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).

2000s

• 2000 Traffic - Stephen Gaghan from the teleplay Traffik by Simon Moore
• Chocolat - Robert Nelson Jacobs from the novel by Joanne Harris
• O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Ethan and Joel Coen from the poem The Odyssey by Homer
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Hui-Ling Wang, James Schamus and Kuo Jung Tsai from the novel by Du Lu Wang
• Wonder Boys - Steven Kloves from the novel by Michael Chabon
• 2001 A Beautiful Mind - Akiva Goldsman from the biography by Sylvia Nasar
• Ghost World - Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff from several comic book stories by Daniel Clowes
• In the Bedroom - Todd Field and Robert Festinger from the short story Killings by Andre Dubus
• ' - Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson from the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Shrek - Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman and Roger S.H. Schulman from the children's book by William Steig

From 2002 the category was renamed Adapted Screenplay:

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• 2002 The Pianist - Ronald Harwood from the book by Władysław Szpilman
• About a Boy - Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz from the novel by Nick Hornby
• Adaptation - Charlie and Donald Kaufman from the book The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
• Chicago - Bill Condon from the play by Maurine Dallas Watkins
• The Hours - David Hare from the novel by Michael Cunningham
• 2003 ' - Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson from the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien
• American Splendor - Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman from the comic book series by Harvey Pekar and the comic book series Our Cancer Year by Joyce Brabner
• City of God - Braulio Mantovani from the novel by Paulo Lins
• Mystic River - Brian Helgeland from the novel by Dennis Lehane
• Seabiscuit - Gary Ross from the book by Laura Hillenbrand
• 2004 Sideways - Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor from the novel by Rex Pickett
• Before Sunset - Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke from a story by Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan
• Finding Neverland - David Magee from the play by Allan Knee
• Million Dollar Baby - Paul Haggis from several stories by F. X. Toole
• The Motorcycle Diaries - José Rivera from the books Con el Che por America Latina by Alberto Granado and Notas de viaje by Ernesto Guevara