Oscar za najbolji adaptirani scenarij

Oscar za najbolji adaptirani scenario (Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay) je jedna od nagrada Akademije. Nagrada se dodeljuje svake godine piscu ili spisateljici filmskog scenarija napisanog na osnovu knjige, predstave, pripovetke ili na osnovu nekog drugog filma. Po ovom standardu, svi nastavci filmova se automatski računaju kao filmovi sa adaptiranim scenariom.

Akademija dodeljuje još jednu nagradu za scenario (Oscar za najbolji originalni scenario), ali za scenario koji nije adaptiran.

Nagrada je počela da se dodeljuje kao „Najbolji adaptirani scenario“

• 1927/1928 Seventh Heaven - Benjamin Glazer po predstavi autora Austin Stong
  • Glorious Betsy - Anthony Coldeway po predstavi autora Rida Johnson Young
  • The Jazz Singer - Alfred A. Cohn na osnovu predstave Day of Atonement autora Samson Raphaelsona

Druge i treće godine dodeljivana je sam jedna nagrada za „Najbolji scenario“, koja nije pravila razliku između originalnog i prerađenog scenarija.

• 1928/1929 The Patriot - Hanns Kräly po predstavi, Ashley Dukes preveo predstavu Der Patriot autora Alfreda Neumanna nastaloj po priči Paul I autora Dmirtija Merazhkovskog
  • The Cop - William Taylor Garnett po priči autora Elliott Judd Clawson
  • In Old Arizona - Tom Barry po priči The Caballero's Way autora O. Henry
  • The Last of Mrs. Cheyney - Hanns Kräly po predstavi autora Frederick Lonsdale
  • The Leatherneck - Elliott Judd Clawson original
  • Our Dancing Daughters - Josephine Lovett original
  • Sal of Singapore - Elliott Judd Clawson po priči The Sentimentalists autor Dale Collinsa
  • Skyscraper - Elliott Judd Clawson, William Taylor Garnett po priči autora Dudley Murphya
  • The Valiant - Tom Barry, John Hunter Booth po predstavi autora Halworthy Halla i Roberta Middlemassa
  • A Woman of Affairs - Bess Meredyth po romanu The Green Hat autora Michael Arlena
  • Wonder of Women - Bess Meredyth po romanu Die Frau des Steffen Tromholt, autor Hermanna Sudermanna
• 1929/1930 The Big House - Joseph Farnham, Martin Flavin, Frances Marion, Lennox Marion original
  • All Quiet on the Western Front - Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott, Del Andrews po romanu autora Erich Marije Remarquea
  • Disraeli - Julien Josephson po predstavi autora Louis N. Parkera
  • The Divorcee - John Meehan po romanu Ex-Wife autorke Ursule Parrott
  • Street of Chance - Lenore J. Coffee, Howard Estabrook po priči autor Oliver H. P. Garretta

Godine 1930/31 Nagrada je ponovo podeljena na originalni i adaptirani scenario.

• 1930/1931 Cimarron - Howard Estabrook po romanu autorke Edna Ferber
  • The Criminal Code - Seton I. Miller, Fred Niblo Jr. po predstavi autora Martin Flavina
  • Holiday - Horace Jackson iz predstave autora Philip Barrya
  • Little Caesar - Francis Edward Faragoli, Robert N. Lee, Robert Lord, Darryl F. Zanuck po romanu autora William R. Burnetta
  • Skippy - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Don Marquis, Norman Z. McLeod, Sam Mintz po stripu autora Percy Crosa
• 1931/1932 Bad Girl - Edwin J. Burke po romanu i predstavi autora Viña Delmar
  • Arrowsmith - Sidney Howard po romanu autora Sinclair Lewisa
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Samuel Hoffenstein, Percy Heath po romanu autora Robert Louis Stevensona
• 1932/1933 Little Women - Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason po romanu autorke Louisa May Alcott
  • Lady for a Day - Robert Riskin po priči Madame la Gimp autora Damon Runyona
  • State Fair - Paul Green, Sonya Levien po romanu autora Philip Stonga
• 1934 It Happened One Night - Robert Riskin po priči Night Bus autora Samuel Hopkins Adamsa
  • The Thin Man - Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich po romanu autora Dashiell Hammetta
  • Viva Villa! - Ben Hecht po knjizi, autor Edgecumb Pinchon i O. B. Stade

Godine 1935. nagrada se dodeljuje kao Oscar za najbolji scenario.

