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).

1950s

• 1950 All About Eve - Joseph Mankiewicz from the short story The Wisdom of Eve by Mary Orr
• The Asphalt Jungle - Ben Maddow, John Huston from the novel by W.R. Burnett
• Born Yesterday - Albert Mannheimer, from the play by Garson Kanin
• Broken Arrow (1950 film) - Albert Maltz (front: Michael Blankfort) from the novel Blood Brother by Elliott Arnold
• Father of the Bride - Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett from the novel by Edward Streeter
• 1951 A Place in the Sun - Harry Brown, Michael Wilson from the novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the play An American Tragedy by Patrick Kearney
• The African Queen - James Agee, John Huston from the novel by C.S. Forester
• Detective Story - Robert Wyler, Philip Yordan from the play by Sidney Kingsley
• La Ronde - Jacques Natanson, Max Ophüls from the play Reigen by Arthur Schnitzler
• A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams, from his play
• 1952 The Bad and the Beautiful - Charles Schnee from the story Tribute to a Badman by Charles Bradshaw
• Five Fingers - Michael Wilson from the novel Operation Cicero by L.C. Moyzisch
• High Noon - Carl Foreman from the story The Tin Star by John W. Cunningham
• The Man in the White Suit - John Dighton, Roger MacDougall, Alexander Mackendrick from the play by Roger MacDougall
• The Quiet Man - Frank S. Nugent, from the story Green Rushes by Maurice Walsh
• 1953 From Here to Eternity - Daniel Taradash from the novel by James Jones
• The Cruel Sea - Eric Ambler from the novel by Nicholas Monsarrat
• Lilli - Helen Deutsch from the story Love of Seven Dolls by Paul Gallico
• Roman Holiday - Ian McLellan Hunter, John Dighton from the story by Dalton Trumbo (front: Ian McLellan Hunter)
• Shane - A.B. Guthrie Jr. from the novel by Jack Schaefer
• 1954 The Country Girl - George Seaton from the play by Clifford Odets
• The Caine Mutiny - Stanley Roberts from the novel by Herman Wouk
• Rear Window - John Michael Hayes from the story It Had to Be Murder by Cornell Woolrich
• Sabrina - Billy Wilder, Samuel Taylor, Ernest Lehman from the novel Sabrina Fair by Samuel Taylor
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - Albert Hackett, Frances Gooderich, Dorothy Kingsley from the story The Sobbin' Women by Stephen Vincent Benet
• 1955 Marty - Paddy Chayefsky based on his teleplay
• Bad Day at Black Rock - Millard Kaufman from the story Bad Day at Hondo by Howard Breslin
• The Blackboard Jungle - Richard Brooks from the novel by Evan Hunter
• East of Eden - Paul Osborn from the novel by John Steinbeck
• Love Me or Leave Me - Daniel Fuchs, Isobel Lennart from the story by Daniel Fuchs

For 1956 the Category was renamed Screenplay--Adapted:

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• 1956 Around the World in Eighty Days - John Farrow, S. J. Perelman, James Poe from the novel by Jules Verne
• Baby Doll - Tennessee Williams from his one act plays Twenty-seven Wagons Full of Cotton and The Unsatisfactory Supper
• Friendly Persuasion - Michael Wilson from the novel by Jessamyn West Note: Originally was ineligible due to Academy bylaws
• Giant - Fred Guiol, Ivan Moffat from the novel by Edna Ferber
• Lust for Life - Norman Corwin from the novel by Irving Stone

For 1957 the category was renamed Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium:

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• 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai - Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson (front: Pierre Boulle) based on the novel by Pierre Boulle
• Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison - John Huston, John Lee Mahin from the novel by Charles Shaw
• Peyton Place - John Michael Hayes from the novel by Grace Metalious
• Sayonara - Paul Osborn from the novel by James Michener
• Twelve Angry Men - Reginald Rose from his teleplay
• 1958 Gigi - Alan J. Lerner based on the novel by Collette and the play by Anita Loos
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Richard Brooks, James Poe from the play by Tennessee Williams
• The Horse's Mouth - Alec Guinness from the novel by Joyce Cary
• I Want to Live! - Nelson Gidding, Don M. Mankiewicz from the letters by Barbara Graham and the articles by Ed Montgomery
• Separate Tables - John Gay, Terence Rattigan from the play by Terence Rattigan
• 1959 Room at the Top - Neil Paterson from the novel by John Braine
• Anatomy of a Murder - Wendell Mayes from the by Robert Traver (pseudonym of John D. Voelker
• Ben-Hur - Karl Tunberg from the novel by Lew Wallace
• The Nun's Story - Robert Anderson from the book by Kathryn Hulme
• Some Like it Hot - Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond from a story suggested by Robert Thoeren and M. Logan