# Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the annual awards given by the Chicago Film Critics Association.

## Winners
### 2000s

| Year | Winner | Writer(s) | Source |
| 2006 | The Departed | William Monahan | film by Alan Mak Siu-fai and Felix Chong |
| 2006 | Little Children | Todd Field and Tom Perrotta | novel by Tom Perrotta |
| 2006 | Notes on a Scandal | Patrick Marber | novel by Zoë Heller |
| 2006 | A Prairie Home Companion | Garrison Keillor | radio variety show by Garrison Keillor |
| 2006 | Thank You for Smoking | Jason Reitman | novel by Christopher Buckley |
| 2007 | No Country for Old Men | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | novel by Cormac McCarthy |
| 2007 | Atonement | Christopher Hampton | novel by Ian McEwan |
| 2007 | Into the Wild | Sean Penn | book by Jon Krakauer |
| 2007 | There Will Be Blood | Paul Thomas Anderson | novel by Upton Sinclair |
| 2007 | Zodiac | James Vanderbilt | book by Robert Graysmith |
| 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | Simon Beaufoy | novel by Vikas Swarup |
| 2008 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Eric Roth | short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 2008 | The Dark Knight | Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan | comic by Bob Kane |
| 2008 | Doubt | John Patrick Shanley | play by John Patrick Shanley |
| 2008 | Frost/Nixon | Peter Morgan | play by Peter Morgan |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner | novel by Walter Kirn |
| 2009 | An Education | Nick Hornby | memoir by Lynn Barber |
| 2009 | In the Loop | Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, and Tony Roche | |
| 2009 | The Informant! | Scott Z. Burns | book by Kurt Eichenwald |
| 2009 | Where the Wild Things Are | Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers | book by Maurice Sendak |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner | Writer(s) | Source |
| 2010 | The Social Network | Aaron Sorkin | novel by Ben Mezrich |
| 2010 | Rabbit Hole | David Lindsay-Abaire | play by David Lindsay-Abaire |
| 2010 | Toy Story 3 | Michael Arndt | |
| 2010 | True Grit | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | novel by Charles Portis |
| 2010 | Winter's Bone | Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini | novel by Daniel Woodrell |
| 2011 | Moneyball | Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin | book by Michael Lewis |
| 2011 | The Descendants | Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash | novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings |
| 2011 | Drive | Hossein Amini | book by James Sallis |
| 2011 | Hugo | John Logan | novel by Brian Selznick |
| 2011 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan | book by John le Carré |
| 2012 | Lincoln | Tony Kushner | novel by Doris Kearns Goodwin |
| 2012 | Argo | Chris Terrio | novel by Tony Mendez article by Joshuah Bearman |
| 2012 | Beasts of the Southern Wild | Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin | novel by Lucy Alibar |
| 2012 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Stephen Chbosky | book by Stephen Chbosky |
| 2012 | Silver Linings Playbook | David O. Russell | novel by Matthew Quick |
| 2013 | 12 Years a Slave | John Ridley | memoir by Solomon Northup |
| 2013 | August: Osage County | Tracy Letts | play by Tracy Letts |
| 2013 | Before Midnight | Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy | characters by Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan |
| 2013 | Philomena | Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope | novel by Martin Sixsmith |
| 2013 | The Wolf of Wall Street | Terence Winter | memoir by Jordan Belfort |
| 2014 | Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn | novel by Gillian Flynn |
| 2014 | The Imitation Game | Graham Moore | novel by Andrew Hodges |
| 2014 | Inherent Vice | Paul Thomas Anderson | book by Thomas Pynchon |
| 2014 | Under the Skin | Walter Campbell | novel by Michel Faber |
| 2014 | Wild | Nick Hornby | memoir by Cheryl Strayed |
| 2015 | The Big Short | Adam McKay and Charles Randolph | novel by Michael Lewis |
| 2015 | Anomalisa | Charlie Kaufman | play by Charlie Kaufman |
| 2015 | Brooklyn | Nick Hornby | novel by Colm Tóibín |
| 2015 | Room | Emma Donoghue | novel by Emma Donoghue |
| 2015 | Steve Jobs | Aaron Sorkin | book by Walter Isaacson |
| 2016 | The Handmaiden | Seo-Kyung Chung and Chan-wook Park | novel by Sarah Waters |
| 2016 | Arrival | Eric Heisserer | short story by Ted Chiang |
| 2016 | Elle | David Birke | novel by Philippe Djian |
| 2016 | Love & Friendship | Whit Stillman | novel by Jane Austen |
| 2016 | Silence | Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese | novel by Shūsaku Endō |
| 2017 | Call Me by Your Name | James Ivory | novel by André Aciman |
| 2017 | Blade Runner 2049 | Hampton Fancher and Michael Green | short story by Philip K. Dick |
| 2017 | The Disaster Artist | Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber | book by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell |
| 2017 | Logan | Scott Frank, James Mangold & Michael Green | character by Roy Thomas, Len Wein and John Romita Sr. |
| 2017 | Mudbound | Dee Rees and Virgil Williams | novel by Hillary Jordan |
| 2018 | If Beale Street Could Talk | Barry Jenkins | novel by James Baldwin |
| 2018 | BlacKkKlansman | Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee | memoir by Ron Stallworth |
| 2018 | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty | memoir by Lee Israel |
| 2018 | The Death of Stalin | Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin and Peter Fellows | graphic novel by Fabien Nury [fr] and Thierry Robin [fr] |
| 2018 | A Star Is Born | Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters and Eric Roth | script by William A. Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell |
| 2019 | Little Women | Greta Gerwig | novel by Louisa May Alcott |
| 2019 | A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster | Can You Say... Hero? by Tom Junod |
| 2019 | Hustlers | Lorene Scafaria | The Hustlers at Scores: The Ex-Strippers Who Stole From (Mostly) Rich Men and Gave to, Well, Themselves by Jessica Pressler |
| 2019 | The Irishman | Steven Zaillian | I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt |
| 2019 | Jojo Rabbit | Taika Waititi | Caging Skies by Christine Leunens |