• 1935 The Informer - Dudley Nichols po romanu autora Liam O'Flaherty. Ovo je prva ikada odbijena nagrada Oscar.
  • Captain Blood - Casey Robinson po romanu autora Rafael Sabatini
  • The Lives of a Bengal Lancer - Waldemar Young, John L. Balderston, Achmed Abdullah, Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt po romanu autora Francis Yeats-Brown
  • Mutiny on the Bounty - Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman, Carey Wilson po romanu autora Charles Nordhoffa i James Norman Halla
• 1936 The Story of Louis Pasteur - Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney po njihovoj priči
  • After the Thin Man - Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett po priči autora Dashiell Hammett
  • Dodsworth - Sidney Howard po romanu autora Sinclair Lewis
  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town - Robert Riskin po priči Opera Hat autora Clarence Budington Kelland
  • My Man Godfrey - Morrie Ryskind, Eric Hatch po romanu autora Erica Hatcha
• 1937 The Life of Emile Zola - Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, Norman Raine po knjizi Zola and His Time autora Matthew Josephsona
  • The Awful Truth - Viña Delmar iz predstave , autor Arthur Richman
  • Captains Courageous - Marc Connelly, John Lee Mahin, Dale Van Every po romanu autora Rudyard Kipling
  • Stage Door - Morrie Ryskind, Anthony Veiller iz predstave autorke Edna Ferber i George S. Kaufman
  • A Star Is Born - Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, Robert Carson po priči autora William A. Wellman i Roberta Carsona
• 1938 Pygmalion - Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis, W.P. Lipscomb, George Bernard Shaw po predstavi autora George Bernard Shawa
  • Boys Town - John Meehan, Dore Schary po priči autorke Dore Schary i Eleanore Griffin
  • The Citadel - Ian Dalrymple, Frank Wead, Elizabeth Hill po romanu autora A. J. Cronina
  • Four Daughters - Lenore J. Coffee, Julius J. Epstein po romanu Sister Act , autora Fannie Hurst
  • You Can't Take It with You - Robert Riskin iz predstave autora George S. Kaufman i Moss Hart
• 1939 Gone with the Wind - Sidney Howard po romanu autorke Margaret Mitchell
  • Good, autor e, Mr. Chips - R. C. Sherriff, Claudine West, Eric Maschwitz po romanu autora James Hilton
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Sidney Buchman po priči autora Lewis R. Foster
  • Ninotchka - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch po priči autora Melchior Lengyel
  • Wuthering Heights - Charles MacArthur, Ben Hecht po romanu autorke Emily Brontë

• 1940 The Philadelphia Story - Donald Ogden Stewart iz predstave , autor Philip Barry
  • The Grapes of Wrath - Nunnally Johnson po romanu, autor John Steinbeck
  • Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman - Donald Ogden Stewart, Dalton Trumbo po romanu, autor Christopher Morley
  • The Long Voyage Home - Dudley Nichols po zbirci kratkih predstava The Moon of the Caribees, In the Zone, Bound East for Cardiff i The Long Voyage Home , autor Eugene O'Neill
  • Rebecca - Philip MacDonald, Michael Hogan po romanu, autor Daphne du Maurier
• 1941 Here Comes Mr. Jordan - Sidney Buchman, Seton Miller iz predstave Heaven Can Wait , autor Harry Segall
  • Hold Back the Dawn - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder po knjizi, autor Ketti Frings
  • How Green Was My Valley - Philip Dunne (pisac) po romanu, autor Richard Llewellyn
  • The Little Foxes - Lillian Hellman from her own play
  • The Maltese Falcon - John Huston po romanu, autor Dashiell Hammett
• 1942 Mrs. Miniver - George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, Arthur Wimperis based on the novel , autor Jan Struther
  • Forty-Ninth Parallel - Rodney Ackland, Emeric Pressburger po priči , autor Emeric Pressburger
  • The Pride of the Yankees - Herman J. Mankiewicz, Jo Swerling po priči , autor Paul Gallico
  • Random Harvest - George Froeschel, Claudine West, Arthur Wimperis po romanu, autor James Hilton
  • The Talk of the Town - Sidney Buchman, Irwin Shaw po priči , autor Sidney Harmon
• 1943 Casablanca - Philip Epstein, Julius J. Epstein, Howard Koch iz predstave Everybody Comes to Rick's , autor Murray Burnett and Joan Alison
  • Holy Matrimony - Nunally Johnson po romanu Buried Alive , autor Arnold Bennett
  • The More the Merrier - Richard Flournoy, Lewis R. Foster, Frank Ross, Robert Russell po priči , autor Frank Ross and Robert Russell
  • The Song of Bernadette - George Seaton po romanu, autor Franz Werfel
  • Watch on the Rhine - Dashiell Hammett iz predstave , autor Lillian Hellman
• 1944 Going My Way - Frank Butler, Frank Cavett po priči , autor Leo McCarey
  • Double Indemnity - Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler po romanu Double Indemnity in Three of a Kind , autor James M. Cain
  • Gaslight - John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, John L. Balderston iz predstave Angel Street , autor Patrick Hamilton
  • Laura - Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, Betty Reinhardt po romanu, autor Vera Caspary
  • Meet Me in St. Louis - Irving Brecher, Fred F. Finklehoffe po romanu, autor Sally Benson
• 1945 The Lost Weekend - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder po romanu, autor Charles R. Jackson
  • Mildred Pierce - Ranald MacDougall po romanu, autor James M. Cain
  • The Pride of the Marines - Albert Maltz po knjizi, autor Roger Butterfield
  • Story of G.I. Joe - Leopold Atlas, Guy Endore, Philip Stevenson from the books Brave Men and Here Is Your War , autor Ernie Pyle
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Frank Davis, Tess Slesinger po romanu, autor Betty Smith
• 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives - Robert Sherwood po romanu Glory for Me , autor MacKinlay Kantor
  • Anna and the King of Siam - Sally Benson, Talbot Jennings po knjizi, autor Margaret Landon
  • Brief Encounter - Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, Ronald Neame iz predstave Still Life , autor Noel Coward
  • The Killers - Anthony Veiller from the short story , autor Ernest Hemingway
  • Rome, Open City - Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini po priči , autor Sergio Amidei, Alberto Consiglio
• 1947 Miracle on 34th Street - George Seaton po priči , autor Valentine Davies
  • Boomerang - Richard Murphy based on the article , autor Anthony Abbot (pseudonym of Fulton Oursler)
  • Crossfire - John Paxton po romanu The Brick Foxhole , autor Richard Brooks
  • Gentleman's Agreement - Moss Hart po romanu, autor Laura Z. Hobson
  • Great Expectations - David Lean, Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan po romanu, autor Charles Dickens
• 1948 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - John Huston po romanu, autor B. Traven
  • A Foreign Affair - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Richard L. Breen po priči , autor David Shaw
  • Johnny Belinda - Irmgard von Cube, Allen Vincent iz predstave , autor Elmer Blaney Harris
  • The Search - Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler from their story
  • The Snake Pit - Frank Partos, Millen Brand po romanu, autor Mary Jane Ward
• 1949 A Letter to Three Wives - Joseph Mankiewicz po romanu Letter to Five Wives , autor John Klempner
  • All the King's Men - Robert Rossen po romanu, autor Robert Penn Warren
  • The Bicycle Thief - Cesare Zavattini po romanu, autor Luigi Bartolini
  • Champion - Carl Foreman from the short story , autor Ring Lardner
  • The Fallen Idol - Graham Greene from his short story The Basement Room

