National Board of Review Award / Best Adapted Screenplay

The National Board of Review Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is a film award that has been presented annually by the National Board of Review since 2003 .

The annual figures in the table indicate the film years assessed; the awards were given in the following year.

Award winners

year	winner	Author (s)	basis
2003	On the way to Cold Mountain	Anthony Minghella	The novel Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
2004	Sideways	Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor	The novel Sideways by Rex Pickett
2005	Syriana	Stephen Gaghan	The novel See No Evil by Robert Baer
2006	The colorful veil	Ron Nyswaner	The Colorful Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
2007	No Country for Old Men	Joel and Ethan Coen	No land for old men by Cormac McCarthy
2008	The strange case of Benjamin Button	Eric Roth	The short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
	Slumdog Millionaire	Simon Beaufoy	The novel Rupees! Rupees! by Vikas Swarup
2009	Up in the air	Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner	The novel Up in the Air by Walter Kirn
2010	The social network	Aaron Sorkin	The novel The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich
2011	The Descendants - family and other affairs	Alexander Payne , Nat Faxon and Jim Rash	The novel With Your Eyes by Kaui Hart Hemmings
2012	silver linings Playbook	David O. Russell	The novel Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
2013	The Wolf of Wall Street	Terence Winter	The novel The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort
2014	Inherent Vice - Natural Defects	Paul Thomas Anderson	The novel Natural Defects by Thomas Pynchon
2015	The Martian - Save Mark Watney	Drew Goddard	The novel The Martian by Andy Weir
2016	Silence	Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese	The novel Chinmoku by Endō Shūsaku
2017	The disaster artist	Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber	The book of the same name by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell
2018	If Beale Street Could Talk	Barry Jenkins	The novel of the same name by James Baldwin
2019	The Irishman	Steven Zaillian	The book I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt

Web links

Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Best Adapted Screenplay Archives - National Board of Review. In: National Board of Review. Retrieved December 31, 2016 (American English).