Academy Awards, Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

2026

Guillermo del Toro / Frankenstein

Train Dreams

Will Tracy / Bugonia

Greg Kwedar / Train Dreams

Paul Thomas Anderson / One Battle After Another

Hamnet

Chloé Zhao / Hamnet

2025

Joslyn Barnes / Nickel Boys

RaMell Ross / Nickel Boys

Greg Kwedar / Sing Sing

James Mangold / A Complete Unknown

Jacques Audiard / Emilia Pérez

Jay Cocks / A Complete Unknown

Peter Straughan / Conclave

2024

Tony McNamara / Poor Things

Cord Jefferson / American Fiction

Christopher Nolan / Oppenheimer

Noah Baumbach / Barbie

Jonathan Glazer / The Zone of Interest

Greta Gerwig / Barbie

2023

Top Gun: Maverick

Edward Berger / Im Westen nichts Neues

Sarah Polley / Women Talking

Lesley Paterson / Im Westen nichts Neues

Ehren Kruger / Top Gun: Maverick

Ian Stokell / Im Westen nichts Neues

Rian Johnson / Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Christopher McQuarrie / Top Gun: Maverick

Kazuo Ishiguro / Living

2022

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi / ドライブ・マイ・カー

Sian Heder / CODA

Jane Campion / The Power of the Dog

Maggie Gyllenhaal / The Lost Daughter

2021

Florian Zeller / The Father

Ramin Bahrani / The White Tiger

Kemp Powers / One Night in Miami...

Chloé Zhao / Nomadland

Christopher Hampton / The Father

Sacha Baron Cohen / Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe To American Regime For Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Anthony Hines / Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe To American Regime For Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

2020

Joker

Taika Waititi / Jojo Rabbit

The Two Popes

Greta Gerwig / Little Women

Steven Zaillian / The Irishman

2019

Spike Lee / BlacKkKlansman

Barry Jenkins / If Beale Street Could Talk

2018

James Ivory / Call Me by Your Name

Aaron Sorkin / Molly's Game

2016

Adam McKay / The Big Short

2015

Damien Chazelle / Whiplash

Paul Thomas Anderson / Inherent Vice

2014

Richard Linklater / Before Midnight

Julie Delpy / Before Midnight

Terence Winter / The Wolf of Wall Street

Ethan Hawke / Before Midnight

John Ridley / 12 Years a Slave

2013

David O. Russell / Silver Linings Playbook

2012

Peter Straughan / Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Aaron Sorkin / Moneyball

Bridget O'Connor / Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

2011

Simon Beaufoy / 127 Hours

Aaron Sorkin / The Social Network

Danny Boyle / 127 Hours

2010

Neill Blomkamp / District 9

Geoffrey Fletcher / Precious

Sheldon Turner / Up in the Air

Jason Reitman / Up in the Air

2009

John Patrick Shanley / Doubt

David Hare / The Reader

2008

Ethan Coen / No Country for Old Men

Joel Coen / No Country for Old Men

Ronald Harwood / Le Scaphandre et le Papillon

Paul Thomas Anderson / There Will Be Blood

2007

Dan Mazer / Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Todd Phillips / Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Peter Baynham / Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Anthony Hines / Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Sacha Baron Cohen / Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

2006

Dan Futterman / Capote

Jeffrey Caine / The Constant Gardener

2005

Ethan Hawke / Before Sunset

Richard Linklater / Before Sunset

Julie Delpy / Before Sunset

2004

Cidade de Deus

2003

Ronald Harwood / The Pianist

Bill Condon / Chicago

2002

Peter Jackson / The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Akiva Goldsman / A Beautiful Mind

2001

Stephen Gaghan / Traffic

James Schamus / 卧虎藏龙

Ethan Coen / O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Joel Coen / O Brother, Where Art Thou?

