Best Adapted Screenplay Movies I've Seen
Submitted by alsox4life on Sat, 05/19/2007 - 09:35
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- 1928- Seventh Heaven (Benjamin Glazer)
- 1931- Cimarron (Howard Estabrook)
- 1932- Bad Girl (Edwin J. Burke)
- 1933- Little Women (Victor Heerman and Sarah Y. Mason)
- 1934- It Happened One Night (Robert Riskin)
- 1935- The Informer (Dudley Nichols)
- 1937- The Life of Emile Zola (Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, and Norman Reilly Raine- Screenplay)
- 1938- Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw, Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis, W.P. Lipscomb)
- 1939- Gone with the Wind (Sidney Howard)
- 1940- The Philadelphia Story (Donald Ogden Stewart)
- 1941- Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Sidney Buchanan and Seton I. Miller)
- 1942- Mrs. Miniver (George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, and Arthur Wimperis)
- 1943- Casablanca (Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch)
- 1944- Going My Way (Frank Butler and Frank Cavett)
- 1945- The Lost Weekend (Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder)
- 1946- The Best Years of Our Lives (Robert E. Sherwood)
- 1947- Miracle on 34th Street (George Seaton)
- 1948- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)
- 1949- A Letter to Three Wives (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
- 1950- All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
- 1951- A Place in the Sun (Michael Wilson and Harry Brown)
- 1952- The Bad and the Beautiful (Charles Schnee)
- 1953- From Here to Eternity (Daniel Taradash)
- 1954- The Country Girl (George Seaton)
- 1955- Marty (Paddy Chayefsky)
- 1956- Around the World in Eighty Days (James Poe, John Farrow, and S.J. Perelman)
- 1957- The Bridge on the River Kwai (Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman, and Michael Wilson)
- 1958- Gigi (Alan Jay Lerner)
- 1959- Room at the Top (Neil Paterson)
- 1960- Elmer Gantry (Richard Brooks)
- 1961- Judgment at Nuremberg (Abby Mann)
- 1962- To Kill a Mockingbird (Horton Foote)
- 1963- Tom Jones (John Osborne)
- 1964- Becket (Edward Anhalt)
- 1965- Doctor Zhivago (Robert Bolt)
- 1966- A Man for All Seasons (Robert Bolt)
- 1967- In the Heat of the Night (Stirling Silliphant)
- 1968- The Lion in Winter (James Goldman)
- 1969- Midnight Cowboy (Waldo Salt)
- 1970- M*A*S*H (Ring Lardner Jr.)
- 1971- The French Connection (Ernest Tidyman)
- 1972- The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo)
- 1973- The Exorcist (William Peter Blatty)
- 1974- The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo)
- 1975- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman)
- 1976- All the President's Men (William Goldman)
- 1977- Julia (Alvin Sargent)
- 1978- Midnight Express (Oliver Stone)
- 1979- Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton)
- 1980- Ordinary People (Alvin Sargent)
- 1981- On Golden Pond (Ernest Thompson)
- 1982- Missing (Costa-Gavras and Donald Stewart)
- 1983- Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks)
- 1984- Amadeus (Peter Shaffer)
- 1985- Out of Africa (Kurt Luedtke)
- 1986- A Room with a View (Ruth Prawer Jhabvala)
- 1987- The Last Emperor (Mark Peploe and Bernardo Bertolucci)
- 1988- Dangerous Liaisons (Christopher Hampton)
- 1989- Driving Miss Daisy (Alfred Uhry)
- 1990- Dances with Wolves (Michael Blake)
- 1991- The Silence of the Lambs (Ted Tally)
- 1992- Howards End (Ruth Prawer Jhabvala)
- 1993- Schindler's List (Steve Zaillian)
- 1994- Forrest Gump (Eric Roth)
- 1995- Sense and Sensibility (Emma Thompson)
- 1996- Sling Blade (Billy Bob Thornton)
- 1997- L.A. Confidential (Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson)
- 1998- Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon)
- 1999- The Cider House Rules (John Irving)
- 2000- Traffic (Stephen Gaghan)
- 2001- A Beautiful Mind- Akiva Goldsman
- 2002- The Pianist- Ronald Harwood
- 2003- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson)
- 2004- Sideways (Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor)
- 2005- Brokeback Mountain (Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana)
- 2006- The Departed (William Monahan)
- 2007- No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)
- 2008- Slumdog Millionaire (Simon Beaufoy)
