Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay

The Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States. It is awarded each year to the writer of a screenplay adapted from another source (usually a novel or play).

1920s

• 1927/1928 Seventh Heaven - Benjamin Glazer from a play by Austin Stong
• Glorious Betsy - Anthony Coldeway from a play by Rida Johnson Young
• The Jazz Singer - Alfred A. Cohn from the play Day of Atonement by Samson Raphaelson

In the 2nd and 3rd years there was only a single writing award for Writing Achievement with no distinction between original works and adaptations.

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• 1928/1929 The Patriot - Hanns Kräly from a play by Ashley Dukes translated from the play Der Patriot by Alfred Neumann derived from the story Paul I by Dmitri Merezhkovsky
• The Cop - William Taylor Garnett from a story by Elliott Judd Clawson
• In Old Arizona - Tom Barry from the story The Caballero's Way by O. Henry
• The Last of Mrs. Cheyney - Hanns Kräly from a play by Frederick Lonsdale
• The Leatherneck - Elliott Judd Clawson original
• Our Dancing Daughters - Josephine Lovett original
• Sal of Singapore - Elliott Judd Clawson from the story The Sentimentalists by Dale Collins
• Skyscraper - Elliott Judd Clawson, William Taylor Garnett from a story by Dudley Murphy
• The Valiant - Tom Barry, John Hunter Booth from a play by Halworthy Hall and Robert Middlemass
• A Woman of Affairs - Bess Meredyth from the novel The Green Hat by Michael Arlen
• Wonder of Women - Bess Meredyth from the novel Die Frau des Steffen Tromholt by Hermann Sudermann
• 1929/1930 The Big House - Joseph Farnham, Martin Flavin, Frances Marion, Lennox Marion original
• All Quiet on the Western Front - Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott, Del Andrews from a novel by Erich Maria Remarque
• Disraeli - Julien Josephson from a play by Louis N. Parker
• The Divorcee - John Meehan from the novel Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott
• Street of Chance - Lenore J. Coffee, Howard Estabrook from the story by Oliver H. P. Garrett