Best Adapted Screenplay

2002--The Pianist, Ronald Harwood
2001--A Beautiful Mind, Akiva Goldsman
2000--Traffic, Steven Gaghan
1999--The Cider House Rules, John Irving
1998--Gods and Monsters, Bill Condon
1997--L.A. Confidential, Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson
1996--Sling Blade, Billy Bob Thornton
1995--Sense and Sensibility, Emma Thompson
1994--Forrest Gump, Eric Roth
1993--Schindler's List, Steven Zaillian
1992--Howard's End, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1991--The Silence of the Lambs, Ted Tally
1990--Dances with Wolves, Michael Blake
1989--Driving Miss Daisy, Alfred Uhry
1988--Dangerous Liaisons, Christopher Hampton
1987--The Last Emperor, Mark Peploe, Bernardo Bertolucci
1986--A Room with a View, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1985--Out of Africa, Kurt Luedtke
1984--Amadeus, Peter Shaffer
1983--Terms of Endearment, James L. Brooks
1982--Missing, Costa-Gavras, Donald Stewart
1981--On Golden Pond, Ernest Thompson
1980--Ordinary People, Alvin Sargent
1979--Kramer vs. Kramer, Robert Benton
1978--Midnight Express, Oliver Stone
1977--Julia, Alvin Sargent
1976--All the President's Men, William Goldman
1975--One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman
1974--The Godfather Part II, Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo
1973--The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty
1972--The Godfather, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola
1971--The French Connection, Ernest Tidyman
1970--M*A*S*H, Ring Lardner, Jr.
1969--Midnight Cowboy, Waldo Salt
1968--The Lion in Winter, James Goldman
1967--In the Heat of the Night, Stirling Silliphant
1966--A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt
1965--Doctor Zhivago, Robert Bolt
1964--Becket, Edward Anhalt
1963--Tom Jones, John Osborne
1962--To Kill a Mockingbird, Horton Foote
1961--Judgment at Nuremberg, Abby Mann
1960--Elmer Gantry, Richard Brooks
1959--Room at the Top, Neil Paterson
1958--Gigi, Alan Jay Lerner
1957--The Bridge on the River Kwai, Pierre Boulle, Michael Wilson, Carl Foreman
1956--Around the World in 80 Days, James Poe, John Farrow, S.J. Perelman
1955--Interrupted Melody, (Story and Screenplay) William Ludwig, Sonya Levien
1954--Broken Lance, (Motion Picture Story) Philip Yordan; On the Waterfront, (Story and Screenplay) Budd Schulberg
1953--Roman Holiday, (Motion Picture Story) Dalton Trumbo; Titanic, (Story and Screenplay) Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, Richard Breen
1952--The Lavender Hill Mob, (Story and Screenplay) T. E. B. Clarke
1951--Seven Days to Noon , (Motion Picture Story) Paul Dehn, James Bernard