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).

1990s

• 1990 Dances with Wolves - Michael Blake from the novel by Michael Blake
• Awakenings - Steven Zaillian from the book by Oliver Sacks M.D.
• Goodfellas - Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese from the novel Wise Guy by Nicholas Pileggi
• The Grifters - Donald E. Westlake from the novel by Jim Thompson
• Reversal of Fortune - Nicholas Kazan from the novel by Alan M. Dershowitz

From 1991 the category became Screenplay Based on Material Previously Published or Produced:

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• 1991 The Silence of the Lambs - Ted Tally from the novel by Thomas Harris
• Europa Europa - Agnieszka Holland from the autobiography by Salomon Perel
• Fried Green Tomatoes - Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski from the novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
• JFK - Oliver Stone, Zachary Sklar from the novel ' by Jim Marrs and the novel On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison
• The Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy, Becky Johnston from the novel by Pat Conroy
• 1992 Howards End - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by E.M. Forster
• Enchanted April - Peter Barnes from the novel by Elizabeth von Arnim
• The Player - Michael Tolkin from the novel by Michael Tolkin
• A River Runs Through It - Richard Friedenberg from the story by Norman Maclean
• Scent of a Woman - Bo Goldman from the novel Il Buio E Il Miele by Giovanni Arpino
• 1993 Schindler's List - Steven Zaillian from the novel by Thomas Keneally
• The Age of Innocence - Jay Cocks, Martin Scorsese from the novel by Edith Wharton
• In the Name of the Father - Terry George, Jim Sheridan from the autobiography Proved Innocent by Gerry Conlon
• The Remains of the Day - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Shadowlands - William Nicholson from the play by William Nicholson
• 1994 Forrest Gump - Eric Roth from the novel by Winston Groom
• The Madness of King George - Alan Bennett from the play The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett
• Nobody's Fool - Robert Benton from the novel by Richard Russo
• Quiz Show - Paul Attanasio from the novel by Richard N. Goodwin
• The Shawshank Redemption - Frank Darabont from the short story Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
• 1995 Sense and Sensibility - Emma Thompson from the novel by Jane Austen
• Apollo 13 - William Broyles Jr., Al Reinert from the novel Lost Moon by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger
• Babe - George Miller, Chris Noonan from the novel The Sheep Pig by Dick King-Smith
• Leaving Las Vegas - Mike Figgis from the novel by John O'Brien
• Il Postino - Anna Pavignano, Michael Radford, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli, Massimo Troisi from the novel Ardiente Paciencia by Antonio Skármeta
• 1996 Sling Blade - Billy Bob Thornton from the play by Billy Bob Thornton
• The Crucible - Arthur Miller from the play by Arthur Miller
• The English Patient - Anthony Minghella from the novel by Michael Ondaatje
• Hamlet - Kenneth Branagh from the play by William Shakespeare
• Trainspotting - John Hodge from the novel by Irvine Welsh
• 1997 L.A. Confidential - Curtis Hanson, Brian Helgeland from the novel by James Ellroy
• Donnie Brasco - Paul Attanasio from the novel ' by Joseph D. Pistone and Richard Woodley
• The Sweet Hereafter - Atom Egoyan from the novel by Russell Banks
• Wag the Dog - Hilary Henkin, David Mamet from the novel American Hero by Larry Beinhart
• The Wings of the Dove - Hossein Amini from the novel by Henry James
• 1998 Gods and Monsters - Bill Condon from the novel by Christopher Bram
• Out of Sight - Scott Frank from the novel by Elmore Leonard
• Primary Colors - Elaine May from the novel by Joe Klein
• A Simple Plan - Scott B. Smith from the novel by Scott B. Smith
• The Thin Red Line - Terrence Malick from the novel by James Jones
• 1999 The Cider House Rules - John Irving from the novel by John Irving
• Election - Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor from the novel by Tom Perrotta
• The Green Mile - Frank Darabont from the novel by Stephen King
• The Insider - Eric Roth, Michael Mann from the article The Man Who Knew Too Much by Marie Brenner
• The Talented Mr. Ripley - Anthony Minghella from the novel by Patricia Highsmith