César / Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner and nominee of the French César film award in the category Best Adapted Screenplay ( Meilleure adaptation , formerly Meilleur scénario adaptation ). The first winners in this category (then the official name Meilleure adaptation et dialogue ) were chosen in the years 1983 to 1985, before it was reintroduced under a different name from the award ceremony in 2006. In the years 1976 to 1982 and 1986 to 2005, adapted scripts (film scripts based on another work such as a novel, a short story or another film) and original film scripts were awarded in the Best Screenplay category.
The films listed below are given with their German distribution title (if they can be determined), followed by the original French title in brackets in italics. The French original title is not mentioned if the German and French film titles are identical. The winners are highlighted first.
1980s
1983
Jean Aurenche , Michel Grisolia and Pierre Granier-Deferre - Star of the North (L'étoile du nord)
- Jean-Claude Carrière - Danton
- Pascal Jardin and Daniel Schmid - words usually come too late (Hécate)
- Alain Decaux and Robert Hossein - The Legion of the Damned (Les misérables)
1984
Sébastien Japrisot - A murderous summer (L'été meurtrier)
- Claude Berri - On the Edge of Night (Tchao pantin)
- Robert Enrico - The Cry for Life (Au nom de tous les miens)
1985
Bertrand Tavernier and Colo Tavernier - A Sunday in the Country (Un dimanche à la campagne)
- Françoise Giroud and Francis Girod - Le bon plaisir - A political love affair (Le bon plaisir)
- Dominique Garnier and Andrzej Żuławski - The public woman (La femme publique)
2000s
Jacques Audiard and Tonino Benacquista - The wild beat of my heart (De battre mon cœur sest arrêté)
- Patrice Chéreau and Anne-Louise Trividic - Gabrielle - Love of my Life (Gabrielle)
- Costa-Gavras and Jean-Claude Grumberg - The Ax (Le couperet)
- Anne Fontaine and Julien Boivent - Entre ses mains
- Gilles Taurand and Georges-Marc Benamou - Last days at the Elysée (Le promeneur du Champ de Mars)
Pascale Ferran , Roger Bohbot and Pierre Trividic - Lady Chatterley
- Guillaume Canet and Philippe Lefebvre - No mortal word (Ne le dis à personne)
- Jean-François Halin and Michel Hazanavicius - OSS 117 - The Spy Who Loved Each Other (OSS 117 - Le Caire nid d'espions)
- Philippe Lioret and Olivier Adam - Don't worry, I'm fine (Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas)
- Jean-Michel Ribes - Hearts (Cœurs)
Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud - Persepolis (Persépolis)
- Claude Berri - Together you are less alone (Ensemble, c'est tout)
- Christine Carrière - Darling
- Ronald Harwood - Butterfly and Diving Bell (La scaphandre et le papillon)
- Claude Miller and Nathalie Carter - A Secret (Un secret)
Laurent Cantet , François Bégaudeau and Robin Campillo - The class (Entre les murs)
- Eric Assous , François d'Épenoux and Jean Becker - Days or Hours (Deux jours à tuer)
- Clémence de Biéville , François Caviglioli and Nathalie Lafaurie - Le crime est notre affaire
- Abdel Raouf Dafri and Jean-François Richet - Public Enemy No. 1 - Murder Instinct (Mesrine: L'instinct de mort) and Public Enemy No. 1 - Death instinct (Mesrine: L'ennemi public n ° 1)
- Christophe Honoré and Gilles Taurand - The beautiful girl (La belle personne)
2010s
Stéphane Brizé and Florence Vignon - Mademoiselle Chambon
- Anne Fontaine and Camille Fontaine - Coco Chanel - The Beginning of a Passion (Coco avant Chanel)
