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).

1940s

• 1940 The Philadelphia Story - Donald Ogden Stewart from the play by Philip Barry
• The Grapes of Wrath - Nunnally Johnson from the novel by John Steinbeck
• ' - Donald Ogden Stewart, Dalton Trumbo from the novel by Christopher Morley
• The Long Voyage Home - Dudley Nichols from a composite of the short plays The Moon of the Caribees, In the Zone, Bound East for Cardiff and The Long Voyage Home by Eugene O'Neill
• Rebecca - Philip MacDonald, Michael Hogan from the novel by Daphne Du Maurier
• 1941 Here Comes Mr. Jordan - Sidney Buchman, Seton Miller from the play Heaven Can Wait by Harry Segall
• Hold Back the Dawn - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder from the book by Ketti Frings
• How Green Was My Valley - Philip Dunne (writer) from the novel by Richard Llewellyn
• The Little Foxes - Lillian Hellman from her own play
• The Maltese Falcon - John Huston from the novel by Dashiell Hammett
• 1942 Mrs. Miniver - George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, Arthur Wimperis based on the novel by Jan Struther
• Forty-Ninth Parallel - Rodney Ackland, Emeric Pressburger from the story by Emeric Pressburger
• The Pride of the Yankees - Herman J. Mankiewicz, Jo Swerling from the story by Paul Gallico
• Random Harvest - George Froeschel, Claudine West, Arthur Wimperis from the novel by James Hilton
• The Talk of the Town - Sidney Buchman, Irwin Shaw from the story by Sidney Harmon
• 1943 Casablanca - Philip Epstein, Julius Epstein, Howard Koch from the play Everybody Comes to Rick's by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison
• Holy Matrimony - Nunally Johnson from the novel Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett
• The More the Merrier - Richard Flournoy, Lewis R. Foster, Frank Ross, Robert Russell from the story by Frank Ross and Robert Russell
• The Song of Bernadette - George Seaton from the novel by Franz Werfel
• Watch on the Rhine - Dashiell Hammett from the play by Lillian Hellman
• 1944 Going My Way - Frank Butler, Frank Cavett from the story by Leo McCarey
• Double Indemnity - Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler from the novel Double Indemnity in Three of a Kind by James M. Cain
• Gaslight - John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, John L. Balderston from the play Angel Street by Patrick Hamilton
• Person - Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, Betty Reinhardt from the novel by Vera Caspary
• Meet Me in St. Louis - Irving Brecher, Fred F. Finklehoffe from the novel by Sally Benson
• 1945 The Lost Weekend - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder from the novel by Charles R. Jackson
• Mildred Pierce - Ranald MacDougall from the novel by James M. Cain
• The Pride of the Marines - Albert Maltz from the book by Roger Butterfield
• Story of G.I. Joe - Leopold Atlas, Guy Endore, Philip Stevenson from the books Brave Men and Here Is Your War by Ernie Pyle
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Frank Davis, Tess Slesinger from the novel by Betty Smith
• 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives - Robert Sherwood from the novel Glory for Me by MacKinlay Kantor
• Anna and the King of Siam - Sally Benson, Talbot Jennings from book by Margaret Landon
• Brief Encounter - Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, Ronald Neame from the play Still Life by Noel Coward
• The Killers - Anthony Veiller from the short story by Ernest Hemingway
• Open City - Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini from the story by Sergio Amidei, Alberto Consiglio
• 1947 Miracle on 34th Street - George Seaton from the story by Valentine Davies
• Boomerang - Richard Murphy based on the article by Anthony Abbot (pseudonym of Fulton Oursler)
• Crossfire (1947 film) - John Paxton from the novel The Brick Foxhole by Richard Brooks
• Gentleman's Agreement - Moss Hart from the novel by Laura Z. Hobson
• Great Expectations - David Lean, Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan from the novel by Charles Dickens
• 1948 Treasure of the Sierra Madre - John Huston from the novel by B. Traven
• A Foreign Affair - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Richard L. Breen from the story by David Shaw
• Johnny Belinda - Irmgard von Cube, Allen Vincent from the play by Elmer Blaney Harris
• The Search - Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler from their story
• The Snake Pit - Frank Partos, Millen Brand from the novel by Mary Jane Ward
• 1949 A Letter to Three Wives - Joseph Mankiewicz from the novel Letter to Five Wives by John Klempner
• All the King's Men - Robert Rossen from the novel by Robert Penn Warren
• The Bicycle Thief - Cesare Zavattini from the novel by Luigi Bartolini
• Champion - Carl Foreman from the short story by Ring Lardner
• The Fallen Idol - Graham Greene from his short story The Basement Room