Wikiquote:Academy Award nominated screenplays

Films that have been nominated for Academy Awards for screenplays are highly likely to contain memorable dialogue meriting an entry in Wikiquote. These films are listed below with the name of their credited author. The first entry for each year (in bold) is the winner for that year. The remaining entries are listed in alphabetical order. For nominees listed prior to a winner being announced, all entries are in alphabetical order.

Best Story

1920s

• 1928 Underworld  - Ben Hecht
  • The Last Command  - Lajos Biro
  • The Patent Leather Kid  - Rupert Hughes

• 1929 None given

1930s

• 1930 None given

• 1931 The Dawn Patrol  - John Monk Saunders
  • Doorway to Hell  - Rowland Brown
  • Laughter  - Harry D'Arrast, Douglas Z. Doty, Donald Ogden Stewart
  • The Public Enemy  - John Bright, Kubec Glasmon
  • Smart Money  - Lucien Hubbard, Joseph Jackson

• 1932 The Champ  - Frances Marion
  • Lady and Gent  - Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt
  • Star Witness  - Lucien Hubbard
  • What Price Hollywood?  - Adela Rodgers St. John, Jane Murfin

• 1933 One Way Passage  - Robert Lord
  • The Prizefighter and the Lady  - Frances Marion
  • Rasputin and the Empress  - Charles MacArthur

• 1934 Manhattan Melodrama  - Oliver H. P. Garrett and Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • Hide Out  - Mauri Grashin
  • The Richest Girl in the World  - Norman Krasna

• 1935 The Scoundrel  - Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur
  • Broadway Melody of 1936  - Moss Hart
  • The Gay Deception  - Stephen Morehouse Avery, Don Hartman

• 1936 The Story of Louis Pasteur  - Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney
  • Fury  - Norman Krasna
  • The Great Ziegfeld  - William Anthony McGuire
  • San Francisco  - Robert Hopkins
  • Three Smart Girls  - Adele Commandini

• 1937 A Star Is Born  - Robert Carson, William A. Wellman
  • Black Legion  - Robert Lord
  • In Old Chicago  - Niven Busch
  • The Life of Emile Zola  - Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg
  • One Hundred Men and a Girl  - Hans Kraly

• 1938 Boys Town  - Eleanore Griffin, Dore Schary
  • Alexander's Ragtime Band  - Irving Berlin
  • Angels with Dirty Faces  - Rowland Brown
  • Blockade  - John Howard Lawson
  • Mad About Music  - Marcella Burke, Frederick Kohner
  • Test Pilot  - Frank Wead

• 1939 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington  - Lewis R. Foster
  • Bachelor Mother  - Felix Jackson
  • Love Affair  - Mildred Cram, Leo McCarey
  • Ninotchka  - Melchior Lengyel
  • Young Mr. Lincoln  - Lamar Trotti

1940s

• 1940 Arise, My Love  - Benjamin Glazer, John Toldy
  • Comrade X  - Walter Reisch
  • Edison, the Man  - Hugo Butler, Dore Schary
  • My Favorite Wife  - Leo McCarey, Samuel and Bella Spewack
  • The Westerner  - Stuart N. Lake

• 1941 Here Comes Mr. Jordan  - Harry Segall
  • Ball of Fire  - Thomas Monroe, Billy Wilder
  • The Lady Eve  - Monckton Hoffe
  • Meet John Doe  - Richard Connell, Robert Presnell Jr.
  • Night Train to Munich  - Gordon Wellesley

• 1942 49th Parallel (a.k.a. 49th Parallel (The Invaders)  - Emeric Pressburger
  • Holiday Inn  - Irving Berlin
  • The Pride of the Yankees  - Paul Gallico
  • The Talk of the Town  - Sidney Harmon
  • Yankee Doodle Dandy  - Robert Buckner

• 1943 The Human Comedy  - William Saroyan
  • Action in the North Atlantic  - Guy Gilpatric
  • Destination Tokyo  - Steve Fisher
  • The More the Merrier  - Frank Ross, Robert W. Russell
  • Shadow of a Doubt  - Gordon McDonell

• 1944 Going My Way  - Leo McCarey
  • A Guy Named Joe  - David Boehm, Chandler Sprague
  • Lifeboat  - John Steinbeck
  • None Shall Escape  - Alfred Neumann, Joseph Than
  • The Sullivans  - Eddie Doherty, Jules Schermer

• 1945 The House on 92nd St.  - Charles G. Booth
  • The Affairs of Susan  - László Görög, Thomas Monroe
  • A Medal for Benny  - John Steinbeck, Jack Wagner
  • Objective, Burma!  - Alvah Bessie
  • A Song to Remember  - Ernst Marischka

• 1946 Vacation from Marriage  - Clemence Dane
  • The Dark Mirror  - Vladimir Pozner
  • The Strange Love of Martha Ivers  - Jack Patrick
  • The Stranger  - Victor Trivas
  • To Each His Own  - Charles Brackett

• 1947 Miracle on 34th Street  - Valentine Davies
  • A Cage of Nightingales  - Georges Chaperot, René Wheeler
  • It Happened on Fifth Avenue  - Herbert Clyde Lewis, Frederick Stephani
  • Kiss of Death  - Eleazar Lipsky
  • Smash Up - The Story of a Woman  - Frank Cavett, Dorothy Parker

• 1948 The Search  - Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler
  • The Louisiana Story  - Robert J. Flaherty, Frances H. Flaherty
  • The Naked City  - Marvin Wald
  • Red River  - Borden Chase
  • The Red Shoes  - Emeric Pressburger

• 1949 Stratton Story  - Douglas Morrow
  • Come to the Stable  - Clare Boothe Luce
  • It Happens Every Spring  - Valentine Davies, Shirley Smith
  • Sands of Iwo Jima  - Harry Brown
  • White Heat  - Virginia Kellogg

1950s

• 1950 Panic in the Streets  - Edna Anhalt, Edward Anhalt
  • Bitter Rice  - Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani
  • The Gunfighter  - William Bowers, André de Toth
  • Mystery Street  - Leonard Spigelgass
  • When Willie Comes Marching Home  - Sy Gomberg

• 1951 Seven Days to Noon  - James Bernard, Paul Dehn
  • Bullfighter and the Lady  - Budd Boetticher, Ray Nazarro
  • The Frogmen  - Oscar Millard
  • Here Comes the Groom  - Liam O'Brien, Robert Riskin
  • Teresa  - Alfred Hayes, Stewart Stern

• 1952 The Greatest Show on Earth  - Fredric M. Frank, Theodore St. John, Barré Lyndon
  • My Son John  - Leo McCarey
  • The Narrow Margin  - Martin Goldsmith, Jack Leonard
  • The Pride of St. Louis  - Guy Trosper
  • The Sniper  - Edward Anhalt, Edna Anhalt

• 1953 Roman Holiday  - Dalton Trumbo
  • Above and Beyond  - Beirne Lay, Jr.
  • The Captain's Paradise  - Alec Coppel
  • Hondo  - Louis L'Amour
  • Little Fugitive  - Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin

• 1954 Broken Lance  - Philip Yordan
  • Bread, Love and Dreams (Italian: Pane, amore e fantasia)  - Ettore Margadonna
  • Forbidden Games (French: Jeux interdits)  - François Boyer
  • Night People  - Jed Harris, Tom Reed
  • There's No Business Like Show Business  - Lamar Trotti

• 1955 Love Me or Leave Me  - Daniel Fuchs
  • The Private War of Major Benson  - Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher
  • Rebel Without a Cause  - Nicholas Ray
  • The Sheep Has Five Legs (French: Le Mouton à cinq pattes)  - Jean Marsan, Henri Troyat, Jacques Perret, Henri Verneuil, Raoul Ploquin
  • Strategic Air Command  - Beirne Lay, Jr.

• 1956 The Brave One  - Dalton Trumbo
  • The Eddy Duchin Story  - Leo Katcher
  • High Society  - Edward Bernds, Elwood Ullman
  • The Proud and the Beautiful (French: Les Orgueilleux)  - Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Umberto D.  - Cesare Zavattini

Best Original Screenplay

1940s

• 1940 The Great McGinty  - Preston Sturges
  • Angels Over Broadway  - Ben Hecht
  • Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet  - Norman Burnside, Heinz Herald, John Huston
  • Foreign Correspondent (film)  - Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison
  • The Great Dictator  - Charlie Chaplin

• 1941 Citizen Kane  - Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles
  • The Devil and Miss Jones  - Norman Krasna
  • Sergeant York  - Harry Chandlee, Abem Finkel, John Huston, Howard E. Koch
  • Tall, Dark and Handsome  - Karl Tunberg, Darrell Ware
  • Tom, Dick and Harry (film)  - Paul Jarrico

• 1942 Woman of the Year  - Michael Kanin, Ring Lardner Jr.
  • One of Our Aircraft is Missing  - Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
  • Road to Morocco  - Frank Butler, Don Hartman
  • Wake Island (1942 film)  - W. R. Burnett, Frank Butler
  • The War Against Mrs. Hadley  - George Oppenheimer

• 1943 Princess O'Rourke  - Norman Krasna
  • Air Force (film)  - Dudley Nichols
  • In Which We Serve  - Noël Coward
  • The North Star (1943 film)  - Lillian Hellman
  • So Proudly We Hail!  - Allan Scott

• 1944 Wilson (film)  - Lamar Trotti
  • Hail the Conquering Hero  - Preston Sturges
  • The Miracle of Morgan's Creek  - Preston Sturges
  • Two Girls and a Sailor  - Richard Connell, Gladys Lehman
  • Wing and a Prayer  - Jerome Cady

• 1945 Marie-Louise (film)  - Richard Schweizer
  • Dillinger (1945 film)  - Philip Yordan
  • Music for Millions  - Myles Connolly
  • Salty O'Rourke  - Milton Holmes
  • What Next, Corporal Hargrove?  - Harry Kurnitz

