BAFTA Awards, Best Adapted Screenplay - TheTVDB.com

2026

Tom Basden / The Ballad of Wallis Island

Paul Thomas Anderson / One Battle After Another

Harry Lighton / Pillion

Will Tracy / Bugonia

Chloé Zhao / Hamnet

Tim Key / The Ballad of Wallis Island

Hamnet

2025

Peter Straughan / Conclave

2024

Cord Jefferson / American Fiction

Tony McNamara / Poor Things

2023

Kazuo Ishiguro / Living

Ian Stokell / Im Westen nichts Neues

Rebecca Lenkiewicz / She Said

Edward Berger / Im Westen nichts Neues

Lesley Paterson / Im Westen nichts Neues

Samuel D. Hunter / The Whale

Colm Bairéad / An Cailín Ciúin

2022

Maggie Gyllenhaal / The Lost Daughter

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi / ドライブ・マイ・カー

Sian Heder / CODA

Jane Campion / The Power of the Dog

2021

Christopher Hampton / The Father

Moira Buffini / The Dig

Chloé Zhao / Nomadland

Florian Zeller / The Father

Ramin Bahrani / The White Tiger

Michael Bronner / The Mauritanian

Sohrab Noshirvani / The Mauritanian

Rory Haines / The Mauritanian

2020

The Two Popes

Taika Waititi / Jojo Rabbit

Steven Zaillian / The Irishman

Todd Phillips / Joker

Greta Gerwig / Little Women

2019

Spike Lee / BlacKkKlansman

2018

Aaron Sorkin / Molly's Game

2017

Tom Ford / Nocturnal Animals

2016

Aaron Sorkin / Steve Jobs

2014

Terence Winter / The Wolf of Wall Street

2012

Aaron Sorkin / Moneyball

2011

Simon Beaufoy / 127 Hours

Danny Boyle / 127 Hours

Aaron Sorkin / The Social Network

2010

Jason Reitman / Up in the Air

Neill Blomkamp / District 9

Sheldon Turner / Up in the Air

2008

Ronald Harwood / Le Scaphandre et le Papillon

David Benioff / The Kite Runner

Ethan Coen / No Country for Old Men

Joel Coen / No Country for Old Men

2007

Neal Purvis / Casino Royale

2005

Les Choristes

2004

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2002

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

Shrek

2001

James Schamus / 卧虎藏龙

2000

Anthony Minghella / The Talented Mr. Ripley

1998

James Schamus / The Ice Storm

1997

Oliver Stone / Evita

Alan Parker / Evita

Ian McKellen / Richard III

Richard Loncraine / Richard III

1996

John Hodge / Trainspotting

1995

Forrest Gump

1994

Bo Goldman / Scent of a Woman

1993

Oliver Stone / JFK

1992

Jean-Claude Carrière / Cyrano de Bergerac

1991

Carrie Fisher / Postcards from the Edge

Oliver Stone / Born on the Fourth of July

1988

Marcel Pagnol / Jean de Florette

1987

Akira Kurosawa / 乱

1985

Sam Shepard / Paris, Texas

David Lean / A Passage to India

1984

Willy Russell / Educating Rita

Ronald Harwood / The Dresser

1983

Donald Stewart / Missing

1981

David Lynch / The Elephant Man

1980

Robert Benton / Kramer vs. Kramer

1973

Stanley Kubrick / A Clockwork Orange

1970

Larry Kramer / Women in Love

Jorge Semprun / Z

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