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).

1960s

• 1960 Elmer Gantry - Richard Brooks from the novel by Sinclair Lewis
• Inherit the Wind - Nedrick Young (front: Nathan E. Douglas), Harold Jacob Smith from the play by Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee
• Sons and Lovers - Gavin Lambert, T.E.B. Clarke from the novel by D.H. Lawrence
• The Sundowners - Isobel Lennart from the novel by Jon Cleary
• Tunes of Glory - James Kennaway from his novel
• 1961 Judgment at Nuremberg - Abby Man from his teleplay
• Breakfast at Tiffany's - George Axelrod from the novel by Truman Capote
• The Guns of Navarone - Carl Foreman from the novel by Alistair MacLean
• The Hustler - Sydney Carroll, Robert Rossen from the novel by Walter Tevis
• West Side Story - Ernest Lehman from the play by Arthur Laurents
• 1962 To Kill a Mockingbird - Horton Foote from the novel by Harper Lee
• David and Lisa - Eleanor Perry from the novel by Theodore Isaac Rubin
• Lawrence of Arabia - Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson (Note: originally the nomination was solely for Robert Bolt) from the writings of T.E. Lawrence
• Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov from his novel
• The Miracle Worker - William Gibson from his play
• 1963 Tom Jones - John Osborne from the novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
• Captain Newman, M.D. - Richard L. Breen, Henry Ephron, Phoebe Ephron from the novel by Leo Rosten
• Hud - Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr. from the novel Horseman Pass By by Larry McMurtry
• Lilies of the Field - James Poe from the novel by William E. Barrett
• Sundays and Cybele - Serge Bourguignon, Bernard Eschassériaux from the novel Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray by Bernard Eschassériaux
• 1964 Becket - Edward Anhalt from the play by Jean Anouilh
• ' - Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George from the novel Red Alert by Peter George
• Mary Poppins - Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi from the books by P.L. Travers
• My Fair Lady - Alan Jay Lerner from his musical play and the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
• Zorba the Greek - Michael Cacoyannis from the novel The Life of Alexis Zorba by Nikos Kazantzakis
• 1965 Doctor Zhivago - Robert Bolt from the novel by Boris Pasternak
• Cat Ballou - Walter Newman, Frank Pierson from the novel The Ballad of Cat Ballou by Roy Chanslor
• The Collector - Stanley Mann, John Kohn from the novel by John Fowles
• Ship of Fools - Abby Mann from the novel by Katherine Anne Porter
• A Thousand Clowns - Herb Gardner from his play
• 1966 A Man for All Seasons - Robert Bolt from his play
• Alfie - Bill Naughton from his play
• The Professionals - Richard Brooks from the novel A Mule for the Marquesa by Frank O'Rourke
• The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming - William Rode from the novel Off-Islanders by Nathaniel Benchley
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Ernest Lehman from the play by Edward Albee
• 1967 In the Heat of the Night - Stirling Siliphant from the novel by John Ball
• Cool Hand Luke - Donn Pearce, Frank Pierson from the novel by Donn Pearce
• The Graduate - Calder Willingham, Buck Henry from the novel by Charles Webb
• In Cold Blood - Richard Brooks from the novel by Truman Capote
• Ulysses - Joseph Strick, Fred Haines from the novel by James Joyce
• 1968 The Lion in Winter - James Goldman from his play
• The Odd Couple - Neil Simon from his play
• Oliver! - Vernon Harris from the musical by Lionel Bart and the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
• Rachel, Rachel - Stewart Stern from the novel A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence
• Rosemary's Baby - Roman Polanski from the novel by Ira Levin
• 1969 Midnight Cowboy - Waldo Salt from the novel by James Leo Herlihy
• Anne of the Thousand Days - John Hale, Bridget Boland, Richard Sokolove from the play by Maxwell Anderson
• Goodbye, Columbus - Arnold Schulman from the novel by Philip Roth
• They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - James Poe, Robert E. Thompson from the novel by Horace McCoy
• Z - Jorge Semprún, Costa-Gavras from the novel by Vassilis Vassilikos