind (novel)|The novel]] by [[Margaret Mitchell]]'''
|-
| ''[[Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939 film)|Goodbye, Mr. Chips]]''
| [[Eric Maschwitz|Holt Marvell]], [[R. C. Sherriff]] & [[Claudine West]]
| [[Goodbye, Mr. Chips|The novella]] by [[James Hilton (novelist)|James Hilton]]
|-
| ''[[Mr. Smith Goes to Washington]]''
| [[Sidney Buchman]]
| A story by [[Lewis R. Foster]]
|-
| ''[[Ninotchka]]''
| [[Charles Brackett]], [[Walter Reisch]] & [[Billy Wilder]]
| A story by [[Melchior Lengyel]]
|-
| ''[[Wuthering Heights (1939 film)|Wuthering Heights]]''
| [[Ben Hecht]] & [[Charles MacArthur]]
| [[Wuthering Heights|The novel]] by [[Emily Brontë]]
|}

===1940s===
{| class="wikitable"
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! width="25%" | Film
! width="30%" | Nominees
! width="40%" | Source Material
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1940 in film|1940]]<br />{{small|[[13th Academy Awards|(13th)]]}}
| '''''[[The Philadelphia Story (film)|The Philadelphia Story]]'''''
| '''[[Donald Ogden Stewart]]'''
| '''[[The Philadelphia Story (play)|The play]] by [[Philip Barry]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Grapes of Wrath (film)|The Grapes of Wrath]]''
| [[Nunnally Johnson]]
| [[The Grapes of Wrath|The novel]] by [[John Steinbeck]]
|-
| ''[[Kitty Foyle (film)|Kitty Foyle]]''
| [[Dalton Trumbo]]
| [[Kitty Foyle (novel)|The novel]] by [[Christopher Morley]]
|-
| ''[[The Long Voyage Home]]''
| [[Dudley Nichols]]
| The plays ''The Moon of the Caribees'', ''[[In the Zone (play)|In the Zone]]'', ''Bound East for Cardiff'' & ''The Long Voyage Home'' by [[Eugene O'Neill]]
|-
| ''[[Rebecca (1940 film)|Rebecca]]''
| [[Joan Harrison (screenwriter)|Joan Harrison]] & [[Robert E. Sherwood]]
| [[Rebecca (novel)|The novel]] by [[Daphne du Maurier]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1941 in film|1941]]<br />{{small|[[14th Academy Awards|(14th)]]}}
| '''''[[Here Comes Mr. Jordan]]'''''
| '''[[Sidney Buchman]] & [[Seton I. Miller]]'''
| '''The play ''Heaven Can Wait'' by [[Harry Segall]]'''
|-
| ''[[Hold Back the Dawn]]''
| [[Charles Brackett]] & [[Billy Wilder]]
| The novel by [[Ketti Frings]]
|-
| ''[[How Green Was My Valley (film)|How Green Was My Valley]]''
| [[Philip Dunne (writer)|Philip Dunne]]
| [[How Green Was My Valley|The novel]] by [[Richard Llewellyn]]
|-
| ''[[The Little Foxes (film)|The Little Foxes]]''
| [[Lillian Hellman]]
| [[The Little Foxes|The play]] by Hellman
|-
| ''[[The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)|The Maltese Falcon]]''
| [[John Huston]]
| [[The Maltese Falcon (novel)|The novel]] by [[Dashiell Hammett]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1942 in film|1942]]<br />{{small|[[15th Academy Awards|(15th)]]}}
| '''''[[Mrs. Miniver]]'''''
| '''[[George Froeschel]], [[James Hilton (novelist)|James Hilton]], [[Claudine West]] & [[Arthur Wimperis]]'''
| '''The character [[Mrs. Miniver (character)|Mrs. Miniver]] from the articles by [[Jan Struther]]'''
|-
| ''[[49th Parallel (film)|49th Parallel]]''
| [[Rodney Ackland]] & [[Emeric Pressburger]]
| A story by Pressburger
|-
| ''[[The Pride of the Yankees]]''
| [[Herman J. Mankiewicz]] & [[Jo Swerling]]
| A story by [[Paul Gallico]]
|-
| ''[[Random Harvest (film)|Random Harvest]]''
| Froeschel, West & Wimperis
| [[Random Harvest|The novel]] by Hilton
|-
| ''[[The Talk of the Town (1942 film)|The Talk of the Town]]''
| [[Sidney Buchman]] & [[Irwin Shaw]]
| A story by [[Sidney Harmon]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1943 in film|1943]]<br />{{small|[[16th Academy Awards|(16th)]]}}
| '''''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]'''''
| '''[[Philip G. Epstein]], [[Julius J. Epstein]] & [[Howard Koch (screenwriter)|Howard Koch]]'''
| '''The play ''[[Everybody Comes to Rick's]]'' by [[Everybody Comes to Rick's|Joan Alison]] & [[Everybody Comes to Rick's|Murray Burnett]]'''
|-
| ''[[Holy Matrimony (1943 film)|Holy Matrimony]]''
| [[Nunnally Johnson]]
| The novel ''[[Buried Alive (novel)|Buried Alive]]'' by [[Arnold Bennett]]
|-
| ''[[The More the Merrier]]''
| Richard Flournoy, [[Lewis R. Foster]], [[Frank Ross (producer)|Frank Ross]] & [[Robert W. Russell]]
| A story by Ross & Russell
|-
| ''[[The Song of Bernadette (film)|The Song of Bernadette]]''
| [[George Seaton]]
| [[The Song of Bernadette (novel)|The novel]] by [[Franz Werfel]]
|-
| ''[[Watch on the Rhine]]''
| [[Dashiell Hammett]]
| [[Watch on the Rhine (play)|The play]] by [[Lillian Hellman]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1944 in film|1944]]<br />{{small|[[17th Academy Awards|(17th)]]}}
| '''''[[Going My Way]]'''''
| '''[[Frank Butler (writer)|Frank Butler]] & [[Frank Cavett]]'''
| '''A story by [[Leo McCarey]]'''
|-
| ''[[Double Indemnity]]''
| [[Raymond Chandler]] & [[Billy Wilder]]
| The novel ''[[Double Indemnity (novel)|Double Indemnity in Three of a Kind]]'' by [[James M. Cain]]
|-
| ''[[Gaslight (1944 film)|Gaslight]]''
| [[John L. Balderston]], [[Walter Reisch]] & [[John Van Druten]]
| The play ''[[Gas Light]]'' by [[Patrick Hamilton (writer)|Patrick Hamilton]]
|-
| ''[[Laura (1944 film)|Laura]]''
| [[Jay Dratler]], [[Samuel Hoffenstein]] & [[Elizabeth Reinhardt]]
| [[Laura (novel)|The novel]] by [[Vera Caspary]]
|-
| ''[[Meet Me in St. Louis]]''
| [[Irving Brecher]] & [[Fred F. Finklehoffe]]
| [[Meet Me in St. Louis (novel)|The novel]] by [[Sally Benson]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1945 in film|1945]]<br />{{small|[[18th Academy Awards|(18th)]]}} <br /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1946 |title=The 18th Academy Awards – 1946 |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 17, 2018}}</ref>
| '''''[[The Lost Weekend]]'''''
| '''[[Charles Brackett]] & [[Billy Wilder]]'''
| '''[[The Lost Weekend (novel)|The novel]] by [[Charles R. Jackson]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Story of G.I. Joe|G. I. Joe]]''
| Leopold Atlas, [[Guy Endore]] & [[Philip Stevenson]]
| The memoirs ''Brave Men'' & ''Here Is Your War'' by [[Ernie Pyle]]
|-
| ''[[Mildred Pierce (film)|Mildred Pierce]]''
| [[Ranald MacDougall]]
| [[Mildred Pierce|The novel]] by [[James M. Cain]]
|-
| ''[[Pride of the Marines]]''
| [[Albert Maltz]]
| The book ''Al Schmid, Marine'' by Roger Butterfield
|-
| ''[[A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945 film)|A Tree Grows in Brooklyn]]''
| Frank Davis & [[Tess Slesinger]] {{small|([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|p.n.]])}}
| [[A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (novel)|The novel]] by [[Betty Smith]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1946 in film|1946]]<br />{{small|[[19th Academy Awards|(19th)]]}}
| '''''[[The Best Years of Our Lives]]'''''
| '''[[Robert E. Sherwood]]'''
| '''The novella ''Glory for Me'' by [[MacKinlay Kantor]]'''
|-
| ''[[Anna and the King of Siam (film)|Anna and the King of Siam]]''
| [[Sally Benson]] & [[Talbot Jennings]]
| [[Anna and the King of Siam (novel)|The novel]] by [[Margaret Landon]]
|-
| ''[[Brief Encounter]]''
| [[Anthony Havelock-Allan]], [[David Lean]] & [[Ronald Neame]]
| The play ''[[Still Life (play)|Still Life]]'' by [[Noël Coward]]
|-
| ''[[The Killers (1946 film)|The Killers]]''
| [[Anthony Veiller]]
| [[The Killers (Hemingway short story)|The short story]] by [[Ernest Hemingway]]
|-
| ''[[Rome, Open City]]''
| [[Sergio Amidei]] & [[Federico Fellini]]
| A story by Amidei & Alberto Consiglio
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1947 in film|1947]]<br />{{small|[[20th Academy Awards|(20th)]]}}
| '''''[[Miracle on 34th Street]]'''''
| '''[[George Seaton]]'''
| '''[[Miracle on 34th Street (novella)|A story]] by [[Valentine Davies]]'''
|-
| ''[[Boomerang (1947 film)|Boomerang]]''
| [[Richard Murphy (screenwriter)|Richard Murphy]]
| The article "The Perfect Case" by [[Fulton Oursler|Anthony Abbot]]
|-
| ''[[Crossfire (film)|Crossfire]]''
| [[John Paxton]]
| The novel ''The Brick Foxhole'' by [[Richard Brooks]]
|-
| ''[[Gentleman's Agreement]]''
| [[Moss Hart]]
| [[Gentleman's Agreement (novel)|The novel]] by [[Laura Z. Hobson]]
|-
| ''[[Great Expectations (1946 film)|Great Expectations]]''
| [[David Lean]], [[Anthony Havelock-Allan]], & [[Ronald Neame]]
| [[Great Expectations|The novel]] by [[Charles Dickens]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1948 in film|1948]]<br />{{small|[[21st Academy Awards|(21st)]]}}
| '''''[[The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film)|The Treasure of the Sierra Madre]]'''''
| '''[[John Huston]]'''
| '''[[The Treasure of the Sierra Madre|The novel]] by [[B. Traven]]'''
|-
| ''[[A Foreign Affair]]''
| [[Charles Brackett]], [[Richard L. Breen]] & [[Billy Wilder]]
| A story by David Shaw
|-
| ''[[Johnny Belinda (1948 film)|Johnny Belinda]]''
| Allen Vincent & [[Irma von Cube]]
| [[Johnny Belinda (play)|The play]] by [[Elmer Blaney Harris]]
|-
| ''[[The Search (1948 film)|The Search]]''
| [[Richard Schweizer]] & {{ill|David Wechsler (writer)|de|3=David Wechsler (Autor)|lt=David Wechsler}}
| – {{small|(original screenplay)}}
|-
| ''[[The Snake Pit]]''
| [[Millen Brand]] & [[Frank Partos]]
| The novel by [[Mary Jane Ward]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1949 in film|1949]]<br />{{small|[[22nd Academy Awards|(22nd)]]}}
| '''''[[A Letter to Three Wives]]'''''
| '''[[Joseph L. Mankiewicz]]'''
| '''The novel by John Klempner'''
|-
| ''[[All the King's Men (1949 film)|All the King's Men]]''
| [[Robert Rossen]]
| [[All the King's Men|The novel]] by [[Robert Penn Warren]]
|-
| ''[[Bicycle Thieves|The Bicycle Thief]]''
| [[Cesare Zavattini]]
| The novel by [[Luigi Bartolini]]
|-
| ''[[Champion (1949 film)|Champion]]''
| [[Carl Foreman]]
| The short story by [[Ring Lardner]]
|-
| ''[[The Fallen Idol (film)|The Fallen Idol]]''
| [[Graham Greene]]
| The short story "The Basement Room" by Greene
|}

===1950s===
{| class="wikitable"
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! width="25%" | Film
! width="30%" | Nominees
! width="40%" | Source Material
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1950 in film|1950]]<br />{{small|[[23rd Academy Awards|(23rd)]]}}
| '''''[[All About Eve]]'''''
| '''[[Joseph L. Mankiewicz]]'''
| '''The short story "The Wisdom of Eve" by [[Mary Orr]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Asphalt Jungle]]''
| [[John Huston]] & [[Ben Maddow]]
| The novel by [[W. R. Burnett]]
|-
| ''[[Born Yesterday (1950 film)|Born Yesterday]]''
| [[Albert Mannheimer]]
| [[Born Yesterday (play)|The play]] by [[Garson Kanin]]
|-
| ''[[Broken Arrow (1950 film)|Broken Arrow]]''
| [[Albert Maltz]]<ref group=note name=maltz>[[Michael Blankfort]] was originally nominated as the screenwriter of ''[[Broken Arrow (1950 film)|Broken Arrow]]''. In 1991, research proved blacklisted [[Albert Maltz]] was the screenwriter and his credit was restored. Blankfort was removed from the nomination and it was given to Maltz.</ref>
| The novel ''Blood Brother'' by [[Elliott Arnold]]
|-
| ''[[Father of the Bride (1950 film)|Father of the Bride]]''
| [[Frances Goodrich]] & [[Albert Hackett]]
| [[Father of the Bride (novel)|The novel]] by [[Edward Streeter|E. Streeter]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1951 in film|1951]]<br />{{small|[[24th Academy Awards|(24th)]]}}
| '''''[[A Place in the Sun (1951 film)|A Place in the Sun]]'''''
| '''[[Harry Brown (writer)|Harry Brown]] & [[Michael Wilson (writer)|Michael Wilson]]'''
| '''The novel ''[[An American Tragedy]]'' by [[Theodore Dreiser]] & play by [[Patrick Kearney (playwright)|Patrick Kearney]]'''
|-
| ''[[The African Queen (film)|The African Queen]]''
| [[James Agee]] & [[John Huston]]
| [[The African Queen (novel)|The novel]] by [[C. S. Forester]]
|-
| ''[[Detective Story (1951 film)|Detective Story]]''
| [[Robert Wyler]] & [[Philip Yordan]]
| [[Detective Story (play)|The play]] by [[Sidney Kingsley]]
|-
| ''[[La Ronde (1950 film)|La Ronde]]''
| [[Jacques Natanson]] & [[Max Ophüls]]
| [[La Ronde (play)|The play]] by [[Arthur Schnitzler]]
|-
| ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 film)|A Streetcar Named Desire]]''
| [[Tennessee Williams]]
| [[A Streetcar Named Desire|The play]] by Williams
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1952 in film|1952]]<br />{{small|[[25th Academy Awards|(25th)]]}}
| '''''[[The Bad and the Beautiful]]'''''
| '''[[Charles Schnee]]'''
| '''A story by [[George Bradshaw (writer)|George Bradshaw]]'''
|-
| ''[[5 Fingers]]''
| [[Michael Wilson (writer)|Michael Wilson]]
| The novel ''Operation Cicero'' by [[Ludwig Carl Moyzisch]]
|-
| ''[[High Noon]]''
| [[Carl Foreman]]
| The short story "The Tin Star" by [[John W. Cunningham]]
|-
| ''[[The Man in the White Suit]]''
| [[John Dighton]], [[Alexander Mackendrick]] & [[Roger MacDougall]]
| A story by MacDougall
|-
| ''[[The Quiet Man]]''
| [[Frank Nugent]]
| The short story by [[Maurice Walsh]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1953 in film|1953]]<br />{{small|[[26th Academy Awards|(26th)]]}}
| '''''[[From Here to Eternity]]'''''
| '''[[Daniel Taradash]]'''
| '''[[From Here to Eternity (novel)|The novel]] by [[James Jones (author)|James Jones]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Cruel Sea (1953 film)|The Cruel Sea]]''
| [[Eric Ambler]]
| [[The Cruel Sea (novel)|The novel]] by [[Nicholas Monsarrat]]
|-
| ''[[Lili (1953 film)|Lili]]''
| [[Helen Deutsch]]
| The short story "The Man Who Hated People" by [[Paul Gallico]]
|-
| ''[[Roman Holiday]]''
| [[John Dighton]] & [[Ian McLellan Hunter]]
| A story by [[Dalton Trumbo]] {{small|(front: [[Ian McLellan Hunter]])}}
|-
| ''[[Shane (film)|Shane]]''
| [[A. B. Guthrie Jr.]]
