Best Adapted Screenplay

Winners

2024	American Fiction
2023	Women Talking
2022	CODA
2021	The Father
2020	Jojo Rabbit
2019	BlacKkKlansman
2018	Call Me by Your Name
2017	Moonlight
2016	The Big Short
2015	The Imitation Game
2014	12 Years a Slave
2013	Argo
2012	The Descendants
2011	The Social Network
2010	Precious
2009	Slumdog Millionaire
2008	No Country for Old Men
2007	The Departed
2006	Brokeback Mountain
2005	Sideways
2004	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003	The Pianist
2002	A Beautiful Mind
2001	Traffic
2000	The Cider House Rules
1999	Gods and Monsters
1998	L.A. Confidential
1997	Sling Blade
1996	Sense and Sensibility
1995	Forrest Gump
1994	Schindler's List
1993	Howards End
1992	The Silence of the Lambs
1991	Dances with Wolves
1990	Driving Miss Daisy
1989	Dangerous Liaisons
1988	The Last Emperor
1987	A Room with a View
1986	Out of Africa
1985	Amadeus
1984	Terms of Endearment
1983	Missing
1982	On Golden Pond
1981	Ordinary People
1980	Kramer vs. Kramer
1979	Midnight Express
1978	Julia
1977	All the President's Men
1976	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975	The Godfather: Part II
1974	The Exorcist
1973	The Godfather
1972	The French Connection
1971	MASH
1970	Midnight Cowboy
1969	The Lion in Winter
1968	In the Heat of the Night
1967	A Man for All Seasons
1966	Doctor Zhivago
1965	Becket
1964	Tom Jones
1963	To Kill a Mockingbird
1962	Judgment at Nuremberg
1961	Elmer Gantry
1960	Room at the Top
1959	Gigi
1958	The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957	Around the World in 80 Days
1956	Marty
1955	The Country Girl
1954	From Here to Eternity
1953	The Bad and the Beautiful
1952	A Place in the Sun
1951	All About Eve
1950	A Letter to Three Wives
1949	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948	Miracle on 34th Street
1947	The Best Years of Our Lives
1946	The Lost Weekend
1945	Going My Way
1944	Casablanca
1943	Mrs. Miniver
1942	Here Comes Mr. Jordan
1941	The Philadelphia Story
1940	Gone with the Wind
1939	Pygmalion
1938	The Life of Emile Zola
1937	The Story of Louis Pasteur
1936	The Informer
1935	It Happened One Night
1934	Little Women
1933	Bad Girl
1932	Cimarron
1931	The Big House
1930	The Patriot
1929	7th Heaven