• 1950 All About Eve - Joseph Mankiewicz from the short story The Wisdom of Eve , autor Mary Orr
  • The Asphalt Jungle - Ben Maddow, John Huston po romanu, autor W.R. Burnett
  • Born Yesterday - Albert Mannheimer, po predstavi, Born Yesterday , autor Garson Kanin
  • Broken Arrow (1950 film) - Albert Maltz (front: Michael Blankfort) po romanu Blood Brother , autor Elliott Arnold
  • Father of the Bride - Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett po romanu, autor Edward Streeter
• 1951 A Place in the Sun - Harry Brown, Michael Wilson po romanu An American Tragedy , autor Theodore Dreiser i po predstavi An American Tragedy , autor Patrick Kearney
  • The African Queen - James Agee, John Huston po romanu, autor C.S. Forester
  • Detective Story - Robert Wyler, Philip Yordan iz predstave , autor Sidney Kingsley
  • La Ronde - Jacques Natanson, Max Ophüls iz predstave Reigen , autor Arthur Schnitzler
  • A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams, po svojoj predstavi
• 1952 The Bad and the Beautiful - Charles Schnee po priči Tribute to a Badman , autor Charles Bradshaw
  • Five Fingers - Michael Wilson po romanu Operation Cicero , autor L.C. Moyzisch
  • High Noon - Carl Foreman po priči The Tin Star , autor John W. Cunningham
  • The Man in the White Suit - John Dighton, Roger MacDougall, Alexander Mackendrick iz predstave , autor Roger MacDougall
  • The Quiet Man - Frank S. Nugent, po priči Green Rushes , autor Maurice Walsh
• 1953 From Here to Eternity - Daniel Taradash po romanu, autor James Jones
  • The Cruel Sea - Eric Ambler po romanu, autor Nicholas Monsarrat
  • Lilli - Helen Deutsch po priči Love of Seven Dolls , autor Paul Gallico
  • Roman Holiday - Ian McLellan Hunter, John Dighton po priči , autor Dalton Trumbo (front: Ian McLellan Hunter)
  • Shane - A.B. Guthrie Jr. po romanu, autor Jack Schaefer
• 1954 The Country Girl - George Seaton iz predstave , autor Clifford Odets
  • The Caine Mutiny - Stanley Roberts po romanu, autor Herman Wouk
  • Rear Window - John Michael Hayes po priči It Had to Be Murder , autor Cornell Woolrich
  • Sabrina - Billy Wilder, Samuel Taylor, Ernest Lehman po romanu Sabrina Fair , autor Samuel Taylor
  • Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - Albert Hackett, Frances Gooderich, Dorothy Kingsley po priči The Sobbin' Women , autor Stephen Vincent Benét
• 1955 Marty - Paddy Chayefsky po svojoj televizijskoj drami
  • Bad Day at Black Rock - Millard Kaufman po priči Bad Day at Hondo , autor Howard Breslin
  • Blackboard Jungle - Richard Brooks po romanu, autor Evan Hunter
  • East of Eden - Paul Osborn po romanu, autor John Steinbeck
  • Love Me or Leave Me - Daniel Fuchs, Isobel Lennart po priči , autor Daniel Fuchs

For 1956 the Category was renamed Screenplay—Adapted:

• 1956 Around the World in Eighty Days - John Farrow, S. J. Perelman, James Poe po romanu, autor Jules Verne
  • Ba, autor Doll - Tennessee Williams po svojoj predstavi Twenty-seven Wagons Full of Cotton and The Unsatisfactory Supper
  • Friendly Persuasion - Michael Wilson po romanu, autor Jessamyn West (N.B.: Početkom 1956. godine, ime pisca Michaela Wilsona – dobitnika Osacara – izbrisano je sa filma Friendly Persuasion od strane Allied Artists, producenta i drugih kompanija. Ugovor potpisan sa Screen Writers Guild-om odobravao je izostavljanje imena svih onih koji su optuženi za komunističke stavove.)
  • Giant - Fred Guiol, Ivan Moffat po romanu, autor Edna Ferber
  • Lust for Life - Norman Corwin po romanu, autor Irving Stone

