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).

1930s

For the 1930/31 production year the award was again subdivided, and this one was once again Best Writing, Adaptation.

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• 1930/1931 Cimarron - Howard Estabrook from the novel by Edna Ferber
• The Criminal Code - Seton I. Miller, Fred Niblo Jr. from a play by Martin Flavin
• Holiday - Horace Jackson from the play by Philip Barry
• Little Caesar - Francis Edward Faragoli, Robert N. Lee, Robert Lord, Darryl F. Zanuck from the novel by William R. Burnett
• Skippy - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Don Marquis, Norman Z. McLeod, Sam Mintz from the comic strip by Percy Crosby
• 1931/1932 Bad Girl - Edwin J. Burke from the novel and play by Viña Delmar
• Arrowsmith - Sidney Howard from the novel by Sinclair Lewis
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Samuel Hoffenstein, Percy Heath from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 1932/1933 Little Women - Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason from the novel by Louisa May Alcott
• Lady for a Day - Robert Riskin from the story Madame la Gimp by Damon Runyon
• State Fair - Paul Green, Sonya Levien from the novel by Philip Stong
• 1934 It Happened One Night - Robert Riskin from the story Night Bus by Samuel Hopkins Adams
• The Thin Man - Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich from a novel by Dashiell Hammett
• Viva Villa! - Ben Hecht from the book by Edgecumb Pinchon and O. B. Stade

For 1935 the award became Best Writing, Screenplay

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• 1935 The Informer - Dudley Nichols from the novel by Liam O'Flaherty. This was the first Academy Award ever to be declined.
• Captain Blood - write-in candidate Casey Robinson from the novel by Rafael Sabatini
• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer - Waldemar Young, John L. Balderston, Achmed Abdullah, Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt from the novel by Francis Yeats-Brown
• Mutiny on the Bounty - Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman, Carey Wilson from the novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
• 1936 The Story of Louis Pasteur - Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney from their own story
• After the Thin Man - Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett from a story by Dashiell Hammett
• Dodsworth - Sidney Howard from the novel by Sinclair Lewis
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town - Robert Riskin from the story Opera Hat by Clarence Budington Kelland
• My Man Godfrey - Morrie Ryskind, Eric Hatch from the novel by Eric Hatch
• 1937 The Life of Emile Zola - Heinz Herald, Geza Herczag, Norman Raine from the book Zola and His Time by Matthew Josephson
• The Awful Truth - Viña Delmar from the play by Arthur Richman
• Captains Courageous - Marc Connelly, John Lee Mahin, Dale Van Every from the novel by Rudyard Kipling
• Stage Door - Morrie Ryskind, Anthony Veiller from the play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman
• A Star Is Born - Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, Robert Carson from a story by William A. Wellman and Robert Carson
• 1938 Pygmalion - Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis, W.P. Lipscomb, George Bernard Shaw from the play by George Bernard Shaw
• Boys Town - John Meehan, Dore Schary from the story by Dore Schary and Eleanore Griffin
• The Citadel - Ian Dalrymple, Frank Wead, Elizabeth Hill from the novel by A. J. Cronin
• Four Daughters - Lenore J. Coffee, Julius J. Epstein from the novel Sister Act by Fannie Hurst
• You Can't Take It with You - Robert Riskin from the play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
• 1939 Gone with the Wind - Sidney Howard from the novel by Margaret Mitchell
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips - R. C. Sherriff, Claudine West, Eric Maschwitz from the novel by James Hilton
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Sidney Buchman from the story by Lewis R. Foster
• Ninotchka - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch from the story by Melchior Lengyel
• Wuthering Heights - Charles MacArthur, Ben Hecht from the novel by Emily Brontë