| [[Shane (novel)|The novel]] by [[Jack Schaefer]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1954 in film|1954]]<br />{{small|[[27th Academy Awards|(27th)]]}}
| '''''[[The Country Girl (1954 film)|The Country Girl]]'''''
| '''[[George Seaton]]'''
| '''[[The Country Girl (1950 play)|The play]] by [[Clifford Odets]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Caine Mutiny (1954 film)|The Caine Mutiny]]''
| [[Stanley Roberts (screenwriter)|Stanley Roberts]]
| [[The Caine Mutiny|The novel]] by [[Herman Wouk]]
|-
| ''[[Rear Window]]''
| [[John Michael Hayes]]
| The short story "It Had to Be Murder" by [[Cornell Woolrich]]
|-
| ''[[Sabrina (1954 film)|Sabrina]]''
| [[Ernest Lehman]], [[Samuel A. Taylor]] & [[Billy Wilder]]
| The play ''[[Sabrina Fair]]'' by Taylor
|-
| ''[[Seven Brides for Seven Brothers]]''
| [[Frances Goodrich]], [[Albert Hackett]] & [[Dorothy Kingsley]]
| The short story "The Sobbin' Women" by [[Stephen Vincent Benét]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1955 in film|1955]]<br />{{small|[[28th Academy Awards|(28th)]]}}
| '''''[[Marty (film)|Marty]]'''''
| '''[[Paddy Chayefsky]]'''
| '''[[Marty (The Philco Television Playhouse)|The television play]] on ''[[The Philco Television Playhouse]]'' by Chayefsky'''
|-
| ''[[Bad Day at Black Rock]]''
| [[Millard Kaufman]]
| The short story "Bad Time at Honda" by [[Howard Breslin]]
|-
| ''[[Blackboard Jungle]]''
| [[Richard Brooks]]
| The novel by [[Ed McBain|Evan Hunter]]
|-
| ''[[East of Eden (film)|East of Eden]]''
| [[Paul Osborn]]
| [[East of Eden (novel)|The novel]] by [[John Steinbeck]]
|-
| ''[[Love Me or Leave Me (film)|Love Me or Leave Me]]''
| [[Daniel Fuchs]] & [[Isobel Lennart]]
| A story by Fuchs
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1956 in film|1956]]<br />[[29th Academy Awards|(29th)]]
| '''''[[Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film)|Around the World in 80 Days]]'''''
| '''[[John Farrow]], [[S. J. Perelman]] & [[James Poe]]'''
| '''[[Around the World in Eighty Days|The novel]] by [[Jules Verne]]'''
|-
| ''[[Baby Doll]]''
| [[Tennessee Williams]]
| The plays ''[[List of one-act plays by Tennessee Williams#27 Wagons Full of Cotton|27 Wagons Full of Cotton]]'' & ''[[List of one-act plays by Tennessee Williams#The Long Stay Cut Short, or The Unsatisfactory Supper|The Long Stay Cut Short, or The Unsatisfactory Supper]]'' by Williams
|-
| ''[[Friendly Persuasion (1956 film)|Friendly Persuasion]]''
| [[Michael Wilson (writer)|Michael Wilson]]<ref group=note name=wilson>[[Michael Wilson (writer)|Michael Wilson]] was originally credited as the screenwriter of ''[[Friendly Persuasion (1956 film)|Friendly Persuasion]]'', but [[Monogram Pictures|Allied Artists]], acting in agreement with the [[Screen Writers Guild]], removed his credit because he was blacklisted. Early in 1957, the Academy revised its bylaws so the film would be eligible for a writing nomination without naming Wilson as a nominee. ''Friendly Persuasion'' was initially announced a nominee without a writer's name attached. The Academy's Board of Governors voted to strike the nomination altogether and it was not included on the final ballot. The Board of Governors, however, reinstated the nomination with Wilson's name attached in 2002.</ref>
| [[The Friendly Persuasion|The novel]] by [[Jessamyn West (writer)|Jessamyn West]]
|-
| ''[[Giant (1956 film)|Giant]]''
| [[Fred Guiol]] & [[Ivan Moffat]]
| The novel by [[Edna Ferber]]
|-
| ''[[Lust for Life (1956 film)|Lust for Life]]''
| [[Norman Corwin]]
| [[Lust for Life (novel)|The novel]] by [[Irving Stone]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1957 in film|1957]]<br />[[30th Academy Awards|(30th)]]
| '''''[[The Bridge on the River Kwai]]'''''
| '''[[Pierre Boulle]], [[Carl Foreman]], & [[Michael Wilson (writer)|Michael Wilson]]<ref group="note" name="kwai">[[Pierre Boulle]] was credited as the screenwriter of ''[[The Bridge on the River Kwai]]'' and ultimately won the award. Blacklisted writers [[Michael Wilson (writer)|Michael Wilson]] and [[Carl Foreman]], who actually wrote the screenplay, were awarded [[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|posthumous]] Oscars by the Academy's Board of Governors in 1984.</ref>'''
| '''The novel ''[[The Bridge over the River Kwai]]'' by Boulle'''
|-
| ''[[12 Angry Men (1957 film)|12 Angry Men]]''
| [[Reginald Rose]]
| [[Twelve Angry Men (Westinghouse Studio One)|The teleplay]] on ''[[Studio One (American TV series)|Westinghouse Studio One]]'' and [[Twelve Angry Men (play)|play]] by Rose
|-
| ''[[Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison]]''
| [[John Huston]] & [[John Lee Mahin]]
| [[Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (novel)|The novel]] by [[Charles Shaw (writer)|Charles Shaw]]
|-
| ''[[Peyton Place (film)|Peyton Place]]''
| [[John Michael Hayes]]
| [[Peyton Place (novel)|The novel]] by [[Grace Metalious]]
|-
| ''[[Sayonara]]''
| [[Paul Osborn]]
| [[Sayonara (novel)|The novel]] by [[James A. Michener]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1958 in film|1958]]<br />{{small|[[31st Academy Awards|(31st)]]}}
| '''''[[Gigi (1958 film)|Gigi]]'''''
| '''[[Alan Jay Lerner]]'''
| '''[[Gigi (novella)|The novella]] by [[Colette]]'''
|-
| ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958 film)|Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]''
| [[Richard Brooks]] & [[James Poe]]
| [[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof|The play]] & short story "Three Players of a Summer Game" by [[Tennessee Williams]]
|-
| ''[[The Horse's Mouth (film)|The Horse's Mouth]]''
| [[Alec Guinness]]
| [[The Horse's Mouth|The novel]] by [[Joyce Cary]]
|-
| ''[[I Want to Live!]]''
