Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
category of film award
The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is an annual award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is the award for the best screenplay that comes from other material like novels, plays, musicals and other movies.
Nominations and Awards
1970s
| Year | Film | Nominees | Source Material |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970(43rd) | M*A*S*H | Ring Lardner Jr. | The novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker |
| Airport | George Seaton | The novel by Arthur Hailey | |
| I Never Sang for My Father | 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 | Larry Kramer | The novel by D. H. Lawrence | |
| 1971(44th) | The French Connection | Ernest Tidyman | The book The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy by Robin Moore |
| A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick | The novel by Anthony Burgess | |
| The Conformist | Bernardo Bertolucci | The novel Il Conformista by Alberto Moravia | |
| The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | Vittorio Bonicelli & Ugo Pirro | The novel by Giorgio Bassani | |
| The Last Picture Show | Peter Bogdanovich & Larry McMurtry | The novel by McMurtry | |
| 1972(45th) | The Godfather | Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo | The novel by Puzo |
| Cabaret | Jay Presson Allen | The musical book by Joe Masteroff | |
| The Emigrants | Bengt Forslund & Jan Troell | The novels The Emigrants & Unto a Good Land by Vilhelm Moberg | |
| Pete 'n' Tillie | Julius J. Epstein | The story Witch's Milk by Peter De Vries | |
| Sounder | Lonne Elder III | The novel by William H. Armstrong | |
| 1973(46th) | The Exorcist | William Peter Blatty | The novel by Blatty |
| The Last Detail | Robert Towne | The novel by Darryl Ponicsan | |
| The Paper Chase | James Bridges | The novel by John Jay Osborn Jr. | |
| Paper Moon | Alvin Sargent | The novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown | |
| Serpico | Waldo Salt & Norman Wexler | The book by Peter Maas | |
| 1974(47th) | The Godfather Part II | Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo | The novel The Godfather by Puzo |
| The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | Screenplay: Mordecai Richler; Adaptation: Lionel Chetwynd | The novel by Richler | |
| Lenny | Julian Barry | The play by Barry | |
| Murder on the Orient Express | Paul Dehn | The novel by Agatha Christie | |
| Young Frankenstein | Mel Brooks & Gene Wilder | The novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley | |
| 1975(48th) | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Bo Goldman & Lawrence Hauben | The novel by Ken Kesey |
| Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick | The novel The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. by William Makepeace Thackeray | |
| The Man Who Would Be King | Gladys Hill & John Huston | The story by Rudyard Kipling | |
| Profumo di donna | Ruggero Maccari & Dino Risi | The novel Il buio e il mare by Giovanni Arpino | |
| The Sunshine Boys | Neil Simon | The play by Simon | |
| 1976(49th) | All the President's Men | William Goldman | The book by Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward |
| Bound for Glory | Robert Getchell | The book by Woody Guthrie | |
| Fellini's Casanova | Federico Fellini & Bernardino Zapponi | The autobiography Histoire de ma vie by Giacomo Casanova | |
| The Seven-Per-Cent Solution | Nicholas Meyer | The novel by Meyer | |
| Voyage of the Damned | David Butler & Steve Shagan | The book by Gordon Thomas & Max Morgan-Witts | |
| 1977(50th) | Julia | Alvin Sargent | The novel Pentimento by Lillian Hellman |
| Equus | Peter Shaffer | The play by Shaffer | |
| I Never Promised You a Rose Garden | Lewis John Carlino & Gavin Lambert | The novel by Joanne Greenberg | |
| 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 | |
| 1978(51st) | Midnight Express | Oliver Stone | The book by Billy Hayes & William Hoffer |
| Bloodbrothers | Walter Newman | The novel by Richard Price | |
| California Suite | Neil Simon | The play by Simon | |
