Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay#2000s

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! rowspan="3" |1927/28
(1st)
During these years, the award was bestowed as Best Writing, Adaptation.

| 7th Heaven

| Benjamin Glazer

| The play Seventh Heaven by Austin Strong

| Anthony Coldeway

| The play by Rida Johnson Young

| Alfred A. Cohn

| The play & short story "The Day of Atonement" by Samson Raphaelson

! rowspan="11" |1928/29
(2nd)
The 2nd Academy Awards is unique in being the only occasion where there were no official nominees. Subsequent research by AMPAS has resulted in a list of unofficial or de facto nominees, based on records of which films were evaluated by the judges.

| The Patriot

| Hanns Kräly

| The novel by Alfred Neumann, play by Ashley Dukes & novel Paul I by Dmitry Merezhkovsky

| Elliott J. Clawson

| – {{small|(original)}}

| Tom Barry

| The short story "The Caballero's Way" by O. Henry

| Hanns Kräly

| The play by Frederick Lonsdale

| Elliott J. Clawson

| – {{small|(original)}}

| Josephine Lovett

| – {{small|(original)}}

| rowspan="2" | Elliott J. Clawson

| The novel The Sentimentalists by Dale Collins

| A story by Dudley Murphy

| Tom Barry

| The play by Holworthy Hall & Robert Middlemass

| rowspan="2" |Bess Meredyth

| The novel The Green Hat by Michael Arlen

| The novel The Wife of Steffen Tromholt by Hermann Sudermann

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! rowspan="5" |1929/30
{{small|(3rd)}}
During this year, the award was bestowed as Best Writing and included both original and adapted screenplays.

| The Big House

| Frances Marion

| – {{small|(original)}}

| Screenplay: George Abbott; Adaptation: Maxwell Anderson & Del Andrews; Dialogue: Anderson

| The novel by Erich Maria Remarque

| Julien Josephson

| The play by Louis N. Parker

| John Meehan

| The novel Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott

| Howard Estabrook

| A story by Oliver H.P. Garrett

! rowspan="5" |1930/31
(4th)

| Cimarron

| Howard Estabrook

| The novel by Edna Ferber

| Seton I. Miller & Fred Niblo Jr.

| The play by Martin Flavin

| Horace Jackson

| The play by Philip Barry

| Screenplay: Francis Edward Faragoh; Continuity: Robert N. Lee

| The novel by W. R. Burnett

| Joseph L. Mankiewicz & Sam Mintz

| The comic strip by Percy Crosby

! rowspan="3" |1931/32
{{small|(5th)}}

| Bad Girl

| Edwin J. Burke

| The novel by Viña Delmar and play by Delmar and Brian Marlowe

| Sidney Howard

| The novel by Sinclair Lewis

| Percy Heath & Samuel Hoffenstein

| The novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

! rowspan="3" |1932/33
{{small|(6th)}}
{{Efn|The Academy also announced that Robert Riskin came in second and Paul Green and Sonya Levien third.|group=note}}

| Little Women

| Victor Heerman & Sarah Y. Mason

| The novel by Louisa May Alcott

| Robert Riskin

| The short story "Madame La Gimp" by Damon Runyon

| Paul Green & Sonya Levien

| The novel by Phil Stong

! rowspan="3" |1934
{{small|(7th)}}
{{Efn|The Academy also announced that Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett came in second and Ben Hecht third.|group=note}}

| It Happened One Night

| Robert Riskin

| The short story "Night Bus" by Samuel Hopkins Adams

| Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett

| The novel by Dashiell Hammett

| Ben Hecht

| The book Viva Villa! A Recovery of the Real Pancho Villa, Peon, Bandit, Soldier, Patriot by Edgecumb Pinchon & O. B. Stade

! rowspan="3" |1935
(8th)From 1935 until 1955, the award was bestowed as Best Writing, Screenplay.
Captain Blood, written by Casey Robinson from the novel Captain Blood: His Odyssey by Rafael Sabatini, was not officially nominated for this award, but appears in Academy records because it placed third in voting as a write-in candidate in 1935.{{Efn|The Academy also announced that Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman, and Carey Wilson came in second and Casey Robinson third. This means Waldemar Young, John L. Balderston, Achmed Abdullah, Grover Jones, and William Slavens McNutt came in fourth.|group=note}}

| The Informer

| Dudley NicholsDudley Nichols refused to accept the award, but was in possession of it by 1949 according to Academy records.{{cite web |url=http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ |title=The Official Academy Awards Database |author= |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |access-date=January 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090227145302/http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ |archive-date=February 27, 2009 |url-status=dead}}

| The novel by Liam O'Flaherty

| Screenplay: Achmed Abdullah, John L. Balderston & Waldemar Young; Adaptation: Grover Jones & William Slavens McNutt

| The memoir by Francis Yeats-Brown

| Jules Furthman, Talbot Jennings & Carey Wilson

| The novel by James Norman Hall & Charles Nordhoff

! rowspan="5" |1936
{{small|(9th)}}

| The Story of Louis Pasteur

| Pierre Collings & Sheridan Gibney

| {{small|(original)}}

| Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett

| The novel The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

| Sidney Howard

| The play by Howard & novel by Sinclair Lewis

| Robert Riskin

| The short story "Opera Hat" by Bud Kelland

| Eric S. Hatch & Morrie Ryskind

| The novel 1101 Park Avenue by Hatch

! rowspan="5" |1937
{{small|(10th)}}

| The Life of Emile Zola

| Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg & Norman Reilly Raine

| The book Zola and His Time by Matthew Josephson

| Viña Delmar

| The play by Arthur Richman

| Marc Connelly, Dale Van Every & John Lee Mahin

| The novel Captain Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling

| Morrie Ryskind & Anthony Veiller

| The play by Edna Ferber & George S. Kaufman

| Alan Campbell, Robert Carson & Dorothy Parker

| A story by William A. Wellman & Carson

! rowspan="5" |1938
{{small|(11th)}}

| Pygmalion

| Screenplay & Dialogue: George Bernard Shaw; Adaptation: Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Arthur Lewis & W. P. Lipscomb