• 1946 The Seventh Veil  - Muriel Box, Sydney Box
  • The Blue Dahlia  - Raymond Chandler
  • Children of Paradise  - Jacques Prévert
  • Notorious (1946 film)  - Ben Hecht
  • Road to Utopia  - Norman Panama, Melvin Frank

• 1947 The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer  - Sidney Sheldon
  • Body and Soul (1947 film)  - Abraham Polonsky
  • A Double Life  - Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin
  • Monsieur Verdoux  - Charlie Chaplin
  • Shoeshine (film)  - Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Giulio Viola, Cesare Zavattini

• 1948 none given (Instead of the categories "Original Screenplay and "Screenplay", it was combined into one category, called "Screenplay")

• 1949 Battleground (1949 film)  - Robert Pirosh
  • Jolson Sings Again  - Sidney Buchman
  • Paisà  - Alfred Hayes, Federico Fellini, Sergio Amidei, Marcello Pagliero, Roberto Rossellini
  • Passport to Pimlico  - T. E. B. Clarke
  • The Quiet One  - Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, Sidney Meyers
    • In 1949, the category was renamed "Story and Screenplay"

1950s

• 1950 Sunset Boulevard  - Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman, Jr., Billy Wilder
  • Adam's Rib  - Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin
  • Caged  - Virginia Kellogg, Bernard C. Schoenfeld
  • The Men  - Carl Foreman
  • No Way Out  - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Lesser Samuels

• 1951 An American in Paris  - Alan Jay Lerner
  • Ace in the Hole  - Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels, Walter Newman
  • David and Bathsheba  - Philip Dunne
  • Go for Broke!  - Robert Pirosh
  • The Well  - Clarence Greene, Russell Rouse

• 1952 The Lavender Hill Mob  - T.E.B. Clarke
  • The Atomic City  - Sydney Boehm
  • The Sound Barrier  - Terence Rattigan
  • Pat and Mike  - Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin
  • Viva Zapata!  - John Steinbeck

• 1953 Titanic  - Charles Brackett, Richard Breen, Walter Reisch
  • The Band Wagon  - Betty Comden, Adolph Green
  • The Desert Rats  - Richard Murphy
  • The Naked Spur  - Sam Rolfe, Harold Jack Bloom
  • Take the High Ground!  - Millard Kaufman

• 1954 On the Waterfront  - Budd Schulberg
  • The Barefoot Contessa  - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  • Genevieve  - William Rose
  • The Glenn Miller Story  - Valentine Davies, Oscar Brodney
  • Knock on Wood  - Norman Panama, Melvin Frank

• 1955 Interrupted Melody  - Sonya Levien, William Ludwig
  • The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell  - Milton Sperling, Emmet Lavery
  • It's Always Fair Weather  - Betty Comden, Adolph Green
  • Monsieur Hulot's Holiday  - Jacques Tati, Henri Marquet
  • The Seven Little Foys  - Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose

• 1956 The Red Balloon  - Albert Lamorisse
  • The Bold and the Brave  - Robert Lewin
  • Julie  - Andrew L. Stone
  • La Strada  - Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli
  • The Ladykillers  - William Rose

• 1957 Designing Woman  - George Wells
  • Funny Face  - Leonard Gershe
  • Man of a Thousand Faces  - Ralph Wheelwright, R. Wright Campbell, Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts
  • The Tin Star  - Barney Slater, Joel Kane, Dudley Nichols
  • I vitelloni  - Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli

• 1958 The Defiant Ones  - Nathan E. Douglas, Harold Jacob Smith (Upon request of his widow and upon recommendation of the Writers Branch Executive Committee, the Board of Governors voted to restore the name of Nedrick Young to the nomination and award presented to Nathan E. Douglas, which was a pseudonym for Mr. Young during the blacklisting period.)
  • The Goddess  - Paddy Chayefsky
  • Houseboat  - Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose
  • The Sheepman  - James Edward Grant, William Bowers
  • Teacher's Pet  - Fay Kanin, Michael Kanin

• 1959 Pillow Talk  - Clarence Greene, Maurice Richlin, Russell Rouse, Stanley Shapiro
  • The 400 Blows  - François Truffaut, Marcel Moussy
  • North by Northwest  - Ernest Lehman
  • Operation Petticoat  - Paul King, Joseph B. Stone, Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin
  • Wild Strawberries  - Ingmar Bergman

1960s

• 1960 The Apartment  - I.A.L. Diamond, Billy Wilder
  • The Angry Silence  - Screenplay by Bryan Forbes; Story by Richard Gregson, Michael Craig
  • The Facts of Life  - Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
  • Hiroshima Mon Amour  - Marguerite Duras
  • Never on Sunday  - Jules Dassin

• 1961 Splendor in the Grass  - William Inge
  • Ballad of a Soldier  - Valentin Yoshov, Grigori Chukhrai
  • La Dolce Vita  - Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano, Brunello Rondi
  • General Della Rovere  -- Sergio Amidei, Diego Fabbi, Indro Montanelli
  • Lover Come Back  - Stanley Shapiro, Paul Henning

• 1962 Divorce, Italian Style  - Ennio de Concini, Pietro Germi, Alfredo Giannetti
  • Freud  - Story by Charles Kaufman, Screenplay by Charles Kaufman and Wolfgang Reinhardt
  • Last Year at Marienbad  - Alain Robbe-Grillet
  • That Touch of Mink  - Stanley Shapiro, Nate Monaster
  • Through a Glass Darkly  - Ingmar Bergman

• 1963 How the West Was Won  - James R. Webb
  • 8½  - Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Brunello Rondi
  • America America  - Elia Kazan
  • The Four Days of Naples  - Story by Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Nanni Loy, Vasco Pratolini; Screenplay by Carlo Bernari, Massimo Franciosa, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Nanni Loy
  • Love with the Proper Stranger  - Arnold Schulman

• 1964 Father Goose  - Peter Stone, Frank Tarloff
  • A Hard Day's Night  - Alun Owen
  • One Potato, Two Potato  - Screenplay by Raphael Hayes; Story by Orville H. Hampton
  • I compagni (The Organizer)  - Age Monicelli, Scarpelli Monicelli, Mario Monicelli
  • L'homme de Rio (That Man from Rio)  - Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Ariane Mnouchkine, Daniel Boulanger, Philippe de Broca

• 1965 Darling  - Frederic Raphael
  • Casanova 70  - Age Monicelli, Scarpelli Monicelli, Mario Monicelli, Tonino Guerra, Giorgio Salvioni, Suso Cecchi D'Amico
  • Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines  - Jack Davies, Ken Annakin
  • The Train  - Franklin Coen, Frank Davis, and Walter Bernstein
  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg  - Jacques Demy

• 1966 A Man and a Woman  - Story by Claude Lelouch; Screenplay by Claude Lelouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven
  • Blowup  - Story by Michelangelo Antonioni; Screenplay by Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, Edward Bond
  • The Fortune Cookie  - Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond
  • Khartoum  - Robert Ardrey
  • The Naked Prey  - Clinkt Johnston, Don Peters

• 1967 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner  - William Rose
  • Bonnie and Clyde  - David Newman, Robert Benton
  • Divorce, American Style  - Story by Robert Kaufman; Screenplay by Norman Lear
  • La Guerre Est Finie  - Jorge Semprún
  • Two for the Road  - Frederic Raphael

• 1968 The Producers  - Mel Brooks
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey  - Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke
  • The Battle of Algiers  - Franco Solinas, Gillo Pontecorvo
  • Faces  - John Cassavetes
  • Hot Millions  - Iro Wallach, Peter Ustinov

• 1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid  - William Goldman
  • Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice  - Paul Mazursky, Larry Tucker
  • The Damned  - Story by Nicola Badalucco; Screenplay by Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti
  • Easy Rider  - Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern
  • The Wild Bunch  - Story by Walon Green, Roy N. Sickner; Screenplay by Walon Green, Sam Peckinpah
    • In 1969, the category was renamed: "Story and Screenplay - based on material not previously published or produced

1970s

• 1970 Patton  - Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North
  • Five Easy Pieces  - Screenplay by Adrien Joyce (aka Carol Eastman); Story by Adrien Joyce, Bob Rafelson
  • Joe  - Norman Wexler
  • Love Story  - Erich Segal
  • My Night at Maud's  - Éric Rohmer

• 1971 The Hospital  - Paddy Chayefsky
  • Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion  - Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro
  • Klute  - Andy and Dave Lewis
  • Summer of '42  - Herman Raucher
  • Sunday Bloody Sunday  - Penelope Gilliatt

• 1972 The Candidate  - Jeremy Larner
  • The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie  - Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière
  • Lady Sings the Blues  - Terrence McCloy, Chris Clark, Suzanne de Passe
  • Murmur of the Heart  - Louis Malle
  • Young Winston  - Carl Foreman

• 1973 The Sting  - David S. Ward
  • American Graffiti  - George Lucas, Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck
  • Cries and Whispers  - Ingmar Bergman
  • Save the Tiger  - Steve Shagan
  • A Touch of Class  - Melvin Frank, Jack Rose

• 1974 Chinatown  - Robert Towne
  • Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore  - Robert Getchell
  • The Conversation  - Francis Ford Coppola
  • Day for Night  - François Truffaut, Jean-Louis Richard, Suzanne Schiffman
  • Harry and Tonto  - Paul Mazursky, Josh Greenfeld

• 1975 Dog Day Afternoon  - Frank Pierson
  • Amarcord  - Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra
  • And Now My Love  - Claude LeLouch, Pierre Uytterhoeven
  • Lies My Father Told Me  - Ted Allan
  • Shampoo  - Robert Towne, Warren Beatty

• 1976 Network  - Paddy Chayefsky
  • Cousin, cousine  - Story and Screenplay by Jean-Charles Tacchella; Adaptation by Daniele Thompson
  • The Front  - Walter Bernstein
  • Rocky  - Sylvester Stallone
  • Seven Beauties  - Lina Wertmüller
    • In 1976, the category was renamed: "Screenplay written directly for the Screen - Based on factual material or on story material not previously published or produced"