| Heaven Can Wait | Warren Beatty & Elaine May | The play by Harry Segall | |
| Same Time, Next Year | Bernard Slade | The play by Slade | |
| 1979(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 | Marcello Danon, Édouard Molinaro, Jean Poiret & Francis Veber | The play by Poiret | |
| A Little Romance | Allan Burns | The novel E=MC2 Mon Amour by Patrick Cauvin | |
| Norma Rae | Harriet Frank Jr. & Irving Ravetch | The book Crystal Lee, a Woman of Inheritance by Hank Leiferman |
1980s
| Year | Film | Nominees | Source Material |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980(53rd) | Ordinary People | Alvin Sargent | The novel by Judith Guest |
| Breaker Morant | Bruce Beresford, Jonathan Hardy & David Stevens | The play by Kenneth G. Ross | |
| Coal Miner's Daughter | Thomas Rickman | The book by Loretta Lynn & George Vecsey | |
| The Elephant Man | Eric Bergren, Christopher De Vore & David Lynch | The books The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences by Sir Frederick Treves & The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity by Ashley Montagu | |
| The Stunt Man | Screenplay: Lawrence B. Marcus; Adaptation: Richard Rush | The novel by Paul Brodeur | |
| 1981(54th) | On Golden Pond | Ernest Thompson | The play by Thompson |
| The French Lieutenant's Woman | Harold Pinter | The novel by John Fowles | |
| Pennies from Heaven | Dennis Potter | The television miniseries written 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 | Michael Weller | The novel by E. L. Doctorow | |
| 1982(55th) | Missing | Costa-Gavras & Donald E. Stewart | The book The Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice by Thomas Hauser |
| Das Boot | Wolfgang Petersen | The novel by Lothar-Günther Buchheim | |
| Sophie's Choice | Alan J. Pakula | The novel by William Styron | |
| The Verdict | David Mamet | The novel by Barry Reed | |
| Victor/Victoria | Blake Edwards | The film Viktor und Viktoria by Reinhold Schünzel | |
| 1983(56th) | Terms of Endearment | James L. Brooks | The novel by Larry McMurtry |
| Betrayal | Harold Pinter | The play by Pinter | |
| The Dresser | Ronald Harwood | The play by Harwood | |
| Educating Rita | Willy Russell | The play by Russell | |
| Reuben, Reuben | Julius J. Epstein | The play Spofford by Herman Shumlin | |
| 1984(57th) | Amadeus | Peter Shaffer | The play by Shaffer |
| Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Michael Austin & Robert Towne[a] | The novel Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs | |
| The Killing Fields | Bruce Robinson | The article The Death and Life of Dith Pran by Sydney Schanberg | |
| A Passage to India | David Lean | The novel by E. M. Forster | |
| A Soldier's Story | Charles Fuller | The play A Soldier's Play by Fuller | |
| 1985(58th) | Out of Africa | Kurt Luedtke | The memoir by Karen Blixen & books Silence Will Speak by Errol Trzebinski & Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller by Judith Thurman |
| The Color Purple | Menno Meyjes | The novel by Alice Walker | |
| Kiss of the Spider Woman | Leonard Schrader | The novel by Manuel Puig | |
| Prizzi's Honor | Richard Condon & Janet Roach | The novel by Condon | |
| The Trip to Bountiful | Horton Foote | The play & teleplay by Foote | |
| 1986(59th) | A Room with a View | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | The novel by E. M. Forster |
| Children of a Lesser God | Hesper Anderson & Mark Medoff | The play by Medoff | |
| The Color of Money | Richard Price | The novel by Walter Tevis | |
| Crimes of the Heart | Beth Henley | The play by Henley | |
| Stand by Me | Bruce A. Evans & Raynold Gideon | The novella The Body by Stephen King | |
| 1987(60th) | The Last Emperor | Bernardo Bertolucci & Mark Peploe | The autobiography From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi by Puyi |
| The Dead | Tony Huston | The short story by James Joyce | |
| Fatal Attraction | James Dearden | The teleplay 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 | |
| 1988(61st) | Dangerous Liaisons | Christopher Hampton | The play Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Hampton & novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos |
| The Accidental Tourist | Frank Galati & Lawrence Kasdan | The novel by Anne Tyler | |
| Gorillas in the Mist | Screenplay: Anna Hamilton Phelan; Story: Tab Murphy & Phelon | An article by Harold Hayes | |
| Little Dorrit | Christine Edzard | The novel by Charles Dickens | |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Jean-Claude Carrière & Philip Kaufman | The novel by Milan Kundera | |
| 1989(62nd) | Driving Miss Daisy | Alfred Uhry | The play by Uhry |
| Born on the Fourth of July | Ron Kovic & Oliver Stone | The book by Kovic | |
| Enemies, A Love Story | Paul Mazursky & Roger L. Simon | The novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer | |
| Field of Dreams | Phil Alden Robinson | The novel Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella | |
| My Left Foot | Shane Connaughton & Jim Sheridan | The book by Christy Brown |
1990s
| Year | Film | Nominees | Source Material |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990(63rd) | Dances with Wolves | Michael Blake | The novel by Blake |
| Awakenings | Steven Zaillian | The book by Oliver Sacks | |
| Goodfellas | Nicholas Pileggi & Martin Scorsese | The book Wiseguy by Pileggi | |
| The Grifters | Donald E. Westlake | The novel by Jim Thompson | |
| Reversal of Fortune | Nicholas Kazan | The book Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow Case by Alan Dershowitz | |
| 1991(64th) | The Silence of the Lambs | Ted Tally | The novel by Thomas Harris |
| Europa Europa | Agnieszka Holland | The book I Was Hitler Youth Salomon by Solomon Perel | |
| Fried Green Tomatoes | Fannie Flagg & Carol Sobieski (p.n.) | The novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Flagg | |
| JFK | Zachary Sklar & Oliver Stone | The books Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy by Jim Marrs & On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison | |
| The Prince of Tides | Pat Conroy & Becky Johnston | The novel by Conroy | |
| 1992(65th) | Howards End | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | The novel by E. M. Forster |
| Enchanted April | Peter Barnes | The novel The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim | |
| The Player | Michael Tolkin | The novel by Tolkin | |
| A River Runs Through It | Richard Friedenberg | The short story by Norman Maclean | |
| Scent of a Woman | Bo Goldman | The novel Il Buio E Il Miele by Giovanni Arpino & film Profumo di Donna by Ruggero Maccari & Dino Risi | |
| 1993(66th) | Schindler's List | Steven Zaillian | The novel Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally |
| The Age of Innocence | Jay Cocks & Martin Scorsese | The novel by Edith Wharton | |
| In the Name of the Father | Terry George & Jim Sheridan | The book Proved Innocent by Gerry Conlon | |
| The Remains of the Day | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | The novel by Kazuo Ishiguro | |
| Shadowlands | William Nicholson | The play & teleplay by Nicholson | |
| 1994(67th) | Forrest Gump | Eric Roth | The novel by Winston Groom |
| The Madness of King George | Alan Bennett | The play The Madness of George III by Bennett | |
| Nobody's Fool | Robert Benton | The novel by Richard Russo | |
| Quiz Show | Paul Attanasio | The book Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties by Richard N. Goodwin | |
| The Shawshank Redemption | Frank Darabont | The short story Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King | |
| 1995(68th) | Sense and Sensibility | Emma Thompson | The novel by Jane Austen |
| Apollo 13 | William Broyles Jr. & Al Reinert | The book Lost Moon by Jeffrey Kluger & Jim Lovell | |
| Babe | George Miller & Chris Noonan | The novel The Sheep-Pig by Dick King-Smith | |
| Leaving Las Vegas | Mike Figgis | The novel by John O'Brien | |
| Il Postino: The Postman | Screenplay: Anna Pavignano, Michael Radford, Furio & Giacomo Scarpelli & Massimo Troisi (p.n.); Story: F. & G. Scarpelli | The novel Ardiente Paciencia by Antonio Skármeta | |
| 1996(69th) | Sling Blade | Billy Bob Thornton | The short film Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade written by Thornton |
| The Crucible | Arthur Miller | The play by Miller | |
