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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.
Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Sidney Carroll, Robert Rossen
[NOTE: The Board of Governors voted on September 26, 1995 to grant then-blacklisted writer Michael Wilson an Academy Award nomination, along with Robert Bolt, for Lawrence of Arabia. This was the result of a Writers Guild of America finding that Wilson and Bolt share the credit for the screenplay.]
Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Terence Rattigan, John Gay
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 ).
Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Jan Troell, Bengt Forslund
Apr 14, 2020 · April 14, 2020. 1962 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay) Winner. Judgment at Nuremberg. Abby Mann. In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazis judged for war crimes. Amazon. 1962 Academy Awards – Writing (Adapted Screenplay) Nominees. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. George Axelrod. Amazon. The Guns of Navarone. Carl Foreman.
