The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay adapted from previously established material. The most frequently adapted media are novels, but other adapted
The 2026 recipient: Paul Thomas Anderson
Howard Estabrook won for Cimarron (1931).
Victor Heerman co-won for Little Women (1933).
Sarah Y. Mason co-won for Little Women (1933).
The BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is a film award presented annually at the British Academy Film Awards to a screenwriter for a specific film. It is awarded by the British Academy of Film an
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala won for Heat and Dust (1983)
Philip Kaufman won The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Christopher Hampton won twice for Dangerous Liaisons (1987) and The Father (2020)