Oscar / Best Adapted Screenplay

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.

statistics
Most frequently honored screenwriter	Robert Bolt , Francis Ford Coppola , Ruth Prawer Jhabvala , Joseph L. Mankiewicz , Mario Puzo , Alvin Sargent , George Seaton , Michael Wilson and Alexander Payne (two wins each)
Most frequently nominated screenwriter	Billy Wilder (seven nominations)
Most nominated screenwriter without a win	Frances Goodrich , Albert Hackett and Stanley Kubrick (four nominations each)

In the table below, the films are listed according to the year in which they were awarded.

1929-1930

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
1929	Benjamin Glazer	The happiness in the attic	Alfred A. Cohn for The Jazz Singer Anthony Coldeway for The Love of Betty Patterson
1930 (1)	Prize not awarded in this category (see Oscar / Best Screenplay )
1930 (2)	Prize not awarded in this category (see Oscar / Best Screenplay )

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

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
1951	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	Everything about Eva	Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett for Father of the Bride Ben Maddow and John Huston for Asphalt-Dschungel Albert Maltz for The Broken Arrow Albert Mannheimer for This is not a thing of the past
1952	Michael Wilson Harry Brown	A place in the Sun	James Agee and John Huston for African Queen Jacques Natanson and Max Ophüls for Der Reigen Tennessee Williams for Endstation Sehnsucht Philip Yordan and Robert Wyler for Police Station 21
1953	Charles Snow	City of Illusions	Carl Foreman for twelve noon Roger MacDougall , John Dighton and Alexander Mackendrick for The Man in the White Suit Frank S. Nugent for The Winner Michael Wilson for The Cicero Case
1954	Daniel Taradash	Damn to all eternity	Eric Ambler for The Great Atlantic, Helen Deutsch for Lili A. B. Guthrie Junior for My Great Friend Shane Ian McLellan Hunter and John Dighton for A Heart and a Crown
1955	George Seaton	A country girl	Albert Hackett , Frances Goodrich and Dorothy Kingsley for A Bride for Seven Brothers John Michael Hayes for The Window to the Courtyard Stanley Roberts for The Caine Was Fate Billy Wilder , Samuel A. Taylor and Ernest Lehman for Sabrina
1956	Paddy Chayefsky	Marty	Richard Brooks for The Seed of Violence Daniel Fuchs and Isobel Lennart for Tyrannical Love Millard Kaufman for City in Fear Paul Osborn for Beyond Eden
1957	James Poe John Farrow S. J. Perelman	In 80 days around the world	Norman Corwin for Vincent van Gogh - A Life of Passion Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat for Giants Tennessee Williams for Baby Doll - Don't covet the other's wife Michael Wilson for Temptation
1958	Pierre Boulle Carl Foreman Michael Wilson	The bridge on the Kwai	John Michael Hayes for Embers Under the Ashes John Lee Mahin and John Huston for The Sailor and the Nun Paul Osborn for Sayonara Reginald Rose for The Twelve Jurors
1959	Alan Jay Lerner	Gigi	Richard Brooks and James Poe for The Cat on the Hot Tin Roof Nelson Gidding and Don Mankiewicz for Let Me Live Alec Guinness for The Bottom Line Terence Rattigan and John Gay for Separate from Table and Bed
1960	Neil Paterson	The way up	Robert Anderson for The Story of a Nun Wendell Mayes for Anatomy of a Murder Karl Tunberg for Ben Hur Billy Wilder and IAL Diamond for Some Like It Hot

