Satellite Awards / Film / Best Adapted Screenplay

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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.

statistics
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

year Award winners Movie Nominations
1996 Anthony Minghella The English patient Hossein Amini for Hearts in Turmoil
Arthur Miller for Witch Hunt
Laura Jones for Portrait of a Lady
John Hodge for Trainspotting - New Heroes
1997 Curtis Hanson and
Brian Helgeland
LA Confidential David Franzoni for Amistad
James Schamus for Der Eissturm
Atom Egoyan for Das süße Jenseits
Hossein Amini for Wings of the Dove
1998 Bill Condon Gods and Monsters Frank Cottrell Boyce for Hilary & Jackie
Mark Herman for Little Voice
Adam Brooks , Akosua Busia and Richard LaGravenese for human
child Terrence Malick for Der schmale Grat
1999 John Irving God's work and the devil's contribution Atom Egoyan for Felicia, my angel
Peter Ettedgui and Michael Ignatieff for Onegin - A Love in St. Petersburg
Anthony Minghella for The Talented Mr. Ripley
Julie Taymor for Titus
Peter Hedges and Polly Platt for Innocent Persecuted

2000-2009

year Award winners Movie Nominations
2000 Doug Wright Quills - power of obsession Terence Davies for Haus Bellomont
Ethan and Joel Coen for O Brother, Where Art Thou? - A Mississippi Odyssey
David Self for Thirteen Days
Stephen Gaghan for Traffic - Power of the Cartel
2001 Robert Festinger and
Todd Field
In the bedroom Akiva Goldsman for A Beautiful Mind - Genie und Wahnsinn
John Cameron Mitchell for Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Philippa Boyens , Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh for The Lord of the Rings: The Companions of
Fred Schepisi for Last Round
2002 Charlie Kaufman Adaptation - The Orchid Thief Bill Condon for Chicago
Philippa Boyens , Peter Jackson , Stephen Sinclair and Fran Walsh for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Nia Vardalos for My Big Fat Greek Wedding -
Ronald Harwood for The Pianist
2003 Brian Helgeland Mystic River Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman for American Splendor
Gary Ross for Seabiscuit - With the Will to Success
Billy Ray for Shattered Glass
Anthony Minghella for On the Road to Cold Mountain
Niki Caro for Whale Rider
2004 Paul Haggis Million dollar baby Patrick Marber for Hautnah
Joel Schumacher for The Phantom of the Opera
Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor for Sideways
2005 Robin Swicord The geisha Dan Futterman for Capote
Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana for Brokeback Mountain
William Broyles Junior for Jarhead - Welcome to the Dirt
Steve Martin for Shopgirl
Gill Dennis and James Mangold for Walk the Line
2006 William Monahan Departed - Among enemies Bill Condon for Dreamgirls
William Broyles Jr. and Paul Haggis for Flags of Our Fathers
Todd Field and Tom Perrotta for Little Children
Garrison Keillor for Robert Altman's Last Radio Show
Jason Reitman for Thank You for Smoking
2007 Christopher Hampton Apology Sarah Polley for At Her Side
David Benioff for Kite Runner
Wang Hui-Ling and James Schamus for Danger and Desire
Ethan and Joel Coen for No Country for Old Men
James Vanderbilt for Zodiac
2008 Peter Morgan Frost / Nixon Philip Roth for Elegy or the Art of Loving
John Patrick Shanley for Faith
Eric Roth and Robin Swicord for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Simon Beaufoy for Slumdog Millionaire
David Hare for The Reader
Justin Haythe for Times of Troubles
2009 Geoffrey Fletcher Precious - Life is precious Nick Hornby for An Education
Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell for District 9,
Nora Ephron for Julie & Julia
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner for Up in the Air

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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