Talk:Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

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If anyone objects to adding in the "source" and author thereof for each winning screenplay, speak now or forever hold your peace. 209.149.235.254 22:29, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)

No objection at all. I did some but got distracted onto other things, and never got back to finish it. Good luck! Eclecticology 00:58, 2004 Mar 23 (UTC)

Borat.

Maybe to clear up Borat since it's based on a character(if I have the details right) —Preceding unsigned comment added by LadySatine (talk • contribs) 2007-01-26t01:51:32z

Table?

Year	Won	Film	Screenplay by	Source
2005	78th	Brokeback Mountain	Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana	Brokeback Mountain, a short story by E. Annie Proulx
2005		A History of Violence	Josh Olson	A History of Violence, a graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke
2005		Capote	Dan Futterman	Capote, a biography by Gerald Clarke
2005		The Constant Gardener	Jeffrey Caine	The Constant Gardener, a novel by John le Carré
2005		Munich	Tony Kushner and Eric Roth	Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team, a book by George Jonas
2006	79th	The Departed	William Monahan	Infernal Affairs, a Hong Kong film by Felix Chong and Alan Mak.
2006		Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan	Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham, Anthony Hines, Dan Mazer, and Todd Phillips	Da Ali G Show TV series.
2006		Children of Men	Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus, and Hawk Ostby	The Children of Men, a novel by P. D. James.
2006		Little Children	Todd Field and Tom Perrotta	Little Children, a novel by Tom Perrotta
2006		Notes on a Scandal	Patrick Marber	Notes on a Scandal, a novel by Zoë Heller.

Like List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film? -- Jeandré, 2007-12-29t10:04z

Suggestion

The books Crossfire: the Plot that Killed Kennedy & On the Trail of the Assassins are NOT novels but non-fiction books and should be listed as such. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.10.92.186 (talk) 01:02, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

what is the award really for?

The article doesn't address how this award is supposed to be judged. Is it intended to reward the film that is best-written (from among the nominees)? Or, is it intended to reward the screenwriter who was the most talented at adapting the film? So for example, let's say there's a movie that everyone recognizes as having the most ingenious plotting and dialogue of any movie ever made, but the movie was adapted from a play without changing very much, the play was already so good that the screenwriter hardly did any work, but then there's another nominee in the category where the movie is based on a great novel that everybody always believed to be unfilmable but then the screenwriter found a way to adapt it into a great movie such that the process of adaptation was clearly ingenious although the final script judged by itself as a script was merely great, not excellent. Mathew5000 (talk) 03:00, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

• The Academy rules don't include any guidelines about what they have in mind in those respects. It is up to the voters to decide what they are looking for in an adapted screenplay. It's probably relevant to your question that they nominated the Kenneth Branagh adaptation of Hamlet, for which he used the full text of the play -- but it wasn't as absurd as it sounds. I've seen the published Branagh screenplay, and he wrote new stage directions for practically every line of the play. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 17:54, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: moved. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:39, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

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Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) → Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay – This is the actual title of the award. The current title is not official and makes no sense. JDDJS (talk) 05:27, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

• Support moving as proposed. - WPGA2345 - ☛ 01:12, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
• Support while we don't need to use WP:OFFICIALNAMES I think it makes sense here since the current title does not in fact make sense.--67.70.140.89 (talk) 19:19, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
• Support avoid disambiguation in parenthesis per WP:NATURALDIS

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Merge proposal

This article is tagged for merging with Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, but there doesn't appear to be any proposal outlining the rationale on either talk page. What would be the benefit of arbitrarily lumping together two separate awards, both of which already have very long articles? Ribbet32 (talk) 01:40, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

The 3rd and 21st Academy Awards

It seems that there were two years when original and adapted screenplays were lumped under the same award: 1929/30 (the 3rd awards) and 1948 (the 21st awards). An original screenplay won in 1929/30, and an adapted screenplay won in 1948. As it stands, we're not treating the two anomaly years in the same way, and I think we should. The 1929/30 award is listed on the Adapted Screenplay page (even though the winner was not adapted); it does not appear on the Original Screenplay page at all. By contrast, the 1948 award appears (without a note) on the Adapted Screenplay page and appears with an N/A nominee list on the Original Screenplay page.

My hunch is that the two anomaly years should appear in full on both pages, but the winner should be marked with a special diacritic (separate from the normal ‡) which indicates "winner of an award with both original and adapted screenplays as nominees." Thoughts? Johanna^{(talk to me!)} 02:34, 11 January 2024 (UTC)