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Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) - Elaine May, Warren Beatty
Feb 5, 2014 · SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award) To MICHAEL V. CHEWEY, WALTER G. EGGERS and ALLEN HECHT of M-G-M Laboratories for the development of a Computer-controlled Paper Tape Programmer System and its applications in the motion picture laboratory.
During that period, the official stance on Adapted Screenplay transitioned between "Writing (Screenplay–based on material from another medium)" and "Writing (Screenplay Adapted from Other Material)", before going back. Not much to glean from there.
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Feb 9, 2020 · The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is given each year to a script “based on material from another medium.” That other medium being adapted is often a novel ( The Lord of the Rings ), a stage production ( Fences ), or another film ( A Star is Born ).
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.
Aug 7, 2024 · It honors outstanding achievement by screenwriters for a screenplay adapted from another work, such as a play or novel, from a given year, as determined by the academy’s voting members. At the inaugural Academy Awards ceremony, in 1929, the award recognized the work in films released from August 1, 1927, to August 1, 1928.