Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

Winners

2025	One Battle After Another	★★★★★★★☆☆☆	Paul Thomas Anderson
2024	Conclave	★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Peter Straughan
2023	American Fiction	★☆☆	Cord Jefferson
2022	Women Talking	★☆☆	Sarah Polley
2021	CODA	★★☆☆	Sian Heder
2020	The Father	★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Christopher Hampton
2019	Jojo Rabbit	★☆	Taika Waititi
2018	BlacKkKlansman	★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Charlie Wachtel
2017	Call Me by Your Name	★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	James Ivory
2016	Moonlight	★★★☆☆☆	Barry Jenkins
2015	The Big Short	★☆☆☆☆☆	Charles Randolph
2014	The Imitation Game	★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Graham Moore
2013	12 Years a Slave	★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	John Ridley
2012	Argo	★★★★★★☆☆	Chris Terrio
2011	The Descendants	★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Alexander Payne
2010	The Social Network	★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Aaron Sorkin
2009	Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire	★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Geoffrey S. Fletcher
2008	Slumdog Millionaire	★★★★★★★★☆	Simon Beaufoy
2007	No Country for Old Men	★★★★★☆☆☆	Joel Coen
2006	The Departed	★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	William Monahan
2005	Brokeback Mountain	★★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆	Larry McMurtry
2004	Sideways	★★☆☆☆	Alexander Payne
2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	★★★★★★☆	Philippa Boyens
2002	The Pianist	★★★★★★☆☆☆☆	Ronald Harwood
2001	A Beautiful Mind	★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆	Akiva Goldsman
2000	Traffic	★★★☆☆☆☆	Stephen Gaghan
1999	The Cider House Rules	★☆☆☆	John Irving
1998	Gods and Monsters	★☆☆☆	Bill Condon
1997	L.A. Confidential	★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Curtis Hanson
1996	Sling Blade	★☆	Billy Bob Thornton
1995	Sense and Sensibility	★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Emma Thompson
1994	Forrest Gump	★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆	Eric Roth
1993	Schindler's List	★★★★★★★★☆☆☆	Steven Zaillian
1992	Howards End	★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1991	The Silence of the Lambs	★★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Ted Tally
1990	Dances With Wolves	★★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Michael Blake
1989	Driving Miss Daisy	★★★★☆☆	Alfred Uhry
1988	Dangerous Liaisons	★☆☆☆☆	Christopher Hampton
1987	The Last Emperor	★★★★★★★☆☆	Bernardo Bertolucci
1986	A Room with a View	★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1985	Out of Africa	★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Kurt Luedtke
1984	Amadeus	★★★★★★★★☆☆	Peter Shaffer
1983	Terms of Endearment	★★★★★★★☆☆	James L. Brooks
1982	Missing	★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Costa-Gavras
1981	On Golden Pond	★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Ernest Thompson
1980	Ordinary People	★★★★★★☆☆☆☆	Alvin Sargent
1979	Kramer vs. Kramer	★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Robert Benton
1978	Midnight Express	★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Oliver Stone
1977	Julia	★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Alvin Sargent
1976	All the President's Men	★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	William Goldman
1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	★★★★★★★★★★★★★★	Bo Goldman
1974	The Godfather Part II	★★★★☆☆☆☆	Francis Ford Coppola
1973	The Exorcist	★★★★☆☆☆☆	William Peter Blatty
1972	The Godfather	★★★★★★★☆☆	Francis Ford Coppola
1971	The French Connection	★★★★★★★★☆☆☆	Ernest Tidyman
1970	MASH	★☆☆	Ring Lardner Jr.
1969	Midnight Cowboy	★★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Waldo Salt
1968	The Lion in Winter	★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	James Goldman
1967	In the Heat of the Night	★★★★★★★☆☆	Stirling Silliphant
1966	A Man for All Seasons	★★★★★★★★★★	Robert Bolt
1965	Doctor Zhivago	★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Robert Bolt
1964	Becket	★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Edward Anhalt
1963	Tom Jones	★★★★☆☆☆☆	John Osborne
1962	To Kill a Mockingbird	★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Horton Foote
1961	Judgment at Nuremberg	★★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Abby Mann
1960	Elmer Gantry	★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Richard Brooks
1959	Room at the Top	★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆	Neil Paterson
1958	Gigi	★★★★	Alan Jay Lerner
1957	The Bridge on the River Kwai	★★★★★★★★★	Pierre Boulle
1956	Around the World in 80 Days	★★★☆☆	John Farrow
1955	Marty	★★★★★★★★☆	Paddy Chayefsky
1954	The Country Girl	★★★☆☆☆☆	George Seaton
1953	From Here to Eternity	★★★★☆☆☆	Daniel Taradash
1952	The Bad and the Beautiful	★☆☆	Charles Schnee
1951	A Place in the Sun	★★★☆☆☆☆☆	Harry Brown
1950	All About Eve	★★★★★☆☆☆☆	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1949	A Letter to Three Wives	★★☆	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1948	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	★★★★☆☆	John Huston
1947	Miracle on 34th Street	★★☆	George Seaton
1946	The Best Years of Our Lives	★★★★★	Robert E. Sherwood
1945	The Lost Weekend	★★★★★★★★	Charles Brackett
1944	Going My Way	★★★★★★	Frank Butler
1943	Casablanca	★★★☆	Philip G. Epstein
1942	Mrs. Miniver	★★★★☆	George Froeschel
1941	Here Comes Mr. Jordan	★☆☆☆	Sidney Buchman
1940	The Philadelphia Story	★★☆☆☆	Donald Ogden Stewart
1939	Gone with the Wind	★★★★☆	Sidney Howard
1938	Pygmalion	★☆☆☆	George Bernard Shaw
1937	The Life of Emile Zola	★★☆☆	Norman Reilly Raine
1936	The Story of Louis Pasteur	★★☆	Pierre Collings
1935	The Informer	★★★☆	Dudley Nichols
1934	It Happened One Night	★★★★★	Robert Riskin
1932	Little Women	★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	Victor Heerman
1931	Bad Girl	★★☆	Edwin J. Burke
1930	Cimarron	★★☆☆☆	Howard Estabrook
1929	The Big House	★☆☆	Frances Marion
1928	The Patriot	★☆☆☆	Hanns Kräly
1927	7th Heaven	★★★☆	Benjamin Glazer