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).
One Battle After Another
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One Battle After Another is a 2025 American action-comedy thriller film written, directed, and produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. Inspired by the 1990 novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon, the film's ensem
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
…Anderson Country United States Presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) First award 1929 Most recent winner Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another (2025) Website oscars.org The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (formerly known as the Academy Award for Best Screenplay – Based on Material…
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Writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson
The DNA test scene was shot in the church at La Purísima Mission in Lompoc, California
VistaVision presentation at Vista Theatre