### 2020s

| Year | Winner | Writer(s) | Source |
| 2020 | Nomadland | Chloé Zhao | Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder |
| 2020 | The Father | Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller | Le Père by Florian Zeller |
| 2020 | First Cow | Jonathan Raymond and Kelly Reichardt | The Half Life by Jonathan Raymond |
| 2020 | I'm Thinking of Ending Things | Charlie Kaufman | novel by Iain Reid |
| 2020 | One Night in Miami... | Kemp Powers | play by Kemp Powers |
| 2021 | The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion | The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage |
| 2021 | Drive My Car | Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Haruki Murakami and Takamasa Ôe | "Drive My Car" by Haruki Murakami |
| 2021 | The Green Knight | David Lowery | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous |
| 2021 | The Lost Daughter | Maggie Gyllenhaal | The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante |
| 2021 | West Side Story | Tony Kushner | West Side Story by Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim & Arthur Laurents |
| 2022 | Women Talking | Sarah Polley | Women Talking by Miriam Toews |
| 2022 | After Yang | Kogonada | "Saying Goodbye to Yang" by Alexander Weinstein |
| 2022 | Bones and All | David Kajganich | Bones & All by Camille DeAngelis |
| 2022 | Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery | Rian Johnson | The character Benoit Blanc, from the film Knives Out by Rian Johnson |
| 2022 | Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio | Guillermo del Toro and Patrick McHale | The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, Illustrations by Gris Grimly |
| 2023 | Killers of the Flower Moon | Eric Roth & Martin Scorsese | Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann |
| 2023 | Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret | Kelly Fremon Craig | Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume |
| 2023 | Oppenheimer | Christopher Nolan | American Prometheus by Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin |
| 2023 | Poor Things | Tony McNamara | Poor Things by Alasdair Gray |
| 2023 | The Zone of Interest | Jonathan Glazer | The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis |
| 2024 | Nickel Boys | RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes | The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead |
| 2024 | The Beast | Bertrand Bonello, Guillaume Bréaud & Benjamin Charbit | The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James |
| 2024 | Conclave | Peter Straughan | Conclave by Robert Harris |
| 2024 | Nosferatu | Robert Eggers | Nosferatu by F. W. Murnau |
| 2024 | Sing Sing | Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar | Rehabilitation Through the Arts program at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York |