• 1977 Annie Hall  - Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
  • The Goodbye Girl  - Neil Simon
  • The Late Show  - Robert Benton
  • Star Wars  - George Lucas
  • The Turning Point  - Arthur Laurents

• 1978 Coming Home  - Screenplay by Robert C. Jones, Waldo Salt; Story by Nancy Dowd
  • Autumn Sonata  - Ingmar Bergman
  • The Deer Hunter  - Screenplay by Deric Washburn; Story by Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle, Quinn K. Redeker
  • Interiors  - Woody Allen
  • An Unmarried Woman  - Paul Mazursky
    • In 1978, the category was renamed: "Screenplay written directly for the screen"

• 1979 Breaking Away  - Steve Tesich
  • All That Jazz  - Robert Alan Aurthur, Bob Fosse
  • ...And Justice for All  - Valerie Curtin, Barry Levinson
  • The China Syndrome  - Mike Gray, T.S. Cook, James Bridges
  • Manhattan  - Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman

1980s

• 1980 Melvin and Howard  - Bo Goldman
  • Brubaker  - Screenplay by W. D. Richter; Story by Arthur Rose and W.D. Richter
  • Fame  - Christopher Gore
  • Mon oncle d'Amérique  - Jean Gruault, Henri Laborit
  • Private Benjamin  - Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer, Harvey Miller

• 1981 Chariots of Fire  - Colin Welland
  • Absence of Malice  - Kurt Luedtke
  • Arthur  - Steve Gordon
  • Atlantic City  - John Guare
  • Reds  - Warren Beatty, Trevor Griffiths

• 1982 Gandhi  - John Briley
  • Diner  - Barry Levinson
  • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial  - Melissa Mathison
  • An Officer and a Gentleman  - Douglas Day Stewart
  • Tootsie  - Screenplay by Larry Gelbart, Murray Schisgal; Story by Don McGuire and Larry Gelbart

• 1983 Tender Mercies  - Horton Foote
  • The Big Chill  - Lawrence Kasdan, Barbara Benedek
  • Fanny and Alexander - - Ingmar Bergman
  • Silkwood  - Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen
  • WarGames - - Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes

• 1984 Places in the Heart  - Robert Benton
  • Beverly Hills Cop  - Screenplay by Daniel Petrie, Jr.; Story by Danilo Bach and Daniel Petrie, Jr.
  • Broadway Danny Rose  - Woody Allen
  • El Norte  - Gregory Nava, Anna Thomas
  • Splash  - Screenplay by Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Bruce Jay Friedman; Screen Story by Bruce Jay Friedman, Story by Brian Grazer

• 1985 Witness  - Screenplay by William Kelley, Earl Wallace; Story by William Kelley, Pamela Wallace, Earl Wallace
  • Back to the Future  - Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
  • Brazil  - Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown
  • The Official Story  - Luis Puenzo, Aida Bortnik
  • The Purple Rose of Cairo  - Woody Allen

• 1986 Hannah and Her Sisters  - Woody Allen
  • Crocodile Dundee  - Screenplay by Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie, John Cornell; Story by Paul Hogan
  • My Beautiful Laundrette  - Hanif Kureishi
  • Platoon  - Oliver Stone
  • Salvador  - Oliver Stone, Richard Boyle

• 1987 Moonstruck  - John Patrick Shanley
  • Au revoir les enfants  - Louis Malle
  • Broadcast News  - James L. Brooks
  • Hope and Glory  - John Boorman
  • Radio Days  - Woody Allen

• 1988 Rain Man  - Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow
  • Big  - Gary Ross, Anne Spielberg
  • Bull Durham  - Ron Shelton
  • A Fish Called Wanda  - Screenplay by John Cleese; Story by John Cleese and Charles Crichton
  • Running on Empty  - Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

• 1989 Dead Poets Society  - Tom Schulman
  • Crimes and Misdemeanors  - Woody Allen
  • Do the Right Thing  - Spike Lee
  • Sex, Lies, and Videotape  - Steven Soderbergh
  • When Harry Met Sally...  - Nora Ephron

1990s

• 1990 Ghost (film)  - Bruce Rubin
  • Alice  - Woody Allen
  • Avalon  - Barry Levinson
  • Green Card  - Peter Weir
  • Metropolitan  - Whit Stillman

• 1991 Thelma & Louise  - Callie Khouri
  • Boyz n the Hood  - John Singleton
  • Bugsy  - James Toback
  • The Fisher King  - Richard LaGravenese
  • Grand Canyon  - Lawrence Kasdan and Meg Kasdan

• 1992 The Crying Game  - Neil Jordan
  • Husbands and Wives  - Woody Allen
  • Lorenzo's Oil  - Nick Enright and George Miller
  • Passion Fish  - John Sayles
  • Unforgiven  - David Peoples

• 1993 The Piano  - Jane Campion
  • Dave  - Gary Ross
  • In the Line of Fire  - Jeff Maguire
  • Philadelphia  - Ron Nyswaner
  • Sleepless in Seattle  - Jeff Arch (story and screenplay), Nora Ephron and David S. Ward

• 1994 Pulp Fiction  - Quentin Tarantino (story and screenplay) and Roger Avary (story)
  • Bullets Over Broadway  - Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath
  • Four Weddings and a Funeral  - Richard Curtis
  • Heavenly Creatures  - Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh
  • Three Colors: Red  - Krzysztof Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz

• 1995 The Usual Suspects  - Christopher McQuarrie
  • Braveheart  - Randall Wallace
  • Mighty Aphrodite  - Woody Allen
  • Nixon  - Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson and Oliver Stone
  • Toy Story  - Screenplay by Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen & Alec Sokolow; Story by John Lasseter, Peter Docter, Andrew Stanton, Joe Ranft

• 1996 Fargo  - Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
  • Jerry Maguire  - Cameron Crowe
  • Lone Star  - John Sayles
  • Secrets and Lies  - Mike Leigh
  • Shine  - Jan Sardi and Scott Hicks (story)

• 1997 Good Will Hunting  - Ben Affleck, Matt Damon
  • As Good as It Gets  - Mark Andrus (story and screenplay) and James L. Brooks
  • Boogie Nights  - Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Deconstructing Harry  - Woody Allen
  • The Full Monty  - Simon Beaufoy

• 1998 Shakespeare in Love  - Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard
  • Bulworth  - Warren Beatty and Jeremy Pikser
  • Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella)  - Roberto Benigni and Vincenzo Cerami
  • Saving Private Ryan  - Robert Rodat
  • The Truman Show  - Andrew Niccol

• 1999 American Beauty  - Alan Ball
  • Being John Malkovich  - Charlie Kaufman
  • Magnolia  - Paul Thomas Anderson
  • The Sixth Sense  - M. Night Shyamalan
  • Topsy-Turvy  - Mike Leigh

2000s

• 2000 Almost Famous  - Cameron Crowe
  • Billy Elliot  - Lee Hall
  • Erin Brockovich (film)  - Susannah Grant
  • Gladiator (film)  - David Franzoni, John Logan and William Nicholson
  • You Can Count on Me  - Kenneth Lonergan

• 2001 Gosford Park  - Julian Fellowes
  • Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain)  - Guillaume Laurant and Jean-Pierre Jeunet
  • Memento (film)  - Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan
  • Monster's Ball  - Milo Addica and Will Rokos
  • The Royal Tenenbaums  - Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson

• 2002 Talk to Her (Hable con ella)  - Pedro Almodóvar
  • Far from Heaven  - Todd Haynes
  • Gangs of New York  - Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, Kenneth Lonergan
  • My Big Fat Greek Wedding  - Nia Vardalos
  • Y Tu Mamá También (And Your Mother Too)  - Carlos Cuarón, Alfonso Cuarón

• 2003 Lost in Translation (film)  - Sofia Coppola
  • Les Invasions barbares (The Barbarian Invasions)  - Denys Arcand
  • Dirty Pretty Things (film)  - Steven Knight
  • Finding Nemo  - Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson and David Reynolds
  • In America  - Jim Sheridan, Naomi Sheridan and Kirsten Sheridan

• 2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind  - Charlie Kaufman
  • The Aviator  - John Logan
  • Hotel Rwanda  - Terry George and Keir Pearson
  • The Incredibles  - Brad Bird
  • Vera Drake  - Mike Leigh

• 2005 Crash (2004 film)  - Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco
  • Good Night, and Good Luck.  - George Clooney and Grant Heslov
  • Match Point  - Woody Allen
  • The Squid and the Whale  - Noah Baumbach
  • Syriana  - Stephen Gaghan

• 2006 Little Miss Sunshine  - Michael Arndt
  • Babel (2006 film)  - Guillermo Arriaga
  • Letters from Iwo Jima  - Iris Yamashita (screenplay and story) and Paul Haggis
  • Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)  - Guillermo del Toro
  • The Queen (film)  - Peter Morgan

• 2007 Juno (film)  - Diablo Cody
  • Lars and the Real Girl  - Nancy Oliver
  • Michael Clayton (film)  - Tony Gilroy
  • Ratatouille  - Brad Bird
  • The Savages (film)  - Tamara Jenkins

• 2008 Milk (film)  - Dustin Lance Black
  • WALL-E  - Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon and Pete Docter
  • Happy-Go-Lucky  - Mike Leigh
  • Frozen River  - Courtney Hunt
  • In Bruges  - Martin McDonagh

• 2009 The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal
  • Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino
  • The Messenger – Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman
  • A Serious Man – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
  • Up – Tom McCarthy, Bob Peterson and Pete Docter

2010s

• 2010The King's Speech – David Seidler
  • Another Year – Mike Leigh
  • The Fighter – Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson
  • Inception – Christopher Nolan
  • The Kids Are All Right – Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg

