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The Satellite Award  Best Adapted Screenplay honors an outstanding script for the implementation of a film based on an existing literary template.
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| Most frequently honored screenwriters | Brian Helgeland and Aaron Sorkin (two wins each) | 
| Most frequently nominated screenwriters | Bill Condon and Anthony Minghella (three nominations each) | 
| Most nominated screenwriters without a win | Atom Egoyan , Billy Ray , Doug Wright , Jez Butterworth , Ethan and Joel Coen , Fran Walsh , Hossein Amini , Jason Reitman , Nick Hornby , Peter Jackson , Philippa Boyens , Simon Beaufoy and William Broyles junior (two nominations each) | 
The scriptwriters of a film from the previous year are always honored.
Nominations and winners
1996-1999
2000-2009
2010-2019
| year | Award winners | Movie | Nominations | 
| 2010 | Aaron Sorkin | The social network | Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy for 127 Hours Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth for Fair Game - Nothing is more dangerous than the truth
 Robert Harris and Roman Polański for the ghostwriter
 Michael Bacall and Edgar Wright for Scott Pilgrim against the rest of the world
 Peter Craig , Ben Affleck and Aaron Stockard for The Town - City Without Mercy
 Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg for Verblendung
 Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini for Winter's Bone
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| 2011 | Alexander Payne , Jim Rash  and
 Nat Faxon
 | The Tree of Life | Joe Cornish , Edgar Wright and Steven Moffat for The Adventures of Tintin and The Secret of the Unicorns Glenn Close , John Banville and Gabriella Prekop for Albert Nobbs
 Lee Hall and Richard Curtis for Companions
 Tate Taylor for The Help
 Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin for Die Art to win - Moneyball
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| 2012 | David Magee | Life of Pi: Shipwreck with Tiger | Tom Stoppard for Anna Karenina Chris Terrio for Argo
 David O. Russell for Silver Linings
 Ben Lewin for The Sessions - When Words Touch
 Tony Kushner , John Logan and Paul Webb for Lincoln
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| 2013 | Jeff Pope  and Steve Coogan
 | Philomena | John Ridley for 12 Years a Slave Ethan Hawke , Julie Delpy and Richard Linklater for Before Midnight
 Billy Ray for Captain Phillips
 Peter Berg for Lone Survivor
 Terence Winter for The Wolf of Wall Street
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| 2014 | Graham Moore | The Imitation Game - A Top Secret Life | Jason Hall for American sniper Anthony McCarten for Discovery of Infinity
 Gillian Flynn for Gone Girl
 Cheryl Strayed and Nick Hornby for The Big Trip - Wild
 Paul Thomas Anderson for Inherent Vice - Natural Defects
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| 2015 | Aaron Sorkin | Steve Jobs | Jez Butterworth and Mark Mallouk for Black Mass Lucinda Coxon for The Danish Girl
 Drew Goddard for Der Martianer - Saving Mark Watney
 Emma Donoghue for Room
 Alejandro González Iñárritu and Mark L. Smith for The Revenant
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| 2016 | Oliver Stone  and Kieran Fitzgerald
 | Snowden | Andrew Knight and Robert Schenkkan for Hacksaw Ridge - Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi decided for Hidden Figures - Unrecognized heroines
 Justin Marks for The Jungle Book
 Luke Davies for Lion
 Todd Komarnicki for Sully
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| 2017 | Scott Neustadter  and Michael H. Weber
 | The disaster artist | Lee Hall for Victoria & Abdul James Ivory for Call Me by Your Name
 Jason Fuchs and Allan Heinberg for Wonder Woman
 Brian Selznick for Wonderstruck
 Aaron Sorkin for Molly's Game - All on one card
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| 2018 | Nicole Holofcener  and Jeff Whitty
 | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Spike Lee , David Rabinowitz , Kevin Willmott and Charlie Wachtel for BlacKkKlansman Armando Iannucci , David Schneider , Ian Martin and Peter Fellows for The Death of Stalin
 Barry Jenkins for If Beale Street Could Talk
 Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini for Leave No Trace
 Bradley Cooper and Eric Roth for A Star Is Born
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| 2019 | Todd Phillips  and Scott Silver
 | joker | Matthew Michael Carnahan , Mario Correa and Nathaniel Rich for Poisoned Truth Steven Zaillian for The Irishman
 Taika Waititi for Jojo Rabbit
 Edward Norton for Motherless Brooklyn
 Anthony McCarten for The Two Popes
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