- Philippe Godeau and Agnès de Sacy - Le dernier pour la route
- Laurent Tirard and Grégoire Vigneron - Little Nick (Le petit Nicolas)
- Alex Révarl and Laurent Herbiet - Caution Longing (Les herbes folles)
Robert Harris and Roman Polanski - The Ghost Writer (The Ghost Writer)
- Julie Bertuccelli - The Tree (L'arbre)
- Éric Lartigau and Laurent de Bartillat - Night visor (L'homme qui voulait vivre sa vie)
- François Ozon - The jewel (Potiche)
- Bertrand Tavernier , Jean Cosmos and François-Olivier Rousseau - The Princess of Montpensier (La princesse de Montpensier)
Roman Polański and Yasmina Reza - The God of Slaughter (Carnage)
- David Foenkinos - Nathalie kisses (La délicatesse)
- Vincent Garenq - Arrest warrant - In case of doubt against the accused (Présumé coupable)
- Olivier Gorce , Roschdy Zem , Rachid Bouchareb and Olivier Lorelle - Omar - A judicial scandal (Omar m'a tuer)
- Mathieu Kassovitz , Benoît Jaubert and Pierre Geller - Rebellion (L'ordre et la morale)
Jacques Audiard and Thomas Bidegain - The taste of rust and bones (De rouille et d'os)
- Lucas Belvaux - 38 témoins
- Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellière - The first name (Le prénom)
- François Ozon - In her house (Dans la maison)
- Gilles Taurand and Benoît Jacquot - Farewell my Queen! (Les adieux à la rein)
Guillaume Gallienne - Maman and I (Les garçons et Guillaume, à table!)
- Arnaud Desplechin - Jimmy P. - Psychotherapy of an Indian (Jimmy P. (Psychothérapie d'un India des plaines))
- Bertrand Tavernier and Christophe Blain , Antonin Baudry - Quai d'Orsay
- Roman Polański and David Ives - Venus in Fur (La vénus à la fourrure)
- Abdellatif Kechiche and Ghalya Lacroix - Blue is a warm color (La vie d'Adèle - Chapitre 1 & 2)
Cyril Gély and Volker Schlöndorff - Diplomacy
- Mathieu Amalric and Stéphanie Cléau - The blue room (La chambre bleue)
- Lucas Belvaux - Pas son genre
- Sólveig Anspach and Jean-Luc Gaget - quicksand (Lulu femme nue)
- Cédric Anger - La prochaine fois je viserai le cœur
- David Oelhoffen and Frédéric Tellier - L'affaire SK1
- Samuel Benchetrit - We are all astronauts (Asphalt)
- Vincent Garenq and Stéphane Cabel - L'enquête
- Benoît Jacquot and Hélène Zimmer - Diary of a chambermaid (Journal d'une femme de chambre)
Celine Sciamma - My Life as a Zucchini (Ma vie de courgette)
- David Birch - Elle
- Séverine Bosschem and Emmanuelle Bercot - La fille de Brest
- François Ozon - Frantz
- Nicole Garcia and Jacques Fieschi - The Woman in the Moon (Mal de pierres)
- Katell Quillévéré and Gilles Taurand - Repairing the Living (Réparer les vivants)
Albert Dupontel and Pierre Lemaitre - Au revoir là-haut
- Xavier Beauvois , Frédérique Moreau and Marie-Julie Maille - Les Gardiennes
- Grand Corps Malade and Fadette Drouard - Better to Live (Patients)
- Éric Barbier and Marie Eynard - Early Promise (La promesse de l'aube)
- Michel Hazanavicius - Redoutable (Le redoutable)
Andréa Bescond and Éric Métayer - Les chatouilles
- Emmanuel Finkiel - Memoir of Pain (La douleur)
- Jacques Audiard and Thomas Bidegain - The Sisters Brothers
- Emmanuel Mouret - The Price of Temptation (Mademoiselle de Joncquières)
- Catherine Corsini and Laurette Polmanss - Un amour impossible
2020s
Roman Polanski and Robert Harris - Intrigue (J'accuse)
- Costa-Gavras - Adults in the Room
- Jérémy Clapin and Guillaume Laurant - I lost my body (J'ai perdu mon corps)
- Arnaud Desplechin and Léa Mysius - Roubaix, une lumière
- Dominik Moll and Gilles Marchand - Only the Animals (Seules les bêtes)