A script based on a literary model (Adapted Screenplay) is a form of script in which the script is based on a previously published publication (such as a novel or a theater play as the basis of so-called literary adaptations or an already filmed script). At first irregularly, the US Film Academy has been awarding its Oscar in this category since 1929 . This is in contrast to the Original Script category , which is written without a template.
In the table below, the films are listed according to the year in which they were awarded.
1929-1930
1931-1940
year
Award winners
for the movie
Nominations
1931
Howard Estabrook
Wild West pioneers
Francis Edward Faragoh and Robert N. Lee for Little Caesar Horace Jackson for Holiday Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Sam Mintz for Skippy Seton I. Miller and Fred Niblo Jr. for The Criminal Code
1932
Edwin J. Burke
Bad girl
Percy Heath and Samuel Hoffenstein for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Sidney Howard for Arrowsmith
1933
No Oscars
1934
Victor Heerman Sarah Y. Mason
Four sisters
Paul Green and Sonya Levien for fun fair Robert Riskin for Lady for a day
1935
Robert Riskin
It happened in one night
Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett for The Thin Man Ben Hecht for Scream of the Haunted
1936
Dudley Nichols
The traitor
Achmed Abdullah , John L. Balderston , Grover Jones , William Slavens McNutt and Waldemar Young for Bengali Jules Furthman , Talbot Jennings and Carey Wilson for Mutiny on the Bounty Casey Robinson for Under Pirate Flag
1937
Pierre Collings Sheridan Gibney
Louis Pasteur
Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett for Thin Man, 2nd Case Eric Hatch and Morrie Ryskind for My Husband Godfrey Sidney Howard for Time of Love, Time of Farewell Robert Riskin for Mr. Deeds goes to town
1938
Heinz Herald Géza Herczeg Norman Reilly Raine
The life of Emile Zola
Alan Campbell , Robert Carson and Dorothy Parker for One Star Goes on Marc Connelly , John Lee Mahin and Dale Van Every for Manuel Viña Delmar for The Terrible Truth Morrie Ryskind and Anthony Veiller for the stage entrance
1939
George Bernard Shaw Ian Dalrymple Cecil Lewis W. P. Lipscomb
A flower girl's novel
Lenore J. Coffee and Julius J. Epstein for father conducts Ian Dalrymple , Elizabeth Hill and Frank Wead for Die Zitadelle John Meehan and Dore Schary for the devil Robert Riskin for life artists
1940
Sidney Howard
Blown by the wind
Charles Brackett , Walter Reisch and Billy Wilder for Ninotschka Sidney Buchman for Mr. Smith goes to Washington Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur for Sturmhöhe Eric Maschwitz , RC Sherriff and Claudine West for goodbye, Mr. Chips
1941-1950
year
Award winners
for the movie
Nominations
1941
Donald Ogden Stewart
The night before the wedding
Nunnally Johnson for The Fruits of Wrath Dudley Nichols for The Long Road to Cardiff Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison for Rebecca Dalton Trumbo for Miss Kitty
1942
Sidney Buchman Seton I. Miller
Vacation from heaven
Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder for The Golden Gate Philip Dunne for Striking Weather Lillian Hellman for The Little Foxes John Huston for The Falcon's Trail
1943
George Froeschel James Hilton Claudine West Arthur Wimperis
Mrs. Miniver
Rodney Ackland and Emeric Pressburger for 49th Parallel Sidney Buchman and Irwin Shaw for Witness for the Prosecution George Froeschel , Claudine West and Arthur Wimperis for Found Years Herman J. Mankiewicz and Jo Swerling for The Great Throwing
1944
Julius J. Epstein Philip G. Epstein Howard Koch
Casablanca
Richard Flournoy , Lewis R. Foster , Frank Ross and Robert Russell for Always More, Always Happy Dashiell Hammett for Watch on the Rhine Nunnally Johnson for Holy Matrimony George Seaton for Das Lied von Bernadette
1945
Frank Butler Frank Cavett
The way to luck
John L. Balderston , Walter Reisch and John Van Druten for Das Haus der Lady Alquist Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe for Meet Me in St. Louis Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder for Woman Without a Conscience Jay Dratler , Samuel Hoffenstein and Elizabeth Reinhardt for Laura
1946
Charles Brackett Billy Wilder
The lost weekend
Leopold Atlas , Guy Endore and Philip Stevenson for The Story of G.I. Joe Frank Davis and Tess Slesinger for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Ranald MacDougall for Mildred Pierce Albert Maltz for Pride of the Marines
1947
Robert E. Sherwood
The best years of our life
Sergio Amidei and Federico Fellini for Rome, Open City Sally Benson and Talbot Jennings for Anna and the King of Siam Anthony Havelock-Allan , David Lean and Ronald Neame for Encounter Anthony Veiller for Avengers of the Underworld
1948
George Seaton
The miracle of Manhattan
Moss Hart for Taboo of the Righteous David Lean , Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan for Mysterious Inheritance Richard Murphy for Boomerang! John Paxton for In the Crossfire
1949
John Huston
The treasure of the Sierra Madre
Charles Brackett , Billy Wilder and Richard L. Breen for an external affair, Frank Partos and Millen Brand for Die Schlangengrube Richard Schweizer and David Wechsler for Die Gezeichen Irma von Cube and Allen Vincent for Schweigesippen
1950
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
A letter to three women
Carl Foreman for Between Women and Ropes Graham Greene for Little Heart in Need Robert Rossen for The Man Who Wished to Rule Cesare Zavattini for Bicycle Thieves
1951-1960
1961-1970
1971-1980
1981-1990
1991-2000
2001-2010
year
Award winners
for the movie
Nominations
2001
Stephen Gaghan
Traffic - power of the cartel
Ethan and Joel Coen for O Brother, Where Art Thou? - A Mississippi Odyssey Robert Nelson Jacobs for Chocolat - A small bite is enough for Steven Kloves for The WonderBoys Hui-Ling Wang , James Schamus and Kuo Jung Tsai for Tiger and Dragon
2002
Akiva Goldsman
A Beautiful Mind - genius and madness
Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff for Ghost World Ted Elliott , Terry Rossio , Joe Stillman and Roger SH Schulman for Shrek - Der reckless hero Todd Field and Robert Festinger for In the Bedroom Fran Walsh , Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The Companions
2003
Ronald Harwood
The pianist
Bill Condon for Chicago David Hare for The Hours - From Eternity to Eternity Peter Hedges , Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz for About a Boy or: The Day of the Dead Duck Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman for adaptation.
