# César Award for Best Adaptation

The César Award for Best Adaptation (French: César de la meilleure adaptation) is an award presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma. It was initially awarded from 1983 to 1985, and then awarded again in 2006, when the original category (César Award for Best Writing) was split into two awards, the other being César Award for Best Original Screenplay.

## Winners and nominees
### 1980s

| Year | Winners and nominees | Original title | Writer(s) |
| 1983 (8th) | L'Étoile du Nord | L'Étoile du Nord | Jean Aurenche, Pierre Granier-Deferre and Michel Grisolia |
| 1983 (8th) | Danton | Danton | Jean-Claude Carrière and Jacek Gasiorowski |
| 1983 (8th) | Les Misérables | Les Misérables | Alain Decaux and Robert Hossein |
| 1983 (8th) | Hécate | Hécate, maîtresse de la nuit | Pascal Jardin and Daniel Schmid |
| 1984 (9th) | One Deadly Summer | L'Été meurtrier | Sébastien Japrisot |
| 1984 (9th) | For Those I Loved | Au nom de tous les miens | Robert Enrico |
| 1984 (9th) | So Long, Stooge | Tchao Pantin | Claude Berri and Alain Page |
| 1985 (10th) | A Sunday in the Country | Un dimanche à la campagne | Bertrand Tavernier and Colo Tavernier |
| 1985 (10th) | Le Bon Plaisir | Le Bon Plaisir | Francis Girod and Françoise Giroud |
| 1985 (10th) | The Public Woman | La Femme publique | Dominique Garnier and Andrzej Żuławski |
The César Award for Best Writing was awarded from 1986 to 2005.

### 2000s

| Year | Winners and nominees | Original title | Writer(s) |
| 2006 (31st) | The Beat That My Heart Skipped | De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté | Jacques Audiard and Tonino Benacquista |
| 2006 (31st) | The Axe | Le couperet | Costa-Gavras and Jean-Claude Grumberg |
| 2006 (31st) | In His Hands | Entre ses mains | Anne Fontaine and Julien Boivent |
| 2006 (31st) | Gabrielle | Gabrielle | Patrice Chéreau and Anne-Louise Trividic |
| 2006 (31st) | The Last Mitterrand | Le promeneur du Champ-de-Mars | Xavier Beauvois, Guillaume Bréaud and Jean-Eric Troubat |
| 2007 (32nd) | Lady Chatterley | Lady Chatterley | Roger Bohbot, Pascale Ferran and Pierre Trividic |
| 2007 (32nd) | Don't Worry, I'm Fine | Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas | Philippe Lioret and Olivier Adam |
| 2007 (32nd) | OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies | OSS 117: Le Caire, nid d'espions | Jean-François Halin and Michel Hazanavicius |
| 2007 (32nd) | Private Fears in Public Places | Cœurs | Jean-Michel Ribes |
| 2007 (32nd) | Tell No One | Ne le dis à personne | Guillaume Canand and Philippe Lefèbvre |
| 2008 (33rd) | Persepolis | Persepolis | Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi |
| 2008 (33rd) | Darling | Darling | Christine Carrière |
| 2008 (33rd) | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Le scaphandre et le papillon | Ronald Harwood |
| 2008 (33rd) | Hunting and Gathering | Ensemble, c'est tout | Claude Berri |
| 2008 (33rd) | A Secret | Un secret | Nathalie Carter and Claude Miller |
| 2009 (34th) | The Class | Entre les murs | François Bégaudeau, Robin Campillo and Laurent Cantet |
| 2009 (34th) | The Beautiful Person | La belle personne | Christophe Honoré and Gilles Taurand |
| 2009 (34th) | Crime Is Our Business | Le crime est notre affaire | François Caviglioli and Pascal Thomas |
| 2009 (34th) | Love Me No More | Deux jours à tuer | Éric Assous, Jérôme Beaujour, Jean Becker and François d'Épenoux |
| 2009 (34th) | Public Enemy Number One: Part 1 and 2 | L'instinct de mort and L'ennemi public n°1 | Abdel Raouf Dafri and Jean-François Richet |

