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).
1970s
- 1970 M*A*S*H - Ring Lardner Jr. from the novel by Richard Hooker
- Airport - George Seaton from the novel by Arthur Hailey
- I Never Sang for My Father - Robert Anderson from his play
- Lovers and Other Strangers - Joseph Bologna, David Zelag Goodman Renée Taylor from the play by Joseph Bologna and Renée Taylor
- Women in Love - Larry Kramer from the novel by D.H. Lawrence
- 1971 The French Connection - Ernest Tidyman from the novel by Robin Moore
- A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick from the novel by Anthony Burgess
- The Conformist - Bernardo Bertolucci from the novel Il Conformista by Alberto Moravia
- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Ugo Pirro, Vittorio Bonicelli from the novel Giardino dei Finzi-Contini by Giorgio Bassani
- The Last Picture Show - Larry McMurtry Peter Bogdanovich from the novel by Larry McMurtry
- 1972 The Godfather - Mario Puzo, Francis Coppola from the novel by Mario Puzo
- Cabaret - Jay Preston Allen from the musical by Joe Masteroff, the play I Am a Camera by John Van Druten and the book Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
- The Emigrants - Bengt Forslund, Jan Troell from the novels Utvandrarna and Invandrarna by Vilhelm Moberg
- Pete 'n' Tillie - Julius J. Epstein from the story Witch's Milk by Peter De Vries
- Sounder - Lonne Elder III from the book by William H. Armstrong
- 1973 The Exorcist - William Blatty from his novel
- The Last Detail - Robert Towne from the novel by Darryl Ponicsan
- The Paper Chase - James Bridges from the novel by John Jay Osborn Jr.
- Paper Moon - Alvin Sargent from the novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown
- Serpico - Waldo Salt, Norman Wexler from the book by Peter Maas
- 1974 The Godfather, Part II - Francis Coppola, Mario Puzo from the novel The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Lionel Chetwynd, Mordecai Richler from the book by Mordecai Richler
- Lenny - Julian Barry from his play
- Murder on the Orient Express - Paul Dehn from the novel by Agatha Christie
- Young Frankenstein - Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks from the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Bo Goldman, Laurence Hauben from the novel by Ken Kesey
- Barry Lyndon - Stanley Kubrick from the novel The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. by William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Man Who Would Be King - John Huston, Gladys Hill from the story by Rudyard Kipling
- Scent of a Woman - Ruggero Maccari, Dino Risi from the novel Il buio e il mare by Giovanni Arpino
- The Sunshine Boys - Neil Simon from his play
- 1976 All the President's Men - William Goldman from the book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
- Bound for Glory - Robert Getchell from the book by Woody Guthrie
- Fellini's Casanova - Federico Fellini, Bernardino Zapponi from the autobiography Histoire de ma vie by Giacomo Casanova
- The Seven-Per-Cent Solution - Nicholas Meyer from his novel
- Voyage of the Damned - David Butler, Steve Shagan from the book by Gordon Thomas; co-authored by Max Morgan Witts
- 1977 Julia - Alvin Sargent from the novel Pentimento by Lillian Hellman
- Equus - Peter Shaffer from his play
- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden - Gavin Lambert, Lewis John Carlino from the novel by Hannah Greene
- Oh, God! - Larry Gelbart from the novel by Avery Corman
- That Obscure Object of Desire - Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carriere from the novel La femme et le pantin by Pierre Lou˙s
- 1978 Midnight Express - Oliver Stone from the book by William Hayes and William Hoffer
- Bloodbrothers - Walter Newman from the novel by Richard Price
- California Suite - Neil Simon from his play
- Heaven Can Wait - Elaine May, Warren Beatty from the play by Harry Seagal
- Same Time, Next Year - Bernard Slade from his play
- 1979 Kramer vs. Kramer - Robert Benton from the novel by Avery Corman
- Apocalypse Now - John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola from the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- La Cage aux folles - Marcello Danon, Edouard Molinaro, Jean Poiret, Francis Veber from the play by Jean Poiret
- A Little Romance - Allan Burns from the novel E=MC2 mon amour by Patrick Cauvin (pseudonym of Claude Klotz)
- Norma Rae - Harriet Frank Jr., Irving Ravetch
From 1974 the Category was renamed Screenplay Adapted From Other Material:
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From 1976 the category was renamed Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
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