| The play by Shaw

| John Meehan & Dore Schary

| A story by Schary & Eleanore Griffin

| Dalrymple, Betty Hill & Spig Wead

| The novel by A. J. Cronin

| Lenore Coffee & Julius J. Epstein

| The short story "Sister Act" by Fannie Hurst

| Robert Riskin

| The play by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart

! rowspan="5" |1939
{{small|(12th)}}

| Gone with the Wind

| Sidney Howard {{small|(p.r.)}}

| The novel by Margaret Mitchell

| Holt Marvell, R. C. Sherriff & Claudine West

| The novella by James Hilton

| Sidney Buchman

| A story by Lewis R. Foster

| Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch & Billy Wilder

| A story by Melchior Lengyel

| Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur

| The novel by Emily Brontë

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! rowspan="5" |1940
{{small|(13th)}}

| The Philadelphia Story

| Donald Ogden Stewart

| The play by Philip Barry

| Nunnally Johnson

| The novel by John Steinbeck

| Dalton Trumbo

| The novel by Christopher Morley

| Dudley Nichols

| The plays The Moon of the Caribees, In the Zone, Bound East for Cardiff & The Long Voyage Home by Eugene O'Neill

| Joan Harrison & Robert E. Sherwood

| The novel by Daphne du Maurier

! rowspan="5" |1941
{{small|(14th)}}

| Here Comes Mr. Jordan

| Sidney Buchman & Seton I. Miller

| The play Heaven Can Wait by Harry Segall

| Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder

| The novel by Ketti Frings

| Philip Dunne

| The novel by Richard Llewellyn

| Lillian Hellman

| The play by Hellman

| John Huston

| The novel by Dashiell Hammett

! rowspan="5" |1942
{{small|(15th)}}

| Mrs. Miniver

| George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West & Arthur Wimperis

| The character Mrs. Miniver from the articles by Jan Struther

| Rodney Ackland & Emeric Pressburger

| A story by Pressburger

| Herman J. Mankiewicz & Jo Swerling

| A story by Paul Gallico

| Froeschel, West & Wimperis

| The novel by Hilton

| Sidney Buchman & Irwin Shaw

| A story by Sidney Harmon

! rowspan="5" |1943
{{small|(16th)}}

| Casablanca

| Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein & Howard Koch

| The play Everybody Comes to Rick's by Joan Alison & Murray Burnett

| Nunnally Johnson

| The novel Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett

| Richard Flournoy, Lewis R. Foster, Frank Ross & Robert W. Russell

| A story by Ross & Russell

| George Seaton

| The novel by Franz Werfel

| Dashiell Hammett

| The play by Lillian Hellman

! rowspan="5" |1944
{{small|(17th)}}

| Going My Way

| Frank Butler & Frank Cavett

| A story by Leo McCarey

| Raymond Chandler & Billy Wilder

| The novel Double Indemnity in Three of a Kind by James M. Cain

| John L. Balderston, Walter Reisch & John Van Druten

| The play Gas Light by Patrick Hamilton

| Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein & Elizabeth Reinhardt

| The novel by Vera Caspary

| Irving Brecher & Fred F. Finklehoffe

| The novel by Sally Benson

! rowspan="5" |1945
{{small|(18th)}}
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| The Lost Weekend

| Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder

| The novel by Charles R. Jackson

| Leopold Atlas, Guy Endore & Philip Stevenson

| The memoirs Brave Men & Here Is Your War by Ernie Pyle

| Ranald MacDougall

| The novel by James M. Cain

| Albert Maltz

| The book Al Schmid, Marine by Roger Butterfield

| Frank Davis & Tess Slesinger {{small|(p.n.)}}

| The novel by Betty Smith

! rowspan="5" |1946
{{small|(19th)}}

| The Best Years of Our Lives

| Robert E. Sherwood

| The novella Glory for Me by MacKinlay Kantor

| Sally Benson & Talbot Jennings

| The novel by Margaret Landon

| Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean & Ronald Neame

| The play Still Life by Noël Coward

| Anthony Veiller

| The short story by Ernest Hemingway

| Sergio Amidei & Federico Fellini

| A story by Amidei & Alberto Consiglio

! rowspan="5" |1947
{{small|(20th)}}

| Miracle on 34th Street

| George Seaton

| A story by Valentine Davies

| Richard Murphy

| The article "The Perfect Case" by Anthony Abbot

| John Paxton

| The novel The Brick Foxhole by Richard Brooks

| Moss Hart

| The novel by Laura Z. Hobson

| David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, & Ronald Neame

| The novel by Charles Dickens

! rowspan="5" |1948
{{small|(21st)}}

| The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

| John Huston

| The novel by B. Traven

| Charles Brackett, Richard L. Breen & Billy Wilder

| A story by David Shaw

| Allen Vincent & Irma von Cube

| The play by Elmer Blaney Harris

| Richard Schweizer & {{ill|David Wechsler (writer)|de|3=David Wechsler (Autor)|lt=David Wechsler}}

| – {{small|(original screenplay)}}

| Millen Brand & Frank Partos

| The novel by Mary Jane Ward

! rowspan="5" |1949
{{small|(22nd)}}

| A Letter to Three Wives

| Joseph L. Mankiewicz

| The novel by John Klempner

| Robert Rossen

| The novel by Robert Penn Warren

| Cesare Zavattini

| The novel by Luigi Bartolini

| Carl Foreman

| The short story by Ring Lardner

| Graham Greene

| The short story "The Basement Room" by Greene

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! rowspan="5" |1950
{{small|(23rd)}}

| All About Eve

| Joseph L. Mankiewicz

| The short story "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr

| John Huston & Ben Maddow

| The novel by W. R. Burnett

| Albert Mannheimer

| The play by Garson Kanin

| Albert MaltzMichael Blankfort was originally nominated as the screenwriter of Broken Arrow. In 1991, research proved blacklisted Albert Maltz was the screenwriter and his credit was restored. Blankfort was removed from the nomination and it was given to Maltz.