• 2011 Midnight in Paris  - Woody Allen
  • The Artist  - Michel Hazanavicius
  • Bridesmaids  - Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo
  • Margin Call  - J.C. Chandor
  • A Separation  - Asghar Farhadi

• 2012 Django Unchained  - Quentin Tarantino
  • Amour  - Michael Haneke
  • Flight  - John Gatins
  • Moonrise Kingdom  - Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
  • Zero Dark Thirty  - Mark Boal

• 2013 Her  - Spike Jonze
  • American Hustle  - Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
  • Blue Jasmine  - Woody Allen
  • Dallas Buyers Club  - Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack
  • Nebraska  - Bob Nelson

• 2014 Birdman  - Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr. and Armando Bo
  • Boyhood  - Richard Linklater
  • Foxcatcher  - E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel  - Wes Anderson (story/screenplay) and Hugo Guinness (story)
  • Nightcrawler  - Dan Gilroy

• 2015 Spotlight  - Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer
  • Bridge of Spies  - Matt Charman, Joel Coen, and Ethan Coen
  • Ex Machina  - Alex Garland
  • Inside Out  - Josh Cooley, Ronnie del Carmen, Pete Docter, and Meg LeFauve
  • Straight Outta Compton  - Andrea Berloff, Jonathan Herman, S. Leigh Savidge, and Alan Wenkus

• 2016 Manchester by the Sea  – Kenneth Lonergan
  • 20th Century Women  – Mike Mills
  • Hell or High Water  – Taylor Sheridan
  • La La Land  – Damien Chazelle
  • The Lobster  – Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou

• 2017 Get Out  - Jordan Peele
  • The Big Sick  - Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani
  • Lady Bird  - Greta Gerwig
  • The Shape of Water  - Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor; Story by Guillermo del Toro
  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri  - Martin McDonagh

• 2018 Green Book  - Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga
  • The Favourite  - Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara
  • First Reformed  - Paul Schrader
  • Roma  - Alfonso Cuaron
  • Vice  - Adam McKay

• 2019 Parasite  - Bong Joon-ho & Han Jin-won
  • Knives Out  - Rian Johnson
  • Marriage Story  - Noah Baumbach
  • 1917  - Sam Mendes & Krysty Wilson-Cairns
  • Once Upon a Time in Hollywood  - Quentin Tarantino

2020s

• 2020 Promising Young Woman  - Emerald Fennell
  • Judas and the Black Messiah  - Screenplay by Will Berson and Shaka King; Story by Berson, King, Keith Lucas and Kenny Lucas
  • Minari  - Lee Isaac Chung
  • Sound of Metal  - Screenplay by Abraham Marder and Darius Marder; Story by Derek Cianfrance and D. Marder
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7  - Aaron Sorkin

• 2021 Belfast  - Kenneth Branagh
  • Don't Look Up  - Screenplay: Adam McKay; Story: Adam McKay & David Sirota
  • King Richard  - Zach Baylin
  • Licorice Pizza - - Paul Thomas Anderson
  • The Worst Person in the World  - Joachim Trier & Eskil Vogt

• 2022 Everything Everywhere All at Once  - Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
  • The Banshees of Inisherin  - Martin McDonagh
  • The Fabelmans  - Tony Kushner & Steven Spielberg
  • Tár  - Todd Field
  • Triangle of Sadness  - Ruben Östlund

• 2023 Anatomy of a Fall  - Justine Triet and Arthur Harari
  • The Holdovers  - David Hemingson
  • Maestro  - Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer
  • May December  - Screenplay by Samy Burch; Story by Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik
  • Past Lives  - Celine Song

• 2024 Anora  - Sean Baker
  • The Brutalist  - Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold
  • A Real Pain  - Jesse Eisenberg
  • September 5  - Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, and Alex David
  • The Substance  - Coralie Fargeat

• 2025 Sinners  - Ryan Coogler
  • Blue Moon  - Robert Kaplow
  • It Was Just an Accident  - Jafar Panahi
  • Marty Supreme  - Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
  • Sentimental Value  - Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier

Best Adapted Screenplay

1920s

This award started with the name Best Writing, Adaptation.

• 1927/1928 Seventh Heaven (film)  - Benjamin Glazer from the play Seventh Heaven by Austin Strong
  • Glorious Betsy  - Anthony Coldeway from the play by Rida Johnson Young
  • The Jazz Singer (1927 film)  - Alfred A. Cohn from the play Day of Atonement by Samson Raphaelson

In the 2nd and 3rd years there was only a single writing award for Writing Achievement with no distinction between original works and adaptations.

• 1928/1929 The Patriot (1928 film)  - Hanns Kräly from a play by Ashley Dukes translated from the play Der Patriot by Alfred Neumann, derived from the story Paul I by Dmitri Merezhkovsky
  • The Cop  - William Taylor Garnett from a story by Elliott Judd Clawson
  • In Old Arizona  - Tom Barry from the short story "The Caballero's Way" by O. Henry
  • The Last of Mrs. Cheyney  - Hanns Kräly from the play by Frederick Lonsdale
  • The Leatherneck  - Elliott J. Clawson, original
  • Our Dancing Daughters  - Josephine Lovett, original
  • Sal of Singapore  - Elliott J. Clawson from the novel The Sentimentalists by Dale Collins
  • Skyscraper (1928 film)  - Elliott J. Clawson, William Taylor Garnett from a story by Dudley Murphy
  • The Valiant (1929 film)  - Tom Barry from the play by Halworthy Everett Hall and Robert Middlemass
  • A Woman of Affairs  - Bess Meredyth from the novel The Green Hat by Michael Arlen
  • Wonder of Women  - Bess Meredyth from the novel Die Frau des Steffen Tromholt (The Wife of Steffen Tromholt) by Hermann Sudermann

• 1929/1930 The Big House  - Frances Marion, original
  • All Quiet on the Western Front (film)  - Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott, Del Andrews from the novel by Erich Maria Remarque
  • Disraeli (film)  - Julien Josephson from the play by Louis N. Parker
  • The Divorcee  - w:John Meehan (screenwriter) from the novel Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott
  • Street of Chance (1930 film)  - Howard Estabrook from a story by Oliver H. P. Garrett

1930s

For the 1930/31 production year the award was again subdivided, and this one was once again Best Writing, Adaptation.

• 1930/1931 Cimarron  - Howard Estabrook from the novel by Edna Ferber
  • The Criminal Code  - Seton I. Miller, Fred Niblo Jr. from the play by Martin Flavin
  • Holiday  - Horace Jackson from the play by Philip Barry
  • Little Caesar  - Francis Edward Faragoli, Robert N. Lee from the novel by W. R. Burnett
  • Skippy  - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Sam Mintz from the comic strip by Percy Crosby

• 1931/1932 Bad Girl  - Edwin J. Burke from the novel by Viña Delmar and play by Delmar and Brian Marlowe
  • Arrowsmith  - Sidney Howard from the novel by Sinclair Lewis
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde  - Samuel Hoffenstein, Percy Heath from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson

• 1932/1933 Little Women  - Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason from the novel by Louisa May Alcott
  • Lady for a Day  - Robert Riskin from the story Madame la Gimp by Damon Runyon
  • State Fair  - Paul Green, Sonya Levien from the novel by Phil Stong

• 1934 It Happened One Night  - Robert Riskin from the story Night Bus by Samuel Hopkins Adams
  • The Thin Man  - Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich from the novel by Dashiell Hammett
  • Viva Villa!  - Ben Hecht from the book by Edgecumb Pinchon and O. B. Stade

• 1935 The Informer (film)  - Dudley Nichols from the novel by Liam O'Flaherty. This was the first Academy Award ever to be declined.
  • Captain Blood (1935 film)  - write-in candidate Casey Robinson from the novel by Rafael Sabatini
  • The Lives of a Bengal Lancer  - Waldemar Young, John L. Balderston, Achmed Abdullah, Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt from the memoir by Francis Yeats-Brown
  • Mutiny on the Bounty  - Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman, Casey Wilson from the novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
    • For 1935 the award became Best Writing, Screenplay

• 1936 The Story of Louis Pasteur  - Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney from their own story
  • After the Thin Man  - Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett from a story by Dashiell Hammett
  • Dodsworth (film)  - Sidney Howard from his 1934 play adapted from the 1929 novel by Sinclair Lewis
  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town  - Robert Riskin from the short story "Opera Hat" by Clarence Budington Kelland
  • My Man Godfrey  - Morrie Ryskind, Eric Hatch from the novel 1101 Park Avenue by Hatch

• 1937 The Life of Emile Zola  - Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, Norman Reilly Raine from the book Zola and His Time by Matthew Josephson
  • The Awful Truth  - Viña Delmar from the play by Arthur Richman
  • Captains Courageous  - Marc Connelly, John Lee Mahin, Dale Van Every from the novel by Rudyard Kipling
  • Stage Door  - Morrie Ryskind, Anthony Veiller from the play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman
  • A Star Is Born  - Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, Robert Carson from a story by William A. Wellman and Robert Carson

• 1938 Pygmalion  - Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Arthur Lewis, W.P. Lipscomb, George Bernard Shaw from the play by George Bernard Shaw
  • Boys Town  - John Meehan, Dore Schary from the story by Dore Schary and Eleanore Griffin
  • The Citadel  - Ian Dalrymple, Frank Wead, Elizabeth Hill from the novel by A. J. Cronin
  • Four Daughters  - Lenore Coffee, Julius J. Epstein from the short story "Sister Act" by Fannie Hurst
  • You Can't Take It with You  - Robert Riskin from the play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart

• 1939 Gone With the Wind  - Sidney Howard from the novel by Margaret Mitchell
  • Goodbye, Mr. Chips  - R. C. Sherriff, Claudine West, Eric Maschwitz from the novella by James Hilton
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington  - Sidney Buchman from the story by Lewis R. Foster
  • Ninotchka  - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch from the story by Melchior Lengyel
  • Wuthering Heights  - Charles MacArthur, Ben Hecht from the novel by Emily Brontë