| [[Nelson Gidding]] & [[Don Mankiewicz]]
| Articles by [[Edward S. Montgomery]] & letters by [[Barbara Graham]]
|-
| ''[[Separate Tables (film)|Separate Tables]]''
| [[John Gay (screenwriter)|John Gay]] & [[Terence Rattigan]]
| [[Separate Tables|The plays]] by Rattigan
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1959 in film|1959]]<br />{{small|[[32nd Academy Awards|(32nd)]]}}
| '''''[[Room at the Top (1959 film)|Room at the Top]]'''''
| '''[[Neil Paterson (writer)|Neil Paterson]]'''
| '''[[Room at the Top (novel)|The novel]] by [[John Braine]]'''
|-
| ''[[Anatomy of a Murder]]''
| [[Wendell Mayes]]
| The novel by [[John D. Voelker]]
|-
| ''[[Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben-Hur]]''
| [[Karl Tunberg]]
| The novel ''[[Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ]]'' by [[Lew Wallace]]
|-
| ''[[The Nun's Story (film)|The Nun's Story]]''
| [[Robert Anderson (playwright)|Robert Anderson]]
| [[The Nun's Story|The novel]] by [[Kathryn Hulme]]
|-
| ''[[Some Like It Hot]]''
| [[I. A. L. Diamond]] & [[Billy Wilder]]
| The 1935 French film ''[[Fanfare of Love]]'' written by Max Bronnet, Michael Logan, [[Pierre Prévert]], [[René Pujol]] and [[Robert Thoeren]] & the 1951 German remake ''[[Fanfares of Love]]'' written by Logan, Thoeren and [[Heinz Pauck]]
|}

===1960s===
{| class="wikitable"
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! width="30%" | Nominees
! width="40%" | Source Material
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1960 in film|1960]]<br />{{small|[[33rd Academy Awards|(33rd)]]}}
| '''''[[Elmer Gantry (film)|Elmer Gantry]]'''''
| '''[[Richard Brooks]]'''
| '''[[Elmer Gantry|The novel]] by [[Sinclair Lewis]]'''
|-
| ''[[Inherit the Wind (1960 film)|Inherit the Wind]]''
| [[Harold Jacob Smith]] & [[Nedrick Young]]<ref group=note name=young>Due to blacklisting, Young wrote under the pseudonym Nathan E. Douglas.</ref>
| [[Inherit the Wind (play)|The play]] by [[Jerome Lawrence]] & [[Robert E. Lee (playwright)|Robert E. Lee]]
|-
| ''[[Sons and Lovers (film)|Sons and Lovers]]''
| [[T. E. B. Clarke]] & [[Gavin Lambert]]
| [[Sons and Lovers|The novel]] by [[D. H. Lawrence]]
|-
| ''[[The Sundowners (1960 film)|The Sundowners]]''
| [[Isobel Lennart]]
| [[The Sundowners (novel)|The novel]] by [[Jon Cleary]]
|-
| ''[[Tunes of Glory]]''
| [[James Kennaway]]
| [[Tunes of Glory (novel)|The novel]] by Kennaway
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1961 in film|1961]]<br />{{small|[[34th Academy Awards|(34th)]]}}
| '''''[[Judgment at Nuremberg]]'''''
| '''[[Abby Mann]]'''
| '''[[Judgment at Nuremberg (Playhouse 90)|The television play]] on ''[[Playhouse 90]]'' by Mann'''
|-
| ''[[Breakfast at Tiffany's (film)|Breakfast at Tiffany's]]''
| [[George Axelrod]]
| [[Breakfast at Tiffany's (novella)|The novella]] by [[Truman Capote]]
|-
| ''[[The Guns of Navarone (film)|The Guns of Navarone]]''
| [[Carl Foreman]]
| [[The Guns of Navarone (novel)|The novel]] by [[Alistair MacLean]]
|-
| ''[[The Hustler]]''
| [[Sidney Carroll]] & [[Robert Rossen]]
| [[The Hustler (novel)|The novel]] by [[Walter Tevis]]
|-
| ''[[West Side Story (1961 film)|West Side Story]]''
| [[Ernest Lehman]]
| [[West Side Story|The musical]] by [[Arthur Laurents]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1962 in film|1962]]<br />{{small|[[35th Academy Awards|(35th)]]}}
| '''''[[To Kill a Mockingbird (film)|To Kill a Mockingbird]]'''''
| '''[[Horton Foote]]'''
| '''[[To Kill a Mockingbird|The novel]] by [[Harper Lee]]'''
|-
| ''[[David and Lisa]]''
| [[Eleanor Perry]]
| The novella ''Lisa and David'' by [[Theodore Isaac Rubin|Dr. Theodore Isaac Rubin]]
|-
| ''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence of Arabia]]''
| [[Robert Bolt]] & [[Michael Wilson (writer)|Michael Wilson]]<ref group=note name=wilson2>In 1995, research proved blacklisted [[Michael Wilson (writer)|Michael Wilson]] was also a screenwriter of ''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence of Arabia]]''. He was added as a nominee by the Academy's Board of Governors.</ref>
| The memoir ''[[Seven Pillars of Wisdom]]'' by [[T. E. Lawrence]]
|-
| ''[[Lolita (1962 film)|Lolita]]''
| [[Vladimir Nabokov]]
| [[Lolita|The novel]] by Nabokov
|-
| ''[[The Miracle Worker (1962 film)|The Miracle Worker]]''
| [[William Gibson (playwright)|William Gibson]]
| [[The Miracle Worker (play)|The play]] & television play on ''[[Playhouse 90]]'' by Gibson
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1963 in film|1963]]<br />{{small|[[36th Academy Awards|(36th)]]}}
| '''''[[Tom Jones (1963 film)|Tom Jones]]'''''
| '''[[John Osborne]]'''
| '''The novel ''[[The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling]]'' by [[Henry Fielding]]'''
|-
| ''[[Captain Newman, M.D.]]''
| [[Richard L. Breen]], [[Henry Ephron|Henry]] & [[Phoebe Ephron]]
| The novel by [[Leo Rosten]]
|-
| ''[[Hud (1963 film)|Hud]]''
| [[Harriet Frank Jr.]] & [[Irving Ravetch]]
| The novel ''[[Horseman, Pass By]]'' by [[Larry McMurtry]]
|-
| ''[[Lilies of the Field (1963 film)|Lilies of the Field]]''
| [[James Poe]]
| [[The Lilies of the Field (novel)|The novel]] by [[William Edmund Barrett]]
|-
| ''[[Sundays and Cybele]]''
| Scenario: [[Serge Bourguignon]] & Antoine Tudal; Dialogue: Bourguignon
| The novel ''Les dimanches de Ville d'Avray'' by Bernard Eschassériaux
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1964 in film|1964]]<br />{{small|[[37th Academy Awards|(37th)]]}}
| '''''[[Becket (1964 film)|Becket]]'''''
| '''[[Edward Anhalt]]'''
| '''[[Becket|The play]] by [[Jean Anouilh]]'''
|-
| ''[[Dr. Strangelove|Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb]]''
| [[Stanley Kubrick]], [[Peter George (author)|Peter George]] & [[Terry Southern]]
| The novel ''[[Red Alert (novel)|Red Alert]]'' by George
|-
| ''[[Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins]]''
| [[Don DaGradi]] & [[Bill Walsh (producer)|Bill Walsh]]
| [[Mary Poppins (book series)|The novel series]] by [[P. L. Travers]]
|-
| ''[[My Fair Lady (film)|My Fair Lady]]''
| [[Alan Jay Lerner]]
| [[My Fair Lady|The musical]] by Lerner
|-
| ''[[Zorba the Greek (film)|Zorba the Greek]]''
| [[Michael Cacoyannis]]
| [[Zorba the Greek|The novel]] by [[Nikos Kazantzakis]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1965 in film|1965]]<br />{{small|[[38th Academy Awards|(38th)]]}}
| '''''[[Doctor Zhivago (film)|Doctor Zhivago]]'''''
| '''[[Robert Bolt]]'''
| '''[[Doctor Zhivago (novel)|The novel]] by [[Boris Pasternak]]'''
|-
| ''[[Cat Ballou]]''
| [[Walter Newman (screenwriter)|Walter Newman]] & [[Frank Pierson]]
| The novel ''The Ballad of Cat Ballou'' by Roy Chanslor
|-
| ''[[The Collector (1965 film)|The Collector]]''
| [[John Kohn]] & [[Stanley Mann]]
| [[The Collector|The novel]] by [[John Fowles]]
|-
| ''[[Ship of Fools (film)|Ship of Fools]]''
| [[Abby Mann]]
| [[Ship of Fools (Porter novel)|The novel]] by [[Katherine Anne Porter]]
|-
| ''[[A Thousand Clowns]]''
| [[Herb Gardner]]
| The play by Gardner
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1966 in film|1966]]<br />{{small|[[39th Academy Awards|(39th)]]}}
| '''''[[A Man for All Seasons (1966 film)|A Man for All Seasons]]'''''
| '''[[Robert Bolt]]'''
| '''[[A Man for All Seasons (play)|The play]] by Bolt'''
|-
| ''[[Alfie (1966 film)|Alfie]]''
| [[Bill Naughton]]
| [[Alfie (play)|The play]] by Naughton
|-
| ''[[The Professionals (1966 film)|The Professionals]]''
| [[Richard Brooks]]
| The novel ''[[A Mule for the Marquesa]]'' by [[Frank O'Rourke (writer)|Frank O'Rourke]]
|-
| ''[[The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming]]''
| [[William Rose (screenwriter)|William Rose]]
| The novel ''The Off-Islanders'' by [[Nathaniel Benchley]]
|-
| ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film)|Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]''
| [[Ernest Lehman]]
| [[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?|The play]] by [[Edward Albee]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1967 in film|1967]]<br />{{small|[[40th Academy Awards|(40th)]]}}
| '''''[[In the Heat of the Night (film)|In the Heat of the Night]]'''''
| '''[[Stirling Silliphant]]'''
| '''[[In the Heat of the Night (novel)|The novel]] by [[John Ball (novelist)|John Ball]]'''
|-
| ''[[Cool Hand Luke]]''
| [[Donn Pearce]] & [[Frank Pierson]]
| [[Cool Hand Luke (novel)|The novel]] by Pearce
|-
| ''[[The Graduate]]''
| [[Buck Henry]] & [[Calder Willingham]]
| [[The Graduate (novel)|The novella]] by [[Charles Webb (author)|Charles Webb]]
|-
| ''[[In Cold Blood (film)|In Cold Blood]]''
| [[Richard Brooks]]
| [[In Cold Blood|The book]] by [[Truman Capote]]
|-
| ''[[Ulysses (1967 film)|Ulysses]]''
| [[Fred Haines]] & [[Joseph Strick]]
| [[Ulysses (novel)|The novel]] by [[James Joyce]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1968 in film|1968]]<br />{{small|[[41st Academy Awards|(41st)]]}}
| '''''[[The Lion in Winter (1968 film)|The Lion in Winter]]'''''
| '''[[James Goldman]]'''
| '''[[The Lion in Winter|The play]] by Goldman'''
|-
| ''[[The Odd Couple (film)|The Odd Couple]]''
| [[Neil Simon]]
| [[The Odd Couple (play)|The play]] by Simon
|-
| ''[[Oliver! (film)|Oliver!]]''
| [[Vernon Harris]]
| [[Oliver!|The musical]] by [[Lionel Bart]]
|-
| ''[[Rachel, Rachel]]''
| [[Stewart Stern]]
| The novel ''[[A Jest of God]]'' by [[Margaret Laurence]]
|-
| ''[[Rosemary's Baby (film)|Rosemary's Baby]]''
| [[Roman Polanski]]
| [[Rosemary's Baby (novel)|The novel]] by [[Ira Levin]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1969 in film|1969]]<br />{{small|[[42nd Academy Awards|(42nd)]]}}
| '''''[[Midnight Cowboy]]'''''
| '''[[Waldo Salt]]'''
| '''[[Midnight Cowboy (novel)|The novel]] by [[James Leo Herlihy]]'''
|-
| ''[[Anne of the Thousand Days]]''
| Screenplay: [[Bridget Boland]] & John Hale; Adaptation: Richard Sokolove
| The play by [[Maxwell Anderson]]
|-
| ''[[Goodbye, Columbus (film)|Goodbye, Columbus]]''
| [[Arnold Schulman]]
| [[Goodbye, Columbus|The novella]] by [[Philip Roth]]
|-
| ''[[They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (film)|They Shoot Horses, Don't They?]]''
| [[James Poe]] & [[Robert E. Thompson (screenwriter)|Robert E. Thompson]]
| [[They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (novel)|The novel]] by [[Horace McCoy]]
|-
| ''[[Z (1969 film)|Z]]''
| [[Costa-Gavras]] & [[Jorge Semprún]]
| The novel by [[Vassilis Vassilikos]]
|}

===1970s===
{| class="wikitable"
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! width="30%" | Nominees
! width="40%" | Source Material
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1970 in film|1970]]<br />{{small|[[43rd Academy Awards|(43rd)]]}}
| '''''[[MASH (film)|M*A*S*H]]'''''
| '''[[Ring Lardner Jr.]]'''
| '''The novel ''[[MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors]]'' by [[Richard Hooker (author)|Richard Hooker]]'''
|-
| ''[[Airport (1970 film)|Airport]]''
| [[George Seaton]]
| [[Airport (Hailey novel)|The novel]] by [[Arthur Hailey]]
|-
| ''[[I Never Sang for My Father]]''
| [[Robert Anderson (playwright)|Robert Anderson]]
| The play by Anderson
|-
| ''[[Lovers and Other Strangers]]''
| [[Joseph Bologna]], [[David Zelag Goodman]] & [[Renée Taylor]]
| The play by Bologna & Taylor
|-
| ''[[Women in Love (film)|Women in Love]]''
| [[Larry Kramer]]
| [[Women in Love|The novel]] by [[D. H. Lawrence]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1971 in film|1971]]<br />{{small|[[44th Academy Awards|(44th)]]}}
| '''''[[The French Connection (film)|The French Connection]]'''''
| '''[[Ernest Tidyman]]'''
| '''The book ''[[The French Connection (book)|The French Connection: The World's Most Crucial Narcotics Investigation]]'' by [[Robin Moore]]'''
|-
| ''[[A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]''
| [[Stanley Kubrick]]
| [[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|The novel]] by [[Anthony Burgess]]
|-
| ''[[The Conformist (1970 film)|The Conformist]]''
| [[Bernardo Bertolucci]]
| [[The Conformist|The novel]] by [[Alberto Moravia]]
|-
| ''[[The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (film)|The Garden of the Finzi-Continis]]''
| Vittorio Bonicelli & [[Ugo Pirro]]
| [[The Garden of the Finzi-Continis|The novel]] by [[Giorgio Bassani]]
|-
| ''[[The Last Picture Show]]''
| [[Peter Bogdanovich]] & [[Larry McMurtry]]
| The novel by McMurtry
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1972 in film|1972]]<br />{{small|[[45th Academy Awards|(45th)]]}}
| '''''[[The Godfather]]'''''
| '''[[Francis Ford Coppola]] & [[Mario Puzo]]'''
| '''[[The Godfather (novel)|The novel]] by Puzo'''
|-
| ''[[Cabaret (1972 film)|Cabaret]]''
| [[Jay Presson Allen]]
| [[Cabaret (musical)|The musical]] by [[Joe Masteroff]]
|-
| ''[[The Emigrants (film)|The Emigrants]]''
| [[Bengt Forslund]] & [[Jan Troell]]
| The novels ''[[The Emigrants (Vilhelm Moberg novel)|The Emigrants]]'' & ''[[Unto a Good Land]]'' by [[Vilhelm Moberg]]
|-
| ''[[Pete 'n' Tillie]]''
| [[Julius J. Epstein]]
| The novella ''Witch's Milk'' by [[Peter De Vries]]
|-
| ''[[Sounder (film)|Sounder]]''
| [[Lonne Elder III]]
| [[Sounder (novel)|The novel]] by [[William H. Armstrong (author)|William H. Armstrong]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1973 in film|1973]]<br />{{small|[[46th Academy Awards|(46th)]]}}
| '''''[[The Exorcist]]'''''
| '''[[William Peter Blatty]]'''
| '''[[The Exorcist (novel)|The novel]] by Blatty'''
|-
| ''[[The Last Detail]]''
| [[Robert Towne]]
| The novel by [[Darryl Ponicsan]]
|-
| ''[[The Paper Chase (film)|The Paper Chase]]''
| [[James Bridges]]
| [[The Paper Chase (Osborn novel)|The novel]] by [[John Jay Osborn Jr.]]