### 2010s

| Year | Winners and nominees | Original title | Writer(s) |
| 2010 (35th) | Mademoiselle Chambon | Mademoiselle Chambon | Stéphane Brizé and Florence Vignon |
| 2010 (35th) | Coco Before Chanel | Coco avant Chanel | Anne Fontaine and Camille Fontaine |
| 2010 (35th) | One for the Road | Le Dernier pour la route | Philippe Godeau and Agnès De Sacy |
| 2010 (35th) | Le Petit Nicolas | Le Petit Nicolas | Laurent Tirard and Grégoire Vigneron |
| 2010 (35th) | Wild Grass | Les Herbes folles | Alex Reval and Laurent Herbiet |
| 2011 (36th) | The Ghost Writer | The Ghost Writer | Robert Harris and Roman Polanski |
| 2011 (36th) | The Tree | L'Arbre | Julie Bertuccelli |
| 2011 (36th) | The Princess of Montpensier | La Princesse de Montpensier | Jean Cosmos, Francois-Olivier Rousseau and Bertrand Tavernier |
| 2011 (36th) | L'Homme qui voulait vivre sa vie | L'Homme qui voulait vivre sa vie | Éric Lartigau and Laurent de Bartillat |
| 2011 (36th) | Potiche | Potiche | François Ozon |
| 2012 (37th) | Carnage | Carnage | Roman Polanski and Yasmina Reza |
| 2012 (37th) | Delicacy | La délicatesse | David Foenkinos |
| 2012 (37th) | Guilty | Présumé coupable | Vincent Garenq |
| 2012 (37th) | Omar Killed Me | Omar m'a tuer | Olivier Gorce, Roschdy Zem, Rachid Bouchareb and Olivier Lorelle |
| 2012 (37th) | Rebellion | L'Ordre et la Morale | Mathieu Kassovitz, Pierre Geller and Benoît Jaubert |
| 2013 (38th) | Rust and Bone | De rouille et d'os | Jacques Audiard and Thomas Bidegain |
| 2013 (38th) | One Night | 38 témoins | Lucas Belvaux |
| 2013 (38th) | What's in a Name? | Le prénom | Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellière |
| 2013 (38th) | In the House | Dans la maison | François Ozon |
| 2013 (38th) | Farewell, My Queen | Les Adieux à la reine | Gilles Taurand and Benoît Jacquot |
| 2014 (39th) | Me, Myself and Mum | Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table! | Guillaume Gallienne |
| 2014 (39th) | The French Minister | Quai d'Orsay | Antonin Baudry, Christophe Blain and Bertrand Tavernier |
| 2014 (39th) | Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian | Jimmy P. | Arnaud Desplechin, Kent Jones and Julie Peyr |
| 2014 (39th) | Venus in Fur | La Vénus à la fourrure | David Ives and Roman Polanski |
| 2014 (39th) | Blue Is the Warmest Colour | La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2 | Abdellatif Kechiche and Ghalia Lacroix |
| 2015 (40th) | Diplomacy | Diplomatie | Cyril Gely, Volker Schlöndorff |
| 2015 (40th) | The Blue Room | La Chambre bleue | Mathieu Amalric, Stéphanie Cléau |
| 2015 (40th) | Lulu femme nue | Lulu femme nue | Sólveig Anspach, Jean-Luc Gaget |
| 2015 (40th) | Not My Type | Pas son genre | Lucas Belvaux |
| 2015 (40th) | Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart | La Prochaine fois je viserai le cœur | Cédric Anger |
| 2016 (41st) | Fatima | Fatima | Philippe Faucon |
| 2016 (41st) | L'Affaire SK1 | L'Affaire SK1 | David Oelhoffen and Frédéric Tellier |
| 2016 (41st) | Macadam Stories | Asphalte | Samuel Benchetrit |
| 2016 (41st) | The Clearstream Affair | L'Enquête | Stéphane Cabel and Vincent Garenq |
| 2016 (41st) | Diary of a Chambermaid | Journal d'une femme de chambre | Benoît Jacquot and Hélène Zimmer |
| 2017 (42nd) | My Life as a Courgette | Ma vie de Courgette | Céline Sciamma |
| 2017 (42nd) | Elle | Elle | David Birke |
| 2017 (42nd) | 150 Milligrams | La Fille de Brest | Séverine Bosschem and Emmanuelle Bercot |
| 2017 (42nd) | Frantz | Frantz | François Ozon |
| 2017 (42nd) | From the Land of the Moon | Mal de pierres | Nicole Garcia and Jacques Fieschi |
| 2017 (42nd) | Heal the Living | Réparer les vivants | Katell Quillévéré and Gilles Taurand |
| 2018 (43rd) | See You Up There | Au Revoir là-haut | Albert Dupontel and Pierre Lemaitre |
| 2018 (43rd) | The Guardians | Les Gardiennes | Xavier Beauvois, Frédérique Moreau and Marie-Julie Maille |
| 2018 (43rd) | Patients | Patients | Grand Corps Malade and Fadette Drouard |
| 2018 (43rd) | Promise at Dawn | La Promesse de l'aube | Éric Barbier and Marie Eynard |
| 2018 (43rd) | Redoubtable | Le Redoutable | Michel Hazanavicius |
| 2019 (44th) | Little Tickles | Les Chatouilles | Andréa Bescond, Éric Métayer |
| 2019 (44th) | The Sisters Brothers | Les Frères Sisters | Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain |
| 2019 (44th) | Mademoiselle de Joncquières | Mademoiselle de Joncquières | Emmanuel Mouret |
| 2019 (44th) | An Impossible Love | Un amour impossible | Catherine Corsini, Laurette Polmanss |
| 2019 (44th) | Memoir of War | La Douleur | Emmanuel Finkiel |

