This award started with the name
Best Writing, Adaptation
In the 2nd and 3rd years there was only a single writing award for
Writing Achievement with no distinction between original works and adaptations.
For the 1930/31 production year the award was again subdivided, and this one was once again
Best Writing, Adaptation.
For 1935 the award became
Best Writing, Screenplay
- 1942 Mrs. Miniver - George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, Arthur Wimperis
- 1943 Casablanca - Philip Epstein, Julius Epstein, Howard Koch
- 1944 Going My Way - Frank Butler, Frank Cavett
- 1945 The Lost Weekend - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder
- 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives - Robert Sherwood
- 1947 Miracle on 34th Street - George Seaton
- 1948 Treasure of the Sierra Madre[?] - John Huston
- 1949 A Letter to Three Wives - Joseph Mankiewicz
- 1950 All About Eve - Joseph Mankiewicz
- 1951 A Place in the Sun - Harry Brown, Michael Wilson
- 1952 The Bad and the Beautiful - Charles Schnee
- 1953 From Here to Eternity - Daniel Taradash
- 1954 The Country Girl - George Seaton
- 1955 Marty - Paddy Chayefsky[?]
- 1956 Around the World in Eighty Days - John Farrow, S. Perelman, James Poe
- 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai - Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson
- 1958 Gigi - Alan Lerner
- 1959 Room at the Top - Neil Paterson
- 1960 Elmer Gantry - Richard Brooks
- 1961 Judgment at Nuremberg - Abby Man
- 1962 To Kill a Mockingbird - Horton Foote
- 1963 Tom Jones - John Osborne
- 1964 Becket - Edward Anhalt
- 1965 Doctor Zhivago - Robert Bolt
- 1966 A Man for All Seasons - Robert Bolt
- 1967 In the Heat of the Night - Stirling Siliphant
- 1968 The Lion in Winter - James Goldman
- 1969 Midnight Cowboy - Waldo Salt
- 1970 MASH - Ring Lardner
- 1971 The French Connection - Ernest Tidyman
- 1972 The Godfather - Francis Coppola, Mario Puzo
- 1973 The Exorcist - William Blatty
- 1974 The Godfather, Part II - Francis Coppola, Mario Puzo
- 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Bo Goldman, Laurence Hauben
- 1976 All the President's Men - William Goldman
- 1977 Julia - Alvin Sargent
- 1978 Midnight Express - Oliver Stone
- 1979 Kramer vs. Kramer - Robert Benton
- 1980 Ordinary People - Alvin Sargent
- 1981 On Golden Pond - Ernest Thompson
- 1982 Missing - Constantin Costa-Gavras, Donald Stewart
- 1983 Terms of Endearment - James Brooks
- 1984 Amadeus - Peter Shaffer
- 1985 Out of Africa - Kurt Luedtke
- 1986 A Room with a View - Ruth Jhabvala
- 1987 The Last Emperor - Bernardo Bertolucci, Mark Peploe
- 1988 Dangerous Liaisons - Christopher Hampton
- 1989 Driving Miss Daisy - Alfred Uhry
- 1990 Dances With Wolves - Michael Blake
- 1991 The Silence of the Lambs - Ted Tally
- 1992 Howards End - Ruth Jhabvala
- 1993 Schindler's List - Steven Zaillian
- 1994 Forrest Gump - Eric Roth
- 1995 Sense and Sensibility - Emma Thompson
- 1996 Sling Blade - Billy Bob Thornton
- 1997 L.A. Confidential - Curtis Hanson, Brian Helgeland
- 1998 Gods and Monsters - Bill Condon
- 1999 The Cider House Rules - John Irving
- 2000 Traffic - Stephen Gaghan
- 2001 A Beautiful Mind - Akiva Goldsman
- 2002 The Pianist - Ronald Harwood[?] from the book by Wladyslaw Szpilman[?]
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