2004
Fran Walsh Philippa Boyens Peter Jackson
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini for American Splendor Brian Helgeland for Mystic River Bráulio Mantovani for City of God Gary Ross for Seabiscuit - With the Will to Success
2005
Alexander Payne Jim Taylor
Sideways
Paul Haggis for Million Dollar Baby Richard Linklater , Julie Delpy , Ethan Hawke and Kim Krizan for Before Sunset David Magee for When Dreams Learn To Fly José Rivera for Young Che's Journey
2006
Larry McMurtry Diana Ossana
Brokeback Mountain
Jeffrey Caine for The Eternal Gardener Dan Futterman for Capote Tony Kushner and Eric Roth for Munich Josh Olson for A History of Violence
2007
William Monahan
Departed - Among enemies
Sacha Baron Cohen , Anthony Hines , Peter Baynham , Dan Mazer and Todd Phillips for Borat Alfonso Cuarón , Timothy J. Sexton , David Arata , Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby for Children of Men Todd Field and Tom Perrotta for Little Children Patrick Marber for Diary One Scandals
2008
Ethan and Joel Coen
No Country for Old Men
Christopher Hampton for Atonement Sarah Polley for At Her Side Ronald Harwood for Butterfly and Diving Bell Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood
2009
Simon Beaufoy
Slumdog millionaire
Eric Roth and Robin Swicord for The Strange Case of Benjamin Button John Patrick Shanley for Question of Faith Peter Morgan for Frost / Nixon David Hare for The Reader
2010
Geoffrey Fletcher
Precious - Life is precious
Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell for District 9 Nick Hornby for An Education Jesse Armstrong , Simon Blackwell , Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche for Cabinet Out of Control Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner for Up in the Air
2011-2020
year
Award winners
for the movie
Nominations
2011
Aaron Sorkin
The social network
Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy for 127 Hours Michael Arndt , John Lasseter , Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich for Toy Story 3 Ethan and Joel Coen for True Grit Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini for Winter's Bone
2012
Alexander Payne Nat Faxon Jim Rash
The Descendants - family and other affairs
George Clooney , Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon for The Ides of March John Logan for Hugo Cabret Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan for Queen, King, Ace, Spy Steven Zaillian , Aaron Sorkin and Stan Chervin for The Art of Winning - Moneyball
2013
Chris Terrio
Argo
Lucy Alibar , Benh Zeitlin for Beasts of the Southern Wild David Magee for Life of Pi: Shipwreck with Tiger Tony Kushner for Lincoln David O. Russell for Silver Linings
2014
John Ridley
12 years a slave
Richard Linklater , Julie Delpy , Ethan Hawke for Before Midnight Billy Ray for Captain Phillips Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope for Philomena Terence Winter for The Wolf of Wall Street
2015
Graham Moore
The Imitation Game - A Top Secret Life
Jason Hall for American Sniper Paul Thomas Anderson for Inherent Vice - Natural Defects Anthony McCarten for The Discovery of Infinity Damien Chazelle for Whiplash
2016
Charles Randolph Adam McKay
The big short
Emma Donoghue for Room Drew Goddard for The Martian - Saves Mark Watney Nick Hornby for Brooklyn - A Love Between Two Worlds Phyllis Nagy for Carol
2017
Barry Jenkins Tarell Alvin McCraney
Moonlight
Eric Heisserer for Arrival August Wilson for Fences Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi for Hidden Figures - Unrecognized Heroines Luke Davies for Lion - The Long Way Home
2018
James Ivory
Call Me by Your Name
Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber for The Disaster Artist Scott Frank , James Mangold and Michael Green for Logan - The Wolverine Aaron Sorkin for Molly's Game - All on one card Virgil Williams and Dee Rees for Mudbound
2019
Charlie Wachtel David Rabinowitz Kevin Willmott Spike Lee
BlacKkKlansman
Ethan and Joel Coen for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty for Can You Ever Forgive Me? Barry Jenkins for If Beale Street Could Talk Eric Roth , Bradley Cooper and Will Fetters for A Star Is Born
2020
Taika Waititi
Jojo Rabbit
Steven Zaillian for The Irishman Todd Phillips and Scott Silver for Joker Greta Gerwig for Little Women Anthony McCarten for The Two Popes
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