### 2020s

| Year | Winners and nominees | Original title | Writer(s) |
| 2020 (45th) | An Officer and a Spy | J'accuse | Roman Polanski and Robert Harris |
| 2020 (45th) | Adults in the Room | Adults in the Room | Costa-Gavras |
| 2020 (45th) | I Lost My Body | J'ai perdu mon corps | Jérémy Clapin and Guillaume Laurant |
| 2020 (45th) | Oh Mercy! | Roubaix, une lumière | Arnaud Desplechin and Léa Mysius |
| 2020 (45th) | Only the Animals | Seules les bêtes | Dominik Moll and Gilles Marchand |
| 2021 (46th) | The Girl with a Bracelet | La Fille au bracelet | Stéphane Demoustier |
| 2021 (46th) | Wasp Network | Cuban Network | Olivier Assayas |
| 2021 (46th) | Mama Weed | La Daronne | Hannelore Cayre and Jean-Paul Salomé |
| 2021 (46th) | Summer of 85 | Été 85 | François Ozon |
| 2021 (46th) | Small Country: An African Childhood | Petit Pays | Éric Barbier |
| 2022 (47th) | Lost Illusions | Illusions perdues | Xavier Giannoli and Jacques Fieschi |
| 2022 (47th) | The Accusation | Les Choses humaines | Yaël Langmann and Yvan Attal |
| 2022 (47th) | Happening | L'événement | Audrey Diwan and Marcia Romano |
| 2022 (47th) | Hold Me Tight | Serre moi fort | Mathieu Amalric |
| 2022 (47th) | Paris, 13th District | Les Olympiades | Jacques Audiard, Céline Sciamma and Léa Mysius |
| 2023 (48th) | The Night of the 12th | La Nuit du 12 | Gilles Marchand and Dominik Moll |
| 2023 (48th) | Final Cut | Coupez! | Michel Hazanavicius |
| 2023 (48th) | Undercover | Enquête sur un scandale d'État | Thierry de Peretti and Jeanne Aptekman |
| 2024 (49th) | Just the Two of Us | L'Amour et les Forêts | Valérie Donzelli and Audrey Diwan |
| 2024 (49th) | Consent | Le Consentement | Vanessa Filho |
| 2024 (49th) | Last Summer | L'Été dernier | Catherine Breillat |
| 2025 (50th) | Emilia Pérez | Emilia Pérez | Jacques Audiard with Thomas Bidegain, Léa Mysius and Nicolas Livecchi |
| 2025 (50th) | The Count of Monte Cristo | Le Comte de Monte-Cristo | Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière |
| 2025 (50th) | The Most Precious of Cargoes | La Plus Précieuse des marchandises | Michel Hazanavicius and Jean-Claude Grumberg |