1961-1970

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
1961	Richard Brooks	Elmer Gantry	James Kennaway for Once Upon a Hero Gavin Lambert and TEB Clarke for Sons and Lovers Isobel Lennart for The Endless Horizon Nedrick Young and Harold Jacob Smith for Who Sows the Wind
1962	Abby man	The judgment of Nuremberg	George Axelrod for Breakfast at Tiffany's Sidney Carroll and Robert Rossen for Haie der Großstadt Carl Foreman for The Guns of Navarone Ernest Lehman for West Side Story
1963	Horton Foote	Who disturbs the nightingale	Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson for Lawrence of Arabia William Gibson for Light in the Dark Vladimir Nabokov for Lolita Eleanor Perry for David and Lisa
1964	John Osborne	Tom Jones - Between the bed and the gallows	Serge Bourguignon and Antoine Tudal for Sundays with Sybill Richard L. Breen , Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron for Captain Newman James Poe for Lilien auf dem Feld Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr. for The Wildest Among Thousand
1965	Edward Anhalt	Becket	Michael Cacoyannis for Alexis Sorbas Stanley Kubrick , Peter George and Terry Southern for Dr. Strange or: How I Learned to Love the Bomb Alan Jay Lerner for My Fair Lady Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi for Mary Poppins
1966	Robert Bolt	Doctor Zhivago	Herb Gardner for Thousand Clowns Stanley Mann and John Kohn for The Catcher Abby Mann for The Ship of Fools Walter Newman and Frank Pierson for Cat Ballou - You should hang in Wyoming
1967	Robert Bolt	A man for every season	Richard Brooks for The Feared Four Ernest Lehman for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Bill Naughton for The Seducer sends his regards to William Rose for The Russians! The Russians are Coming!
1968	Stirling Silliphant	In the Heat of the Night	Richard Brooks for Donn Pearce in Cold Blood and Frank Pierson for Der Unbendugame Joseph Strick and Fred Haines for Ulysses Calder Willingham and Buck Henry for The Maturity Exam
1969	James Goldman	The lion in winter	Vernon Harris for Oliver Roman Polański for Rosemary's Baby Neil Simon for A Strange Couple Stewart Stern for The Love of a Summer
1970	Waldo Salt	Asphalt cowboy	John Hale , Bridget Boland and Richard Sokolove for Queen for a Thousand Days James Poe and Robert E. Thompson for Just Horses Are Shed Arnold Schulman for The Devil with Innocence Jorge Semprún and Costa-Gavras for Z

1971-1980

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
1971	Ring Lardner junior	M * A * S * H	Robert Anderson for No Song for My Father Joseph Bologna , David Zelag Goodman and Renée Taylor for Lovers and Other Strangers Larry Kramer for Loving Women George Seaton for Airport
1972	Ernest Tidyman	French Connection - Brooklyn Focal Point	Bernardo Bertolucci for Der große Errtum Stanley Kubrick for Uhrwerk Orange Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdanovich for The Last Presentation Ugo Pirro and Vittorio Bonicelli for Der Garten der Finzi Contini
1973	Mario Puzo Francis Ford Coppola	The Godfather	Lonne Elder III for The Year Without Father Julius J. Epstein for Peter and Tillie Jay Presson Allen for Cabaret Jan Troell and Bengt Forslund for emigrants
1974	William Peter Blatty	The exorcist	James Bridges for Trials Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler for Serpico Alvin Sargent for Paper Moon Robert Towne for The Last Command
1975	Francis Ford Coppola Mario Puzo	The Godfather - Part II	Julian Barry for Lenny Paul Dehn for Murder on the Orient Express Mordecai Richler and Lionel Chetwynd for Duddy, Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks for Frankenstein Junior
1976	Lawrence Hoods Bo Goldman	One flew over the cuckoo's nest	John Huston and Gladys Hill for The Man Who Were King Stanley Kubrick for Barry Lyndon Ruggero Maccari and Dino Risi for The Scent of Women ( Profumo di donna ) Neil Simon for The Sunny Boys
1977	William Goldman	The incorruptible	Federico Fellini and Bernardino Zapponi for Fellinis Casanova Robert Getchell for This Land is My Land Nicholas Meyer for No Coke for Sherlock Holmes Steve Shagan and David Butler for Journey of the Damned
1978	Alvin Sargent	Julia	Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière for This Obscure Object of Desire Larry Gelbart for Oh God… Gavin Lambert and Lewis John Carlino for I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Peter Shaffer for Equus - Blind Horses
1979	Oliver Stone	12 noon - Midnight Express	Elaine May and Warren Beatty for Heaven Shall Wait Walter Newman for Hot Blood Neil Simon for The Crazy California Hotel Bernard Slade for Next Year, Same Time
1980	Robert Benton	Kramer versus Kramer	Allan Burns for Ich liebe dich - I Love You - Je t'aime John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola for Apocalypse Now Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr. for Norma Rae - A woman is her husband Francis Veber , Édouard Molinaro , Marcello Danon and Jean Poiret for a cage full of fools