1940s

• 1940 The Philadelphia Story  - Donald Ogden Stewart from the play by Philip Barry
  • The Grapes of Wrath  - Nunnally Johnson from the novel by John Steinbeck
  • Kitty Foyle  - Donald Ogden Stewart, Dalton Trumbo from the novel by Christopher Morley
  • The Long Voyage Home  - Dudley Nichols from a composite of the short plays The Moon of the Caribees, In the Zone, Bound East for Cardiff and The Long Voyage Home by Eugene O'Neill
  • Rebecca  - Joan Harrison, Robert E. Sherwood, Philip MacDonald, Michael Hogan from the novel by Daphne du Maurier

• 1941 Here Comes Mr. Jordan  - Sidney Buchman, Seton Miller from the play Heaven Can Wait by Harry Segall
  • Hold Back the Dawn  - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder from the novel by Ketti Frings
  • How Green Was My Valley  - Philip Dunne from the novel by Richard Llewellyn
  • The Little Foxes  - Lillian Hellman from her own play
  • The Maltese Falcon  - John Huston from the novel by Dashiell Hammett

• 1942 Mrs. Miniver  - George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, Arthur Wimperis based on newspaper columns by Jan Struther
  • 49th Parallel  - Rodney Ackland, Emeric Pressburger from the story by Emeric Pressburger
  • The Pride of the Yankees  - Herman J. Mankiewicz, Jo Swerling from the story by Paul Gallico
  • Random Harvest  - George Froeschel, Claudine West, Arthur Wimperis from the novel by James Hilton
  • The Talk of the Town  - Sidney Buchman, Irwin Shaw from the story by Sidney Harmon

• 1943 Casablanca  - Philip Epstein, Julius J. Epstein, Howard Koch from the play Everybody Comes to Rick's by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison
  • Holy Matrimony  - Nunnally Johnson from the novel Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett
  • The More the Merrier  - Richard Flournoy, Lewis R. Foster, Frank Ross, Robert W. Russell from the story by Ross and Russell
  • The Song of Bernadette  - George Seaton from the novel by Franz Werfel
  • Watch on the Rhine  - Dashiell Hammett from the play by Lillian Hellman

• 1944 Going My Way  - Frank Butler, Frank Cavett from the story by Leo McCarey
  • Double Indemnity  - Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler from the novel Double Indemnity in Three of a Kind by James M. Cain
  • Gaslight  - John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, John L. Balderston from the play Gas Light by Patrick Hamilton
  • Laura  - Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, Elizabeth Reinhardt from the novel by Vera Caspary
  • Meet Me in St. Louis  - Irving Brecher, Fred F. Finklehoffe from the novel by Sally Benson

• 1945 The Lost Weekend  - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder from the novel by Charles R. Jackson
  • The Story of G.I. Joe  - Leopold Atlas, Guy Endore, Philip Stevenson from the memoirs Brave Men and Here Is Your War by Ernie Pyle
  • Mildred Pierce  - Ranald MacDougall from the novel by James M. Cain
  • Pride of the Marines  - Albert Maltz from the book Al Schmid, Marine by Roger Butterfield
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn  - Frank Davis, Tess Slesinger from the novel by Betty Smith

• 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives  - Robert E. Sherwood from the novella Glory for Me by MacKinlay Kantor
  • Anna and the King of Siam  - Sally Benson, Talbot Jennings from the novel by Margaret Landon
  • Brief Encounter  - Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, Ronald Neame from the play Still Life by Noel Coward
  • The Killers  - Anthony Veiller from the short story by Ernest Hemingway
  • Rome, Open City  - Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini from the story by Sergio Amidei, Alberto Consiglio

• 1947 Miracle on 34th Street  - George Seaton from the story by Valentine Davies
  • Boomerang  - Richard Murphy based on the article "The Perfect Case" by Anthony Abbot (pseudonym of Fulton Oursler)
  • Crossfire  - John Paxton from the novel The Brick Foxhole by Richard Brooks
  • Gentleman's Agreement  - Moss Hart from the novel by Laura Z. Hobson
  • Great Expectations  - David Lean, Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan from the novel by Charles Dickens

• 1948 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre  - John Huston from the novel by B. Traven
  • A Foreign Affair - - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Richard L. Breen, adapted by Robert Harari from a story by David Shaw
  • Johnny Belinda  - Irmgard von Cube, Allen Vincent from the play by Elmer Blaney Harris
  • The Search  - Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler from their story
  • The Snake Pit  - Frank Partos, Millen Brand from the novel by Mary Jane Ward

• 1949 A Letter to Three Wives  - Joseph L. Mankiewicz from the novel by John Klempner
  • All the King's Men  - Robert Rossen from the novel by Robert Penn Warren
  • The Bicycle Thief  - Cesare Zavattini from the novel by Luigi Bartolini
  • Champion  - Carl Foreman from the short story by Ring Lardner Jr.
  • The Fallen Idol  - Graham Greene from his short story "The Basement Room"

1950s

• 1950 All About Eve  - Joseph L. Mankiewicz from the short story "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr
  • The Asphalt Jungle  - Ben Maddow, John Huston from the novel by W.R. Burnett
  • Born Yesterday  - Albert Mannheimer, from the play by Garson Kanin
  • Broken Arrow  - Albert Maltz from the novel Blood Brother by Elliott Arnold
  • Father of the Bride  - Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett from the novel by Edward Streeter

• 1951 A Place in the Sun  - Harry Brown, Michael Wilson from the novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the play by Patrick Kearney
  • The African Queen  - James Agee, John Huston from the novel by C.S. Forester
  • Detective Story  - Robert Wyler, Philip Yordan from the play by Sidney Kingsley
  • La Ronde  - Jacques Natanson, Max Ophüls from the play by Arthur Schnitzler
  • A Streetcar Named Desire  - Tennessee Williams, from his play

• 1952 The Bad and the Beautiful  - Charles Schnee from the story "Of Good and Evil" by George Bradshaw
  • 5 Fingers  - Michael Wilson from the novel Operation Cicero by Ludwig Carl Moyzisch
  • High Noon  - Carl Foreman from the short story "The Tin Star" by John W. Cunningham
  • The Man in the White Suit  - John Dighton, Roger MacDougall, Alexander Mackendrick from a story by Roger MacDougall
  • The Quiet Man  - Frank Nugent, from the story by Maurice Walsh

• 1953 From Here to Eternity  - Daniel Taradash from the novel by James Jones
  • The Cruel Sea  - Eric Ambler from the novel by Nicholas Monsarrat
  • Lili  - Helen Deutsch from the short story "The Man Who Hated People" by Paul Gallico
  • Roman Holiday  - Ian McLellan Hunter, John Dighton from the story by Dalton Trumbo (front: Ian McLellan Hunter)
  • Shane  - A.B. Guthrie Jr. from the novel by Jack Schaefer

• 1954 The Country Girl  - George Seaton from the play by Clifford Odets
  • The Caine Mutiny  - w:Stanley Roberts (screenwriter)Stanley Roberts from the novel by Herman Wouk
  • Rear Window  - John Michael Hayes from the short story "It Had to Be Murder" by Cornell Woolrich
  • Sabrina  - Billy Wilder, Samuel A. Taylor, Ernest Lehman from the play Sabrina Fair by Samuel A. Taylor
  • Seven Brides for Seven Brothers  - Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Dorothy Kingsley from the short story "The Sobbin' Women" by Stephen Vincent Benét

• 1955 Marty  - Paddy Chayefsky based on his teleplay on The Philco Television Playhouse
  • Bad Day at Black Rock  - Millard Kaufman from the story story "Bad Time at Honda" by Howard Breslin
  • Blackboard Jungle  - Richard Brooks from the novel by Evan Hunter
  • East of Eden  - Paul Osborn from the novel by John Steinbeck
  • Love Me or Leave Me  - Daniel Fuchs, Isobel Lennart from a story by Daniel Fuchs

For 1956 the Category was renamed Screenplay--Adapted:

• 1956 Around the World in 80 Days  - John Farrow, S. J. Perelman, James Poe from the novel by Jules Verne
  • Baby Doll  - Tennessee Williams from his one act plays 27 Wagons Full of Cotton & The Long Stay Cut Short, or The Unsatisfactory Supper
  • Friendly Persuasion  - Michael Wilson from the novel by Jessamyn West
    • Note: Early in 1956, the name of screenwriter Michael Wilson - a former Oscar winner - had been deleted from the credits of Friendly Persuasion by Allied Artists, the film's distributor, based on a 1952 agreement between the Screen Writers Guild and various production companies to exclude suspected communists.
  • Giant  - Fred Guiol, Ivan Moffat from the novel by Edna Ferber
  • Lust for Life  - Norman Corwin from the novel by Irving Stone

For 1957 the category was renamed Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium:

• 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai  - Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson (front: Pierre Boulle) based on w:The Bridge over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
  • Note: Though Pierre Boulle received official screen credit, it was commonly known that blacklisted writers Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson wrote the screenplay based on Boulle's novel (translated from the original French).
  • Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison  - John Huston, John Lee Mahin from the novel by Charles Shaw
  • Peyton Place  - John Michael Hayes from the novel by Grace Metalious
  • Sayonara  - Paul Osborn from the novel by James Michener
  • 12 Angry Men  - Reginald Rose from his 1954 teleplay

• 1958 Gigi  - Alan Jay Lerner based on the novella by Colette
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof  - Richard Brooks, James Poe from the play and short story "Three Players of a Summer Game" by Tennessee Williams
  • The Horse's Mouth  - Alec Guinness from the novel by Joyce Cary
  • I Want to Live!  - Nelson Gidding, Don Mankiewicz from the letters by Barbara Graham and the articles by Edward S. Montgomery
  • Separate Tables  - John Gay, Terence Rattigan from the play by Terence Rattigan