| The novel Blood Brother by Elliott Arnold

| Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett

| The novel by E. Streeter

! rowspan="5" |1951
{{small|(24th)}}

| A Place in the Sun

| Harry Brown & Michael Wilson

| The novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser & play by Patrick Kearney

| James Agee & John Huston

| The novel by C. S. Forester

| Robert Wyler & Philip Yordan

| The play by Sidney Kingsley

| Jacques Natanson & Max Ophüls

| The play by Arthur Schnitzler

| Tennessee Williams

| The play by Williams

! rowspan="5" |1952
{{small|(25th)}}

| The Bad and the Beautiful

| Charles Schnee

| A story by George Bradshaw

| Michael Wilson

| The novel Operation Cicero by Ludwig Carl Moyzisch

| Carl Foreman

| The short story "The Tin Star" by John W. Cunningham

| John Dighton, Alexander Mackendrick & Roger MacDougall

| A story by MacDougall

| Frank Nugent

| The short story by Maurice Walsh

! rowspan="5" |1953
{{small|(26th)}}

| From Here to Eternity

| Daniel Taradash

| The novel by James Jones

| Eric Ambler

| The novel by Nicholas Monsarrat

| Helen Deutsch

| The short story "The Man Who Hated People" by Paul Gallico

| John Dighton & Ian McLellan Hunter

| A story by Dalton Trumbo {{small|(front: Ian McLellan Hunter)}}

| A. B. Guthrie Jr.

| The novel by Jack Schaefer

! rowspan="5" |1954
{{small|(27th)}}

| The Country Girl

| George Seaton

| The play by Clifford Odets

| Stanley Roberts

| The novel by Herman Wouk

| John Michael Hayes

| The short story "It Had to Be Murder" by Cornell Woolrich

| Ernest Lehman, Samuel A. Taylor & Billy Wilder

| The play Sabrina Fair by Taylor

| Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett & Dorothy Kingsley

| The short story "The Sobbin' Women" by Stephen Vincent Benét

! rowspan="5" |1955
{{small|(28th)}}

| Marty

| Paddy Chayefsky

| The television play on The Philco Television Playhouse by Chayefsky

| Millard Kaufman

| The short story "Bad Time at Honda" by Howard Breslin

| Richard Brooks

| The novel by Evan Hunter

| Paul Osborn

| The novel by John Steinbeck

| Daniel Fuchs & Isobel Lennart

| A story by Fuchs

! rowspan="5" |1956
(29th)

| Around the World in 80 Days

| John Farrow, S. J. Perelman & James Poe

| The novel by Jules Verne

| Tennessee Williams

| The plays 27 Wagons Full of Cotton & The Long Stay Cut Short, or The Unsatisfactory Supper by Williams

| Michael WilsonMichael Wilson was originally credited as the screenwriter of Friendly Persuasion, but Allied Artists, acting in agreement with the Screen Writers Guild, removed his credit because he was blacklisted. Early in 1957, the Academy revised its bylaws so the film would be eligible for a writing nomination without naming Wilson as a nominee. Friendly Persuasion was initially announced a nominee without a writer's name attached. The Academy's Board of Governors voted to strike the nomination altogether and it was not included on the final ballot. The Board of Governors, however, reinstated the nomination with Wilson's name attached in 2002.

| The novel by Jessamyn West

| Fred Guiol & Ivan Moffat

| The novel by Edna Ferber

| Norman Corwin

| The novel by Irving Stone

! rowspan="5" |1957
(30th)

| The Bridge on the River Kwai

| Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman, & Michael WilsonPierre Boulle was credited as the screenwriter of The Bridge on the River Kwai and ultimately won the award. Blacklisted writers Michael Wilson and Carl Foreman, who actually wrote the screenplay, were awarded posthumous Oscars by the Academy's Board of Governors in 1984.

| The novel The Bridge over the River Kwai by Boulle

| Reginald Rose

| The teleplay on Westinghouse Studio One and play by Rose

| John Huston & John Lee Mahin

| The novel by Charles Shaw

| John Michael Hayes

| The novel by Grace Metalious

| Paul Osborn

| The novel by James A. Michener

! rowspan="5" |1958
{{small|(31st)}}

| Gigi

| Alan Jay Lerner

| The novella by Colette

| Richard Brooks & James Poe

| The play & short story "Three Players of a Summer Game" by Tennessee Williams

| Alec Guinness

| The novel by Joyce Cary

| Nelson Gidding & Don Mankiewicz

| Articles by Edward S. Montgomery & letters by Barbara Graham

| John Gay & Terence Rattigan

| The plays by Rattigan

! rowspan="5" |1959
{{small|(32nd)}}

| Room at the Top

| Neil Paterson

| The novel by John Braine

| Wendell Mayes

| The novel by John D. Voelker

| Karl Tunberg

| The novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

| Robert Anderson

| The novel by Kathryn Hulme

| I. A. L. Diamond & Billy Wilder

| The 1935 French film Fanfare of Love written by Max Bronnet, Michael Logan, Pierre Prévert, René Pujol and Robert Thoeren & the 1951 German remake Fanfares of Love written by Logan, Thoeren and Heinz Pauck

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! rowspan="5" |1960
{{small|(33rd)}}

| Elmer Gantry

| Richard Brooks

| The novel by Sinclair Lewis

| Harold Jacob Smith & Nedrick YoungDue to blacklisting, Young wrote under the pseudonym Nathan E. Douglas.

| The play by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee

| T. E. B. Clarke & Gavin Lambert

| The novel by D. H. Lawrence

| Isobel Lennart

| The novel by Jon Cleary

| James Kennaway

| The novel by Kennaway

! rowspan="5" |1961
{{small|(34th)}}

| Judgment at Nuremberg

| Abby Mann

| The television play on Playhouse 90 by Mann

| George Axelrod

| The novella by Truman Capote

| Carl Foreman

| The novel by Alistair MacLean

| Sidney Carroll & Robert Rossen

| The novel by Walter Tevis

| Ernest Lehman

| The musical by Arthur Laurents

! rowspan="5" |1962
{{small|(35th)}}

| To Kill a Mockingbird

| Horton Foote

| The novel by Harper Lee

| Eleanor Perry

| The novella Lisa and David by Dr. Theodore Isaac Rubin

| Robert Bolt & Michael WilsonIn 1995, research proved blacklisted Michael Wilson was also a screenwriter of Lawrence of Arabia. He was added as a nominee by the Academy's Board of Governors.