For 1957 the category was renamed Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium:

• 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai - Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson (potpisan: Pierre Boulle) bazirano na romanu, autor Pierre Boulle (N.B.: Iako je Pierre Boulle primio nagradu, bilo je poznato da su scenario napisali Carl Foreman i Michael Wilson, koji su bili na crnoj sliti.). Godine 1984, Oscar je posthumno dodeljen Wilsonu i Foremanu.
  • Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison - John Huston, John Lee Mahin po romanu, autor Charles Shaw
  • Peyton Place - John Michael Hayes po romanu, autor Grace Metalious
  • Sayonara - Paul Osborn po romanu, autor James Michener
  • 12 Angry Men - Reginald Rose po svojoj predstavi
• 1958 Gigi - Alan Jay Lerner based on the novel , autor Colette
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Richard Brooks, James Poe iz predstave , autor Tennessee Williams
  • The Horse's Mouth - Alec Guinness po romanu, autor Joyce Cary
  • I Want to Live! - Nelson Gidding, Don M. Mankiewicz na osnovu pisama, autorke Barbara Graham i članka, autora Ed Montgomeryja
  • Separate Tables - John Gay, Terence Rattigan iz predstave , autor Terence Rattigan
• 1959 Room at the Top - Neil Paterson po romanu, autor John Braine
  • Anatomy of a Murder - Wendell Mayes, autora Robert Travera (pseudonim John D. Voelkera
  • Ben-Hur - Karl Tunberg po romanu, autor Lew Wallace
  • The Nun's Story - Robert Anderson po knjizi, autor Kathryn Hulme
  • Some Like it Hot - Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond po pričisuggested , autor Robert Thoeren and M. Logan

• 1960 Elmer Gantry - Richard Brooks po romanu, autor Sinclair Lewis
  • Inherit the Wind - Nedrick Young (primio: Nathan E. Douglas), Harold Jacob Smith iz predstave , autor Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee
  • Sons and Lovers - Gavin Lambert, T.E.B. Clarke po romanu, autor D.H. Lawrence
  • The Sundowners - Isobel Lennart po romanu, autor Jon Cleary
  • Tunes of Glory - James Kennaway from his novel
• 1961 Judgment at Nuremberg - Ab, autor Mann po svojoj drami
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's - George Axelrod po romanu, autor Truman Capote
  • The Guns of Navarone - Carl Foreman po romanu, autor Alistair MacLean
  • The Hustler - Sydney Carroll, Robert Rossen po romanu, autor Walter Tevis
  • West Side Story - Ernest Lehman iz predstave , autor Arthur Laurents
• 1962 To Kill a Mockingbird - Horton Foote po romanu, autor Harper Lee
  • David and Lisa - Eleanor Perry po romanu, autor Theodore Isaac Rubin
  • Lawrence of Arabia - Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson (N.B.: originalno je nominovan samo Robert Bolt) na osnovu tekstova T.E. Lawrencea
  • Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov po svom romanu
  • The Miracle Worker - William Gibson po svojoj predstavi
• 1963 Tom Jones - John Osborne po romanu The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling , autor Henry Fielding
  • Captain Newman, M.D. - Richard L. Breen, Henry Ephron, Phoebe Ephron po romanu, autor Leo Rosten
  • Hud - Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr. po romanu Horseman, Pass , autor , autor Larry McMurtry
  • Lilies of the Field - James Poe po romanu, autor William E. Barrett
  • Sundays and Cybele - Serge Bourguignon, Bernard Eschassériaux po romanu Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray , autor Bernard Eschassériaux
• 1964 Becket - Edward Anhalt iz predstave , autor Jean Anouilh
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George po romanu Red Alert , autor Peter George
  • Mary Poppins - Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi from the books , autor P.L. Travers
  • My Fair Lady - Alan Jay Lerner from his musical play and the play Pygmalion , autor George Bernard Shaw
  • Zorba the Greek - Michael Cacoyannis po romanu The Life of Alexis Zorba , autor Nikos Kazantzakis
• 1965 Doctor Zhivago - Robert Bolt po romanu, autor Boris Pasternak
  • Cat Ballou - Walter Newman, Frank Pierson po romanu The Ballad of Cat Ballou , autor Roy Chanslor
  • The Collector - Stanley Mann, John Kohn po romanu, autor John Fowles
  • Ship of Fools - Ab, autor Mann po romanu, autor Katherine Anne Porter
  • A Thousand Clowns - Herb Gardner po svojoj predstavi
• 1966 A Man for All Seasons - Robert Bolt po svojoj predstavi
  • Alfie - Bill Naughton po svojoj predstavi
  • The Professionals - Richard Brooks po romanu A Mule for the Marquesa , autor Frank O'Rourke
  • The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming - William Rode po romanu Off-Islanders , autor Nathaniel Benchley
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Ernest Lehman iz predstave , autor Edward Albee
• 1967 In the Heat of the Night - Stirling Silliphant po romanu, autor John Ball
  • Cool Hand Luke - Donn Pearce, Frank Pierson po romanu, autor Donn Pearce
  • The Graduate - Calder Willingham, Buck Henry po romanu, autor Charles Webb
  • In Cold Blood - Richard Brooks po romanu, autor Truman Capote
  • Ulysses - Joseph Strick, Fred Haines po romanu, autor James Joyce
• 1968 The Lion in Winter - James Goldman po svojoj predstavi
  • The Odd Couple - Neil Simon po svojoj predstavi
  • Oliver! - Vernon Harris from the musical , autor Lionel Bart and the novel Oliver Twist , autor Charles Dickens
  • Rachel, Rachel - Stewart Stern po romanu A Jest of God , autor Margaret Laurence
  • Rosemary's Ba, autor - Roman Polanski po romanu, autor Ira Levin
• 1969 Midnight Cowboy - Waldo Salt po romanu, autor James Leo Herlihy
  • Anne of the Thousand Days - John Hale, Bridget Boland, Richard Sokolove iz predstave , autor Maxwell Anderson
  • Good, autor e, Columbus - Arnold Schulman po romanu, autor Philip Roth
  • They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - James Poe, Robert E. Thompson po romanu, autor Horace McCoy
  • Z - Jorge Semprún, Costa-Gavras po romanu, autor Vassilis Vassilikos