• 1959 Room at the Top  - Neil Paterson from the novel by John Braine
  • Anatomy of a Murder  - Wendell Mayes from the novel by Robert Traver (pseudonym of John D. Voelker)
  • Ben-Hur  - Karl Tunberg from the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace
  • The Nun's Story  - Robert Anderson from the novel by Kathryn Hulme
  • Some Like it Hot  - Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond from 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

• 1960 Elmer Gantry  - Richard Brooks from the novel by Sinclair Lewis
  • Inherit the Wind  - Nedrick Young (front: Nathan E. Douglas), Harold Jacob Smith from the play by Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee
    • Note: Upon request of his widow and upon recommendation of the Writers Branch Executive Committee, the Board of Governors voted to restore the name of Nedrick Young to the nomination presented to Nathan E. Douglas, which was Mr. Young's pseudonym during the blacklisting period.
  • Sons and Lovers  - Gavin Lambert, T.E.B. Clarke from the novel by D.H. Lawrence
  • The Sundowners  - Isobel Lennart from the novel by Jon Cleary
  • Tunes of Glory  - James Kennaway from his novel

• 1961 Judgment at Nuremberg  - Abby Mann from his teleplay on Playhouse 90
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's  - George Axelrod from the novella by Truman Capote
  • The Guns of Navarone  - Carl Foreman from the novel by Alistair MacLean
  • The Hustler  - Sydney Carroll, Robert Rossen from the novel by Walter Tevis
  • West Side Story  - Ernest Lehman from the musical by Arthur Laurents

• 1962 To Kill a Mockingbird (film)  - Horton Foote from the novel by Harper Lee
  • David and Lisa  - Eleanor Perry from the novella Lisa and David by Theodore Isaac Rubin
  • Lawrence of Arabia  - Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson from the memoir Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence
  • Lolita  - Vladimir Nabokov from his novel
  • The Miracle Worker  - William Gibson from his play

• 1963 Tom Jones  - John Osborne from the novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
  • Captain Newman, M.D.  - Richard L. Breen, Henry Ephron, Phoebe Ephron from the novel by Leo Rosten
  • Hud  - Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr. from the novel Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry
  • Lilies of the Field  - James Poe from the novel by William Edmund Barrett
  • Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray)  - Serge Bourguignon, Bernard Eschassériaux from the novel Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray by Bernard Eschassériaux

• 1964 Becket  - Edward Anhalt from the play by Jean Anouilh
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb  - Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George from the novel Red Alert by Peter George
  • Mary Poppins  - Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi from the books by P.L. Travers
  • My Fair Lady  - Alan Jay Lerner from his musical and the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
  • Zorba the Greek (Alexis Zorbas)  - Michael Cacoyannis from the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis

• 1965 Doctor Zhivago  - Robert Bolt from the novel by Boris Pasternak
  • Cat Ballou  - Walter Newman, Frank Pierson from the novel The Ballad of Cat Ballou by Roy Chanslor
  • The Collector  - Stanley Mann, John Kohn from the novel by John Fowles
  • Ship of Fools  - Abby Mann from the novel by Katherine Anne Porter
  • A Thousand Clowns  - Herb Gardner from his play

• 1966 A Man for All Seasons  - Robert Bolt from his play
  • Alfie  - Bill Naughton from his play
  • The Professionals  - Richard Brooks from the novel A Mule for the Marquesa by Frank O'Rourke
  • The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming  - William Rose from the novel The Off-Islanders by Nathaniel Benchley
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?  - Ernest Lehman from the play by Edward Albee

• 1967 In the Heat of the Night  - Stirling Silliphant from the novel by John Ball
  • Cool Hand Luke  - Donn Pearce, Frank Pierson from the novel by Donn Pearce
  • The Graduate  - Calder Willingham, Buck Henry from the novel by Charles Webb
  • In Cold Blood  - Richard Brooks from the novel by Truman Capote
  • Ulysses  - Joseph Strick, Fred Haines from the novel by James Joyce

• 1968 The Lion in Winter  - James Goldman from his play
  • The Odd Couple  - Neil Simon from his play
  • Oliver!  - Vernon Harris from the musical by Lionel Bart and the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
  • Rachel, Rachel  - Stewart Stern from the novel A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence
  • Rosemary's Baby  - Roman Polanski from the novel by Ira Levin

• 1969 Midnight Cowboy  - Waldo Salt from the novel by James Leo Herlihy
  • Anne of the Thousand Days  - John Hale, Bridget Boland, Richard Sokolove from the play by Maxwell Anderson
  • Goodbye, Columbus  - Arnold Schulman from the novella by Philip Roth
  • They Shoot Horses, Don't They?  - James Poe, Robert E. Thompson from the novel by Horace McCoy
  • Z  - Jorge Semprún, Costa-Gavras from the novel by Vassilis Vassilikos

1970s

• 1970 M*A*S*H  - Ring Lardner Jr. from the novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker (pen name of H. Richard Hornberger)
  • Airport  - George Seaton from w:Airport (Hailey novel)the novel by Arthur Hailey
  • I Never Sang for My Father  - Robert Anderson from his play
  • Lovers and Other Strangers  - Joseph Bologna, David Zelag Goodman Renée Taylor from the play by Joseph Bologna and Renée Taylor
  • Women in Love  - Larry Kramer from the novel by D.H. Lawrence

• 1971 The French Connection  - Ernest Tidyman from the book by Robin Moore
  • A Clockwork Orange  - Stanley Kubrick from the novel by Anthony Burgess
  • The Conformist (Il conformista)  - Bernardo Bertolucci from the novel by Alberto Moravia
  • The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini)  - Ugo Pirro, Vittorio Bonicelli from the novel by Giorgio Bassani
  • The Last Picture Show  - Larry McMurtry, Peter Bogdanovich from the novel by McMurtry

• 1972 The Godfather  - Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola from the novel by Puzo
  • Cabaret (1972 film)  - Jay Presson Allen from the musical by Joe Masteroff, the play I Am a Camera by John Van Druten and the novel Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
  • The Emigrants (1971 film) (Utvandrarna)  - Bengt Forslund, Jan Troell from the novels The Emigrants and Unto a Good Land (Invandrarna) by Vilhelm Moberg.
  • Pete 'n' Tillie  - Julius J. Epstein from the novella Witch's Milk by Peter De Vries
  • Sounder  - Lonne Elder III from the novel by William H. Armstrong

• 1973 The Exorcist  - William Peter Blatty from his novel
  • The Last Detail  - Robert Towne from the novel by Darryl Ponicsan
  • The Paper Chase  - James Bridges from the novel by John Jay Osborn Jr.
  • Paper Moon  - Alvin Sargent from the novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown
  • Serpico  - Waldo Salt, Norman Wexler from the book Serpico: The Cop Who Defied the System by Peter Maas

From 1974 the Category was renamed Screenplay Adapted From Other Material:

• 1974 The Godfather Part II  - Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo from the novel The Godfather by Puzo
  • The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz  - Lionel Chetwynd, Mordecai Richler from the novel by Richler
  • Lenny  - Julian Barry from his play
  • Murder on the Orient Express  - Paul Dehn from the novel by Agatha Christie
  • Young Frankenstein  - Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks from the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

• 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest  - Bo Goldman, Laurence Hauben from the novel by Ken Kesey
  • Barry Lyndon  - Stanley Kubrick from the novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • The Man Who Would Be King  - John Huston, Gladys Hill from the short story by Rudyard Kipling
  • Profumo di donna (Scent of a Woman)  - Ruggero Maccari, Dino Risi from the novel Il buio e il mare by Giovanni Arpino
  • The Sunshine Boys  - Neil Simon from his play

From 1976 the category was renamed Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

• 1976 All the President's Men  - William Goldman from the book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
  • Bound for Glory  - Robert Getchell from the book by Woody Guthrie
  • Fellini's Casanova  - Federico Fellini, Bernardino Zapponi from the memoir Histoire de ma vie (The Story of My Life) by Giacomo Casanova
  • The Seven-Per-Cent Solution  - Nicholas Meyer from his novel
  • Voyage of the Damned  - David Butler, Steve Shagan from the book by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts

• 1977 Julia  - Alvin Sargent from the memoir Pentimento: A Book of Portraits by Lillian Hellman
  • Equus (film)  - Peter Shaffer from his play
  • I Never Promised You a Rose Garden  - Gavin Lambert, Lewis John Carlino from the novel by Hannah Greene
  • Oh, God!  - Larry Gelbart from the novel by Avery Corman
  • That Obscure Object of Desire (Cet obscur objet du désir) - Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière from the novel The Woman and the Puppet (La femme et le pantin) by Pierre Louÿs

• 1978 Midnight Express  - Oliver Stone from the book by Billy Hayes and William Hoffer
  • Bloodbrothers  - Walter Newman from the novel by Richard Price
  • California Suite  - Neil Simon from his play
  • Heaven Can Wait  - Elaine May, Warren Beatty from the play by Harry Seagal
  • Same Time, Next Year  - Bernard Slade from his play

• 1979 Kramer vs. Kramer  - Robert Benton from the novel by Avery Corman
  • Apocalypse Now  - John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola from the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  • La Cage aux Folles  - Marcello Danon, Édouard Molinaro, Jean Poiret, Francis Veber from the play by Poiret
  • A Little Romance  - Allan Burns from the novel E=mc² Mon Amour by Patrick Cauvin (pseudonym of Claude Klotz)
  • Norma Rae  - Harriet Frank Jr., Irving Ravetch from the book Crystal Lee, a Woman of Inheritance by Hank Leiferman

1980s

• 1980 Ordinary People  - Alvin Sargent from the novel by Judith Guest
  • Breaker Morant  - Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens, Bruce Beresford from the play by Kenneth G. Ross
  • Coal Miner's Daughter  - Tom Rickman from the memoir Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter by Loretta Lynn and George Vecsey
  • The Elephant Man  - Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren, David Lynch from the book The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences by Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet and The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity by Ashley Montagu
  • The Stunt Man  - Lawrence B. Marcus, Richard Rush from the novel by Paul Brodeur