| The memoir Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence

| Vladimir Nabokov

| The novel by Nabokov

| William Gibson

| The play & television play on Playhouse 90 by Gibson

! rowspan="5" |1963
{{small|(36th)}}

| Tom Jones

| John Osborne

| The novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

| Richard L. Breen, Henry & Phoebe Ephron

| The novel by Leo Rosten

| Harriet Frank Jr. & Irving Ravetch

| The novel Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry

| James Poe

| The novel by William Edmund Barrett

| Scenario: Serge Bourguignon & Antoine Tudal; Dialogue: Bourguignon

| The novel Les dimanches de Ville d'Avray by Bernard Eschassériaux

! rowspan="5" |1964
{{small|(37th)}}

| Becket

| Edward Anhalt

| The play by Jean Anouilh

| Stanley Kubrick, Peter George & Terry Southern

| The novel Red Alert by George

| Don DaGradi & Bill Walsh

| The novel series by P. L. Travers

| Alan Jay Lerner

| The musical by Lerner

| Michael Cacoyannis

| The novel by Nikos Kazantzakis

! rowspan="5" |1965
{{small|(38th)}}

| Doctor Zhivago

| Robert Bolt

| The novel by Boris Pasternak

| Walter Newman & Frank Pierson

| The novel The Ballad of Cat Ballou by Roy Chanslor

| John Kohn & Stanley Mann

| The novel by John Fowles

| Abby Mann

| The novel by Katherine Anne Porter

| Herb Gardner

| The play by Gardner

! rowspan="5" |1966
{{small|(39th)}}

| A Man for All Seasons

| Robert Bolt

| The play by Bolt

| Bill Naughton

| The play by Naughton

| Richard Brooks

| The novel A Mule for the Marquesa by Frank O'Rourke

| William Rose

| The novel The Off-Islanders by Nathaniel Benchley

| Ernest Lehman

| The play by Edward Albee

! rowspan="5" |1967
{{small|(40th)}}

| In the Heat of the Night

| Stirling Silliphant

| The novel by John Ball

| Donn Pearce & Frank Pierson

| The novel by Pearce

| Buck Henry & Calder Willingham

| The novella by Charles Webb

| Richard Brooks

| The book by Truman Capote

| Fred Haines & Joseph Strick

| The novel by James Joyce

! rowspan="5" |1968
{{small|(41st)}}

| The Lion in Winter

| James Goldman

| The play by Goldman

| Neil Simon

| The play by Simon

| Vernon Harris

| The musical by Lionel Bart

| Stewart Stern

| The novel A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence

| Roman Polanski

| The novel by Ira Levin

! rowspan="5" |1969
{{small|(42nd)}}

| Midnight Cowboy

| Waldo Salt

| The novel by James Leo Herlihy

| Screenplay: Bridget Boland & John Hale; Adaptation: Richard Sokolove

| The play by Maxwell Anderson

| Arnold Schulman

| The novella by Philip Roth

| James Poe & Robert E. Thompson

| The novel by Horace McCoy

| Costa-Gavras & Jorge Semprún

| The novel by Vassilis Vassilikos

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! rowspan="5" |1970
{{small|(43rd)}}

| M*A*S*H

| Ring Lardner Jr.

| The novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker

| George Seaton

| The novel by Arthur Hailey

| Robert Anderson

| The play by Anderson

| Joseph Bologna, David Zelag Goodman & Renée Taylor

| The play by Bologna & Taylor

| Larry Kramer

| The novel by D. H. Lawrence

! rowspan="5" |1971
{{small|(44th)}}

| The French Connection

| Ernest Tidyman

| The book The French Connection: The World's Most Crucial Narcotics Investigation by Robin Moore

| Stanley Kubrick

| The novel by Anthony Burgess

| Bernardo Bertolucci

| The novel by Alberto Moravia

| Vittorio Bonicelli & Ugo Pirro

| The novel by Giorgio Bassani

| Peter Bogdanovich & Larry McMurtry

| The novel by McMurtry

! rowspan="5" |1972
{{small|(45th)}}

| The Godfather

| Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo

| The novel by Puzo

| Jay Presson Allen

| The musical by Joe Masteroff

| Bengt Forslund & Jan Troell

| The novels The Emigrants & Unto a Good Land by Vilhelm Moberg

| Julius J. Epstein

| The novella Witch's Milk by Peter De Vries

| Lonne Elder III

| The novel by William H. Armstrong

! rowspan="5" |1973
{{small|(46th)}}

| The Exorcist

| William Peter Blatty

| The novel by Blatty

| Robert Towne

| The novel by Darryl Ponicsan

| James Bridges

| The novel by John Jay Osborn Jr.

| Alvin Sargent

| The novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown

| Waldo Salt & Norman Wexler

| The book Serpico: The Cop Who Defied the System by Peter Maas

! rowspan="5" |1974
{{small|(47th)}}

| The Godfather Part II

| Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo

| The novel The Godfather by Puzo

| Screenplay: Mordecai Richler; Adaptation: Lionel Chetwynd

| The novel by Richler

| Julian Barry

| The play by Barry

| Paul Dehn

| The novel by Agatha Christie

| Mel Brooks & Gene Wilder

| The novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley

! rowspan="5" |1975
{{small|(48th)}}

| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

| Bo Goldman & Lawrence Hauben

| The novel by Ken Kesey

| Stanley Kubrick

| The novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

| Gladys Hill & John Huston

| The short story by Rudyard Kipling

| Ruggero Maccari & Dino Risi

| The novel Il buio e il mare by Giovanni Arpino

| Neil Simon

| The play by Simon

! rowspan="5" |1976
{{small|(49th)}}

| All the President's Men

| William Goldman

| The memoir by Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward

| Robert Getchell

| The memoir by Woody Guthrie

| Federico Fellini & Bernardino Zapponi

| The memoir History of My Life by Giacomo Casanova

| Nicholas Meyer

| The novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. by Meyer

| David Butler & Steve Shagan

| The book by Gordon Thomas & Max Morgan-Witts

! rowspan="5" |1977
{{small|(50th)}}

| Julia

| Alvin Sargent

| The memoir Pentimento: A Book of Portraits by Lillian Hellman

| Peter Shaffer

| The play by Shaffer

| Lewis John Carlino & Gavin Lambert

| The novel by Joanne Greenberg

| Larry Gelbart

| The novel by Avery Corman

| Scenario: Luis Buñuel; Collaboration: Jean-Claude Carrière

| The novel The Woman and the Puppet by Pierre Louÿs

! rowspan="5" |1978
{{small|(51st)}}

| Midnight Express

| Oliver Stone

| The memoir by Billy Hayes & William Hoffer

| Walter Newman

| The novel by Richard Price

| Neil Simon

| The play by Simon

| Warren Beatty & Elaine May

| The play by Harry Segall

| Bernard Slade

| The play by Slade

! rowspan="5" |1979
{{small|(52nd)}}

| Kramer vs. Kramer

| Robert Benton

| The novel by Avery Corman

| Francis Ford Coppola & John Milius

| The novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

| Marcello Danon, Édouard Molinaro, Jean Poiret & Francis Veber

| The play by Poiret

| Allan Burns

| The novel E=mc² Mon Amour by Patrick Cauvin

| Harriet Frank Jr. & Irving Ravetch

| The book Crystal Lee, a Woman of Inheritance by Hank Leiferman

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! rowspan="5" |1980
{{small|(53rd)}}