• 1970 M*A*S*H - Ring Lardner Jr. po romanu, autor Richard Hooker
  • Airport - George Seaton po romanu, autor Arthur Hailey
  • I Never Sang for My Father - Robert Anderson po svojoj predstavi
  • Lovers and Other Strangers - Joseph Bologna, David Zelag Goodman Renée Taylor iz predstave , autor Joseph Bologna and Renée Taylor
  • Women in Love - Larry Kramer po romanu, autor D.H. Lawrence
• 1971 The French Connection - Ernest Tidyman po romanu, autor Robin Moore
  • A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick po romanu, autor Anthony Burgess
  • The Conformist - Bernardo Bertolucci po romanu Il Conformista , autor Alberto Moravia
  • The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Ugo Pirro, Vittorio Bonicelli po romanu Giardino dei Finzi-Contini , autor Giorgio Bassani
  • The Last Picture Show - Larry McMurtry Peter Bogdanovich po romanu, autor Larry McMurtry
• 1972 The Godfather - Mario Puzo, Francis Coppola po romanu, autor Mario Puzo
  • Cabaret - Jay Preston Allen from the musical , autor Joe Masteroff, the play I Am a Camera , autor John Van Druten and the book Berlin Stories , autor Christopher Isherwood
  • The Emigrants - Bengt Forslund, Jan Troell from the novels Utvandrarna and Invandrarna , autor Vilhelm Moberg
  • Pete 'n' Tillie - Julius J. Epstein po priči Witch's Milk , autor Peter De Vries
  • Sounder - Lonne Elder III po knjizi, autor William H. Armstrong
• 1973 The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty po romanu of William Blatty
  • The Last Detail - Robert Towne po romanu, autor Darryl Ponicsan
  • The Paper Chase - James Bridges po romanu, autor John Jay Osborn Jr.
  • Paper Moon - Alvin Sargent po romanu Addie Pray , autor Joe David Brown
  • Serpico - Waldo Salt, Norman Wexler po knjizi, autor Peter Maas

From 1974 the Category was renamed Screenplay Adapted From Other Material:

• 1974 The Godfather, Part II - Francis Coppola, Mario Puzo po romanu The Godfather , autor Mario Puzo
  • The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Lionel Chetwynd, Mordecai Richler po knjizi, autor Mordecai Richler
  • Lenny - Julian Barry po svojoj predstavi
  • Murder on the Orient Express - Paul Dehn po romanu, autor Agatha Christie
  • Young Frankenstein - Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks po romanu Frankenstein , autor Mary Shelley
• 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Bo Goldman, Laurence Hauben po romanu, autor Ken Kesey
  • Barry Lyndon - Stanley Kubrick po romanu The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. , autor William Makepeace Thackeray
  • The Man Who Would Be King - John Huston, Gladys Hill po priči , autor Rudyard Kipling
  • Profumo Di Donna - Ruggero Maccari, Dino Risi po romanu Il buio e il mare , autor Giovanni Arpino
  • The Sunshine Boys - Neil Simon po svojoj predstavi

Od 1976. ova nagrada nosi ime Oscar za scenario zasnovan na materijalu iz drugog medija.

