Book awards: Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay Nominee

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Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini1935
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer by Francis Yeats-Brown1935
The Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff1935
Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis1936
My Man Godfrey by Eric Hatch1936
The Citadel by A. J. Cronin1938
You Can't Take it With You by Moss Hart1938
Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton1939
Kitty Foyle by Christopher Morley1940
The Long Voyage Home and Other Plays (Dover Thrift Editions) by Eugene O'Neill1940
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier1940
Hold back the dawn by Frings Ketti1941
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn1941
The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman1941
Lou Gehrig Pride of the Yankees by Paul Gallico1942
Random Harvest by James Hilton1942
Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett1943
The Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel1943
Watch on the Rhine by Lillian Hellman1943
Gas Light by Patrick Hamilton1944
Laura by Vera Caspary1944
Meet Me In St. Louis, Limited Anniversary Edition by Sally Benson1944
Three of a Kind by James M. Cain1944
Brave Men by Ernie Pyle1945
Here Is Your War by Ernie Pyle1945
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith1945
Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon1946
Still Life: a play in five scenes (from "Tonight at 8:30") by Noël Coward1946
The Brick Foxhole by Richard Brooks1947
Gentleman's Agreement by Laura Z. Hobson1947
The Snake Pit by Mary Jane Ward1948
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren1949
The Basement Room by Graham Greene1949
Bicycle Thieves by Luigi Bartolini1949
Champion by Ring Lardner1949
The Asphalt Jungle by W. R. Burnett1950
Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin1950
Broken Arrow by Eliott Arnold1950
Father of the Bride by Edward Streeter1950
The African Queen by C. S. Forester1951
Detective Story by Sidney Kingsley1951
Hands Around; Playing with Love by Arthur Schnitzler1951
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams1951
Operation Cicero by L. C. Moyzisch1952
The Quiet Man and Other Stories by Maurice Walsh1952
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat1953
Love of Seven Dolls by Paul Gallico1953
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk1954
Rear Window by Cornell Woolrich1954
Sabrina Fair by Samuel Taylor1954
The Blackboard Jungle by Evan Hunter1955
East of Eden by John Steinbeck1955
Baby Doll by Tennessee Williams1956
The Friendly Persuasion by Jessamyn West1956
Giant by Edna Ferber1956
Lust for Life by Irving Stone1956
Heaven knows, Mr. Allison by Charles Shaw1957
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious1957
Sayonara by James A. Michener1957
Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose1957
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams1958
The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary1958
Separate Tables by Terence Rattigan1958
Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver1959
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace1959
The Nun's Story by Kathryn Hulme1959
The Sundowners by Jon Cleary1960
Tunes of Glory by James Kennaway1960
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote1961
The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean1961
The Hustler by Walter Tevis1961
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare1961
Lisa and David by Theodore Isaac Rubin1962
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov1962
The Miracle Worker by William Gibson1962
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence1962
Captain Newman, M.D. by Leo Rosten1963
Horseman, Pass By : A Novel by Larry McMurtry1963
Les dimanches de ville-d'avray. by Eschasseriaux Bernard1963
The Lilies of the Field by William E. Barrett1963
Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers1964
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw1964
Red Alert by Peter Bryant1964
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis1964
The Ballad of Cat Ballou by Roy Chanslor1965
The Collector by John Fowles1965
Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter1965
A Thousand Clowns by Herb Gardner1965
Alfie by Bill Naughton1966
The Professionals by Frank O'Rourke1966
The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming by Nathaniel Benchley1966
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee1966
Cool Hand Luke: A Novel by Donn Pearce1967
The Graduate by Charles Webb1967
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote1967
Ulysses by James Joyce1967
A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence1968
The Odd Couple by Neil Simon1968
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin1968
Anne of the Thousand Days by Maxwell Anderson1969
Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s: The Postman Always Rings Twice / They Shoot Horses, Don't They? / Thie by Horace McCoy1969
Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth1969
Z by Vassilis Vassilikos1969
Airport by Arthur Hailey1970
I Never Sang For My Father by Robert Anderson1970
Lovers and Other Strangers: Five Comedies. by Renee Taylor1970
The Conformist by Alberto Moravia1971
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani1971
The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry1971
The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood1972
The cat's pajamas & Witch's milk; two novels by Peter De Vries1972
The Emigrants by Vilhelm Moberg1972
I Am a Camera by John Van Druten1972
Unto A Good Land by Vilhelm Moberg1972
Addie Pray / Paper Moon by Joe David Brown1973
The Last Detail by Darryl Ponicsan1973
The Paper Chase by John Jay Osborn Jr1973
Serpico by Peter Maas1973
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler1974
Lenny;: A play, based on the life and words of Lenny Bruce (An Evergreen black cat book, B-355) by Julian Barry1974
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie1974
Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray1975
The Man Who Would Be King & Other Stories (Wordsworth Classics) by Rudyard Kipling1975
The Sunshine Boys by Neil Simon1975
Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie1976
Histoire de ma vie (Morceaux choisis) by Giacomo Casanova1976
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution by Nicholas Mayer1976
Voyage of the Damned by Gordon Thomas1976
Equus by Peter Shaffer1977
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg1977
Oh God by Avery Corman1977
The Woman and the Puppet (Dedalus European Classics) by Pierre Louÿs1977
Bloodbrothers by Richard Price1978
California Suite by Neil Simon1978
Heaven Can Wait-Comedy -Fantasy in Three Acts by Harry Segall1978
Same Time, Next Year by Bernard Slade1978
Crystal Lee, a woman of inheritance by Henry P. Leifermann1979
E = MC2, mon amour by Patrick Cauvin1979
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad1979
Breaker Morant by Kenneth Ross1980
The Elephant Man : A Study in Human Dignity by Ashley Montagu1980
Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter by Loretta Lynn1980
The Stunt Man by Paul Brodeur1980
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles1981
Prince of the City by Robert Daley1981
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow1981
Das Boot by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim1982
Sophie's Choice by William Styron1982
The Verdict by Barry Reed1982
Betrayal by Harold Pinter1983
The Dresser by Ronald Harwood1983
Educating Rita by Willy Russell1983
The Death and Life of Dith Pran by Sydney H. Schanberg1984
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster1984
A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller1984
The Color Purple by Alice Walker1985
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig1985
Prizzi's Honor by Richard Condon1985
The Trip to Bountiful by Horton Foote1985
Children of a Lesser God. by Mark Medoff1986
The Color of Money by Walter Tevis1986
Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley1986
The Dead by James Joyce1987
The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford1987
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler1988
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens1988
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera1988
Born on the Fourth of July by Ron Kovic1989
Enemies, A Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer1989
My Left Foot by Christy Brown1989
Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella1989
Awakenings by Oliver Sacks1990
The Grifters by Jim Thompson1990
Reversal of Fortune: Inside the Von Bulow Case by Alan Dershowitz1990
Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi1990
Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy by Jim Marrs1991
Europa, Europa by Sally Perel1991
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg1991
On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison1991
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy1991
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim1992
Il buio e il miele by Giovanni Arpino1992
The Player by Michael Tolkin1992
A River Runs through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean1992
In the Name of the Father: The Story of Gerry Conlon of the Guildford Four: Tie-In by Gerry Conlon1993
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro1993
Shadowlands by William Nicholson1993
The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett1994
Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo1994
Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties by Richard N. Goodwin1994
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King1994
Babe: The Gallant Pig by Dick King-Smith1995
Leaving Las Vegas by John O'Brien1995
Lost Moon by Jim Lovell1995
The Postman by Antonio Skármeta1995
The Crucible by Arthur Miller1996
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje1996
Hamlet by William Shakespeare1996
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh1996
American Hero by Larry Beinhart1997
Donnie Brasco by Joseph D. Pistone1997
Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard1998
Primary Colors by Anonymous1998
The Thin Red Line by James Jones1998
Election by Tom Perrotta1999
The Green Mile by Stephen King1999
Chocolat by Joanne Harris2000
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Volume 1 by Wang Du Lu2000
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon2000
The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien2001
In the Bedroom by Andre Dubus2001
Shrek! by William Steig2001
About a Boy by Nick Hornby2002
The Hours by Michael Cunningham2002
The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean2002
City of God: A Novel by Paulo Lins2003
Our Cancer Year by Harvey Pekar2003
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand2003
Finding Neverland by Allan Knee2004
Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner by F.X. Toole2004
Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary by Alberto Granado2004
Capote: A Biography by Gerald Clarke2005
The Constant Gardener by John le Carré2005
A History of Violence by John Wagner2005
Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team by George Jonas2005
Little Children by Tom Perrotta2006
Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller2006
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby2007
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro2007
Oil! by Upton Sinclair2007
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald2008
Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick Shanley2008
Frost/Nixon by Peter Morgan2008
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink2008
An Education by Lynn Barber2009
Up in the Air by Walter Kirn2009
Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston2010
True Grit by Charles Portis2010
Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell2010

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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, play, short story, or TV show but also sometimes another film).

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