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Writing (Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published) - Peter Barnes
The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay adapted from previously established material. The most frequently adapted media are novels, but other adapted narrative formats include stage plays, musicals, short stories, TV series, and other films and film characters.
The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story.
Writing (Story and Screenplay--based on factual material or material not previously published or produced) - Terence McCloy, Chris Clark, Suzanne de Passe
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published winner. Régis Wargnier, Best Foreign Language Film winner. Alan Menken, Best Original Score winner and Best Original Song co-winner. Tim Rice, Best Original Song co-winner. Tom Woodruff Jr., Best Visual Effects co-winner.
Writing, Original Screenplay: awarded to the writer of a script not based on previously published material Top Academy Award Screenwriting Nominees and Winners: Woody Allen (16) and Billy Wilder (12) have been nominated the most for any screenwriting category.
Writing (Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published) - Oliver Stone, Zachary Sklar
