Nominees and winners (bold font) of the Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay:

• 2007
  • Atonement - Christopher Hampton
  • Away from Her - Sarah Polley
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Ronald Harwood
  • No Country for Old Men - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
  • There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson
• 2006
  • Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham, Dan Mazer
  • Children of Men - Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby]
  • The Departed - William Monahan
  • Little Children - Todd Field, Tom Perrotta
  • Notes on a Scandal - Patrick Marber
• 2005
  • Brokeback Mountain - Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana
  • Capote - Dan Futterman
  • The Constant Gardener - Jeffrey Caine
  • A History of Violence - Josh Olson
  • Munich - Tony Kushner, Eric Roth
• 2004
  • Before Sunset - Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater, Kim Krizan
  • Finding Neverland - David Magee
  • Million Dollar Baby - Paul Haggis
  • The Motorcycle Diaries - José Rivera
  • Sideways - Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
• 2003
  • American Splendor - Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman
  • City of God - Braulio Mantovani
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson
  • Mystic River - Brian Helgeland
  • Seabiscuit - Gary Ross
• 2002
  • About a Boy - Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz
  • Adaptation - Charlie Kaufman, Donald Kaufman
  • Chicago - Bill Condon
  • The Hours - David Hare
  • The Pianist - Ronald Harwood
• 2001
  • A Beautiful Mind - Akiva Goldsman
  • Ghost World - Daniel Clowes, Terry Zwigoff
  • In the Bedroom - Rob Festinger, Todd Field
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson
  • Shrek - Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman, Roger S.H. Schulman
• 2000
  • Chocolat - Robert Nelson Jacobs
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Wang Hui Ling, James Schamus,Tsai Kuo Jung
  • O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
  • Traffic - Stephen Gaghan
  • Wonder Boys - Steve Kloves
• 1999
  • The Cider House Rules - John Irving
  • Election - Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
  • The Green Mile - Frank Darabont
  • The Insider - Eric Roth, Michael Mann
  • The Talented Mr. Ripley - Anthony Minghella
• 1998
  • Gods and Monsters - Bill Condon
  • Out of Sight - Scott Frank
  • Primary Colors - Elaine May
  • A Simple Plan - Scott B. Smith
  • The Thin Red Line - Terrence Malick
• 1997
  • Donnie Brasco - Paul Attanasio
  • L.A. Confidential - Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson
  • The Sweet Hereafter - Atom Egoyan
  • Wag the Dog - Hilary Henkin, David Mamet
  • The Wings of the Dove - Hossein Amini
• 1996
  • The Crucible - Arthur Miller (writer)
  • The English Patient - Anthony Minghella
  • Hamlet (1996) - Kenneth Branagh
  • Sling Blade - Billy Bob Thornton
  • Trainspotting - John Hodge
• 1995
  • Apollo 13 - William Broyles, Jr., Al Reinert
  • Babe - George Miller, Chris Noonan
  • Leaving Las Vegas - Mike Figgis
  • The Postman (Il Postino) - Anna Pavignano, Michael Radford, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli, Massimo Troisi
  • Sense and Sensibility - Emma Thompson
• 1994
  • Forrest Gump - Eric Roth
  • The Madness of King George - Alan Bennett
  • Nobody's Fool - Robert Benton
  • Quiz Show - Paul Attanasio
  • The Shawshank Redemption - Frank Darabont
• 1993
  • The Age of Innocence - Jay Cocks, Martin Scorsese
  • In the Name of the Father - Terry George, Jim Sheridan
  • The Remains of the Day - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  • Schindler's List - Steven Zaillian
  • Shadowlands - William Nicholson
• 1992
  • Enchanted April - Peter Barnes
  • Howards End - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  • The Player - Michael Tolkin
  • A River Runs Through It - Richard Friedenberg
  • Scent of a Woman (1992) - Bo Goldman
• 1991
  • Europa Europa - Agnieszka Holland
  • Fried Green Tomatoes - Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski
  • JFK - Oliver Stone, Zachary Sklar
  • The Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy, Becky Johnston
  • The Silence of the Lambs - Ted Tally
• 1990
  • Awakenings - Steven Zaillian
  • Dances With Wolves - Michael Blake
  • Good Fellas - Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese
  • The Grifters - Donald E. Westlake
  • Reversal of Fortune - Nicholas Kazan
• 1989
  • Born on the Fourth of July - Oliver Stone, Ron Kovic
  • Driving Miss Daisy - Alfred Uhry
  • Enemies, A Love Story - Roger L. Simon, Paul Mazursky
  • Field of Dreams - Phil Alden Robinson