1981-1990

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
1981	Alvin Sargent	A perfectly normal family	Christopher De Vore , Eric Bergren and David Lynch for The Elephant Man Jonathan Hardy , David Stevens and Bruce Beresford for The Fall of Lieutnant Morant Lawrence B. Marcus and Richard Rush for The Long Death of Stuntman Cameron Thomas Rickman for Nashville Lady
1982	Ernest Thompson	At the golden lake	Harold Pinter for The Beloved of French Lieutenant Dennis Potter for Dance in the Clouds Jay Presson Allen and Sidney Lumet for Prince of the City Michael Weller for Ragtime
1983	Constantin Costa-Gavras Donald Stewart	Missing	Blake Edwards for Victor / Victoria David Mamet for The Verdict - The Truth and Nothing but the Truth Alan J. Pakula for Sophie's decision Wolfgang Petersen for Das Boot
1984	James L. Brooks	Time of tenderness	Julius J. Epstein for Ruben, Ruben Ronald Harwood for An Unequal Couple Harold Pinter for Cheating Willy Russell for Rita finally wants to know
1985	Peter Shaffer	Amadeus	Charles Fuller for Sergeant Waters - A Soldier's Tale David Lean for Journey to India Bruce Robinson for The Killing Fields Robert Towne and Michael Austin for Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1986	Kurt Luedtke	Far away from Africa	Richard Condon and Janet Roach for Die Ehre der Prizzis Horton Foote for A Trip to Bountiful Menno Meyjes for The Color Purple Leonard Schrader for Kiss of the Spider Woman
1987	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	room with view	Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff for God's Forgotten Children Raynold Gideon and Bruce A. Evans for Stand by Me Beth Henley for Criminal Hearts Richard Price for The Color of Money
1988	Mark Peploe Bernardo Bertolucci	The last emperor	James Dearden for A Fateful Affair Lasse Hallström , Reidar Jönsson , Brasse Brännström and Per Berglund for Mein Leben als Hund Tony Huston for The Dead Stanley Kubrick , Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford for Full Metal Jacket
1989	Christopher Hampton	Dangerous romances	Jean-Claude Carrière and Philip Kaufman for The Unbearable Lightness of Being Christine Edzard for Klein Dorrit Frank Galati and Lawrence Kasdan for The Journeys of Mr. Leary Anna Hamilton Phelan and Tab Murphy for Gorillas in the Fog
1990	Alfred Uhry	Miss Daisy and her chauffeur	Phil Alden Robinson for Field of Dreams Jim Sheridan and Shane Connaughton for My Left Foot Roger L. Simon and Paul Mazursky for Enemies Oliver Stone and Ron Kovic for Born July 4th

1991-2000

year	Award winners	for the movie	Nominations
1991	Michael Blake	The one, who dances with the wolf	Nicholas Kazan for The Affair of Sunny by B. Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese for Good Fellas - Three Decades in the Mafia Donald E. Westlake for Grifters Steven Zaillian for Time of Awakening
1992	Ted Tally	The silence of the Lambs	Pat Conroy and Becky Johnston for Lord of the Tides Fannie Flagg and Carol Sobieski for Green Tomatoes Agnieszka Holland for Hitler Youth Salomon Oliver Stone and Zachary Sklar for JFK - Tatort Dallas
1993	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	See you in Howards End	Peter Barnes for Enchanted April Richard Friedenberg for From the Middle A River Bo Goldman for The Scent of Women Michael Tolkin for The Player
1994	Steven Zaillian	Schindlers List	Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese for Time of Innocence Terry George and Jim Sheridan for In the Name of Father William Nicholson for Shadowlands Ruth Prawer Jhabvala for What Was Left of the Day
1995	Eric Roth	Forrest Gump	Paul Attanasio for Quiz Show Alan Bennett for King George - A Kingdom for More Intelligence Robert Benton for Nobody's Fool - Permanently Irresistible Frank Darabont for The Condemned
1996	Emma Thompson	Sense and sensuality	William Broyles Jr. and Al Reinert for Apollo 13 Mike Figgis for Leaving Las Vegas George Miller and Chris Noonan for A Piglet Called Babe Anna Pavignano , Michael Radford , Furio Scarpelli , Giacomo Scarpelli and Massimo Troisi for The Postman
1997	Billy Bob Thornton	Sling Blade - On a knife edge	Kenneth Branagh for Hamlet John Hodge for Trainspotting - New Heroes Arthur Miller for Witch Hunt Anthony Minghella for The English Patient
1998	Brian Helgeland Curtis Hanson	LA Confidential	Hossein Amini for Wings of the Dove - The Wings of the Dove Paul Attanasio for Donnie Brasco Atom Egoyan for Das süße Jenseits Hilary Henkin and David Mamet for Wag the Dog - When the tail wags the dog
1999	Bill Condon	Gods and Monsters	Scott Frank for Out of Sight Terrence Malick for The Thin Line Elaine May for With a Vengeance Scott B. Smith for A Simple Plan
2000	John Irving	God's work and the devil's contribution	Frank Darabont for The Green Mile Anthony Minghella for The Talented Mr. Ripley Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor for Election Eric Roth and Michael Mann for Insider

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