| Ordinary People

| Alvin Sargent

| The novel by Judith Guest

| Bruce Beresford, Jonathan Hardy & David Stevens

| The play Breaker Morant: A Play in Two Acts by Kenneth G. Ross

| Thomas Rickman

| The memoir Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter by Loretta Lynn & George Vecsey

| Eric Bergren, Christopher De Vore & David Lynch

| The memoir The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences by Frederick Treves & book The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity by Ashley Montagu

| Screenplay: Lawrence B. Marcus; Adaptation: Richard Rush

| The novel by Paul Brodeur

! rowspan="5" |1981
{{small|(54th)}}

| On Golden Pond

| Ernest Thompson

| The play by Thompson

| Harold Pinter

| The novel by John Fowles

| Dennis Potter

| The television series by Potter

| Jay Presson Allen & Sidney Lumet

| The book Prince of the City: The True Story of a Cop Who Knew Too Much by Robert Daley

| Michael Weller

| The novel by E. L. Doctorow

! rowspan="5" |1982
{{small|(55th)}}

| Missing

| Costa-Gavras & Donald E. Stewart

| The book The Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice by Thomas Hauser

| Wolfgang Petersen

| The novel by Lothar-Günther Buchheim

| Alan J. Pakula

| The novel by William Styron

| David Mamet

| The novel by Barry Reed

| Blake Edwards

| The film Victor and Victoria by Reinhold Schünzel

! rowspan="5" |1983
{{small|(56th)}}

| Terms of Endearment

| James L. Brooks

| The novel by Larry McMurtry

| Harold Pinter

| The play by Pinter

| Ronald Harwood

| The play by Harwood

| Willy Russell

| The play by Russell

| Julius J. Epstein

| The play Spofford by Herman Shumlin & novel by Peter De Vries

! rowspan="5" |1984
{{small|(57th)}}

| Amadeus

| Peter Shaffer

| The play by Shaffer

| Michael Austin & Robert TowneGreystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes was initially adapted by screenwriter Robert Towne, but he removed his name from the credits because he was unhappy with co-writer Michael Austin's alterations and the finished film itself. He instead used the pseudonym P.H. Vazak, the name of his late Hungarian sheepdog.{{cite web |url=http://www.ifc.com/2008/02/fake-names-real-oscars-five-no |title=Fake Names, Real Oscars: Five Nominees Who Didn't Really Exist |last=Saito |first=Stephen |work=IFC |date=February 20, 2008 |publisher=IFC |access-date=January 9, 2018}}

| The novel Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

| Bruce Robinson

| The article "The Death and Life of Dith Pran: A Story of Cambodia" by Sydney Schanberg

| David Lean

| The novel by E. M. Forster

| Charles Fuller

| The play A Soldier's Play by Fuller

! rowspan="5" |1985
{{small|(58th)}}

| Out of Africa

| Kurt Luedtke

| The memoir by Karen Blixen & books Silence Will Speak: A Study of the Life of Denys Finch Hatton and His Relationship With Karen Blixen by Errol Trzebinski & Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller by Judith Thurman

| Menno Meyjes

| The novel by Alice Walker

| Leonard Schrader

| The novel by Manuel Puig

| Richard Condon & Janet Roach

| The novel by Condon

| Horton Foote

| The play & television film by Foote

! rowspan="5" |1986
{{small|(59th)}}

| A Room with a View

| Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

| The novel by E. M. Forster

| Hesper Anderson & Mark Medoff

| The play by Medoff

| Richard Price

| The novel by Walter Tevis

| Beth Henley

| The play by Henley

| Bruce A. Evans & Raynold Gideon

| The novella The Body by Stephen King

! rowspan="5" |1987
{{small|(60th)}}

| The Last Emperor

| Bernardo Bertolucci & Mark Peploe

| The memoir From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi by Puyi

| Tony Huston

| The short story by James Joyce

| James Dearden

| The television film Diversion by Dearden

| Gustav Hasford, Michael Herr & Stanley Kubrick

| The novel The Short-Timers by Hasford

| Per Berglund, Brasse Brännström, Lasse Hallström & Reidar Jönsson

| The novel Mitt liv som hund by Jönsson

! rowspan="5" |1988
{{small|(61st)}}

| Dangerous Liaisons

| Christopher Hampton

| The play Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Hampton & novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

| Frank Galati & Lawrence Kasdan

| The novel by Anne Tyler

| Screenplay: Anna Hamilton Phelan; Story: Tab Murphy & Phelan

| The article by Harold Hayes

| Christine Edzard

| The novel by Charles Dickens

| Jean-Claude Carrière & Philip Kaufman

| The novel by Milan Kundera

! rowspan="5" |1989
{{small|(62nd)}}

| Driving Miss Daisy

| Alfred Uhry

| The play by Uhry

| Ron Kovic & Oliver Stone

| The memoir by Kovic

| Paul Mazursky & Roger L. Simon

| The novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer

| Phil Alden Robinson

| The novel Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella

| Shane Connaughton & Jim Sheridan

| The memoir by Christy Brown

! width="5%" | Year

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! width="30%" | Nominees

! width="40%" | Source Material

! rowspan="5" |1990
{{small|(63rd)}}

| Dances with Wolves

| Michael Blake

| The novel by Blake

| Steven Zaillian

| The memoir by Oliver Sacks

| Nicholas Pileggi & Martin Scorsese

| The book Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Pileggi

| Donald E. Westlake

| The novel by Jim Thompson

| Nicholas Kazan

| The memoir Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow Case by Alan Dershowitz