| The English Patient | Anthony Minghella | The novel by Michael Ondaatje | |
| Hamlet | Kenneth Branagh | The play by William Shakespeare | |
| Trainspotting | John Hodge | The novel by Irvine Welsh | |
| 1997(70th) | L.A. Confidential | Curtis Hanson & Brian Helgeland | The novel by James Ellroy |
| Donnie Brasco | Paul Attanasio | The book Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia by Joseph D. Pistone & Richard Woodley | |
| The Sweet Hereafter | Atom Egoyan | The novel by Russell Banks | |
| Wag the Dog | Hilary Henkin & David Mamet | The novel American Hero by Larry Beinhart | |
| The Wings of the Dove | Hossein Amini | The novel The Wings of the Dove by Henry James | |
| 1998(71st) | Gods and Monsters | Bill Condon | The novel Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram |
| Out of Sight | Scott Frank | The novel by Elmore Leonard | |
| Primary Colors | Elaine May | The novel by Joe Klein | |
| A Simple Plan | Scott Smith | The novel by Smith | |
| The Thin Red Line | Terrence Malick | The novel by James Jones | |
| 1999(72nd) | The Cider House Rules | John Irving | The novel by Irving |
| Election | Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor | The novel by Tom Perrotta | |
| The Green Mile | Frank Darabont | The novel by Stephen King | |
| The Insider | Michael Mann & Eric Roth | The article The Man Who Knew Too Much by Marie Brenner | |
| The Talented Mr. Ripley | Anthony Minghella | The novel by Patricia Highsmith |
2000s
| Year | Film | Nominees | Source Material |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000(73rd) | Traffic | Stephen Gaghan | The teleplay Traffik by Simon Moore |
| Chocolat | Robert Nelson Jacobs | The novel by Joanne Harris | |
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Wang Hui-ling, James Schamus & Kuo Jung Tsai | The novel by Wang Dulu | |
| O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Joel and Ethan Coen | The epic poem The Odyssey by Homer | |
| Wonder Boys | Steve Kloves | The book by Michael Chabon | |
| 2001(74th) | A Beautiful Mind | Akiva Goldsman | The book by Sylvia Nasar |
| Ghost World | Daniel Clowes & Terry Zwigoff | The graphic novel by Clowes | |
| In the Bedroom | Rob Festinger & Todd Field | The 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, Roger S. H. Schulman, Joe Stillman & Terry Rossio | The book by William Steig | |
| 2002(75th) | The Pianist | Ronald Harwood | The memoir by Władysław Szpilman |
| About a Boy | Peter Hedges, Chris & Paul Weitz | The novel by Nick Hornby | |
| Adaptation | Charlie & Donald Kaufman [b] | The book The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean | |
| Chicago | Bill Condon | The musical by Fred Ebb & Bob Fosse | |
| The Hours | David Hare | The novel by Michael Cunningham | |
| 2003(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 | Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini | The comic by Harvey Pekar & Our Cancer Year by Pekar & Joyce Brabner | |
| City of God | Bráulio Mantovani | The novel by Paulo Lins | |
| Mystic River | Brian Helgeland | The novel by Dennis Lehane | |
| Seabiscuit | Gary Ross | The book Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand | |
| 2004(77th) | Sideways | Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor | 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 | David Magee | The play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee | |
| Million Dollar Baby | Paul Haggis | The book Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner by F.X. Toole | |
| The Motorcycle Diaries | José Rivera | The books Con el Che por America Latina by Alberto Granado & The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara | |
| 2005(78th) | Brokeback Mountain | Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana | The short story by Annie Proulx |
| Capote | Dan Futterman | The book by Gerald Clarke | |
| The Constant Gardener | Jeffrey Caine | The novel by John le Carré | |
| A History of Violence | Josh Olson | The graphic novel by Vince Locke & John Wagner | |
| Munich | Tony Kushner & Eric Roth | The book Vengeance by George Jonas | |
| 2006(79th) | The Departed | William Monahan | The film Infernal Affairs written by Felix Chong & Alan Mak |
