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Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay - Nominees

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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WINNERS LIST | SITE MAP

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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

  • Glorious Betsy

    2

  • The Jazz Singer

    3

  • In Old Arizona

    4

  • The Patriot

    5

  • The Cop

    6

  • The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

    7

  • The Leatherneck

    8

  • Our Dancing Daughters

    9

  • Sal of Singapore

    10

  • Skyscraper

    11

  • The Valiant

    12

  • A Woman of Affairs

    13

  • Wonder of Women

    14

  • All Quiet on the Western Front

    15

  • The Big House

    16

  • Disraeli

    17

  • The Divorcee

    18

  • Street of Chance

    19

  • Cimarron

    20

  • Skippy

    21

  • The Criminal Code

    22

  • Holiday

    23

  • Little Caesar

    24

  • Arrowsmith

    25

  • Bad Girl

    26

  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    27

  • Lady for a Day

    28

  • Little Women

    29

  • State Fair

    30

  • It Happened One Night

    31

  • The Thin Man

    32

  • Viva Villa!

    33

  • Mutiny on the Bounty

    34

  • Captain Blood

    35

  • The Informer

    36

  • The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

    37

  • Dodsworth

    38

  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

    39

  • The Story of Louis Pasteur

    40

  • After the Thin Man

    41

  • My Man Godfrey

    42

  • The Life of Emile Zola

    43

  • The Awful Truth

    44

  • Captains Courageous

    45

  • Stage Door

    46

  • A Star Is Born

    47

  • You Can't Take It with You

    48

  • Boys Town

    49

  • The Citadel

    50

  • Four Daughters

    51

  • Pygmalion

    52

  • Gone with the Wind

    53

  • Goodbye, Mr. Chips

    54

  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

    55

  • Ninotchka

    56

  • Wuthering Heights

    57

  • Rebecca

    58

  • The Grapes of Wrath

    59

  • Kitty Foyle

    60

  • The Long Voyage Home

    61

  • The Philadelphia Story

    62

  • How Green Was My Valley

    63

  • Here Comes Mr. Jordan

    64

  • Hold Back the Dawn

    65

  • The Little Foxes

    66

  • The Maltese Falcon

    67

  • Mrs. Miniver

    68

  • 49th Parallel

    69

  • The Pride of the Yankees

    70

  • Random Harvest

    71

  • The Talk of the Town

    72

  • Casablanca

    73

  • The More the Merrier

    74

  • The Song of Bernadette

    75

  • Watch on the Rhine

    76

  • Holy Matrimony

    77

  • Going My Way

    78

  • Double Indemnity

    79

  • Gaslight

    80

  • Laura

    81

  • Meet Me in St. Louis

    82

  • The Lost Weekend

    83

  • Mildred Pierce

    84

  • Story of G.I. Joe

    85

  • Pride of the Marines

    86

  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

    87

  • The Best Years of Our Lives

    88

  • Anna and the King of Siam

    89

  • Brief Encounter

    90

  • The Killers

    91

  • Rome, Open City

    92

  • Gentleman's Agreement

    93

  • Crossfire

    94

  • Great Expectations

    95

  • Miracle on 34th Street

    96

  • Boomerang!

    97

  • Johnny Belinda

    98

  • The Snake Pit

    99

  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    100