! rowspan="5" |1991
{{small|(64th)}}

| The Silence of the Lambs

| Ted Tally

| The novel by Thomas Harris

| Agnieszka Holland

| The memoir I Was Hitler Youth Salomon by Solomon Perel

| Fannie Flagg & Carol Sobieski {{small|(p.n.)}}

| The novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Flagg

| Zachary Sklar & Oliver Stone

| The memoir On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison & book Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy by Jim Marrs

| Pat Conroy & Becky Johnston

| The novel by Conroy

! rowspan="5" |1992
{{small|(65th)}}

| Howards End

| Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

| The novel by E. M. Forster

| Peter Barnes

| The novel by Elizabeth von Arnim

| Michael Tolkin

| The novel by Tolkin

| Richard Friedenberg

| The novella by Norman Maclean

| Bo Goldman

| The novel Il buio e il miele by Giovanni Arpino & film by Ruggero Maccari & Dino Risi

! rowspan="5" |1993
{{small|(66th)}}

| Schindler's List

| Steven Zaillian

| The novel Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally

| Jay Cocks & Martin Scorsese

| The novel by Edith Wharton

| Terry George & Jim Sheridan

| The memoir Proved Innocent: The Story of Gerry Conlon of the Guildford Four by Gerry Conlon

| Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

| The novel by Kazuo Ishiguro

| William Nicholson

| The play & television film by Nicholson

! rowspan="5" |1994
{{small|(67th)}}

| Forrest Gump

| Eric Roth

| The novel by Winston Groom

| Alan Bennett

| The play The Madness of George III by Bennett

| Robert Benton

| The novel by Richard Russo

| Paul Attanasio

| The book Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties by Richard N. Goodwin

| Frank Darabont

| The novella "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" by Stephen King

! rowspan="5" |1995
{{small|(68th)}}

| Sense and Sensibility

| Emma Thompson

| The novel by Jane Austen

| William Broyles Jr. & Al Reinert

| The memoir Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Jeffrey Kluger & Jim Lovell

| George Miller & Chris Noonan

| The novel The Sheep-Pig by Dick King-Smith

| Mike Figgis

| The novel by John O'Brien

| Screenplay: Anna Pavignano, Michael Radford, Furio & Giacomo Scarpelli & Massimo Troisi {{small|(p.n.)}}; Story: F. & G. Scarpelli

| The novel Ardiente Paciencia by Antonio Skármeta

! rowspan="5" |1996
{{small|(69th)}}

| Sling Blade

| Billy Bob Thornton

| The short film Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade written by Thornton

| Arthur Miller

| The play by Miller

| Anthony Minghella

| The novel by Michael Ondaatje

| Kenneth Branagh

| The play The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

| John Hodge

| The novel by Irvine Welsh

! rowspan="5" |1997
{{small|(70th)}}

| L.A. Confidential

| Curtis Hanson & Brian Helgeland

| The novel by James Ellroy

| Paul Attanasio

| The memoir Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia by Joseph D. Pistone & Richard Woodley

| Atom Egoyan

| The novel by Russell Banks

| Hilary Henkin & David Mamet

| The novel American Hero by Larry Beinhart

| Hossein Amini

| The novel by Henry James

! rowspan="5" |1998
{{small|(71st)}}

| Gods and Monsters

| Bill Condon

| The novel Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram

| Scott Frank

| The novel by Elmore Leonard

| Elaine May

| The novel Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics by Joe Klein

| Scott Smith

| The novel by Smith

| Terrence Malick

| The novel by James Jones

! rowspan="5" |1999
{{small|(72nd)}}

| The Cider House Rules

| John Irving

| The novel by Irving

| Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor

| The novel by Tom Perrotta

| Frank Darabont

| The novel by Stephen King

| Michael Mann & Eric Roth

| The article "The Man Who Knew Too Much" by Marie Brenner

| Anthony Minghella

| The novel by Patricia Highsmith

! width="5%" | Year

! width="25%" | Film

! width="30%" | Nominees

! width="40%" | Source Material

! rowspan="5" |2000
{{small|(73rd)}}

| Traffic

| Stephen Gaghan

| The television series Traffik by Simon Moore

| Robert Nelson Jacobs

| The novel by Joanne Harris

| Wang Hui-ling, James Schamus & Kuo Jung Tsai

| The novel by Wang Dulu

| Joel and Ethan Coen

| The epic poem the Odyssey by Homer

| Steve Kloves

| The novel by Michael Chabon

! rowspan="5" |2001
{{small|(74th)}}

| A Beautiful Mind

| Akiva Goldsman

| The book by Sylvia Nasar

| Daniel Clowes & Terry Zwigoff

| The graphic novel by Clowes

| Rob Festinger & Todd Field

| The short story "Killings" by Andre Dubus

| Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson & Fran Walsh

| The novel The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien

| Ted Elliott, Roger S. H. Schulman, Joe Stillman & Terry Rossio

| The picture book by William Steig

! rowspan="5" |2002
{{small|(75th)}}

| The Pianist

| Ronald Harwood

| The memoir by Władysław Szpilman

| Peter Hedges, Chris & Paul Weitz

| The novel by Nick Hornby

| Charlie & Donald KaufmanScreenwriter Charlie Kaufman is a character in his own script for Adaptation, as is his fictional twin brother Donald. The nonexistent Donald was credited as a screenwriter and was nominated for an Academy Award. The film's end credits claimed he had died during pre-production.

| The book The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean

| Bill Condon

| The musical by Fred Ebb & Bob Fosse

| David Hare

| The novel by Michael Cunningham

! rowspan="5" |2003
{{small|(76th)}}

| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

| Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson & Fran Walsh

| The novel The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien

| Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini

| The comic books by Harvey Pekar & graphic novel Our Cancer Year by Pekar & Joyce Brabner

| Bráulio Mantovani

| The novel by Paulo Lins

| Brian Helgeland

| The novel by Dennis Lehane

| Gary Ross

| The book Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

! rowspan="5" |2004
{{small|(77th)}}

| Sideways

| Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor

| The novel by Rex Pickett

| Screenplay: Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke & Richard Linklater; Story: Kim Krizan & Linklater

| Characters from the film Before Sunrise by Krizan & Linklater

| David Magee

| The play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee

| Paul Haggis

| The short story collection Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner by F.X. Toole

| José Rivera

| The memoirs Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary by Alberto Granado & The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara

! rowspan="5" |2005
{{small|(78th)}}

| Brokeback Mountain

| Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana

| The short story by Annie Proulx

| Dan Futterman

| The book by Gerald Clarke

| Jeffrey Caine

| The novel by John le Carré

| Josh Olson

| The graphic novel by Vince Locke & John Wagner

| Tony Kushner & Eric Roth

| The book Vengeance by George Jonas

! rowspan="5" |2006
{{small|(79th)}}

| The Departed

| William Monahan

| The film Infernal Affairs written by Felix Chong & Alan Mak

| Screenplay: Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham, Anthony Hines & Dan Mazer; Story: Baron Cohen, Baynham, Hines & Todd Phillips

| The character Borat Sagdiyev from the television series Da Ali G Show by Baron Cohen

|David Arata, Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby & Timothy J. Sexton

| The novel by P. D. James

| Todd Field & Tom Perrotta

| The novel by Perrotta

| Patrick Marber

| The novel by Zoë Heller

! rowspan="5" |2007
{{small|(80th)}}

| No Country for Old Men

| Coen Brothers

| The novel by Cormac McCarthy

| Christopher Hampton

| The novel by Ian McEwan

| Sarah Polley

| The short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" by Alice Munro

| Ronald Harwood

| The memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby

| Paul Thomas Anderson

| The novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair

! rowspan="5" |2008
{{small|(81st)}}

| Slumdog Millionaire

| Simon Beaufoy

| The novel Q & A by Vikas Swarup

| Screenplay: Eric Roth; Story: Roth & Robin Swicord

| The short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald

| John Patrick Shanley

| The play Doubt: A Parable by Shanley

| Peter Morgan

| The play by Morgan

| David Hare

| The novel by Bernhard Schlink

! rowspan="5" |2009
{{small|(82nd)}}

| Precious

| Geoffrey S. Fletcher

| The novel Push by Sapphire

| Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell

| The short film Alive in Joburg by Blomkamp

| Nick Hornby

| The memoir by Lynn Barber

| Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche

| The character Malcolm Tucker from the television series The Thick of It by Iannucci

| Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner

| The novel by Walter Kirn

! width="5%" | Year

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! width="30%" | Nominees

! width="40%" | Source Material

! rowspan="5" |2010
{{small|(83rd)}}

| The Social Network

| Aaron Sorkin

| The book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich

| Simon Beaufoy & Danny Boyle

| The memoir Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston

| Screenplay: Michael Arndt; Story: John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich

| Characters from the film Toy Story by Pete Docter, Lasseter, Joe Ranft, & Stanton

| Coen Brothers

| The novel by Charles Portis

| Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini

| The novel by Daniel Woodrell

! rowspan="5" |2011
{{small|(84th)}}

| The Descendants

| Nat Faxon, Alexander Payne & Jim Rash

| The novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings

| John Logan

| The novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

| George Clooney, Grant Heslov & Beau Willimon

| The play Farragut North by Willimon

| Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin & Steven Zaillian; Story: Stan Chervin

| The book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis

| Bridget O'Connor {{small|(p.n.)}} & Peter Straughan

| The novel by John le Carré

! rowspan="5" |2012
{{small|(85th)}}

| Argo

| Chris Terrio

| The memoir The Master of Disguise by Tony Mendez & article "The Great Escape: How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran" by Joshuah Bearman

| Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin

| The play Juicy and Delicious by Alibar

| David Magee

| The novel by Yann Martel

| Tony Kushner

| The book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

| David O. Russell

| The novel by Matthew Quick

! rowspan="5" |2013
{{small|(86th)}}

| 12 Years a Slave

| John Ridley

| The memoir by Solomon Northup

| Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke & Richard Linklater

| Characters from the film Before Sunrise by Kim Krizan & Linklater

| Billy Ray

| The memoir A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea by Richard Phillips & Stephan Talty

| Steve Coogan & Jeff Pope

| The book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee by Martin Sixsmith

| Terence Winter

| The memoir by Jordan Belfort

! rowspan="5" |2014
{{small|(87th)}}

| The Imitation Game

| Graham Moore

| The book Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges

| Jason Hall

| The memoir American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Jim DeFelice, Chris Kyle & Scott McEwan

| Paul Thomas Anderson

| The novel by Thomas Pynchon

| Anthony McCarten

| The memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Hawking

| Damien Chazelle

| The short film by Chazelle

! rowspan="5" |2015
{{small|(88th)}}

| The Big Short

| Charles Randolph & Adam McKay

| The book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis

| Nick Hornby

| The novel by Colm Tóibín

| Phyllis Nagy

| The novel The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith

| Drew Goddard

| The novel by Andy Weir

| Emma Donoghue

| The novel by Donoghue

! rowspan="5" |2016
{{small|(89th)}}
{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-oscars-2017-nominees-winners-list-20170123-story.html |title=Academy Awards 2017: Complete list of Oscar winners and nominees |author= |date=February 26, 2017 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=January 8, 2018}}

| Moonlight

| Screenplay: Barry Jenkins; Story: Tarell Alvin McCraney

| The unpublished play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by McCraney

| Eric Heisserer

| The novella "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang

| August Wilson {{small|(p.n.)}}

| The play by Wilson

| Theodore Melfi & Allison Schroeder

| The book Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

| Luke Davies

| The memoir A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley & Larry Buttrose

! rowspan="5" |2017
{{small|(90th)}}
{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/90th_noms_announcement.pdf |title=90th Oscar Nominations Announced |author= |date=January 23, 2018 |publisher=Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences |access-date=January 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180123225943/http://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/90th_noms_announcement.pdf |archive-date=January 23, 2018 |url-status=live }}

| Call Me by Your Name

| James Ivory

| The novel by André Aciman

| Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber

| The memoir The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sestero & Tom Bissell

| Screenplay: Scott Frank, Michael Green & James Mangold; Story: Mangold

| The character Wolverine from the comic books by John Romita Sr. & Len Wein

| Aaron Sorkin

| The memoir by Molly Bloom

| Dee Rees & Virgil Williams

| The novel by Hillary Jordan

! rowspan="5" |2018
{{small|(91st)}}
{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/91st_noms_announcement.pdf |title=91st Oscar Nominations Announced |author= |date=January 22, 2019 |publisher=Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences |access-date=January 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123071313/https://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/91st_noms_announcement.pdf |archive-date=January 23, 2019 |url-status=live }}

| BlacKkKlansman

| Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel & Kevin Willmott

| The memoir Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth

| Coen Brothers

| The short stories "All Gold Canyon" by Jack London & "The Gal Who Got Rattled" by Stewart Edward White

| Nicole Holofcener & Jeff Whitty

| The memoir by Lee Israel

| Barry Jenkins

| The novel by James Baldwin

| Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters & Eric Roth

| The 1954 film by Moss Hart, 1976 film by Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne & Frank Pierson & 1937 film by Robert Carson & William A. Wellman