• 1981 On Golden Pond  - Ernest Thompson from his play
  • The French Lieutenant's Woman  - Harold Pinter from the novel by John Fowles
  • Pennies From Heaven  - Dennis Potter from his miniseries
  • Prince of the City  - Jay Presson Allen, Sidney Lumet from the book Prince of the City: The True Story of a Cop Who Knew Too Much by Robert Daley
  • Ragtime  - Michael Weller from the novel by E.L. Doctorow

• 1982 Missing  - Constantin Costa-Gavras, Donald Stewart from the book The Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice by Thomas Hauser
  • Das Boot  - Wolfgang Petersen from the novel by Lothar-Günther Buchheim
  • Sophie's Choice  - Alan J. Pakula from the novel by William Styron
  • The Verdict  - David Mamet from the novel by Barry Reed
  • Victor/Victoria  - Blake Edwards from the film Victor and Victoria by Reinhold Schünzel

• 1983 Terms of Endearment  - James L. Brooks from the novel by Larry McMurtry
  • Betrayal  - Harold Pinter from his play
  • The Dresser  - Ronald Harwood from his play
  • Educating Rita  - Willy Russell from his play
  • Reuben, Reuben  - Julius J. Epstein from the novel by Peter De Vries and the play Spofford by Herman Shumlin

• 1984 Amadeus  - Peter Shaffer from the play by Peter Shaffer
  • Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes  - P.H. Vazak, Michael Austin from the novel Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • The Killing Fields  - Bruce Robinson from the article "The Death and Life of Dith Pran: A Story of Cambodia" by Sydney Schanberg
  • A Passage to India  - David Lean from the novel by E.M. Forster
  • A Soldier's Story  - Charles Fuller from his play A Soldier's Play

• 1985 Out of Africa  - Kurt Luedtke from the memoir by Karen Blixen and the 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  - Menno Meyjes from the novel by Alice Walker
  • Kiss of the Spider Woman  - Leonard Schrader from the novel by Manuel Puig
  • Prizzi's Honor  - Richard Condon, Janet Roach from the novel by Condon
  • The Trip to Bountiful  - Horton Foote from his play

• 1986 A Room with a View  - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by E.M. Forster
  • Children of a Lesser God  - Hesper Anderson, Mark Medoff from the play by Mark Medoff
  • The Color of Money  - Richard Price from the novel by Walter Tevis
  • Crimes of the Heart  - Beth Henley from [w:Crimes of the Heart|her play]]
  • Stand by Me  - Raynold Gideon, Bruce A. Evans from the novella The Body by Stephen King

• 1987 The Last Emperor  - Bernardo Bertolucci, Mark Peploe from the memoir From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi by Puyi
  • The Dead  - Tony Huston from the short story by James Joyce
  • Fatal Attraction  - James Dearden from his television film Diversion
  • Full Metal Jacket  - Gustav Hasford, Michael Herr, Stanley Kubrick from the novel The Short-Timers by Hasford
  • My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv som hund)  - Brasse Brännström, Per Berglund, Lasse Hallström, Reidar Jönsson from the novel by Reidar Jönsson

• 1988 Dangerous Liaisons  - Christopher Hampton from the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos and the play Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Christopher Hampton
  • The Accidental Tourist  - Frank Galati, Lawrence Kasdan from the novel by Anne Tyler
  • Gorillas in the Mist  - Anna Hamilton Phelan, Tab Murphy from the article by Harold T.P. Hayes
  • Little Dorrit (film)  - Christine Edzard from the novel by Charles Dickens
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being  - Jean-Claude Carrière, Philip Kaufman from the novel by Milan Kundera

• 1989 Driving Miss Daisy  - Alfred Uhry from his play
  • Born on the Fourth of July  - Ron Kovic, Oliver Stone from Kovic's memoir
  • Enemies, a Love Story  - Paul Mazursky, Roger L. Simon from the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Field of Dreams  - Phil Alden Robinson from the novel Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella
  • My Left Foot  - Shane Connaughton, Jim Sheridan from the memoir by Christy Brown

1990s

• 1990 Dances with Wolves  - Michael Blake from his novel
  • Awakenings  - Steven Zaillian from the memoir by Oliver Sacks
  • Goodfellas  - Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese from the book Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Pileggi
  • The Grifters  - Donald E. Westlake from the novel by Jim Thompson
  • Reversal of Fortune  - Nicholas Kazan from the memoir Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow Case by Alan Dershowitz

From 1991 the category became Screenplay Based on Material Previously Published or Produced:

• 1991 The Silence of the Lambs  - Ted Tally from the novel by Thomas Harris
  • Europa Europa  - Agnieszka Holland from the memoir I Was Hitler Youth Salomon by Salomon Perel
  • Fried Green Tomatoes  - Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski from the novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Flagg
  • JFK  - Oliver Stone, Zachary Sklar from the book Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy by Jim Marrs and the memoir On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison
  • The Prince of Tides  - Pat Conroy, Becky Johnston from the novel by Conroy

• 1992 Howards End  - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by E.M. Forster
  • Enchanted April  - Peter Barnes from the novel by Elizabeth von Arnim
  • The Player  - Michael Tolkin from his novel
  • A River Runs Through It  - Richard Friedenberg from the book by Norman Maclean
  • Scent of a Woman  - Bo Goldman from the novel Il Buio E Il Miele by Giovanni Arpino and the film by Ruggero Maccari and Dino Risi

• 1993 Schindler's List  - Steven Zaillian from the novel Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
  • The Age of Innocence  - Jay Cocks, Martin Scorsese from the the novel by Edith Wharton
  • In the Name of the Father  - Terry George, Jim Sheridan from the autobiography Proved Innocent: The Story of Gerry Conlon of the Guildford Four by Gerry Conlon
  • The Remains of the Day  - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Shadowlands  - William Nicholson from his play and the television film

• 1994 Forrest Gump  - Eric Roth from the novel by Winston Groom
  • The Madness of King George  - Alan Bennett from the play The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett
  • Nobody's Fool  - Robert Benton from the novel by Richard Russo
  • Quiz Show  - Paul Attanasio from the book Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties by Richard N. Goodwin
  • The Shawshank Redemption  - Frank Darabont from the novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King

• 1995 Sense and Sensibility (film)  - Emma Thompson from the novel by Jane Austen
  • Apollo 13 - William Broyles Jr., Al Reinert from the novel Lost Moon by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger
  • Babe  - George Miller, Chris Noonan from the novel The Sheep-Pig by Dick King-Smith
  • Leaving Las Vegas  - Mike Figgis from the novel by John O'Brien
  • Il Postino: The Postman  - Anna Pavignano, Michael Radford, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli, Massimo Troisi from the novel Ardiente Paciencia by Antonio Skármeta

• 1996 Sling Blade  - Billy Bob Thornton from the short film Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade by Billy Bob Thornton
  • The Crucible  - Arthur Miller from his play
  • The English Patient  - Anthony Minghella from the novel by Michael Ondaatje
  • Hamlet  - Kenneth Branagh from the play by William Shakespeare
  • Trainspotting - John Hodge from the novel by Irvine Welsh

• 1997 L.A. Confidential  - Curtis Hanson, Brian Helgeland from the novel by James Ellroy
  • Donnie Brasco  - Paul Attanasio from the novel Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia by Joseph D. Pistone and Richard Woodley
  • The Sweet Hereafter  - Atom Egoyan from the novel by Russell Banks
  • Wag the Dog  - Hilary Henkin, David Mamet from the novel American Hero by Larry Beinhart
  • The Wings of the Dove (film)  - Hossein Amini from the novel by Henry James

• 1998 Gods and Monsters  - Bill Condon from the novel Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram
  • Out of Sight  - Scott Frank from the novel by Elmore Leonard
  • Primary Colors  - Elaine May from the novel by Joe Klein
  • A Simple Plan  - Scott Smith from his novel
  • The Thin Red Line  - Terrence Malick from the novel by James Jones

• 1999 The Cider House Rules  - John Irving from the novel by John Irving
  • Election - - Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor from the novel by Tom Perrotta
  • The Green Mile  - Frank Darabont from the novel by Stephen King
  • The Insider  - Eric Roth, Michael Mann from the article The Man Who Knew Too Much by Marie Brenner
  • The Talented Mr. Ripley  - Anthony Minghella from the novel by Patricia Highsmith

2000s

• 2000 Traffic  - Stephen Gaghan from the teleplay Traffik by Simon Moore
  • Chocolat  - Robert Nelson Jacobs from the novel by Joanne Harris
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon  - Hui-Ling Wang, James Schamus and Kuo Jung Tsai from the novel by Du Lu Wang
  • O Brother, Where Art Thou?  - Ethan Coen and Joel Coen from the poem Odyssey by Homer
  • Wonder Boys - Steven Kloves from the novel by Michael Chabon

• 2001 A Beautiful Mind  - Akiva Goldsman from the book by Sylvia Nasar
  • Ghost World  - Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff from the graphic novel by Daniel Clowes
  • In the Bedroom  - Todd Field and Robert Festinger from the short story "Killings" by Andre Dubus
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring  - Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson from the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Shrek  - Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman and Roger S.H. Schulman from the children's book by William Steig

From 2002 the category was renamed Adapted Screenplay:

• 2002 The Pianist  - Ronald Harwood from the memoir by Wladyslaw Szpilman
  • About a Boy  - Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz from [w:About a Boy (novel)|the novel]] by Nick Hornby
  • Adaptation.  - Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman from the book The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
  • Chicago  - Bill Condon from the musical by Maurine Dallas Watkins
  • The Hours  - David Hare from the novel by Michael Cunningham