  • My Left Foot - Jim Sheridan, Shane Connaughton
• 1988
  • The Accidental Tourist - Frank Galati, Lawrence Kasdan
  • Dangerous Liaisons - Christopher Hampton
  • Gorillas in the Mist - Anna Hamilton Phelan, Tab Murphy
  • Little Dorrit - Christine Edzard
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Jean-Claude Carrière, Philip Kaufman
• 1987
  • The Dead - Tony Huston
  • Fatal Attraction - James Dearden
  • Full Metal Jacket - Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford
  • The Last Emperor - Mark Peploe, Bernardo Bertolucci
  • My Life As a Dog - Lasse Hallstrm, Reidar Jnsson, Brasse Brännstrm, Per Berglund
• 1986
  • Children of a Lesser God - Hesper Anderson, Mark Medoff
  • The Color of Money - Richard Price
  • Crimes of the Heart - Beth Henley
  • A Room with a View - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  • Stand By Me - Raynold Gideon, Bruce A. Evans
• 1985
  • The Color Purple - Menno Meyjes
  • Kiss of the Spider Woman - Leonard Schrader
  • Out of Africa - Kurt Luedtke
  • Prizzi's Honor - Richard Condon, Janet Roach
  • The Trip to Bountiful - Horton Foote
• 1984
  • Amadeus - Peter Shaffer
  • Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes - P.H. Vazak (a pseudonym of Robert Towne), Michael Austin
  • The Killing Fields - Bruce Robinson
  • A Passage to India - David Lean
  • A Soldier's Story - Charles Fuller
• 1983
  • Betrayal - Harold Pinter
  • The Dresser - Ronald Harwood
  • Educating Rita - Willy Russell
  • Reuben, Reuben - Julius J. Epstein
  • Terms of Endearment - James L. Brooks
• 1982
  • Das Boot - Wolfgang Petersen
  • Missing - Costa-Gavras, Donald Stewart
  • Sophie's Choice - Alan J. Pakula
  • The Verdict - David Mamet
  • Victor/Victoria - Blake Edwards
• 1981
  • The French Lieutenant's Woman - Harold Pinter
  • On Golden Pond - Ernest Thompson
  • Pennies from Heaven (1981) - Dennis Potter
  • Prince of the City - Jay Presson Allen, Sidney Lumet
  • Ragtime - Michael Weller
• 1980
  • Breaker Morant - Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens, Bruce Beresford
  • Coal Miner's Daughter - Tom Rickman
  • The Elephant Man - Christopher DeVore, Eric Bergren, David Lynch
  • Ordinary People - Alvin Sargent
  • The Stunt Man - Lawrence B. Marcus, Richard Rush
• 1979
  • Apocalypse Now - John Milius, Francis Coppola
  • La Cage aux Folles - Francis Veber, Edouard Molinaro, Marcello Danon, Jean Poiret
  • Kramer vs. Kramer - Robert Benton
  • A Little Romance - Allan Burns
  • Norma Rae - Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank, Jr.
• 1978
  • Bloodbrothers - Walter Newman
  • California Suite - Neil Simon
  • Heaven Can Wait (1978) - Elaine May, Warren Beatty
  • Midnight Express - Oliver Stone
  • Same Time, Next Year - Bernard Slade
• 1977
  • Equus - Peter Shaffer
  • I Never Promised You a Rose Garden - Gavin Lambert, Lewis John Carlino
  • Julia - Alvin Sargent
  • Oh, God! - Larry Gelbart
  • That Obscure Object of Desire - Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière
• 1976
  • All the President's Men - William Goldman
  • Bound for Glory - Robert Getchell
  • Fellini's Casanova - Federico Fellini, Bernadino Zapponi
  • The Seven-per-cent Solution - Nicholas Meyer
  • Voyage of the Damned - Steve Shagan, David Butler
• 1975
  • Barry Lyndon - Stanley Kubrick
  • The Man Who Would Be King - John Huston, Gladys Hill
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman
  • Scent of a Woman (1975) - Ruggero Maccari, Dino Risi
  • The Sunshine Boys - Neil Simon
• 1974
  • The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Mordecai Richler, Lionel Chetwynd
  • The Godfather Part II - Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo
  • Lenny - Julian Barry
  • Murder on the Orient Express - Paul Dehn
  • Young Frankenstein - Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks
• 1973
  • The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
  • The Last Detail - Robert Towne
  • The Paper Chase - James Bridges
  • Paper Moon - Alvin Sargent
  • Serpico - Waldo Salt, Norman Wexler
• 1972
  • Cabaret - Jay Allen
  • The Emigrants - Jan Troell, Bengt Forslund
  • The Godfather - Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola
  • Pete 'n' Tillie - Julius J. Epstein
  • Sounder - Lonne Elder, III
• 1971
  • A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick
  • The Conformist - Bernardo Bertolucci
  • The French Connection - Ernest Tidyman
  • The Garden of the Finzi Continis - Ugo Pirro, Vittorio Bonicelli
  • The Last Picture Show - Larry McMurtry, Peter Bogdanovich
• 1970
  • Airport - George Seaton
  • I Never Sang for My Father - Robert Anderson
  • Lovers and Other Strangers - Renee Taylor, Joseph Bologna, David Zelag Goodman
  • M*A*S*H - Ring Lardner, Jr.