! rowspan="5" |2019
{{small|(92nd)}}
{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/91st_noms_announcement.pdf |title=92nd Oscar Nominations Announced |author= |date=January 22, 2019 |publisher=Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences |access-date=January 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123071313/https://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/91st_noms_announcement.pdf |archive-date=January 23, 2019 |url-status=live }}

| Jojo Rabbit

| Taika Waititi

| The novel Caging Skies by Christine Leunens

| Steven Zaillian

| The memoir I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa by Charles Brandt

| Todd Phillips & Scott Silver

| The character from the comic books by Bill Finger, Bob Kane & Jerry Robinson

| Greta Gerwig

| The novel by Louisa May Alcott

| Anthony McCarten

| The play The Pope by McCarten

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! width="25%" | Film

! width="30%" | Nominees

! width="40%" | Source Material

! rowspan="5" |2020/21
{{small|(93rd)}}
{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/partial-list-nominees-93rd-academy-awards-76463843 |title=Complete list of nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards |work=ABC News |date=March 15, 2021 |access-date=March 15, 2021}}

| The Father

| Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller

| The play by Zeller

| Screenplay: Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham, Jena Friedman, Anthony Hines, Lee Kern, Dan Mazer, Erica Rivinoja & Dan Swimer; Story: Baron Cohen, Hines, Nina Pedrad & Swimer

| The character Borat Sagdiyev from the television series Da Ali G Show by Baron Cohen

| Chloé Zhao

| The book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder

| Kemp Powers

| The play by Powers

| Ramin Bahrani

| The novel by Arvind Adiga

! rowspan="5" |2021
{{small|(94th)}}
{{cite web |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2022 |title=94th Academy Awards Nominees |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |access-date=February 8, 2022 |archive-date=January 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130155459/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2022 |url-status=live}}

|CODA

|Sian Heder

|The film La Famille Bélier by Victoria Bedos, Thomas Bidegain, Stanislas Carré de Malberg & Éric Lartigau

| Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe

| The short story by Haruki Murakami

| Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts & Denis Villeneuve

| The novel by Frank Herbert

| Maggie Gyllenhaal

| The novel by Elena Ferrante

| Jane Campion

| The novel by Thomas Savage

! rowspan="5" | 2022
(95th)
{{cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2023|title=95th Academy Awards Nominees|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|access-date=January 23, 2025|archive-date=January 30, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130155459/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2023|url-status=live}}

|Women Talking

|Sarah Polley

|The novel by Miriam Toews

|Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson & Ian Stokell

|The novel by Erich Maria Remarque

|Rian Johnson

|The character Benoit Blanc from the film Knives Out by Johnson

|Kazuo Ishiguro

|The film Ikiru by Shinobu Hashimoto, Akira Kurosawa & Hideo Oguni

|Screenplay: Ehren Kruger, Christopher McQuarrie & Eric Warren Singer; Story: Peter Craig & Justin Marks

|Characters from the film Top Gun by Jim Cash & Jack Epps Jr.

! rowspan="5" | 2023
(96th)
{{cite web|title=The 96th Academy Awards|date=January 23, 2024 |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2024|access-date=January 23, 2025|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences}}

| American Fiction

| Cord Jefferson

| The novel Erasure by Percival Everett

| Noah Baumbach & Greta Gerwig

| The characters created by Ruth Handler

| Christopher Nolan

| The book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin

| Tony McNamara

| The novel Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer by Alisdair Gray

| Jonathan Glazer

| The novel by Martin Amis

! rowspan="5" | 2024
(97th)
{{cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2025|title=The 97th Academy Awards (2025) Nominees and Winners|date=January 23, 2025 |access-date=January 23, 2025|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)}}

|Conclave

|Peter Straughan

|The novel by Robert Harris

|Jay Cocks & James Mangold

|The book Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties by Elijah Wald

|Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Nicolas Livecchi & Léa Mysius

|The novel Écoute by Boris Razon & the opera libretto by Audiard

|Joslyn Barnes & RaMell Ross

|The novel The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

|Screenplay: Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar; Story: Bentley, Kwedar, Clarence Maclin & John "Divine G" Whitfield

|The book The Sing Sing Follies by John H. Richardson & the play Breakin' the Mummy's Code by Brent Buell

! scope="col" width="55" | Wins

! scope="col" align="center" | Writer

| Robert Bolt

! scope="col" width="55" | Nominations

! scope="col" align="center" | Writer

| Billy Wilder

| John Huston

| Richard Brooks

| Michael Wilson

| Joseph L. Mankiewicz

| rowspan="2"|James Ivory

| rowspan="2"|Call Me by Your Name

|89 years, 270 days

| {{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/mar/05/james-ivory-is-oldest-oscar-winner-ever-with-adapted-screenplay-award-for-call-me-by-your-name |title=James Ivory is oldest Oscar winner ever with screenplay award for Call Me by Your Name |website=The Guardian |date=5 March 2018 |access-date=April 3, 2020}}

|89 years, 230 days

| [https://www.theringer.com/2018/1/23/16923366/academy-award-nominations-get-out-lady-bird-three-billboards-shape-of-water-snubs-surprises Snubs, Surprises, and a Staring Contest: The Academy Awards Nominations - The Ringer]

| Charlie Wachtel

| BlacKkKlansman

| *32 years

| {{cite web |url=https://www.american.edu/soc/news/soc-alumnus-racks-up-nominations-for-best-adapted-screenplay.cfm |title=SOC Alumnus Wins Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay |website=American Washington University |date=25 February 2019 |access-date=April 3, 2020}}

| Joseph L. Mankiewicz

| Skippy

| 22 years, 236 days

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