• 1976 All the President's Men - William Goldman po knjizi, autor Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
  • Bound for Glory - Robert Getchell po knjizi, autor Woody Guthrie
  • Fellini's Casanova - Federico Fellini, Bernardino Zapponi from the autobiography Histoire de ma vie , autor Giacomo Casanova
  • The Seven-Per-Cent Solution - Nicholas Meyer from his novel
  • Voyage of the Damned - David Butler, Steve Shagan po knjizi, autor Gordon Thomas; saradnja , autor Max Morgan Witts
• 1977 Julia - Alvin Sargent po romanu Pentimento , autor Lillian Hellman
  • Equus - Peter Shaffer po svojoj predstavi
  • I Never Promised You a Rose Garden - Gavin Lambert, Lewis John Carlino po romanu, autor Hannah Greene
  • Oh, God! - Larry Gelbart po romanu, autor Avery Corman
  • That Obscure Object of Desire - Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière po romanu La femme et le pantin , autor Pierre Louÿs
• 1978 Midnight Express - Oliver Stone po knjizi, autor Billy Hayes and William Hoffer
  • Bloodbrothers - Walter Newman po romanu, autor Richard Price
  • California Suite - Neil Simon po svojoj predstavi
  • Heaven Can Wait - Elaine May, Warren Beatty iz predstave , autor Harry Seagal
  • Same Time, Next Year - Bernard Slade po svojoj predstavi
• 1979 Kramer vs. Kramer - Robert Benton po romanu, autor Avery Corman
  • Apocalypse Now - John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola po romanu Heart of Darkness , autor Joseph Conrad
  • La Cage aux folles - Marcello Danon, Edouard Molinaro, Jean Poiret, Francis Veber iz predstave , autor Jean Poiret
  • A Little Romance - Allan Burns po romanu E=MC2 mon amour , autor Patrick Cauvin (pseudonym of Claude Klotz)
  • Norma Rae - Harriet Frank Jr., Irving Ravetch

• 1980 Ordinary People - Alvin Sargent po romanu, autor Judith Guest
  • Breaker Morant - Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens, Bruce Beresford iz predstave , autor Kenneth Ross
  • Coal Miner's Daughter - Tom Rickman na osnovu autobiografije , autor Loretta Lynn i George Vecsey
  • The Elephant Man - Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren, David Lynch po knjizi The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences , autora Sir Frederick Trevesa i The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity , autora Ashley Montagua
  • The Stunt Man - Lawrence B. Marcus, Richard Rush po romanu, autor Paul Brodeur
• 1981 On Golden Pond - Ernest Thompson po svojoj predstavi
  • The French Lieutenant's Woman - Harold Pinter po romanu, autor John Fowles
  • Pennies From Heaven - Dennis Potter na osnovu svoje miniserije
  • Prince of the City - Jay Presson Allen, Sidney Lumet po knjizi, autor Robert Daley
  • Ragtime - Michael Weller po romanu, autor E.L. Doctorow
• 1982 Missing - Constantin Costa-Gavras, Donald Stewart po knjizi, autor Thomas Hauser
  • Das Boot - Wolfgang Petersen po romanu, autor Lothar G. Buchheim
  • Sophie's Choice - Alan J. Pakula po romanu, autor William Styron
  • The Verdict - David Mamet po romanu, autor Barry Reed
  • Victor/Victoria - Blake Edwards from the earlier film screenplay , autor Reinhold Schünzel
• 1983 Terms of Endearment - James L. Brooks po romanu, autor Larry McMurtry
  • The Betrayal - Harold Pinter po svojoj predstavi
  • The Dresser - Ronald Harwood po svojoj predstavi
  • Educating Rita - Willy Russell po svojoj predstavi
  • Reuben, Reuben - Julius J. Epstein po romanu, autor Peter De Vries and the play Spoonford , autor Herman Shumlin
• 1984 Amadeus - Peter Shaffer iz predstave Amadeus
  • Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes - P.H. Vazak, Michael Austin from the novel Tarzan of the Apes , autor Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • The Killing Fields - Bruce Robinson na osnovu članka The Death and Life of Dith Pran , autor Sydney Schanberg
  • A Passage to India - David Lean po romanu, autor E.M. Forster
  • A Soldier's Story - Charles Fuller na osnovu svoje drame A Soldier's Play
• 1985 Out of Africa - Kurt Luedtke na osnovu memoara Isak Dinesena, knjige Silence Will Speak , autora Errol Trzebinskija i knjige Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller, autorke Judith Thurman
  • The Color Purple - Menno Meyjes po romanu, autor Alice Walker
  • Kiss of the Spider Woman - Leonard Schrader po romanu, autor Manuel Puig
  • Prizzi's Honor - Richard Condon, Janet Roach po romanu, autor Richard Condon
  • The Trip to Bountiful - Horton Foote po svojoj predstavi
• 1986 A Room with a View - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala po romanu, autor E.M. Forster
  • Children of a Lesser God - Hesper Anderson, Mark Medoff iz predstave , autor Mark Medoff
  • The Color of Money - Richard Price po romanu, autor Walter Tevis
  • Crimes of the Heart - Beth Henley from her play
  • Stand , autor Me - Raynold Gideon, Bruce A. Evans from the novella The Body , autor Stephen King
• 1987 The Last Emperor - Bernardo Bertolucci, Mark Peploe from the autobiography From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi , autor Henry Pu Yi
  • The Dead - Tony Huston po priči , autor James Joyce
  • Fatal Attraction - James Dearden na osnovu scenarija, autor James Dearden (Ovo je bio rimejk ranijeg televizijskog filma)
  • Full Metal Jacket - Gustav Hasford, Michael Herr, Stanley Kubrick po romanu The Short-Timers , autor Gustav Hasford
  • Mitt liv som hund - Brasse Brännström, Per Berglund, Lasse Hallström, Reidar Jönsson po romanu, autor Reidar Jönsson
• 1988 Dangerous Liaisons - Christopher Hampton po romanu, autor Choderlos de Laclos and the play , autor Christopher Hampton
  • The Accidental Tourist - Frank Galati, Lawrence Kasdan from the novel , autor Anne Tyler
  • Gorillas in the Mist - Anna Hamilton Phelan from the article , autor Harold T.P. Hayes
  • Little Dorrit - Christine Edzard po romanu, autor Charles Dickens
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Jean-Claude Carrière, Philip Kaufman po romanu, autor Milan Kundera
• 1989 Driving Miss Daisy - Alfred Uhry iz predstave , autor Alfred Uhry
  • Born on the Fourth of July - Ron Kovic, Oliver Stone from the autobiography , autor Ron Kovic
  • Enemies, a Love Story - Paul Mazursky, Roger L. Simon po romanu, autor Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Field of Dreams - Phil Alden Robinson po romanu Shoeless Joe , autor W.P. Kinsella
  • My Left Foot - Shane Connaughton, Jim Sheridan na osnovu autobiografije Christy Brown

