Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (Films I've Seen)
Submitted by mi-16evil on Wed, 03/09/2011 - 12:53
- 1927/1928: Benjamin Glazer - Seventh Heaven
- 1928/1929: Hanns Kräly - The Patriot
- 1929/1930: an original screenplay (The Big House) won
- 1930/1931: Howard Esrabrook - Cimarron
- 1931/1932: Edwin J. Burke - Bad Girl
- 1932/1933: Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason - Little Women
- 1934: Robert Riskin - It Happened One Night
- 1935: Dudley Nichols - The Informer
- 1936: Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney - The Story of Louis Pasteur
- 1937: Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, Norman Reilly Raine - The Life of Emile Zola
- 1938: Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis, W.P. Lipscomb, George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion
- 1939: Sidney Howard - Gone with the Wind
- 1940: Donald Odgen Stewart - The Philadelphia Story
- 1941: Sidney Buchman, Seton Miller - Here Come Mr. Jordan
- 1942: George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, Arthur Wimperis - Mrs. Miniver
- 1943: Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein, Howard Koch - Casablanca
- 1944: Frank Butler - Going My Way
- 1945: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder - The Lost Weekend
- 1946: Robert Sherwood - The Best Years of Our Lives
- 1947: George Seaton - Miracle on 34th Street
- 1948: John Huston - Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- 1949: Joseph Mackiewicz - A Letter to Three Wives
- 1950: Joseph Mackiewicz - All About Eve
- 1951: Harry Brown, Michael Wilson - A Place in the Sun
- 1952: Charles Schnee - The Bad and the Beautiful
- 1953: Daniel Taradash - From Here to Eternity
- 1954: George Seaton - The Country Girl
- 1955: Paddy Chayefsky - Marty #
- 1956: John Farrow, S.J. Perelman, James Poe - Around the World in Eighty Days
- 1957: Pierre Boulle (Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson)* - Bridge on the River Kwai
- 1958: Alan Jay Lerner - Gigi
- 1959: Neil Paterson - Room at the Top
- 1960: Richard Brooks - Elmer Gantry
- 1961: Abby Mann - Judgment at Nuremberg
- 1962: Horton Foote - To Kill a Mockingbirg #
- 1963: John Osborne - Tom Jones
- 1964: Edward Anhalt - Becket
- 1965: Robert Bolt - Doctor Zhivago
- 1966: Robert Bolt - A Man for All Season
- 1967: In the Heat of the Night - Stirling Silliphant
- 1968: James Goldman - The Lion in Winter
- 1969: Waldo Salt - Midnight Cowboy
- 1970: Ring Lardner Jr. - MASH
- 1971: Ernest Tidyman - The French Connection
- 1972: Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather #
- 1973: William Peter Blatty - The Exorcist
- 1974: Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather Part II #
- 1975: Bo Goldman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest #
- 1976: William Goldman - All the President's Men #
- 1977: Alvin Sargent - Julia
- 1978: Oliver Stone - Midnight Express
- 1979: Robert Benton - Kramer vs. Kramer
- 1980: Alvin Sargent - Ordinary People
- 1981: Ernest Thompson - On Golden Pond
- 1982: Constantin Costa-Gavra - Missing
- 1983: James L. Brooks - Terms of Endearment
- 1984: Peter Shaffer - Amadeus #
- 1985: Kurt Luedtke - Out of Africa
- 1986: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - A Room with a View
- 1987: Bernardo Bertolucci, Mark Peploe - The Last Emperor
- 1988: Christopher Hampton - Dangerous Liaisons
- 1989: Alfred Uhry - Driving Miss Daisy
- 1990: Michael Blake - Dances with Wolves
- 1991: Ted Tally - The Silence of the Lambs
- 1992: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - Howards End
- 1993: Steve Zaillian - Schindler's List
- 1994: Eric Roth - Forrest Gump
- 1995: Emma Thompson - Sense and Sensibility
- 1996: Billy Bob Thorton - Sling Blade
- 1997: Curtis Hanson, Brian Helgeland - L.A. Confidential
- 1998: Bill Condon - Gods and Monster
- 1999: John Irving - The Cider House Rules
- 2000: Stephen Gaghan - Traffic
- 2001: Akiva Goldsman - A Beautiful Mind
- 2002: Ronald Harwood - The Pianist
- 2003: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson - The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King #
- 2004: Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor - Sideways
- 2005: Larry McMurty, Diana Ossana - Brokeback Mountain
- 2006: William Monahan - The Departed #
- 2007: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men #
- 2008: Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog Millionaire
- 2009: Geoffrey Fletcher - Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
- 2010: Aaron Sorkin - The Social Network #
*Although Pierre Boulle received "official" screenwriting credit, the actual screenplay was written by two blacklisted writers, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, who were only posthumously awarded their duly deserved Oscars in 1984.
#Denotes that I have read or seen the original source material that was the basis for the screenplay.
Update: Just watched Midnight Cowboy and I really enjoyed it. Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman were just magnetic and Schlesinger did a great job with the material. Salt did very well in capturing the unique dialect of both Joe Buck and Rattso Rizzo. I also love his use of flashback and an unreliable narrative to tell the backstory of Buck without jamming it down your throat. It's unfortunate the most famous line in the film was ad-libbed but there are still many great moments. I'm a big Billy Wilder fan so I think The Lost Weekend will be the next film I watch.
Favorite line: "You telling me John Wayne is a fag?!"
You might be wondering why I picked Adapted Screenplay over Original, which is generally considered the sexier choice. While of course great screenplays like Network pepper that list, there are many choices that frustrate me. Also I find it very fascinating when a person is able to take a complex work and whittle it down to a two hour film (or the opposite where they take a pretty vapid work and breathe fresh life into it). There are some trully stunning adapted works out there and I would like to get a feel for all of them.
Quick note: I am only concerned with watching the actual films, not watching the films and reading the original source material. If I'm very interested in a piece then I will read the parent material and mark that film with a #.