Writing (Adapted Screenplay) — Every Winner and Nominee

Every film recognised in the Oscars Writing (Adapted Screenplay) category in CineRoll's records: 120 films across 24 years, 24 of them winners.

The most recent winner is One Battle After Another (2026); the earliest on record is The Pianist (2003).

The last three winners were One Battle After Another (2026), Conclave (2025) and American Fiction (2024).

The list is newest first. Each year shows the winner at the top, then the other nominees; a year with enough nominees links to its own page.

Last updated August 12, 2026

2026

One Battle After Another(2025)
Written by Paul Thomas Anderson
Winner
Bugonia(2025)
Screenplay by Will Tracy
Frankenstein(2025)
Written for the Screen by Guillermo del Toro
Hamnet(2025)
Screenplay by Chloé Zhao & Maggie O'Farrell
Train Dreams(2025)
Screenplay by Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar

2025

Conclave(2024)
Screenplay by Peter Straughan
Winner
A Complete Unknown(2024)
Screenplay by James Mangold and Jay Cocks
Emilia Pérez(2024)
Screenplay by Jacques Audiard; In collaboration with Thomas Bidegain, Léa Mysius and Nicolas Livecchi
Nickel Boys(2024)
Screenplay by RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes
Sing Sing(2024)
Screenplay by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar; Story by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, John "Divine G" Whitfield

2024

American Fiction(2023)
Written for the screen by Cord Jefferson
Winner
Barbie(2023)
Written by Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach
Oppenheimer(2023)
Written for the screen by Christopher Nolan
Poor Things(2023)
Screenplay by Tony McNamara
The Zone of Interest(2023)
Written by Jonathan Glazer

2023

Women Talking(2022)
Screenplay by Sarah Polley
Winner
All Quiet on the Western Front(2022)
Screenplay - Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson & Ian Stokell
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery(2022)
Written by Rian Johnson
Living(2022)
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Top Gun: Maverick(2022)
Screenplay by Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie; Story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks

2022

CODA(2021)
Screenplay by Siân Heder
Winner
Drive My Car(2021)
Screenplay by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe
Dune(2021)
Screenplay by Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth
The Lost Daughter(2021)
Written by Maggie Gyllenhaal
The Power of the Dog(2021)
Written by Jane Campion

2021

The Father(2020)
Screenplay by Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller
Winner
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan(2020)
Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Dan Swimer & Peter Baynham & Erica Rivinoja & Dan Mazer & Jena Friedman & Lee Kern; Story by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Dan Swimer & Nina Pedrad
Nomadland(2021)
Written for the screen by Chloé Zhao
One Night in Miami...(2020)
Screenplay by Kemp Powers
The White Tiger(2021)
Written for the screen by Ramin Bahrani

2020

Jojo Rabbit(2019)
Screenplay by Taika Waititi
Winner
Joker(2019)
Written by Todd Phillips & Scott Silver
Little Women(2019)
Written for the screen by Greta Gerwig
The Irishman(2019)
Screenplay by Steven Zaillian
The Two Popes(2019)
Written by Anthony McCarten

2019

BlacKkKlansman(2018)
Written by Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee
Winner
A Star Is Born(2018)
Screenplay by Eric Roth and Bradley Cooper & Will Fetters
Can You Ever Forgive Me?(2018)
Screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty
If Beale Street Could Talk(2018)
Written for the screen by Barry Jenkins
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs(2018)
Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen

2018

Call Me by Your Name(2017)
Screenplay by James Ivory
Winner
Logan(2017)
Screenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green; Story by James Mangold
Molly's Game(2017)
Written for the screen by Aaron Sorkin
Mudbound(2017)
Screenplay by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees
The Disaster Artist(2017)
Screenplay by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber

2017

Moonlight(2016)
Screenplay by Barry Jenkins; Story by Tarell Alvin McCraney
Winner
Arrival(2016)
Screenplay by Eric Heisserer
Fences(2016)
Screenplay by August Wilson
Hidden Figures(2016)
Screenplay by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi
Lion(2016)
Screenplay by Luke Davies