• 1990 Dances with Wolves - Michael Blake po romanu autora Michael Blake
  • Awakenings - Steven Zaillian po knjizi autora Olivera Sacksa
  • Goodfellas - Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese po romanu Wise Guy autora Nicholasa Pileggia
  • The Grifters - Donald E. Westlake po romanu autora Jima Thompsona
  • Reversal of Fortune - Nicholas Kazan po romanu autora Alan M. Dershowitza

Od 1991. godine nagrada nosi ime Oscar za najbolji scenario zasnovan na prethodno objavljenom materijalu.

• 1991 The Silence of the Lambs - Ted Tally po romanu, autor Thomas Harris
  • Europa Europa - Agnieszka Holland na osnovu autobiografije autora Salomon Perel
  • Fried Green Tomatoes - Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski po romanu Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe autorke Fannie Flagg
  • JFK - Oliver Stone, Zachary Sklar po romanu Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy autora Jim Marrsa i knjizi On the Trail of the Assassins autora Jim Garrisona
  • The Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy, Becky Johnston po romanu autorke Pat Conroy
• 1992 Howards End - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala po romanu autora E.M. Forstera
  • Enchanted April - Peter Barnes po romanu autorke Elizabeth von Arnim
  • The Player - Michael Tolkin po romanu autora Michael Tolkina
  • A River Runs Through It - Richard Friedenberg po priči autora Norman Macleana
  • Scent of a Woman - Bo Goldman po romanu Il Buio E Il Miele autora Giovanni Arpinoa
• 1993 Schindler's List - Steven Zaillian po romanu autora Thomas Keneallya
  • The Age of Innocence - Jay Cocks, Martin Scorsese po istoimenom romanu autorke Edith Wharton
  • In the Name of the Father - Terry George, Jim Sheridan na osnovu autobiografije Proved Innocent autora Gerry Conlona
  • The Remains of the Day - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala po romanu autora Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Shadowlands - William Nicholson na osnovu svoje predstave
• 1994 Forrest Gump - Eric Roth po romanu autora Winston Groom
  • The Madness of King George - Alan Bennett iz predstave The Madness of George III autora Alan Bennetta
  • Nobody's Fool - Robert Benton po romanu autora Richard Russoa
  • Quiz Show - Paul Attanasio po romanu autora Richard N. Goodwin
  • The Shawshank Redemption - Frank Darabont na osnovu priče Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption , autora Stephen Kinga
• 1995 Sense and Sensibility - Emma Thompson po romanu autorke Jane Austen
  • Apollo 13 - William Broyles Jr., Al Reinert po romanu Lost Moon , autora Jim Lovella i Jeffrey Klugera
  • Babe - George Miller, Chris Noonan po romanu The Sheep Pig , autora Dick King-Smitha
  • Leaving Las Vegas - Mike Figgis po romanua autor John O'Brien
  • Il Postino - Anna Pavignano, Michael Radford, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli, Massimo Troisi po romanu Ardiente Paciencia autora Antonio Skármeta
• 1996 Sling Blade - Billy Bob Thornton na osnovu svoje predstave
  • The Crucible - Arthur Miller iz predstave autora Arthura Millera
  • The English Patient - Anthony Minghella po romanu autor Michael Ondaatje
  • Hamlet - Kenneth Branagh po Shakespeareovoj drami
  • Trainspotting - John Hodge po romanua autora Irvine Welsh
• 1997 L.A. Confidential - Curtis Hanson, Brian Helgeland po romanu autora James Ellroya
  • Donnie Brasco - Paul Attanasio po romanu Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia autora Josepha Pistonea i Richard Woodleya
  • The Sweet Hereafter - Atom Egoyan po romanu autora Russell Banks
  • Wag the Dog - Hilary Henkin, David Mamet po romanu American Hero autora Larry Beinhart
  • The Wings of the Dove - Hossein Amini po romanu autora Henry James
• 1998 Gods and Monsters - Bill Condon po romanu Father of Frankenstein autora Christopher Brama
  • Out of Sight - Scott Frank po romanu autors Elmore Leonard
  • Primary Colors - Elaine May po romanu autora Joe Kleina
  • A Simple Plan - Scott B. Smith po romanu autora Scott B. Smitha
  • The Thin Red Line - Terrence Malick po romanu autora Jamesa Jonesa
• 1999 The Cider House Rules - John Irving po romanu autora John Irvinga
  • Election - Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor po romanu autora Tom Perrottaa
  • The Green Mile - Frank Darabont po romanu autora Stephen Kinga
  • The Insider - Eric Roth, Michael Mann na osnovu članka The Man Who Knew Too Much , autorke Marie Brenner
  • The Talented Mr. Ripley - Anthony Minghella po romanu autorke Patricia Highsmith