2000

John Irving / The Cider House Rules

Anthony Minghella / The Talented Mr. Ripley

1999

Bill Condon / Gods and Monsters

1998

Brian Helgeland / L.A. Confidential

Curtis Hanson / L.A. Confidential

1997

Billy Bob Thornton / Sling Blade

John Hodge / Trainspotting

Anthony Minghella / The English Patient

1996

Mike Figgis / Leaving Las Vegas

Al Reinert / Apollo 13

Michael Radford / Il Postino

William Broyles Jr. / Apollo 13

1995

Eric Roth / Forrest Gump

1993

Bo Goldman / Scent of a Woman

1992

Ted Tally / The Silence of the Lambs

Pat Conroy / The Prince of Tides

Becky Johnston / The Prince of Tides

Oliver Stone / JFK

Europa Europa

1991

Donald E. Westlake / The Grifters

Nicholas Kazan / Reversal of Fortune

Nicholas Pileggi / GoodFellas

Martin Scorsese / GoodFellas

1990

Paul Mazursky / Enemies: A Love Story

Oliver Stone / Born on the Fourth of July

Shane Connaughton / My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

Roger L. Simon / Enemies: A Love Story

1989

Christopher Hampton / Dangerous Liaisons

Gorillas in the Mist

1988

Stanley Kubrick / Full Metal Jacket

Brasse Brännström / Mitt liv som hund

Michael Herr / Full Metal Jacket

1987

Hesper Anderson / Children of a Lesser God

1986

Janet Roach / Prizzi's Honor

Prizzi's Honor

1985

Robert Towne / Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

David Lean / A Passage to India

Bruce Robinson / The Killing Fields

1984

Willy Russell / Educating Rita

James L. Brooks / Terms of Endearment

1983

Wolfgang Petersen / Das Boot

Donald Stewart / Missing

1982

Jay Presson Allen / Prince of the City

Sidney Lumet / Prince of the City

1981

Alvin Sargent / Ordinary People

Tom Rickman / Coal Miner's Daughter

David Lynch / The Elephant Man

Breaker Morant

1980

Francis Veber / La Cage aux Folles

Robert Benton / Kramer vs. Kramer

A Little Romance

1979

Warren Beatty / Heaven Can Wait

Oliver Stone / Midnight Express

Elaine May / Heaven Can Wait

1977

Federico Fellini / Il Casanova di Federico Fellini

Bernardino Zapponi / Il Casanova di Federico Fellini

1976

Dale Wasserman / One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Bo Goldman / One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Stanley Kubrick / Barry Lyndon

Lies My Father Told Me

1975

Gene Wilder / Young Frankenstein

Mel Brooks / Young Frankenstein

Mordecai Richler / The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Francis Ford Coppola / The Godfather: Part II

1974

Waldo Salt / Serpico

1973

Bengt Forslund / Utvandrarna

1972

Stanley Kubrick / A Clockwork Orange

Bernardo Bertolucci / Il conformista

Ernest Tidyman / The French Connection

Peter Bogdanovich / The Last Picture Show

Larry McMurtry / The Last Picture Show

1971

Ring Lardner Jr. / M*A*S*H

Airport

Larry Kramer / Women in Love

1970

Robert E. Thompson / They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Horace McCoy / They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Jorge Semprun / Z

Waldo Salt / Midnight Cowboy

1968

Stirling Silliphant / In the Heat of the Night

Cool Hand Luke

1967

Robert Bolt / A Man for All Seasons

Alfie

The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming

1966

Walter Newman / Cat Ballou

1965

Stanley Kubrick / Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Bill Walsh / Mary Poppins

Terry Southern / Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

1964

James Poe / Lilies of the Field

1963

Horton Foote / To Kill a Mockingbird

1962

Sidney Carroll / The Hustler

Abby Mann / Judgment at Nuremberg

Breakfast at Tiffany's

1960

Gore Vidal / Ben-Hur

Billy Wilder / Some Like It Hot

I.A.L. Diamond / Some Like It Hot

1959

Harold Jacob Smith / The Defiant Ones

Richard Brooks / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Nedrick Young / The Defiant Ones

James Poe / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Alan Jay Lerner / Gigi

1958

Paul Osborn / Sayonara

Reginald Rose / 12 Angry Men

1957

Ivan Moffat / Giant

Fred Guiol / Giant

James Poe / Around the World in 80 Days

Tennessee Williams / Baby Doll

1956

Paddy Chayefsky / Marty

Paul Osborn / East of Eden

1955

Billy Wilder / Sabrina

Ernest Lehman / Sabrina

Samuel A. Taylor / Sabrina

1954

Daniel Taradash / From Here to Eternity

1952

Tennessee Williams / A Streetcar Named Desire

1951

Albert Maltz / Broken Arrow

Joseph L. Mankiewicz / All About Eve

1950

Robert Rossen / All the King's Men

Cesare Zavattini / Ladri di biciclette

1949

Richard L. Breen / A Foreign Affair

Charles Brackett / A Foreign Affair

Irmgard von Cube / Johnny Belinda

Billy Wilder / A Foreign Affair

1948

David Lean / Great Expectations

Moss Hart / Gentleman's Agreement

1947

Sergio Amidei / Roma città aperta

Noël Coward / Brief Encounter

Federico Fellini / Roma città aperta

1946

Billy Wilder / The Lost Weekend

Charles Brackett / The Lost Weekend

Ranald MacDougall / Mildred Pierce

1945

Billy Wilder / Double Indemnity

Raymond Chandler / Double Indemnity

Going My Way

1944

Dashiell Hammett / Watch on the Rhine

George Seaton / The Song of Bernadette

Julius J. Epstein / Casablanca

Howard Koch / Casablanca

1943

James Hilton / Mrs. Miniver

1942

Philip Dunne / How Green Was My Valley

Charles Brackett / Hold Back the Dawn

Billy Wilder / Hold Back the Dawn

1941

Nunnally Johnson / The Grapes of Wrath

Rebecca

1940

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Sidney Howard / Gone with the Wind

Walter Reisch / Ninotchka

Ben Hecht / Wuthering Heights

Charles MacArthur / Wuthering Heights

Billy Wilder / Ninotchka

Claudine West / Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Charles Brackett / Ninotchka

1936

Talbot Jennings / Mutiny on the Bounty

1935

Robert Riskin / It Happened One Night

1931

Francis Edward Faragoh / Little Caesar

Robert N. Lee / Little Caesar

Joseph L. Mankiewicz / Skippy

Sam Mintz / Skippy

Howard Estabrook / Cimarron

Horace Jackson / Holiday

Seton I. Miller / The Criminal Code

Fred Niblo Jr. / The Criminal Code

1930

George Abbott / All Quiet on the Western Front

Howard Estabrook / Street of Chance

Del Andrews / All Quiet on the Western Front

Maxwell Anderson / All Quiet on the Western Front

Julien Josephson / Disraeli

Hanns Kräly / The Patriot

John Meehan / The Divorcee

1929

Benjamin Glazer / 7th Heaven

Alfred A. Cohn / The Jazz Singer

Anthony Coldeway / Glorious Betsy

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