• 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King  - Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson from the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • American Splendor  - Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman from the comic book series by Harvey Pekar and the graphic novel Our Cancer Year by Joyce Brabner
  • City of God (Cidade de Deus)  - Braulio Mantovani from the novel by Paulo Lins
  • Mystic River  - Brian Helgeland from the novel by Dennis Lehane
  • Seabiscuit  - Gary Ross from the book Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

• 2004 Sideways  - Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor from the novel by Rex Pickett
  • Before Sunset  - Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke from a story by Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan
  • Finding Neverland  - David Magee from the play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee
  • Million Dollar Baby  - Paul Haggis from the short story collection Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner by F.X. Toole
  • The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de motocicleta)  - José Rivera from the books Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary by Alberto Granado and The Motorcycle Diaries (Notas de viaje) by Ernesto Guevara

• 2005 Brokeback Mountain  - Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana from the short story by Annie Proulx
  • A History of Violence  - Josh Olson from the graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke
  • Capote  - Dan Futterman from the book by Gerald Clarke
  • The Constant Gardener  - Jeffrey Caine from the novel by John le Carré
  • Munich  - Tony Kushner and Eric Roth from the book Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team by George Jonas

• 2006 The Departed  - William Monahan from the film Infernal Affairs by Felix Chong and Alan Mak
  • Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan  - Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham, Anthony Hines, Dan Mazer and Todd Phillips from the character Borat Sagdiyev from the TV series Da Ali G Show
  • Children of Men  - Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby from the novel The Children of Men by P. D. James
  • Notes on a Scandal  - Patrick Marber from the novel by Zoë Heller
  • Little Children  - Todd Field and Tom Perrotta from the novel by Tom Perrotta

• 2007 No Country for Old Men  - Ethan Coen and Joel Coen from the novel by Cormac McCarthy
  • Atonement  - Christopher Hampton from the novel by Ian McEwan
  • Away from Her  - Sarah Polley from the short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" by Alice Munro
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)  - Ronald Harwood from the memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby
  • There Will Be Blood  - Paul Thomas Anderson from the novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair

• 2008 Slumdog Millionaire  - Simon Beaufoy from the novel Q & A by Vikras Swarup
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button  - Eric Roth, Robin Swicord from the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Doubt  - John Patrick Shanley from his play Doubt: A Parable
  • Frost/Nixon  - Peter Morgan from his play
  • The Reader  - David Hare from the novel by Bernhard Schlink

• 2009 Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire  - Geoffrey Fletcher from Push by Sapphire
  • District 9  - Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell from the short film Alive in Joburg by Blomkamp
  • An Education  - Nick Hornby from the memoir by Lynn Barber
  • In the Loop  - Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Ianucci and Tony Roche from the character Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It created by Iannucci
  • Up in the Air  - Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner from the novel by Walter Kirn

2010s

• 2010 The Social Network – Aaron Sorkin from The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich
  • 127 Hours – Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy from Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston
  • Toy Story 3 – Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich; characters based on Toy Story and Toy Story 2
  • True Grit – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen from True Grit by Charles Portis
  • Winter's Bone – Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini from Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell

• 2011 The Descendants  – Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash from The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings
  • Hugo  – John Logan from The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
  • The Ides of March  – George Clooney, Grant Heslov, and Beau Willimon from Farragut North by Beau Willimon
  • Moneyball  – Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin; Story by Stan Chervin from Moneyball by Michael Lewis
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy  – Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan from Tinker by John le Carré

• 2012 Argo  – Chris Terrio from the book The Master of Disguise by Antonio J. Mendez and the book The Great Escape by Joshuah Bearman
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild  – Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin from the play Juicy and Delicious by Lucy Alibar
  • Life of Pi  – David Magee from the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  • Lincoln  – Tony Kushner from the book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Silver Linings Playbook  – David O. Russell from the novel The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick

• 2013 12 Years a Slave  - John Ridley from the book Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
  • Before Midnight  - Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, and Ethan Hawke from Before Sunrise (1995) by Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan
  • Captain Phillips  - Billy Ray from the book A Captain's Duty by Richard Phillips with Stephan Talty
  • Philomena  - Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope from the book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee by Martin Sixsmith
  • The Wolf of Wall Street  - Terence Winter from the book The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort

• 2014 The Imitation Game  - Graham Moore from the book Alan Turing: The Enigma, by Andrew Hodges
  • American Sniper  - Jason Hall from the book American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwan, and Jim DeFelice.
  • Inherent Vice  - Paul Thomas Anderson from the novel Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
  • The Theory of Everything  - Anthony McCarten from the book Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen Hawking by Jane Wilde Hawking
  • Whiplash  - Damien Chazelle from the short film Whiplash written by Damien Chazelle

• 2015 The Big Short  - Adam McKay and Charles Randolph from the book The Big Short by Michael Lewis
  • Brooklyn  - Nick Hornby from the novel Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
  • Carol  - Phyllis Nagy from the novel The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
  • The Martian  - Drew Goddard from the novel The Martian by Andy Weir
  • Room  - Emma Donoghue from the novel Room by Emma Donoghue

• 2016 Moonlight – Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney from In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney
  • Arrival – Eric Heisserer from "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang
  • Fences – August Wilson from Fences by August Wilson (posthumous nomination)
  • Hidden Figures – Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi from Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
  • Lion – Luke Davies from A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley and Larry Buttrose

• 2017 Call Me by Your Name  - James Ivory based on the novel by André Aciman
  • The Disaster Artist  - Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber based on the book by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell
  • Logan  - Screenplay by Scott Frank, James Mangold and Michael Green; Story by James Mangold
  • Molly's Game  - Aaron Sorkin based on the memoir by Molly Bloom
  • Mudbound  - Virgil Williams and Dee Rees based on the novel by Hillary Jordan

• 2018 BlacKkKlansman  - Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel and Kevin Willmott, based on the memoir Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth
  • A Star Is Born  - Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters and Eric Roth, based on the 1954 film by Moss Hart, 1976 film by Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne & Frank Pierson & 1937 film by Robert Carson & William A. Wellman
  • The Ballad of Buster Scruggs  - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, based on short stories "All Gold Canyon" by Jack London & "The Gal Who Got Rattled" by Stewart Edward White
  • If Beale Street Could Talk  - Barry Jenkins, based on the novel by James Baldwin
  • Can You Ever Forgive Me?  - Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty, based on the memoir by Lee Israel

• 2019 Jojo Rabbit  - Taika Waititi, based on the novel Caging Skies by Christine Leunens
  • The Irishman  - Steven Zaillian, based on the memoir I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa by Charles Brandt
  • Joker  - Todd Phillips & Scott Silver, based on the character from the comic books by Bill Finger, Bob Kane & Jerry Robinson
  • Little Women  - Greta Gerwig, based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott
  • The Two Popes  - Anthony McCarten, based on the play The Pope by McCarten

2020s

• 2020 The Father  - Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller, based on the play by Zeller
  • Borat Subsequent Moviefilm  - Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham, Jena Friedman, Anthony Hines, Lee Kern, Dan Mazer, Erica Rivinoja and Dan Swimer; Story by Baron Cohen, Hines, Nina Pedrad and Swimer; Based on the character by Baron Cohen
  • Nomadland  - Chloé Zhao, based on the book by Jessica Bruder
  • One Night in Miami...  - Kemp Powers, based on his play
  • The White Tiger  - Ramin Bahrani, based on the novel by Aravind Adiga

• 2021 CODA  - Sian Heder, based on the film La Famille Bélier by Victoria Bedos, Thomas Bidegain, Stanislas Carré de Malberg & Éric Lartigau
  • Drive My Car  - Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe, based on the short story by Haruki Murakami
  • Dune  - Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts & Denis Villeneuve, based on the novel by Frank Herbert
  • The Lost Daughter  - Maggie Gyllenhaal, based on the novel by Elena Ferrante
  • The Power of the Dog  - Jane Campion, based on the novel by Thomas Savage

• 2022 Women Talking  - Sarah Polley, based on the novel by Miriam Toews
  • All Quiet on the Western Front  - Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson & Ian Stokell, based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque
  • Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery  - Rian Johnson, based on the character Benoit Blanc, from the film Knives Out by Johnson
  • Living  - Kazuo Ishiguro, based on the film Ikiru by Shinobu Hashimoto, Akira Kurosawa & Hideo Oguni
  • Top Gun: Maverick  - Screenplay: Ehren Kruger, Christopher McQuarrie & Eric Warren Singer; Story: Peter Craig & Justin Marks, based on characters from the film Top Gun by Jim Cash & Jack Epps Jr.

• 2023 American Fiction  - Cord Jefferson; based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett
  • Barbie  - Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach; based on characters created by Ruth Handler
  • Oppenheimer  - Christopher Nolan; based on the biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
  • Poor Things  - Tony McNamara; based on the novel by Alisdair Gray
  • The Zone of Interest  - Jonathan Glazer; based on the novel by Martin Amis

• 2024 Conclave  - Peter Straughan; based on the novel Conclave by Robert Harris
  • A Complete Unknown  - James Mangold and Jay Cocks; based on the book Dylan Goes Electric! by Elijah Wald
  • Emilia Pérez  - Jacques Audiard; based on the opera libretto Emilia Pérez by Jacques Audiard
  • Nickel Boys  - RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes; based on the novel The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
  • Sing Sing  - Greg Kwedar and Clint Bentley, story by Greg Kwedar, Clint Bentley, Clarence Maclin, and John "Divine G" Whitfield; based on the book The Sing Sing Follies by John H. Richardson

• 2025 One Battle After Another  - Paul Thomas Anderson, based on the novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
  • Bugonia  - Will Tracy, based on the film Save the Green Planet! by Jang Joon-hwan
  • Frankenstein  - Guillermo del Toro, based on the novel by Mary Shelley
  • Hamnet  - Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell, based on the novel by O'Farrell
  • Train Dreams  - Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar, based on the novella by Denis Johnson