| Borat | Screenplay: Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham, Anthony Hines & 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 | David Arata, Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby & Timothy J. Sexton | The novel by P. D. James | |
| Little Children | Todd Field & Tom Perrotta | The novel by Perrotta | |
| Notes on a Scandal | Patrick Marber | The novel by Zoë Heller | |
| 2007(80th) | No Country for Old Men | Coen Brothers | The novel by Cormac McCarthy |
| Atonement | Christopher Hampton | The novel by Ian McEwan | |
| Away from Her | Sarah Polley | The short story "The Bear Went Over the Mountain" by Alice Munro | |
| The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Ronald Harwood | The book by Jean-Dominique Bauby | |
| There Will Be Blood | Paul Thomas Anderson | The novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair | |
| 2008(81st) | Slumdog Millionaire | Simon Beaufoy | The novel Q & A by Vikas Swarup |
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Screenplay: Eric Roth; Story: Roth & Robin Swicord | The short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| Doubt | John Patrick Shanley | The play Doubt: A Parable by Shanley | |
| Frost/Nixon | Peter Morgan | The play by Morgan | |
| The Reader | David Hare | The novel by Bernhard Schlink | |
| 2009(82nd) | Precious | Geoffrey S. Fletcher | The novel Push by Sapphire |
| District 9 | Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell | The short film Alive in Joburg written by Blomkamp | |
| An Education | Nick Hornby | The book by Lynn Barber | |
| In the Loop | Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche | The character Malcolm Tucker, from the television series The Thick of It by Iannucci | |
| Up in the Air | Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner | The novel by Walter Kirn |
2010s
| Year | Film | Nominees | Source Material |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010(83rd) | The Social Network | Aaron Sorkin | The book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich |
| 127 Hours | Simon Beaufoy & Danny Boyle | The book Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston | |
| Toy Story 3 | Screenplay: Michael Arndt; Story: John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich | The Toy Story films by Pete Docter, Lasseter, Stanton, et al. | |
| True Grit | Coen Brothers | The novel by Charles Portis | |
| Winter's Bone | Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini | The novel by Daniel Woodrell | |
| 2011(84th) | The Descendants | Nat Faxon, Alexander Payne & Jim Rash | The novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings |
| Hugo | John Logan | The novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick | |
| The Ides of March | George Clooney, Grant Heslov & Beau Willimon | The play Farragut North by Willimon | |
| Moneyball | Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin & Steven Zaillian; Story: Stan Chervin | The book by Michael Lewis | |
| Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Bridget O'Connor (p.n.) & Peter Straughan | The novel by John le Carré | |
| 2012(85th) | Argo | Chris Terrio | The book The Master of Disguise by Tony Mendez & article The Great Escape by Joshuah Bearman |
| Beasts of the Southern Wild | Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin | The play Juicy and Delicious by Alibar | |
| Life of Pi | David Magee | The novel by Yann Martel | |
| Lincoln | Tony Kushner | The book Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin | |
| Silver Linings Playbook | David O. Russell | The novel by Matthew Quick | |
| 2013(86th) | 12 Years a Slave | John Ridley | The memoir by Solomon Northup |
| Before Midnight | Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke & Richard Linklater | Characters from the film Before Sunrise by Kim Krizan & Linklater | |
| Captain Phillips | Billy Ray | The book A Captain's Duty by Richard Phillips & Stephan Talty | |
| Philomena | Steve Coogan & Jeff Pope | The book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee by Martin Sixsmith | |