|-
| ''[[Paper Moon (film)|Paper Moon]]''
| [[Alvin Sargent]]
| The novel ''[[Addie Pray]]'' by [[Joe David Brown]]
|-
| ''[[Serpico]]''
| [[Waldo Salt]] & [[Norman Wexler]]
| The book ''Serpico: The Cop Who Defied the System'' by [[Peter Maas]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1974 in film|1974]]<br />{{small|[[47th Academy Awards|(47th)]]}}
| '''''[[The Godfather Part II]]'''''
| '''[[Francis Ford Coppola]] & [[Mario Puzo]]'''
| '''The novel ''[[The Godfather (novel)|The Godfather]]'' by Puzo'''
|-
| ''[[The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (film)|The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz]]''
| Screenplay: [[Mordecai Richler]]; Adaptation: [[Lionel Chetwynd]]
| [[The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (novel)|The novel]] by Richler
|-
| ''[[Lenny (film)|Lenny]]''
| [[Julian Barry]]
| The play by Barry
|-
| ''[[Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)|Murder on the Orient Express]]''
| [[Paul Dehn]]
| [[Murder on the Orient Express|The novel]] by [[Agatha Christie]]
|-
| ''[[Young Frankenstein]]''
| [[Mel Brooks]] & [[Gene Wilder]]
| The novel ''[[Frankenstein|Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus]]'' by [[Mary Shelley]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1975 in film|1975]]<br />{{small|[[48th Academy Awards|(48th)]]}}
| '''''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]'''''
| '''[[Bo Goldman]] & [[Lawrence Hauben]]'''
| '''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel)|The novel]] by [[Ken Kesey]]'''
|-
| ''[[Barry Lyndon]]''
| [[Stanley Kubrick]]
| The novel ''[[The Luck of Barry Lyndon]]'' by [[William Makepeace Thackeray]]
|-
| ''[[The Man Who Would Be King (film)|The Man Who Would Be King]]''
| [[Gladys Hill]] & [[John Huston]]
| [[The Man Who Would Be King|The short story]] by [[Rudyard Kipling]]
|-
| ''[[Scent of a Woman (1974 film)|Profumo di donna]]''
| [[Ruggero Maccari]] & [[Dino Risi]]
| The novel ''Il buio e il mare'' by [[Giovanni Arpino]]
|-
| ''[[The Sunshine Boys (1975 film)|The Sunshine Boys]]''
| [[Neil Simon]]
| [[The Sunshine Boys|The play]] by Simon
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1976 in film|1976]]<br />{{small|[[49th Academy Awards|(49th)]]}}
| '''''[[All the President's Men (film)|All the President's Men]]'''''
| '''[[William Goldman]]'''
| '''[[All the President's Men|The memoir]] by [[Carl Bernstein]] & [[Bob Woodward]]'''
|-
| ''[[Bound for Glory (1976 film)|Bound for Glory]]''
| [[Robert Getchell]]
| [[Bound for Glory (book)|The memoir]] by [[Woody Guthrie]]
|-
| ''[[Fellini's Casanova]]''
| [[Federico Fellini]] & [[Bernardino Zapponi]]
| The memoir ''[[Histoire de ma vie|History of My Life]]'' by [[Giacomo Casanova]]
|-
| ''[[The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (film)|The Seven-Per-Cent Solution]]''
| [[Nicholas Meyer]]
| The novel ''[[The Seven-Per-Cent Solution|The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D.]]'' by Meyer
|-
| ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]''
| [[David Butler (screenwriter)|David Butler]] & [[Steve Shagan]]
| The book by [[Gordon Thomas (author)|Gordon Thomas]] & [[Max Morgan-Witts]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1977 in film|1977]]<br />{{small|[[50th Academy Awards|(50th)]]}}
| '''''[[Julia (1977 film)|Julia]]'''''
| '''[[Alvin Sargent]]'''
| '''The memoir ''[[Pentimento: A Book of Portraits]]'' by [[Lillian Hellman]]'''
|-
| ''[[Equus (film)|Equus]]''
| [[Peter Shaffer]]
| [[Equus (play)|The play]] by Shaffer
|-
| ''[[I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (film)|I Never Promised You a Rose Garden]]''
| [[Lewis John Carlino]] & [[Gavin Lambert]]
| [[I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (novel)|The novel]] by [[Joanne Greenberg]]
|-
| ''[[Oh, God! (film)|Oh, God!]]''
| [[Larry Gelbart]]
| The novel by [[Avery Corman]]
|-
| ''[[That Obscure Object of Desire]]''
| Scenario: [[Luis Buñuel]]; Collaboration: [[Jean-Claude Carrière]]
| The novel ''[[The Woman and the Puppet]]'' by [[Pierre Louÿs]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1978 in film|1978]]<br />{{small|[[51st Academy Awards|(51st)]]}}
| '''''[[Midnight Express (film)|Midnight Express]]'''''
| '''[[Oliver Stone]]'''
| '''[[Midnight Express (book)|The memoir]] by [[Billy Hayes (writer)|Billy Hayes]] & William Hoffer'''
|-
| ''[[Bloodbrothers (1978 film)|Bloodbrothers]]''
| [[Walter Newman (screenwriter)|Walter Newman]]
| [[Bloodbrothers (Price novel)|The novel]] by [[Richard Price (writer)|Richard Price]]
|-
| ''[[California Suite (film)|California Suite]]''
| [[Neil Simon]]
| [[California Suite|The play]] by Simon
|-
| ''[[Heaven Can Wait (1978 film)|Heaven Can Wait]]''
| [[Warren Beatty]] & [[Elaine May]]
| The play by [[Harry Segall]]
|-
| ''[[Same Time, Next Year (film)|Same Time, Next Year]]''
| [[Bernard Slade]]
| [[Same Time, Next Year (play)|The play]] by Slade
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1979 in film|1979]]<br />{{small|[[52nd Academy Awards|(52nd)]]}}
| '''''[[Kramer vs. Kramer]]'''''
| '''[[Robert Benton]]'''
| '''The novel by [[Avery Corman]]'''
|-
| ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''
| [[Francis Ford Coppola]] & [[John Milius]]
| The novel ''[[Heart of Darkness]]'' by [[Joseph Conrad]]
|-
| ''[[La Cage aux Folles (film)|La Cage aux Folles]]''
| Marcello Danon, [[Édouard Molinaro]], [[Jean Poiret]] & [[Francis Veber]]
| [[La Cage aux Folles (play)|The play]] by Poiret
|-
| ''[[A Little Romance]]''
| [[Allan Burns]]
| The novel ''E=mc<sup>2</sup> Mon Amour'' by [[Patrick Cauvin]]
|-
| ''[[Norma Rae]]''
| [[Harriet Frank Jr.]] & [[Irving Ravetch]]
| The book ''Crystal Lee, a Woman of Inheritance'' by Hank Leiferman
|}

===1980s===
{| class="wikitable"
! width="5%" | Year
! width="25%" | Film
! width="30%" | Nominees
! width="40%" | Source Material
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1980 in film|1980]]<br />{{small|[[53rd Academy Awards|(53rd)]]}}
| '''''[[Ordinary People]]'''''
| '''[[Alvin Sargent]]'''
| '''[[Ordinary People (Guest novel)|The novel]] by [[Judith Guest]]'''
|-
| ''[[Breaker Morant (film)|Breaker Morant]]''
| [[Bruce Beresford]], [[Jonathan Hardy]] & [[David Stevens (screenwriter)|David Stevens]]
| The play ''[[Breaker Morant (play)|Breaker Morant: A Play in Two Acts]]'' by [[Kenneth G. Ross]]
|-
| ''[[Coal Miner's Daughter (film)|Coal Miner's Daughter]]''
| [[Thomas Rickman (writer)|Thomas Rickman]]
| The memoir ''Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter'' by [[Loretta Lynn]] & [[George Vecsey]]
|-
| ''[[The Elephant Man (1980 film)|The Elephant Man]]''
| [[Eric Bergren]], Christopher De Vore & [[David Lynch]]
| The memoir ''The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences'' by [[Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet|Frederick Treves]] & book ''The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity'' by [[Ashley Montagu]]
|-
| ''[[The Stunt Man]]''
| Screenplay: [[Lawrence B. Marcus]]; Adaptation: [[Richard Rush (director)|Richard Rush]]
| The novel by [[Paul Brodeur]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1981 in film|1981]]<br />{{small|[[54th Academy Awards|(54th)]]}}
| '''''[[On Golden Pond (1981 film)|On Golden Pond]]'''''
| '''[[Ernest Thompson]]'''
| '''[[On Golden Pond (play)|The play]] by Thompson'''
|-
| ''[[The French Lieutenant's Woman (film)|The French Lieutenant's Woman]]''
| [[Harold Pinter]]
| [[The French Lieutenant's Woman|The novel]] by [[John Fowles]]
|-
| ''[[Pennies from Heaven (1981 film)|Pennies from Heaven]]''
| [[Dennis Potter]]
| [[Pennies from Heaven (TV series)|The television series]] by Potter
|-
| ''[[Prince of the City]]''
| [[Jay Presson Allen]] & [[Sidney Lumet]]
| The book ''Prince of the City: The True Story of a Cop Who Knew Too Much'' by [[Robert Daley]]
|-
| ''[[Ragtime (film)|Ragtime]]''
| [[Michael Weller]]
| [[Ragtime (novel)|The novel]] by [[E. L. Doctorow]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1982 in film|1982]]<br />{{small|[[55th Academy Awards|(55th)]]}}
| '''''[[Missing (1982 film)|Missing]]'''''
| '''[[Costa-Gavras]] & [[Donald E. Stewart]]'''
| '''The book ''The Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice'' by [[Thomas Hauser]]'''
|-
| ''[[Das Boot]]''
| [[Wolfgang Petersen]]
| [[Das Boot (novel)|The novel]] by [[Lothar-Günther Buchheim]]
|-
| ''[[Sophie's Choice (film)|Sophie's Choice]]''
| [[Alan J. Pakula]]
| [[Sophie's Choice (novel)|The novel]] by [[William Styron]]
|-
| ''[[The Verdict]]''
| [[David Mamet]]
| The novel by [[Barry Reed (author)|Barry Reed]]
|-
| ''[[Victor/Victoria]]''
| [[Blake Edwards]]
| The film ''[[Victor and Victoria]]'' by [[Reinhold Schünzel]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1983 in film|1983]]<br />{{small|[[56th Academy Awards|(56th)]]}}
| '''''[[Terms of Endearment]]'''''
| '''[[James L. Brooks]]'''
| '''The novel by [[Larry McMurtry]]'''
|-
| ''[[Betrayal (1983 film)|Betrayal]]''
| [[Harold Pinter]]
| [[Betrayal (play)|The play]] by Pinter
|-
| ''[[The Dresser (1983 film)|The Dresser]]''
| [[Ronald Harwood]]
| [[The Dresser|The play]] by Harwood
|-
| ''[[Educating Rita (film)|Educating Rita]]''
| [[Willy Russell]]
| [[Educating Rita|The play]] by Russell
|-
| ''[[Reuben, Reuben]]''
| [[Julius J. Epstein]]
| The play ''[[Spofford (play)|Spofford]]'' by [[Herman Shumlin]] & novel by [[Peter De Vries]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1984 in film|1984]]<br />{{small|[[57th Academy Awards|(57th)]]}}
| '''''[[Amadeus (film)|Amadeus]]'''''
| '''[[Peter Shaffer]]'''
| '''[[Amadeus (play)|The play]] by Shaffer'''
|-
| ''[[Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes]]''
| Michael Austin & [[Robert Towne]]<ref group=note name=vazak>''[[Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes]]'' was initially adapted by screenwriter [[Robert Towne]], but he removed his name from the credits because he was unhappy with co-writer Michael Austin's alterations and the finished film itself. He instead used the pseudonym P.H. Vazak, the name of his late Hungarian sheepdog.</ref><ref name=ifc>{{cite web |url=http://www.ifc.com/2008/02/fake-names-real-oscars-five-no |title=Fake Names, Real Oscars: Five Nominees Who Didn't Really Exist |last=Saito |first=Stephen |work=IFC |date=February 20, 2008 |publisher=[[IFC (U.S. TV channel)|IFC]] |access-date=January 9, 2018}}</ref>
| The novel ''[[Tarzan of the Apes]]'' by [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]
|-
| ''[[The Killing Fields (film)|The Killing Fields]]''
| [[Bruce Robinson]]
| The article "The Death and Life of Dith Pran: A Story of Cambodia" by [[Sydney Schanberg]]
|-
| ''[[A Passage to India (film)|A Passage to India]]''
| [[David Lean]]
| [[A Passage to India|The novel]] by [[E. M. Forster]]
|-
| ''[[A Soldier's Story]]''
| [[Charles Fuller]]
| The play ''[[A Soldier's Play]]'' by Fuller
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1985 in film|1985]]<br />{{small|[[58th Academy Awards|(58th)]]}}
| '''''[[Out of Africa (film)|Out of Africa]]'''''