2016

The Big Short(2015)
Screenplay by Charles Randolph and Adam McKay
Winner
Brooklyn(2015)
Screenplay by Nick Hornby
Carol(2015)
Screenplay by Phyllis Nagy
Room(2015)
Screenplay by Emma Donoghue
The Martian(2015)
Screenplay by Drew Goddard

2015

The Imitation Game(2014)
Written by Graham Moore
Winner
American Sniper(2014)
Written by Jason Hall
Inherent Vice(2014)
The Theory of Everything(2014)
Screenplay by Anthony McCarten
Whiplash(2014)
Written by Damien Chazelle

2014

12 Years a Slave(2013)
Screenplay by John Ridley
Winner
Before Midnight(2013)
Written by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
Captain Phillips(2013)
Screenplay by Billy Ray
Philomena(2013)
Screenplay by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
The Wolf of Wall Street(2013)
Screenplay by Terence Winter

2013

Argo(2012)
Screenplay by Chris Terrio
Winner
Beasts of the Southern Wild(2012)
Screenplay by Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin
Life of Pi(2012)
Screenplay by David Magee
Lincoln(2012)
Screenplay by Tony Kushner
Silver Linings Playbook(2012)
Screenplay by David O. Russell

2012

The Descendants(2011)
Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
Winner
Hugo(2011)
Screenplay by John Logan
Moneyball(2011)
Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin; Story by Stan Chervin
The Ides of March(2011)
Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy(2011)
Screenplay by Bridget O'Connor & Peter Straughan

2011

The Social Network(2010)
Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
Winner
127 Hours(2010)
Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
Toy Story 3(2010)
Screenplay by Michael Arndt; Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
True Grit(2010)
Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Winter's Bone(2010)
Adapted for the screen by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini

2010

Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire(2009)
Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher
Winner
An Education(2009)
Screenplay by Nick Hornby
District 9(2009)
Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
In the Loop(2009)
Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
Up in the Air(2009)
Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

2009

Slumdog Millionaire(2008)
Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy
Winner
Doubt(2008)
Written by John Patrick Shanley
Frost/Nixon(2008)
Screenplay by Peter Morgan
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008)
Screenplay by Eric Roth; Screen story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
The Reader(2008)
Screenplay by David Hare

2008

No Country for Old Men(2007)
Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Winner
Atonement(2007)
Screenplay by Christopher Hampton
Away from Her(2007)
Written by Sarah Polley
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly(2007)
Screenplay by Ronald Harwood
There Will Be Blood(2007)
Written for the Screen by Paul Thomas Anderson

2007

The Departed(2006)
Screenplay by William Monahan
Winner
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan(2006)
Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham, & Dan Mazer; Story by Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham, Anthony Hines, & Todd Phillips
Children of Men(2006)
Screenplay by Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby
Little Children(2006)
Screenplay by Todd Field & Tom Perrotta
Notes on a Scandal(2006)
Screenplay by Patrick Marber

2006

Brokeback Mountain(2005)
Screenplay by Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana
Winner
A History of Violence(2005)
Screenplay by Josh Olson
Capote(2005)
Screenplay by Dan Futterman
Munich(2005)
Screenplay by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth
The Constant Gardener(2005)
Screenplay by Jeffrey Caine

2005

Sideways(2004)
Screenplay by Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor
Winner
Before Sunset(2004)
Screenplay by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, & Ethan Hawke; Story by Richard Linklater & Kim Krizan
Finding Neverland(2004)
Screenplay by David Magee
Million Dollar Baby(2004)
Screenplay by Paul Haggis
The Motorcycle Diaries(2004)
Screenplay by José Rivera

2004

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King(2003)
Screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, & Peter Jackson
Winner
American Splendor(2003)
Written by Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman
City of God(2002)
Screenplay by Braulio Mantovani
Mystic River(2003)
Screenplay by Brian Helgeland
Seabiscuit(2003)
Written for the Screen by Gary Ross

2003

The Pianist(2002)
Screenplay by Ronald Harwood
Winner
About a Boy(2002)
Screenplay by Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz, & Paul Weitz
Adaptation.(2002)
Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman
Chicago(2002)
Screenplay by Bill Condon
The Hours(2002)
Screenplay by David Hare