| The Wolf of Wall Street | Terence Winter | The memoir by Jordan Belfort | |
| 2014(87th) | The Imitation Game | Graham Moore | The book Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges |
| American Sniper | Jason Hall | The autobiography by Jim DeFelice, Chris Kyle & Scott McEwan | |
| Inherent Vice | Paul Thomas Anderson | The novel by Thomas Pynchon | |
| The Theory of Everything | Anthony McCarten | The book Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen Hawking by Jane Hawking | |
| Whiplash | Damien Chazelle | The short film by Chazelle | |
| 2015(88th) | The Big Short | Adam McKay & Charles Randolph | The book by Michael Lewis |
| Brooklyn | Nick Hornby | The novel by Colm Tóibín | |
| Carol | Phyllis Nagy | The novel The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith | |
| The Martian | Drew Goddard | The novel by Andy Weir | |
| Room | Emma Donoghue | The novel by Donoghue | |
| 2016(89th) | Moonlight | Screenplay: Barry Jenkins; Story: Tarell Alvin McCraney | The play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by McCraney |
| Arrival | Eric Heisserer | The short story Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang | |
| Fences | August Wilson (p.n.) | The play by Wilson | |
| Hidden Figures | Theodore Melfi & Allison Schroeder | The book by Margot Lee Shetterly | |
| Lion | Luke Davies | The memoir A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley & Larry Buttrose | |
| 2017(90th) | Call Me by Your Name | James Ivory | The novel by André Aciman |
| The Disaster Artist | Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber | The book by Greg Sestero & Tom Bissell | |
| Logan | Screenplay: Scott Frank, Michael Green & James Mangold; Story: Mangold | The Wolverine comics by John Romita Sr. & Len Wein | |
| Molly's Game | Aaron Sorkin | The memoir by Molly Bloom | |
| Mudbound | Dee Rees & Virgil Williams | The novel by Hillary Jordan | |
| 2018(91st) | BlacKkKlansman | Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel & Kevin Willmott | The memoir Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth |
| The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | 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 | Barry Jenkins | The novel by James Baldwin | |
| A Star Is Born | Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters & Eric Roth | The 1954 film by Moss Hart, 1976 film by Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne & Frank Pierson & story by Robert Carson & William A. Wellman | |
| 2019(92nd) | Jojo Rabbit | Taika Waititi | The novel Caging Skies by Christine Leunens |
| The Irishman | Steven Zaillian | The book I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt | |
| Joker | Todd Phillips & Scott Silver | Comic book characters by Bill Finger, Bob Kane & Jerry Robinson | |
| Little Women | Greta Gerwig | The novel by Louisa May Alcott | |
| The Two Popes | Anthony McCarten | The play The Pope by McCarten |
2020s
| Year | Film | Nominees | Source Material |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020/21(93rd) | The Father | Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller | The play Le Père by Zeller |
| Borat Subsequent Moviefilm | Screenplay: Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham, Jena Friedman, Anthony Hines, Lee Kern, Dan Mazer, Erica Rivinoja & Dan Swimer; Story: Baron Cohen, Hines, Nina Pedrad & Swimer | The character by Baron Cohen | |
| Nomadland | Chloé Zhao | The book by Jessica Bruder | |
| One Night in Miami... | Kemp Powers | The play by Powers | |
| The White Tiger | Ramin Bahrani | The novel by Arvind Adiga | |
| 2021(94th) | CODA | Sian Heder | The film La Famille Bélier by Victoria Bedos, Thomas Bidegain, Stanislas Carré de Malberg & Éric Lartigau |
| Drive My Car | Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe | The short story by Haruki Murakami | |
| Dune | Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts & Denis Villeneuve | The novel by Frank Herbert | |
| The Lost Daughter | Maggie Gyllenhaal | The novel by Elena Ferrante | |
| The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion | The novel by Thomas Savage |
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