| 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 |