  • Women in Love - Larry Kramer
• 1969
  • Anne of the Thousand Days - John Hale, Bridget Boland, Richard Sokolove
  • Goodbye, Columbus - Arnold Schulman
  • Midnight Cowboy - Waldo Salt
  • They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - James Poe, Robert E. Thompson
  • Z - Jorge Semprun, Costa-Gavras
• 1968
  • The Lion in Winter - James Goldman
  • The Odd Couple - Neil Simon
  • Oliver! - Vernon Harris
  • Rachel, Rachel - Stewart Stern
  • Rosemary's Baby - Roman Polanski
• 1967
  • Cool Hand Luke - Donn Pearce, Frank R. Pierson
  • The Graduate - Calder Willingham, Buck Henry
  • In Cold Blood - Richard Brooks
  • In the Heat of the Night - Stirling Silliphant
  • Ulysses - Joseph Strick, Fred Haines
• 1966
  • Alfie - Bill Naughton
  • A Man for All Seasons - Robert Bolt
  • The Professionals - Richard Brooks
  • The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming - William Rose
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Ernest Lehman
• 1965
  • Cat Ballou - Walter Newman, Frank R. Pierson
  • The Collector - Stanley Mann, John Kohn
  • Doctor Zhivago - Robert Bolt
  • Ship of Fools - Abby Mann
  • A Thousand Clowns - Herb Gardner
• 1964
  • Becket - Edward Anhalt
  • Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Stanley Kubrick, Peter George, Terry Southern
  • Mary Poppins - Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi
  • My Fair Lady - Alan Jay Lerner
  • Zorba the Greek - Michael Cacoyannis
• 1963
  • Captain Newman, M.D. - Richard L. Breen, Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron
  • Hud - Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank, Jr.
  • Lilies of the Field - James Poe
  • Sundays and Cybele - Serge Bourguignon, Antoine Tudal
  • Tom Jones - John Osborne
• 1962
  • David and Lisa - Eleanor Perry
  • Lawrence of Arabia - Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson
  • Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Miracle Worker - William Gibson
  • To Kill a Mockingbird - Horton Foote
• 1961
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's - George Axelrod
  • The Guns of Navarone - Carl Foreman
  • The Hustler - Sidney Carroll, Robert Rossen
  • Judgment at Nuremberg - Abby Mann
  • West Side Story - Ernest Lehman
• 1960
  • Elmer Gantry - Richard Brooks
  • Inherit the Wind - Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith
  • Sons and Lovers - Gavin Lambert, T. E. B. Clarke
  • The Sundowners - Isobel Lennart
  • Tunes of Glory - James Kennaway
• 1959
  • Anatomy of a Murder - Wendell Mayes
  • Ben-Hur - Karl Tunberg
  • The Nun's Story - Robert Anderson
  • Room at the Top - Neil Paterson
  • Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond
• 1958
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Richard Brooks, James Poe
  • Gigi - Alan Jay Lerner
  • The Horse's Mouth - Alec Guinness
  • I Want To Live! - Nelson Gidding, Don Mankiewicz
  • Separate Tables - Terence Rattigan, John Gay
• 1957
  • 12 Angry Men - Reginald Rose
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai - Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman, Pierre Boulle
  • Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison - John Lee Mahin, John Huston
  • Peyton Place - John Michael Hayes
  • Sayonara - Paul Osborn
• 1956
  • Around the World in 80 Days - James Poe, John Farrow, S.J. Perelman
  • Baby Doll - Tennessee Williams
  • Friendly Persuasion - Michael Wilson
  • Giant - Fred Guiol, Ivan Moffat
  • Lust for Life - Norman Corwin
• 1934
  • It Happened One Night - Robert Riskin
  • The Thin Man - Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett
  • Viva Villa! - Ben Hecht
• 1932/1933
  • Lady for a Day - Robert Riskin
  • Little Women (1932/33) - Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason
  • State Fair (1932/33) - Paul Green, Sonya Levien
• 1931/1932
  • Arrowsmith - Sidney Howard
  • Bad Girl - Edwin Burke
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931/32) - Percy Heath, Samuel Hoffenstein
• 1930/1931
  • Cimarron (1930/31) - Howard Estabrook
  • The Criminal Code - Seton I. Miller, Fred Niblo, Jr.
  • Holiday (1930/31) - Horace Jackson
  • Little Caesar - Francis Faragoh, Robert N. Lee
  • Skippy - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Sam Mintz
• 1927/1928
  • 7th Heaven - Benjamin Glazer
  • Glorious Betsy - Anthony Coldeway
  • The Jazz Singer (1927/28) - Alfred Cohn