| '''[[Kurt Luedtke]]'''
| '''[[Out of Africa|The memoir]] by [[Karen Blixen]] & books ''Silence Will Speak: A Study of the Life of Denys Finch Hatton and His Relationship With Karen Blixen'' by [[Errol Trzebinski]] & ''Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller'' by [[Judith Thurman]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Color Purple (1985 film)|The Color Purple]]''
| [[Menno Meyjes]]
| [[The Color Purple|The novel]] by [[Alice Walker]]
|-
| ''[[Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985 film)|Kiss of the Spider Woman]]''
| [[Leonard Schrader]]
| [[Kiss of the Spider Woman (novel)|The novel]] by [[Manuel Puig]]
|-
| ''[[Prizzi's Honor]]''
| [[Richard Condon]] & Janet Roach
| [[Prizzi's Honor (novel)|The novel]] by Condon
|-
| ''[[The Trip to Bountiful]]''
| [[Horton Foote]]
| [[The Trip to Bountiful (play)|The play]] & television film by Foote
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1986 in film|1986]]<br />{{small|[[59th Academy Awards|(59th)]]}}
| '''''[[A Room with a View (1985 film)|A Room with a View]]'''''
| '''[[Ruth Prawer Jhabvala]]'''
| '''[[A Room with a View|The novel]] by [[E. M. Forster]]'''
|-
| ''[[Children of a Lesser God (film)|Children of a Lesser God]]''
| Hesper Anderson & [[Mark Medoff]]
| [[Children of a Lesser God (play)|The play]] by Medoff
|-
| ''[[The Color of Money]]''
| [[Richard Price (writer)|Richard Price]]
| [[The Color of Money (novel)|The novel]] by [[Walter Tevis]]
|-
| ''[[Crimes of the Heart (film)|Crimes of the Heart]]''
| [[Beth Henley]]
| [[Crimes of the Heart|The play]] by Henley
|-
| ''[[Stand by Me (film)|Stand by Me]]''
| [[Bruce A. Evans]] & Raynold Gideon
| The novella ''[[The Body (novella)|The Body]]'' by [[Stephen King]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1987 in film|1987]]<br />{{small|[[60th Academy Awards|(60th)]]}}
| '''''[[The Last Emperor]]'''''
| '''[[Bernardo Bertolucci]] & [[Mark Peploe]]'''
| '''The memoir ''[[From Emperor to Citizen|From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi]]'' by [[Puyi]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Dead (1987 film)|The Dead]]''
| [[Tony Huston]]
| [[The Dead (Joyce short story)|The short story]] by [[James Joyce]]
|-
| ''[[Fatal Attraction]]''
| [[James Dearden]]
| The television film ''[[Diversion (1980 film)|Diversion]]'' by Dearden
|-
| ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]''
| [[Gustav Hasford]], [[Michael Herr]] & [[Stanley Kubrick]]
| The novel ''[[The Short-Timers]]'' by Hasford
|-
| ''[[My Life as a Dog]]''
| Per Berglund, [[Brasse Brännström]], [[Lasse Hallström]] & [[Reidar Jönsson]]
| The novel ''Mitt liv som hund'' by Jönsson
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1988 in film|1988]]<br />{{small|[[61st Academy Awards|(61st)]]}}
| '''''[[Dangerous Liaisons]]'''''
| '''[[Christopher Hampton]]'''
| '''The play ''[[Les Liaisons Dangereuses (play)|Les Liaisons Dangereuses]]'' by Hampton & [[Les Liaisons dangereuses|novel]] by [[Pierre Choderlos de Laclos]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Accidental Tourist (film)|The Accidental Tourist]]''
| [[Frank Galati]] & [[Lawrence Kasdan]]
| [[The Accidental Tourist|The novel]] by [[Anne Tyler]]
|-
| ''[[Gorillas in the Mist]]''
| Screenplay: [[Anna Hamilton Phelan]]; Story: [[Tab Murphy]] & Phelan
| The article by [[Harold Hayes]]
|-
| ''[[Little Dorrit (1987 film)|Little Dorrit]]''
| [[Christine Edzard]]
| [[Little Dorrit|The novel]] by [[Charles Dickens]]
|-
| ''[[The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film)|The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]''
| [[Jean-Claude Carrière]] & [[Philip Kaufman]]
| [[The Unbearable Lightness of Being|The novel]] by [[Milan Kundera]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1989 in film|1989]]<br />{{small|[[62nd Academy Awards|(62nd)]]}}
| '''''[[Driving Miss Daisy]]'''''
| '''[[Alfred Uhry]]'''
| '''[[Driving Miss Daisy (play)|The play]] by Uhry'''
|-
| ''[[Born on the Fourth of July (film)|Born on the Fourth of July]]''
| [[Ron Kovic]] & [[Oliver Stone]]
| [[Born on the Fourth of July|The memoir]] by Kovic
|-
| ''[[Enemies, A Love Story (film)|Enemies, A Love Story]]''
| [[Paul Mazursky]] & [[Roger L. Simon]]
| [[Enemies, A Love Story|The novel]] by [[Isaac Bashevis Singer]]
|-
| ''[[Field of Dreams]]''
| [[Phil Alden Robinson]]
| The novel ''[[Shoeless Joe (novel)|Shoeless Joe]]'' by [[W. P. Kinsella]]
|-
| ''[[My Left Foot]]''
| [[Shane Connaughton]] & [[Jim Sheridan]]
| [[My Left Foot (book)|The memoir]] by [[Christy Brown]]
|}

===1990s===
{| class="wikitable"
! width="5%" | Year
! width="25%" | Film
! width="30%" | Nominees
! width="40%" | Source Material
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1990 in film|1990]]<br />{{small|[[63rd Academy Awards|(63rd)]]}}
| '''''[[Dances with Wolves]]'''''
| '''[[Michael Blake (author)|Michael Blake]]'''
| '''[[Dances with Wolves (novel)|The novel]] by Blake'''
|-
| ''[[Awakenings]]''
| [[Steven Zaillian]]
| [[Awakenings (book)|The memoir]] by [[Oliver Sacks]]
|-
| ''[[Goodfellas]]''
| [[Nicholas Pileggi]] & [[Martin Scorsese]]
| The book ''[[Wiseguy (book)|Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family]]'' by Pileggi
|-
| ''[[The Grifters (film)|The Grifters]]''
| [[Donald E. Westlake]]
| [[The Grifters (novel)|The novel]] by [[Jim Thompson (writer)|Jim Thompson]]
|-
| ''[[Reversal of Fortune]]''
| [[Nicholas Kazan]]
| The memoir ''Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow Case'' by [[Alan Dershowitz]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1991 in film|1991]]<br />{{small|[[64th Academy Awards|(64th)]]}}
| '''''[[The Silence of the Lambs (film)|The Silence of the Lambs]]'''''
| '''[[Ted Tally]]'''
| '''[[The Silence of the Lambs (novel)|The novel]] by [[Thomas Harris]]'''
|-
| ''[[Europa Europa]]''
| [[Agnieszka Holland]]
| The memoir ''I Was Hitler Youth Salomon'' by [[Solomon Perel]]
|-
| ''[[Fried Green Tomatoes]]''
| [[Fannie Flagg]] & [[Carol Sobieski]] {{small|([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|p.n.]])}}
| The novel ''[[Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe]]'' by Flagg
|-
| ''[[JFK (film)|JFK]]''
| Zachary Sklar & [[Oliver Stone]]
| The memoir ''[[On the Trail of the Assassins]]'' by [[Jim Garrison]] & book ''Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy'' by [[Jim Marrs]]
|-
| ''[[The Prince of Tides]]''
| [[Pat Conroy]] & [[Becky Johnston]]
| [[The Prince of Tides (novel)|The novel]] by Conroy
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1992 in film|1992]]<br />{{small|[[65th Academy Awards|(65th)]]}}
| '''''[[Howards End (film)|Howards End]]'''''
| '''[[Ruth Prawer Jhabvala]]'''
| '''[[Howards End|The novel]] by [[E. M. Forster]]'''
|-
| ''[[Enchanted April (1991 film)|Enchanted April]]''
| [[Peter Barnes (playwright)|Peter Barnes]]
| [[The Enchanted April|The novel]] by [[Elizabeth von Arnim]]
|-
| ''[[The Player (1992 film)|The Player]]''
| [[Michael Tolkin]]
| The novel by Tolkin
|-
| ''[[A River Runs Through It (film)|A River Runs Through It]]''
| [[Richard Friedenberg]]
| [[A River Runs Through It (novel)|The novella]] by [[Norman Maclean]]
|-
| ''[[Scent of a Woman (1992 film)|Scent of a Woman]]''
| [[Bo Goldman]]
| The novel ''Il buio e il miele'' by [[Giovanni Arpino]] & [[Scent of a Woman (1974 film)|film]] by [[Ruggero Maccari]] & [[Dino Risi]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1993 in film|1993]]<br />{{small|[[66th Academy Awards|(66th)]]}}
| '''''[[Schindler's List]]'''''
| '''[[Steven Zaillian]]'''
| '''The novel ''[[Schindler's Ark]]'' by [[Thomas Keneally]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Age of Innocence (1993 film)|The Age of Innocence]]''
| [[Jay Cocks]] & [[Martin Scorsese]]
| [[The Age of Innocence|The novel]] by [[Edith Wharton]]
|-
| ''[[In the Name of the Father]]''
| [[Terry George]] & [[Jim Sheridan]]
| The memoir ''Proved Innocent: The Story of Gerry Conlon of the Guildford Four'' by [[Gerry Conlon]]
|-
| ''[[The Remains of the Day (film)|The Remains of the Day]]''
| [[Ruth Prawer Jhabvala]]
| [[The Remains of the Day|The novel]] by [[Kazuo Ishiguro]]
|-
| ''[[Shadowlands (1993 film)|Shadowlands]]''
| [[William Nicholson (writer)|William Nicholson]]
| [[Shadowlands (play)|The play]] & [[Shadowlands (1985 film)|television film]] by Nicholson
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1994 in film|1994]]<br />{{small|[[67th Academy Awards|(67th)]]}}
| '''''[[Forrest Gump]]'''''
| '''[[Eric Roth]]'''
| '''[[Forrest Gump (novel)|The novel]] by [[Winston Groom]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Madness of King George]]''
| [[Alan Bennett]]
| The play ''[[The Madness of George III]]'' by Bennett
|-
| ''[[Nobody's Fool (1994 film)|Nobody's Fool]]''
| [[Robert Benton]]
| The novel by [[Richard Russo]]
|-
| ''[[Quiz Show (film)|Quiz Show]]''
| [[Paul Attanasio]]
| The book ''Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties'' by [[Richard N. Goodwin]]
|-
| ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]''
| [[Frank Darabont]]
| The novella "[[Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption]]" by [[Stephen King]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1995 in film|1995]]<br />{{small|[[68th Academy Awards|(68th)]]}}
| '''''[[Sense and Sensibility (1995 film)|Sense and Sensibility]]'''''
| '''[[Emma Thompson]]'''
| '''[[Sense and Sensibility|The novel]] by [[Jane Austen]]'''
|-
| ''[[Apollo 13 (film)|Apollo 13]]''
| [[William Broyles Jr.]] & [[Al Reinert]]
| The memoir ''[[Lost Moon|Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13]]'' by [[Jeffrey Kluger]] & [[Jim Lovell]]
|-
| ''[[Babe (film)|Babe]]''
| [[George Miller (filmmaker)|George Miller]] & [[Chris Noonan]]
| The novel ''[[The Sheep-Pig]]'' by [[Dick King-Smith]]
|-
| ''[[Leaving Las Vegas]]''
| [[Mike Figgis]]
| [[Leaving Las Vegas (novel)|The novel]] by [[John O'Brien (novelist)|John O'Brien]]
|-
| ''[[Il Postino: The Postman]]''
| Screenplay: [[Anna Pavignano]], [[Michael Radford]], [[Furio Scarpelli|Furio]] & [[Giacomo Scarpelli]] & [[Massimo Troisi]] {{small|([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|p.n.]])}}; Story: F. & G. Scarpelli
| The novel ''[[Ardiente paciencia|Ardiente Paciencia]]'' by [[Antonio Skármeta]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1996 in film|1996]]<br />{{small|[[69th Academy Awards|(69th)]]}}
| '''''[[Sling Blade (film)|Sling Blade]]'''''
| '''[[Billy Bob Thornton]]'''
| '''The short film ''[[Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade]]'' written by Thornton'''
|-
| ''[[The Crucible (1996 film)|The Crucible]]''
| [[Arthur Miller]]
| [[The Crucible|The play]] by Miller
|-
| ''[[The English Patient (film)|The English Patient]]''
| [[Anthony Minghella]]
| [[The English Patient|The novel]] by [[Michael Ondaatje]]
|-
| ''[[Hamlet (1996 film)|Hamlet]]''
| [[Kenneth Branagh]]
| The play ''[[Hamlet|The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark]]'' by [[William Shakespeare]]
|-
| ''[[Trainspotting (film)|Trainspotting]]''