• 2000 Traffic - Stephen Gaghan na osnovu drame Traffik , autora Simona Moorea
  • Chocolat - Robert Nelson Jacobs po istoimenom romanu autorke Joanne Harris
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Hui-Ling Wang, James Schamus i Kuo Jung Tsai po romanu autora Du Lu Wanga
  • O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Ethan i Joel Coen na osnovu Homerove Odiseje
  • Wonder Boys - Steven Kloves po istoimenom romanu autora Michael Chabona
• 2001 A Beautiful Mind - Akiva Goldsman na osnovu biografije autorke Sylvije Nasar
  • Ghost World - Daniel Clowes i Terry Zwigoff na osnovu stripova autora Daniel Clowesa
  • In the Bedroom - Todd Field and Robert Festinger na osnovu priče Killings autora Andre Dubus
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens i Peter Jackson po romanu, autora J.R.R. Tolkiena
  • Shrek - Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman i Roger S.H. Schulman na osnovu knjige za decu autora William Steig

Od 2002. nagrada nosi današnje ime.

• 2002 The Pianist - Ronald Harwood po knjizi autora Władysław Szpilmana
  • About a Boy - Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz i Paul Weitz po romanu autora Nick Horna
  • Adaptation. - Charlie i Donald Kaufman po knjiziThe Orchid Thief autorke Susan Orlean
  • Chicago - Bill Condon iz predstave autorke Maurine Dallas Watkins
  • The Hours - David Hare po romanu autora Michaela Cunninghama
• 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens i Peter Jackson po romanu autora Tolkiena
  • American Splendor - Robert Pulcini i Shari Springer Berman na osnovu stripova autora Harvey Pekara i stripova Our Cancer Year autora Joyce Brabnera
  • City of God - Braulio Mantovani po romanu autora Paulo Linsa
  • Mystic River - Brian Helgeland po romanu autora Dennis Lehanea
  • Seabiscuit - Gary Ross po knjizi autorke Laura Hillenbrand
• 2004 Sideways - Alexander Payne i Jim Taylor po romanu, autor Rex Pickett
  • Before Sunset - Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy i Ethan Hawke po priči autora Richarda Linklatera i Kim Krizan
  • Finding Neverland - David Magee na osnovu predstave autor Allan Kneea
  • Million Dollar Ba, autor - Paul Haggis po Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner , autora F.X. Toolea
  • The Motorcycle Diaries - José Rivera na osnovu knjiga Con el Che por America Latina autora Alberta Ganadoa i Notas de viaje autora Ernesta Guevara
• 2005 Brokeback Mountain - Larry McMurtry i Diana Ossana na osnovu priče autorke E. Annie Proulx
  • A History of Violence - Josh Olson po romanu autora Jona Wagnera i Vince Lockea
  • Capote - Dan Futterman po knjizi autor Geralda Clarka
  • The Constant Gardener - Jeffrey Caine po romanu autora John le Carréa
  • Munich - Tony Kushner i Eric Roth po knjizi Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team autora Georga Jonasa
• 2006 The Departed - William Monahan na osnovu filma Infernal Affairs. Na dodeli Oscara komentator je pogrešno rekao da je na osnovu japanskog filma. Film je, zapravo, iz Hong Konga.
  • Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham, Anthony Hines, Dan Mazer i Todd Phillips na osnovu TV serije Da Ali G Show
  • Children of Men - Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ost, po romanu The Children of Men autora P. D. Jamesa
  • Notes on a Scandal - Patrick Marber na osnovu istoimenog romana autorke Zoë Hellera
  • Little Children - Todd Field iTom Perrotta po romanu autora Toma Perrotta
• 2007 No Country for Old Men - Ethan i Joel Coen prema romanu Cormac McCarthya
  • Atonement - Christopher Hampton prema romanu Ian McEwana
  • Away from Her - Sarah Polley na osnovu priče, "The Bear Went Over the Mountain" spisateljice Alice Munro
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) - Ronald Harwood na osnovu memoara Jean-Dominique Baubya
  • There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson prema romanu Oil! pisca Upton Sinclair
• 2008 - Slumdog Millionaire – Simon Beaufoy prema romanu Q & A autor: Vikas Swarup
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Roth i Robin Swicord na osnovu priče the short story autor: F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Doubt – John Patrick Shanley na osnovu svoje drame
  • Frost/Nixon – Peter Morgan na osnovu svoje drame
  • The Reader – David Hare prema istorimenom romanu autor: Bernhard Schlink
• 2009 - Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire' – Geoffrey Fletcher prema romanu Push spisateljice Sapphire
  • District 9 – Neill Blomkamp i Terri Tatchell prema kratkom filmu Alive in Joburg reditelja Neill Blomkamp
  • An Education – Nick Hornby prema knjizi spisateljice Lynn Barber
  • In the Loop – Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci i Tony Roche prema televizijskoj seriji The Thick of It
  • Up in the Air – Jason Reitman i Sheldon Turner prema istoimenom romanu autor: Walter Kirn