|
year
|
Award winners
|
Author (s)
|
template
|
| 2006 |
Departed - Among enemies |
William Monahan |
Film by Siu Fai Mak and Felix Chong
|
| Little Children |
Todd Field and Tom Perrotta
|
The novel Little Children by Tom Perrotta
|
| Diary of a scandal |
Patrick Marber |
The novel Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller
|
| Robert Altman's Last Radio Show |
Garrison Keillor |
The radio piece A Prairie Home Companion by Garrison Keillor
|
| Thank you for smoking |
Jason Reitman |
The novel Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley
|
| 2007 |
No Country for Old Men |
Ethan and Joel Coen
|
Novel by Cormac McCarthy
|
| Apology |
Christopher Hampton |
Novel by Ian McEwan
|
| Into the wild |
Sean Penn |
The book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
|
| There Will Be Blood |
Paul Thomas Anderson |
The novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair
|
| Zodiac - The Trail of the Killer |
James Vanderbilt |
Book by Robert Graysmith
|
| 2008 |
Slumdog millionaire |
Simon Beaufoy |
Novel by Vikas Swarup
|
| The strange case of Benjamin Button |
Eric Roth |
The short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
|
| The Dark Knight |
Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan
|
Comic by Bob Kane
|
| Question of faith |
John Patrick Shanley |
The play Doubt by John Patrick Shanley
|
| Frost / Nixon |
Peter Morgan |
The play Frost / Nixon by Peter Morgan
|
| 2009 |
Up in the air |
Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner
|
Roman Up in the Air by Walter Kirn
|
| An Education |
Nick Hornby |
Lynn Barber's
book, An Education |
| Cabinet out of control |
Jesse Armstrong , Simon Blackwell , Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche
|
TV series The Thick of It
|
| The informant! |
Scott Z. Burns |
The book The Informant! by Kurt Eichenwald
|
| Where the wild things live |
Spike Jonze & Dave Eggers
|
Where the wild things live , a picture book by Maurice Sendak
|
| 2010 |
The social network |
Aaron Sorkin
|
|
| True grit |
Ethan and Joel Coen
|
The novel True Grit Charles Portis
|
| Winter's Bone |
Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini
|
The novel Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell
|
| Rabbit Hole |
David Lindsay-Abaire |
The play Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
|
| Toy Story 3 |
Michael Arndt
|
| 2011 |
The art of winning - Moneyball |
Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin
|
The novel Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
|
| The Descendants |
Alexander Payne , Nat Faxon and Jim Rash
|
The novel With Your Eyes by Kaui Hart Hemmings
|
| Drive |
Hossein Amini |
Roman Drive by James Sallis
|
| Hugo Cabret |
John Logan |
The children's book The Discovery of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
|
| Queen, King, Ace, Spy |
Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan
|
The novel Queen, King, As, Spy
|
| 2012 |
Lincoln |
Tony Kushner |
The novel Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
|
| Argo |
Chris Terrio |
Based on Tony Mendez 's book The Master of Disguise and Joshuah Bearman's article The Great Escape in Wired Magazine
|
| Beasts of the Southern Wild |
Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin
|
The play Beasts of the Southern Wild by Lucy Alibar
|
| Maybe tomorrow |
Stephen Chbosky |
Roman Maybe better tomorrow by Stephen Chbosky
|
| Silver linings |
David O. Russell |
The novel Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
|
| 2013 |
12 years a slave |
John Ridley |
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
|
| In August in Osage County |
Tracy Letts |
The August play in Osage County by Tracy Letts
|
| Before Midnight |
Richard Linklater , Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke
|
| Philomena |
Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
|
The book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee by Martin Sixsmith
|
| The Wolf of Wall Street |
Terence Winter |
The autobiography The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort
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