| [[John Hodge (screenwriter)|John Hodge]]
| [[Trainspotting (novel)|The novel]] by [[Irvine Welsh]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1997 in film|1997]]<br />{{small|[[70th Academy Awards|(70th)]]}}
| '''''[[L.A. Confidential (film)|L.A. Confidential]]'''''
| '''[[Curtis Hanson]] & [[Brian Helgeland]]'''
| '''[[L.A. Confidential|The novel]] by [[James Ellroy]]'''
|-
| ''[[Donnie Brasco (film)|Donnie Brasco]]''
| [[Paul Attanasio]]
| The memoir ''[[Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia]]'' by [[Joseph D. Pistone]] & Richard Woodley
|-
| ''[[The Sweet Hereafter (film)|The Sweet Hereafter]]''
| [[Atom Egoyan]]
| [[The Sweet Hereafter (novel)|The novel]] by [[Russell Banks]]
|-
| ''[[Wag the Dog]]''
| [[Hilary Henkin]] & [[David Mamet]]
| The novel ''[[Wag the Dog (novel)|American Hero]]'' by [[Larry Beinhart]]
|-
| ''[[The Wings of the Dove (1997 film)|The Wings of the Dove]]''
| [[Hossein Amini]]
| [[The Wings of the Dove|The novel]] by [[Henry James]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1998 in film|1998]]<br />{{small|[[71st Academy Awards|(71st)]]}}
| '''''[[Gods and Monsters (film)|Gods and Monsters]]'''''
| '''[[Bill Condon]]'''
| '''The novel ''[[Father of Frankenstein]]'' by [[Christopher Bram]]'''
|-
| ''[[Out of Sight]]''
| [[Scott Frank]]
| [[Out of Sight (novel)|The novel]] by [[Elmore Leonard]]
|-
| ''[[Primary Colors (film)|Primary Colors]]''
| [[Elaine May]]
| The novel ''[[Primary Colors (novel)|Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics]]'' by [[Joe Klein]]
|-
| ''[[A Simple Plan (film)|A Simple Plan]]''
| [[Scott Smith (author)|Scott Smith]]
| [[A Simple Plan (novel)|The novel]] by Smith
|-
| ''[[The Thin Red Line (1998 film)|The Thin Red Line]]''
| [[Terrence Malick]]
| [[The Thin Red Line (novel)|The novel]] by [[James Jones (author)|James Jones]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[1999 in film|1999]]<br />{{small|[[72nd Academy Awards|(72nd)]]}}
| '''''[[The Cider House Rules (film)|The Cider House Rules]]'''''
| '''[[John Irving]]'''
| '''[[The Cider House Rules|The novel]] by Irving'''
|-
| ''[[Election (1999 film)|Election]]''
| [[Alexander Payne]] & [[Jim Taylor (writer)|Jim Taylor]]
| [[Election (novel)|The novel]] by [[Tom Perrotta]]
|-
| ''[[The Green Mile (film)|The Green Mile]]''
| [[Frank Darabont]]
| [[The Green Mile (novel)|The novel]] by [[Stephen King]]
|-
| ''[[The Insider (film)|The Insider]]''
| [[Michael Mann]] & [[Eric Roth]]
| The article "The Man Who Knew Too Much" by [[Marie Brenner]]
|-
| ''[[The Talented Mr. Ripley (film)|The Talented Mr. Ripley]]''
| [[Anthony Minghella]]
| [[The Talented Mr. Ripley|The novel]] by [[Patricia Highsmith]]
|}

===2000s===
{| class="wikitable"
! width="5%" | Year
! width="25%" | Film
! width="30%" | Nominees
! width="40%" | Source Material
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[2000 in film|2000]]<br />{{small|[[73rd Academy Awards|(73rd)]]}}
| '''''[[Traffic (2000 film)|Traffic]]'''''
| '''[[Stephen Gaghan]]'''
| '''The television series ''[[Traffik]]'' by [[Simon Moore (writer)|Simon Moore]]'''
|-
| ''[[Chocolat (2000 film)|Chocolat]]''
| [[Robert Nelson Jacobs]]
| [[Chocolat (novel)|The novel]] by [[Joanne Harris]]
|-
| ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]''
| [[Wang Hui-ling]], [[James Schamus]] & Kuo Jung Tsai
| [[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (novel)|The novel]] by [[Wang Dulu]]
|-
| ''[[O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]''
| [[Coen brothers|Joel and Ethan Coen]]
| The epic poem the ''[[Odyssey]]'' by [[Homer]]
|-
| ''[[Wonder Boys (film)|Wonder Boys]]''
| [[Steve Kloves]]
| [[Wonder Boys|The novel]] by [[Michael Chabon]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[2001 in film|2001]]<br />{{small|[[74th Academy Awards|(74th)]]}}
| '''''[[A Beautiful Mind (film)|A Beautiful Mind]]'''''
| '''[[Akiva Goldsman]]'''
| '''[[A Beautiful Mind (book)|The book]] by [[Sylvia Nasar]]'''
|-
| ''[[Ghost World (film)|Ghost World]]''
| [[Daniel Clowes]] & [[Terry Zwigoff]]
| [[Ghost World (comics)|The graphic novel]] by Clowes
|-
| ''[[In the Bedroom]]''
| Rob Festinger & [[Todd Field]]
| The short story "[[Killings (short story)|Killings]]" by [[Andre Dubus]]
|-
| ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]''
| [[Philippa Boyens]], [[Peter Jackson]] & [[Fran Walsh]]
| The novel ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]
|-
| ''[[Shrek]]''
| [[Ted Elliott (screenwriter)|Ted Elliott]], [[Roger S. H. Schulman]], [[Joe Stillman]] & [[Terry Rossio]]
| [[Shrek!|The picture book]] by [[William Steig]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[2002 in film|2002]]<br />{{small|[[75th Academy Awards|(75th)]]}}
| '''''[[The Pianist (2002 film)|The Pianist]]'''''
| '''[[Ronald Harwood]]'''
| '''[[The Pianist (memoir)|The memoir]] by [[Władysław Szpilman]]'''
|-
| ''[[About a Boy (film)|About a Boy]]''
| [[Peter Hedges]], [[Chris Weitz|Chris]] & [[Paul Weitz (filmmaker)|Paul Weitz]]
| [[About a Boy (novel)|The novel]] by [[Nick Hornby]]
|-
| ''[[Adaptation (film)|Adaptation]]''
| [[Charlie Kaufman|Charlie]] & Donald Kaufman<ref group=note name=kaufman>Screenwriter [[Charlie Kaufman]] is a character in his own script for ''[[Adaptation (film)|Adaptation]]'', as is his fictional twin brother Donald. The nonexistent Donald was credited as a screenwriter and was nominated for an Academy Award. The film's end credits claimed he had died during pre-production.</ref><ref name=ifc />
| The book ''[[The Orchid Thief]]'' by [[Susan Orlean]]
|-
| ''[[Chicago (2002 film)|Chicago]]''
| [[Bill Condon]]
| [[Chicago (musical)|The musical]] by [[Fred Ebb]] & [[Bob Fosse]]
|-
| ''[[The Hours (film)|The Hours]]''
| [[David Hare (playwright)|David Hare]]
| [[The Hours (novel)|The novel]] by [[Michael Cunningham]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[2003 in film|2003]]<br />{{small|[[76th Academy Awards|(76th)]]}}
| '''''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'''''
| '''[[Philippa Boyens]], [[Peter Jackson]] & [[Fran Walsh]]'''
| '''The novel ''[[The Return of the King]]'' by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'''
|-
| ''[[American Splendor (film)|American Splendor]]''
| [[Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini|Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini]]
| [[American Splendor|The comic books]] by [[Harvey Pekar]] & graphic novel ''[[Our Cancer Year]]'' by Pekar & [[Joyce Brabner]]
|-
| ''[[City of God (2002 film)|City of God]]''
| [[Bráulio Mantovani]]
| [[City of God (Lins novel)|The novel]] by [[Paulo Lins]]
|-
| ''[[Mystic River (film)|Mystic River]]''
| [[Brian Helgeland]]
| [[Mystic River (novel)|The novel]] by [[Dennis Lehane]]
|-
| ''[[Seabiscuit (film)|Seabiscuit]]''
| [[Gary Ross]]
| The book ''[[Seabiscuit: An American Legend]]'' by [[Laura Hillenbrand]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[2004 in film|2004]]<br />{{small|[[77th Academy Awards|(77th)]]}}
| '''''[[Sideways]]'''''
| '''[[Alexander Payne]] & [[Jim Taylor (writer)|Jim Taylor]]'''
| '''[[Sideways (novel)|The novel]] by [[Rex Pickett]]'''
|-
| ''[[Before Sunset]]''
| Screenplay: [[Julie Delpy]], [[Ethan Hawke]] & [[Richard Linklater]]; Story: [[Kim Krizan]] & Linklater
| Characters from the film ''[[Before Sunrise]]'' by Krizan & Linklater
|-
| ''[[Finding Neverland (film)|Finding Neverland]]''
| [[David Magee]]
| The play ''The Man Who Was Peter Pan'' by [[Allan Knee]]
|-
| ''[[Million Dollar Baby]]''
| [[Paul Haggis]]
| The short story collection ''Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner'' by [[F.X. Toole]]
|-
| ''[[The Motorcycle Diaries (film)|The Motorcycle Diaries]]''
| [[José Rivera (playwright)|José Rivera]]
| The memoirs ''Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary'' by [[Alberto Granado]] & ''[[The Motorcycle Diaries (book)|The Motorcycle Diaries]]'' by [[Che Guevara]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[2005 in film|2005]]<br />{{small|[[78th Academy Awards|(78th)]]}}
| '''''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'''''
| '''[[Larry McMurtry]] & [[Diana Ossana]]'''
| '''[[Brokeback Mountain (short story)|The short story]] by [[Annie Proulx]]'''
|-
| ''[[Capote (film)|Capote]]''
| [[Dan Futterman]]
| The book by [[Gerald Clarke (author)|Gerald Clarke]]
|-
| ''[[The Constant Gardener (film)|The Constant Gardener]]''
| [[Jeffrey Caine]]
| [[The Constant Gardener|The novel]] by [[John le Carré]]
|-
| ''[[A History of Violence]]''
| [[Josh Olson]]
| [[A History of Violence (comics)|The graphic novel]] by [[Vince Locke]] & [[John Wagner]]
|-
| ''[[Munich (2005 film)|Munich]]''
| [[Tony Kushner]] & [[Eric Roth]]
| The book ''[[Vengeance (Jonas book)|Vengeance]]'' by [[George Jonas]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[2006 in film|2006]]<br />{{small|[[79th Academy Awards|(79th)]]}}
| '''''[[The Departed]]'''''
| '''[[William Monahan]]'''
| '''The film ''[[Infernal Affairs]]'' written by [[Felix Chong]] & [[Alan Mak (director)|Alan Mak]]'''
|-
| ''[[Borat|Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan]]''
| Screenplay: [[Sacha Baron Cohen]], Anthony Hines, [[Peter Baynham]] & [[Dan Mazer]]; Story: Baron Cohen, Baynham, Hines & [[Todd Phillips]]
| The character [[Borat Sagdiyev]] from the television series ''[[Da Ali G Show]]'' by Baron Cohen
|-
| ''[[Children of Men]]''
| [[Alfonso Cuarón]], Timothy J. Sexton, [[David Arata]], [[Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby|Mark Fergus]] & [[Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby|Hawk Ostby]] 
| [[The Children of Men|The novel]] by [[P. D. James]]
|-
| ''[[Little Children (film)|Little Children]]''
| [[Todd Field]] & [[Tom Perrotta]]
| [[Little Children (novel)|The novel]] by Perrotta
|-
| ''[[Notes on a Scandal (film)|Notes on a Scandal]]''
| [[Patrick Marber]]
| [[Notes on a Scandal|The novel]] by [[Zoë Heller]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[2007 in film|2007]]<br />{{small|[[80th Academy Awards|(80th)]]}}
| '''''[[No Country for Old Men]]'''''
| '''[[Coen brothers|Coen Brothers]]'''
| '''[[No Country for Old Men (novel)|The novel]] by [[Cormac McCarthy]]'''
|-
| ''[[Atonement (2007 film)|Atonement]]''
| [[Christopher Hampton]]
| [[Atonement (novel)|The novel]] by [[Ian McEwan]]
|-
| ''[[Away from Her]]''
| [[Sarah Polley]]
| The short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" by [[Alice Munro]]
|-
| ''[[The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (film)|The Diving Bell and the Butterfly]]''
| [[Ronald Harwood]]
| [[The Diving Bell and the Butterfly|The memoir]] by [[Jean-Dominique Bauby]]
|-
| ''[[There Will Be Blood]]''
| [[Paul Thomas Anderson]]
| The novel ''[[Oil!]]'' by [[Upton Sinclair]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[2008 in film|2008]]<br />{{small|[[81st Academy Awards|(81st)]]}}
| '''''[[Slumdog Millionaire]]'''''
| '''[[Simon Beaufoy]]'''
| '''The novel ''[[Q & A (novel)|Q & A]]'' by [[Vikas Swarup]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)|The Curious Case of Benjamin Button]]''
