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Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, introduced at the awards debut in 1929, is presented annually for the best achievement in writing of a screenplay adapted from previously established material for a film from the previous year.

Sorted Chronologically by Awards Year. Winners in BOLD. Acceptance speech linked in Notes (where available).

UPDATED: May 2026

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AWARD RECORDS:
Most Awards: Robert Bolt, Francis Ford Coppola, Christopher Hampton, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Alexander Payne, Mario Puzo, Alvin Sargent, George Seaton, & Michael Wilson (2)
Most Nominations: Billy Wilder (7)
Most Nominations Without a Win: Stanley Kubrick, Frances Goodrich, & Albert Hackett (4)

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CATEGORY NAME HISTORY:
1929: Writing (Adaptation)
1930–1931: Writing
1932–1935: Writing (Adaptation)…

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  • 7th Heaven

    1

  • The Patriot

    2

  • The Big House

    3

  • Cimarron

    4

  • Bad Girl

    5

  • Little Women

    6

  • It Happened One Night

    7

  • The Informer

    8

  • The Story of Louis Pasteur

    9

  • The Life of Emile Zola

    10

  • Pygmalion

    11

  • Gone with the Wind

    12

  • The Philadelphia Story

    13

  • Here Comes Mr. Jordan

    14

  • Mrs. Miniver

    15

  • Casablanca

    16

  • Going My Way

    17

  • The Lost Weekend

    18

  • The Best Years of Our Lives

    19

  • Miracle on 34th Street

    20

  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    21

  • A Letter to Three Wives

    22

  • All About Eve

    23

  • A Place in the Sun

    24

  • The Bad and the Beautiful

    25

  • From Here to Eternity

    26

  • The Country Girl

    27

  • Marty

    28

  • Around the World in 80 Days

    29

  • The Bridge on the River Kwai

    30

  • Gigi

    31

  • Room at the Top

    32

  • Elmer Gantry

    33

  • Judgment at Nuremberg

    34

  • To Kill a Mockingbird

    35

  • Tom Jones

    36

  • Becket

    37

  • Doctor Zhivago

    38

  • A Man for All Seasons

    39

  • In the Heat of the Night

    40

  • The Lion in Winter

    41

  • Midnight Cowboy

    42

  • M*A*S*H

    43

  • The French Connection

    44

  • The Godfather

    45

  • The Exorcist

    46

  • The Godfather Part II

    47

  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    48

  • All the President's Men

    49

  • Julia

    50

  • Midnight Express

    51

  • Kramer vs. Kramer

    52

  • Ordinary People

    53

  • On Golden Pond

    54

  • Missing

    55

  • Terms of Endearment

    56

  • Amadeus

    57

  • Out of Africa

    58

  • A Room with a View

    59

  • The Last Emperor

    60

  • Dangerous Liaisons

    61

  • Driving Miss Daisy

    62

  • Dances with Wolves

    63

  • The Silence of the Lambs

    64

  • Howards End

    65

  • Schindler's List

    66

  • Forrest Gump

    67

  • Sense and Sensibility

    68

  • Sling Blade

    69

  • L.A. Confidential

    70

  • Gods and Monsters

    71

  • The Cider House Rules

    72

  • Traffic

    73

  • A Beautiful Mind

    74

  • The Pianist

    75

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    76

  • Sideways

    77

  • Brokeback Mountain

    78

  • The Departed

    79

  • No Country for Old Men

    80

  • Slumdog Millionaire

    81

  • Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire

    82

  • The Social Network

    83

  • The Descendants

    84

  • Argo

    85

  • 12 Years a Slave

    86

  • The Imitation Game

    87

  • The Big Short

    88

  • Moonlight

    89

  • Call Me by Your Name

    90

  • BlacKkKlansman

    91

  • Jojo Rabbit

    92

  • The Father

    93

  • CODA

    94

  • Women Talking

    95

  • American Fiction

    96

  • Conclave

    97

  • One Battle After Another

    98