| Screenplay: [[Eric Roth]]; Story: Roth & [[Robin Swicord]]
| [[The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (short story)|The short story]] by [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]
|-
| ''[[Doubt (2008 film)|Doubt]]''
| [[John Patrick Shanley]]
| The play ''[[Doubt: A Parable]]'' by Shanley
|-
| ''[[Frost/Nixon (film)|Frost/Nixon]]''
| [[Peter Morgan]]
| [[Frost/Nixon (play)|The play]] by Morgan
|-
| ''[[The Reader (2008 film)|The Reader]]''
| [[David Hare (playwright)|David Hare]]
| [[The Reader|The novel]] by [[Bernhard Schlink]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[2009 in film|2009]]<br />{{small|[[82nd Academy Awards|(82nd)]]}}
| '''''[[Precious (film)|Precious]]'''''
| '''[[Geoffrey S. Fletcher]]'''
| '''The novel ''[[Push (novel)|Push]]'' by [[Sapphire (author)|Sapphire]]'''
|-
| ''[[District 9]]''
| [[Neill Blomkamp]] & [[Terri Tatchell]]
| The short film ''Alive in Joburg'' by Blomkamp
|-
| ''[[An Education]]''
| [[Nick Hornby]]
| The memoir by [[Lynn Barber]]
|-
| ''[[In the Loop]]''
| [[Jesse Armstrong]], [[Simon Blackwell]], [[Armando Iannucci]] & [[Tony Roche (writer)|Tony Roche]]
| The character [[Malcolm Tucker]] from the television series ''[[The Thick of It]]'' by Iannucci
|-
| ''[[Up in the Air (2009 film)|Up in the Air]]''
| [[Jason Reitman]] & [[Sheldon Turner]]
| [[Up in the Air (novel)|The novel]] by [[Walter Kirn]]
|}

===2010s===
{| class="wikitable"
! width="5%" | Year
! width="25%" | Film
! width="30%" | Nominees
! width="40%" | Source Material
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[2010 in film|2010]]<br />{{small|[[83rd Academy Awards|(83rd)]]}}
| '''''[[The Social Network]]'''''
| '''[[Aaron Sorkin]]'''
| '''The book ''[[The Accidental Billionaires|The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal]]'' by [[Ben Mezrich]]'''
|-
| ''[[127 Hours]]''
| [[Danny Boyle]] & [[Simon Beaufoy]]
| The memoir ''[[Between a Rock and a Hard Place (book)|Between a Rock and a Hard Place]]'' by [[Aron Ralston]]
|-
| ''[[Toy Story 3]]''
| Screenplay: [[Michael Arndt]]; Story: [[John Lasseter]], [[Andrew Stanton]] & [[Lee Unkrich]]
| [[List of Toy Story characters|Characters]] from the film ''[[Toy Story]]'' by [[Pete Docter]], Lasseter, [[Joe Ranft]], & Stanton
|-
| ''[[True Grit (2010 film)|True Grit]]''
| [[Coen brothers|Coen Brothers]]
| [[True Grit (novel)|The novel]] by [[Charles Portis]]
|-
| ''[[Winter's Bone]]''
| [[Debra Granik]] & [[Anne Rosellini]]
| The novel by [[Daniel Woodrell]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[2011 in film|2011]]<br />{{small|[[84th Academy Awards|(84th)]]}}
| '''''[[The Descendants]]'''''
| '''[[Alexander Payne]] and [[Nat Faxon]] & [[Jim Rash]]'''
| '''[[The Descendants (novel)|The novel]] by [[Kaui Hart Hemmings]]'''
|-
| ''[[Hugo (film)|Hugo]]''
| [[John Logan (writer)|John Logan]]
| The novel ''[[The Invention of Hugo Cabret]]'' by [[Brian Selznick]]
|-
| ''[[The Ides of March (2011 film)|The Ides of March]]''
| [[George Clooney]] & [[Grant Heslov]] and [[Beau Willimon]]
| The play ''[[Farragut North (play)|Farragaut North]]'' by Willimon
|-
| ''[[Moneyball (film)|Moneyball]]''
| Screenplay: [[Steven Zaillian]] & [[Aaron Sorkin]]; Story: [[Stan Chervin]]
| The book ''[[Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game]]'' by [[Michael Lewis]]
|-
| ''[[Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film)|Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy]]''
| [[Bridget O'Connor]] {{small|([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|p.n.]])}} & [[Peter Straughan]]
| [[Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy|The novel]] by [[John le Carré]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[2012 in film|2012]]<br />{{small|[[85th Academy Awards|(85th)]]}}
| '''''[[Argo (2012 film)|Argo]]'''''
| '''[[Chris Terrio]]'''
| '''The memoir ''The Master of Disguise'' by [[Tony Mendez]] & article "The Great Escape: How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran" by [[Joshuah Bearman]]'''
|-
| ''[[Beasts of the Southern Wild]]''
| [[Lucy Alibar]] & [[Benh Zeitlin]]
| The play ''Juicy and Delicious'' by Alibar
|-
| ''[[Life of Pi (film)|Life of Pi]]''
| [[David Magee]]
| [[Life of Pi|The novel]] by [[Yann Martel]]
|-
| ''[[Lincoln (film)|Lincoln]]''
| [[Tony Kushner]]
| The book ''[[Team of Rivals|Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln]]'' by [[Doris Kearns Goodwin]]
|-
| ''[[Silver Linings Playbook]]''
| [[David O. Russell]]
| [[The Silver Linings Playbook|The novel]] by [[Matthew Quick]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[2013 in film|2013]]<br />{{small|[[86th Academy Awards|(86th)]]}}
| '''''[[12 Years a Slave (film)|12 Years a Slave]]'''''
| '''[[John Ridley]]'''
| '''[[Twelve Years a Slave|The memoir]] by [[Solomon Northup]]'''
|-
| ''[[Before Midnight (2013 film)|Before Midnight]]''
| [[Richard Linklater]], [[Julie Delpy]] & [[Ethan Hawke]]
| Characters from the film ''[[Before Sunrise]]'' by [[Kim Krizan]] & Linklater
|-
| ''[[Captain Phillips (film)|Captain Phillips]]''
| [[Billy Ray (screenwriter)|Billy Ray]]
| The memoir ''[[A Captain's Duty|A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea]]'' by [[Richard Phillips (merchant mariner)|Richard Phillips]] & Stephan Talty
|-
| ''[[Philomena (film)|Philomena]]''
| [[Steve Coogan]] & [[Jeff Pope]]
| The book ''The Lost Child of Philomena Lee'' by [[Martin Sixsmith]]
|-
| ''[[The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film)|The Wolf of Wall Street]]''
| [[Terence Winter]]
| [[The Wolf of Wall Street (book)|The memoir]] by [[Jordan Belfort]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[2014 in film|2014]]<br />{{small|[[87th Academy Awards|(87th)]]}}
| '''''[[The Imitation Game]]'''''
| '''[[Graham Moore (writer)|Graham Moore]]'''
| '''The book ''[[Alan Turing: The Enigma]]'' by [[Andrew Hodges]]'''
|-
| ''[[American Sniper]]''
| [[Jason Hall (screenwriter)|Jason Hall]]
| The memoir ''[[American Sniper (book)|American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History]]'' by Jim DeFelice, [[Chris Kyle]] & Scott McEwan
|-
| ''[[Inherent Vice (film)|Inherent Vice]]''
| [[Paul Thomas Anderson]]
| [[Inherent Vice|The novel]] by [[Thomas Pynchon]]
|-
| ''[[The Theory of Everything (2014 film)|The Theory of Everything]]''
| [[Anthony McCarten]]
| The memoir ''Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen'' by [[Jane Hawking]]
|-
| ''[[Whiplash (2014 film)|Whiplash]]''
| [[Damien Chazelle]]
| [[Whiplash (2013 film)|The short film]] by Chazelle
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[2015 in film|2015]]<br />{{small|[[88th Academy Awards|(88th)]]}}
| '''''[[The Big Short (film)|The Big Short]]'''''
| '''[[Charles Randolph]] & [[Adam McKay]]'''
| ''' The book ''[[The Big Short|The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine]]'' by [[Michael Lewis]]'''
|-
| ''[[Brooklyn (film)|Brooklyn]]''
| [[Nick Hornby]]
| [[Brooklyn (novel)|The novel]] by [[Colm Tóibín]]
|-
| ''[[Carol (film)|Carol]]''
| [[Phyllis Nagy]]
| The novel ''[[The Price of Salt]]'' by [[Patricia Highsmith]]
|-
| ''[[The Martian (film)|The Martian]]''
| [[Drew Goddard]]
| [[The Martian (Weir novel)|The novel]] by [[Andy Weir]]
|-
| ''[[Room (2015 film)|Room]]''
| [[Emma Donoghue]]
| [[Room (novel)|The novel]] by Donoghue
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[2016 in film|2016]]<br />{{small|[[89th Academy Awards|(89th)]]}} <br /><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-oscars-2017-nominees-winners-list-20170123-story.html |title=Academy Awards 2017: Complete list of Oscar winners and nominees |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=February 26, 2017 |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=January 8, 2018}}</ref>
| '''''[[Moonlight (2016 film)|Moonlight]]'''''
| '''Screenplay: [[Barry Jenkins]]; Story: [[Tarell Alvin McCraney]]'''
| '''The unpublished play ''In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue'' by McCraney'''
|-
| ''[[Arrival (film)|Arrival]]''
| [[Eric Heisserer]]
| The novella "[[Story of Your Life]]" by [[Ted Chiang]]
|-
| ''[[Fences (film)|Fences]]''
| [[August Wilson]] {{small|([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|p.n.]])}}
| [[Fences (play)|The play]] by Wilson
|-
| ''[[Hidden Figures]]''
| [[Allison Schroeder]] & [[Theodore Melfi]] 
| The book ''[[Hidden Figures (book)|Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race]]'' by [[Margot Lee Shetterly]]
|-
| ''[[Lion (2016 film)|Lion]]''
| [[Luke Davies]]
| The memoir ''[[A Long Way Home (book)|A Long Way Home]]'' by [[Saroo Brierley]] & [[Larry Buttrose]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[2017 in film|2017]]<br />{{small|[[90th Academy Awards|(90th)]]}} <br /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/90th_noms_announcement.pdf |title=90th Oscar Nominations Announced |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=January 23, 2018 |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180123225943/http://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/90th_noms_announcement.pdf |archive-date=January 23, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| '''''[[Call Me by Your Name (film)|Call Me by Your Name]]'''''
| '''[[James Ivory]]'''
| '''[[Call Me by Your Name (novel)|The novel]] by [[André Aciman]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Disaster Artist (film)|The Disaster Artist]]''
| [[Scott Neustadter]] & [[Michael H. Weber]]
| The memoir ''[[The Disaster Artist|The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made]]'' by [[Greg Sestero]] & [[Tom Bissell]]
|-
| ''[[Logan (film)|Logan]]''
| Screenplay: [[Scott Frank]] & [[James Mangold]] and [[Michael Green (writer)|Michael Green]]; Story: Mangold
| The character [[Wolverine (character)|Wolverine]] from the comic books by [[John Romita Sr.]] & [[Len Wein]]
|-
| ''[[Molly's Game]]''
| [[Aaron Sorkin]]
| The memoir by [[Molly Bloom (author)|Molly Bloom]]
|-
| ''[[Mudbound (film)|Mudbound]]''
| [[Virgil Williams]] & [[Dee Rees]] 
| [[Mudbound|The novel]] by [[Hillary Jordan]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[2018 in film|2018]]<br />{{small|[[91st Academy Awards|(91st)]]}} <br /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/91st_noms_announcement.pdf |title=91st Oscar Nominations Announced |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=January 22, 2019 |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123071313/https://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/91st_noms_announcement.pdf |archive-date=January 23, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| '''''[[BlacKkKlansman]]'''''
| '''Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and [[Kevin Willmott]] & [[Spike Lee]]'''
| '''The memoir ''Black Klansman'' by [[Ron Stallworth]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Ballad of Buster Scruggs]]''
| [[Coen brothers|Coen Brothers]]
| The short stories "All Gold Canyon" by [[Jack London]] & "The Gal Who Got Rattled" by [[Stewart Edward White]]
|-
| ''[[Can You Ever Forgive Me?]]''
| [[Nicole Holofcener]] & [[Jeff Whitty]]
| The memoir by [[Lee Israel]]
|-
| ''[[If Beale Street Could Talk (film)|If Beale Street Could Talk]]''
| [[Barry Jenkins]]
| [[If Beale Street Could Talk|The novel]] by [[James Baldwin]]
|-
| ''[[A Star Is Born (2018 film)|A Star Is Born]]''
| [[Eric Roth]] and [[Bradley Cooper]] & Will Fetters 
| The [[A Star Is Born (1954 film)|1954 film]] by [[Moss Hart]], [[A Star Is Born (1976 film)|1976 film]] by [[Joan Didion]], [[John Gregory Dunne]] & [[Frank Pierson]] & [[A Star Is Born (1937 film)|1937 film]] by [[Robert Carson (writer)|Robert Carson]] & [[William A. Wellman]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[2019 in film|2019]]<br />{{small|[[92nd Academy Awards|(92nd)]]}} <br /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/91st_noms_announcement.pdf |title=92nd Oscar Nominations Announced |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=January 22, 2019 |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123071313/https://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/91st_noms_announcement.pdf |archive-date=January 23, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| '''''[[Jojo Rabbit]]'''''
| '''[[Taika Waititi]]'''
| '''The novel ''Caging Skies'' by [[Christine Leunens]]'''
|-
| ''[[The Irishman]]''
| [[Steven Zaillian]]
| The memoir ''[[I Heard You Paint Houses|I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa]]'' by [[Charles Brandt]]
|-
| ''[[Joker (2019 film)|Joker]]''
| [[Todd Phillips]] & [[Scott Silver]]
| [[Joker (character)|The character]] from the comic books by [[Bill Finger]], [[Bob Kane]] & [[Jerry Robinson]]
|-
| ''[[Little Women (2019 film)|Little Women]]''
| [[Greta Gerwig]]
| [[Little Women|The novel]] by [[Louisa May Alcott]]
|-
| ''[[The Two Popes]]''
| [[Anthony McCarten]]
| The play ''The Pope'' by McCarten
|}

===2020s===
{| class="wikitable"
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! width="25%" | Film
! width="30%" | Nominees
! width="40%" | Source Material
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[2020 in film|2020/21]]<br />{{small|[[93rd Academy Awards|(93rd)]]}} <br /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/partial-list-nominees-93rd-academy-awards-76463843 |title=Complete list of nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards |work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |date=March 15, 2021 |access-date=March 15, 2021}}</ref>
| '''''[[The Father (2020 film)|The Father]]'''''
| '''[[Christopher Hampton]] & [[Florian Zeller]]'''
| '''[[Le Père|The play]] by Zeller'''
|-
| ''[[Borat Subsequent Moviefilm]]''
| Screenplay: [[Sacha Baron Cohen]], Anthony Hines, [[Dan Swimer]], [[Peter Baynham]], [[Erica Rivinoja]], [[Dan Mazer]], [[Jena Friedman]] & Lee Kern; Story: Baron Cohen, Hines, Swimer & Nina Pedrad
| The character [[Borat Sagdiyev]] from the television series ''[[Da Ali G Show]]'' by Baron Cohen
|-
| ''[[Nomadland]]''
| [[Chloé Zhao]]
| The book ''[[Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century]]'' by [[Jessica Bruder]]
|-
| ''[[One Night in Miami...]]''
| [[Kemp Powers]]
| [[One Night in Miami (play)|The play]] by Powers
|-
| ''[[The White Tiger (2021 film)|The White Tiger]]''
| [[Ramin Bahrani]]
| [[The White Tiger (Adiga novel)|The novel]] by [[Arvind Adiga]]
|-style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" |[[2021 in film|2021]]<br />{{small|[[94th Academy Awards|(94th)]]}} <br /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2022 |title=94th Academy Awards Nominees |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=February 8, 2022 |archive-date=January 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130155459/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|''[[CODA (2021 film)|'''CODA''']]''
|'''[[Sian Heder]]'''
|'''The film ''[[La Famille Bélier]]'' by [[Victoria Bedos]], [[Thomas Bidegain]], Stanislas Carré de Malberg & [[Éric Lartigau]]'''
|-
| ''[[Drive My Car (film)|Drive My Car]]''
| [[Ryusuke Hamaguchi]] & [[Takamasa Oe]]
| [[Men Without Women (Murakami short story collection)#"Drive My Car"|The short story]] by [[Haruki Murakami]]
|-
| ''[[Dune (2021 film)|Dune]]''
| [[Jon Spaihts]], [[Denis Villeneuve]] & [[Eric Roth]]
| [[Dune (novel)|The novel]] by [[Frank Herbert]]
|-
| ''[[The Lost Daughter (film)|The Lost Daughter]]''
| [[Maggie Gyllenhaal]]
| [[The Lost Daughter (novel)|The novel]] by [[Elena Ferrante]]
|-
| ''[[The Power of the Dog (film)|The Power of the Dog]]''
| [[Jane Campion]]
| [[The Power of the Dog (Savage novel)|The novel]] by [[Thomas Savage (novelist)|Thomas Savage]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" | [[2022 in film|2022]] <br /><small>[[95th Academy Awards|(95th)]]</small><br /><ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2023|title=95th Academy Awards Nominees|publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]|access-date=January 23, 2025|archive-date=January 30, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130155459/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2023|url-status=live}}</ref>
|'''''[[Women Talking (film)|Women Talking]]'''''
|'''[[Sarah Polley]]'''
|'''[[Women Talking (novel)|The novel]] by [[Miriam Toews]]'''
|-
|''[[All Quiet on the Western Front (2022 film)|All Quiet on the Western Front]]''
|[[Edward Berger]], [[Lesley Paterson]] & Ian Stokell
|[[All Quiet on the Western Front|The novel]] by [[Erich Maria Remarque]]
|-
|''[[Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery]]''
|[[Rian Johnson]]
|The character Benoit Blanc from the film ''[[Knives Out]]'' by Johnson
|-
|''[[Living (2022 film)|Living]]''
|[[Kazuo Ishiguro]]
|The film ''[[Ikiru]]'' by [[Shinobu Hashimoto]], [[Akira Kurosawa]] & [[Hideo Oguni]]
|-
|''[[Top Gun: Maverick]]''
|Screenplay: [[Ehren Kruger]], [[Eric Warren Singer]] & [[Christopher McQuarrie]]; Story: [[Peter Craig]] & [[Justin Marks (writer)|Justin Marks]]
|Characters from the film ''[[Top Gun]]'' by [[Jim Cash]] & [[Jack Epps Jr.]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" | [[2023 in film|2023]] <br /><small>[[96th Academy Awards|(96th)]]</small> <br /><ref>{{cite web|title=The 96th Academy Awards|date=January 23, 2024 |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2024|access-date=January 23, 2025|publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]}}</ref>
| '''''[[American Fiction (film)|American Fiction]]'''''
| '''[[Cord Jefferson]]'''
| '''The novel ''[[Erasure (novel)|Erasure]]'' by [[Percival Everett]]'''
|-
| ''[[Barbie (film)|Barbie]]''
| [[Greta Gerwig]] & [[Noah Baumbach]]
| The [[List of Barbie's friends and family|characters]] created by [[Ruth Handler]]
|-
| ''[[Oppenheimer (film)|Oppenheimer]]''
| [[Christopher Nolan]]
| The book ''[[American Prometheus|American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer]]'' by [[Kai Bird]] & [[Martin J. Sherwin]]
|-
| ''[[Poor Things (film)|Poor Things]]''
| [[Tony McNamara (writer)|Tony McNamara]]
| The novel ''[[Poor Things|Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer]]'' by [[Alisdair Gray]]
|-
| ''[[The Zone of Interest (film)|The Zone of Interest]]''
| [[Jonathan Glazer]]
| [[The Zone of Interest (novel)|The novel]] by [[Martin Amis]]
|- style="background:#FAEB86"
! rowspan="5" | [[2024 in film|2024]] <br /><small>[[97th Academy Awards|(97th)]]</small> <br /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2025|title=The 97th Academy Awards (2025) Nominees and Winners|date=January 23, 2025 |access-date=January 23, 2025|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)}}</ref>
|'''[[Conclave (film)|''Conclave'']]'''
|'''[[Peter Straughan]]'''
|'''[[Conclave (novel)|The novel]] by [[Robert Harris (novelist)|Robert Harris]]'''
|-
|''[[A Complete Unknown]]''
|[[James Mangold]] & [[Jay Cocks]] 
|The book ''Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties'' by [[Elijah Wald]]
|-
|''[[Emilia Pérez]]''
|[[Jacques Audiard]], in collaboration with [[Thomas Bidegain]], [[Léa Mysius]] & Nicolas Livecchi
|The novel ''Écoute'' by Boris Razon & the opera libretto by Audiard 
|-
|''[[Nickel Boys]]''
|[[RaMell Ross]] & [[Joslyn Barnes]]
|The novel ''[[The Nickel Boys]]'' by [[Colson Whitehead]]
|-
|[[Sing Sing (2023 film)|''Sing Sing'']]
|Screenplay: Clint Bentley & [[Greg Kwedar]]; Story: Bentley, Kwedar, [[Clarence Maclin]] & John "Divine G" Whitfield
|The book ''The Sing Sing Follies'' by John H. Richardson & the play ''Breakin' the Mummy's Code'' by Brent Buell
|}

==Multiple wins and nominations==
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=== Multiple wins ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! scope="col" width="55"     | Wins
! scope="col" align="center" | Writer
|-
| rowspan=10 style="text-align:center;" | 2
| [[Robert Bolt]]
|-
| [[Francis Ford Coppola]]
|-
| [[Christopher Hampton]]
|-
| [[Ruth Prawer Jhabvala]]
|-
| [[Joseph L. Mankiewicz]]
|-
| [[Alexander Payne]]
|-
| [[Mario Puzo]]
|-
| [[Alvin Sargent]]
|-
| [[George Seaton]]
|-
| [[Michael Wilson (writer)|Michael Wilson]]
|}
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=== Three or more nominations ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! scope="col" width="55"     | Nominations
! scope="col" align="center" | Writer
|-
| {{center|7}}
| [[Billy Wilder]]
|-
| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center;" | 6
| [[John Huston]]
|-
| [[Eric Roth]]
|-
| {{center|5}}
| [[Richard Brooks]]
|-
| rowspan=10 style="text-align:center;" | 4
| [[Michael Wilson (writer)|Michael Wilson]]
|-
| [[Carl Foreman]]
|-
| [[Albert Hackett]]
|-
| [[Charles Brackett]]
|-
| [[Frances Goodrich]]
|-
| [[Julius J. Epstein]]
|-
| [[Stanley Kubrick]]
|-
| [[Joel Coen]]
|-
| [[Ethan Coen]]
|-
| [[Steven Zaillian]]
|-
| rowspan=11 style="text-align:center;" | 3
| [[Joseph L. Mankiewicz]]
|-
| [[Ernest Lehman]]
|-
| [[Robert Bolt]]
|-
| [[Neil Simon]]
|-
| [[Francis Ford Coppola]]
|-
| [[Alexander Payne]]
|-
| [[Ruth Prawer Jhabvala]]
|-
| [[Oliver Stone]]
|-
| [[Aaron Sorkin]]
|-
| [[Christopher Hampton]]
|-
| [[Claudine West]]
|-
|}
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==Age superlatives==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! scope="col" | Record
! scope="col" | Writer
! scope="col" | Film
! scope="col" | Age
! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Ref.
|-
| Oldest winner
| rowspan="2"|[[James Ivory]]
| rowspan="2"|''[[Call Me by Your Name (film)|Call Me by Your Name]]''
|89 years, 270 days
| <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/mar/05/james-ivory-is-oldest-oscar-winner-ever-with-adapted-screenplay-award-for-call-me-by-your-name |title=James Ivory is oldest Oscar winner ever with screenplay award for Call Me by Your Name |website=The Guardian |date=5 March 2018 |access-date=April 3, 2020}}</ref>
|-
|Oldest nominee
|89 years, 230 days
| <ref>[https://www.theringer.com/2018/1/23/16923366/academy-award-nominations-get-out-lady-bird-three-billboards-shape-of-water-snubs-surprises Snubs, Surprises, and a Staring Contest: The Academy Awards Nominations - The Ringer]</ref>
|-
| Youngest winner
| [[Charlie Wachtel]]
| ''[[BlacKkKlansman]]''
| *32 years
| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.american.edu/soc/news/soc-alumnus-racks-up-nominations-for-best-adapted-screenplay.cfm |title=SOC Alumnus Wins Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay |website=American Washington University |date=25 February 2019 |access-date=April 3, 2020}}</ref>
|-
| Youngest nominee
| [[Joseph L. Mankiewicz]]
| ''[[Skippy (film)|Skippy]]''
| 22 years, 236 days
|
|}

==See also==
* [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay]]
* [[Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay]]
* [[BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay]]
* [[Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay]]
* [[Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Screenplay]]
* [[List of Big Five Academy Award winners and nominees]]
* [[List of Academy Award–nominated films]]
* [[Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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{{Academy Awards}}
{{Academy Award Best Adapted Screenplay}}

[[Category:Academy Awards|Adapted Screenplay]]
[[Category:Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award winners| ]]
[[Category:Screenwriting awards for film]]
[[Category:Awards established in 1929]]