Oscar za najbolji adaptirani scenarij

Oscar za najbolji adaptirani scenario (Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay) je jedna od nagrada Akademije. Nagrada se dodeljuje svake godine piscu ili spisateljici filmskog scenarija napisanog na osnovu knjige, predstave, pripovetke ili na osnovu nekog drugog filma. Po ovom standardu, svi nastavci filmova se automatski računaju kao filmovi sa adaptiranim scenariom. 

Akademija dodeljuje još jednu nagradu za scenario (Oscar za najbolji originalni scenario), ali za scenario koji nije adaptiran.

1920-e 
Nagrada je počela da se dodeljuje kao „Najbolji adaptirani scenario“
 1927/1928 Seventh Heaven - Benjamin Glazer po predstavi autora Austin Stong
 Glorious Betsy - Anthony Coldeway po predstavi autora Rida Johnson Young
 The Jazz Singer - Alfred A. Cohn na osnovu predstave Day of Atonement autora Samson Raphaelsona

Druge i treće godine dodeljivana je sam jedna nagrada za „Najbolji scenario“, koja nije pravila razliku između originalnog i prerađenog scenarija.
 
 1928/1929 The Patriot - Hanns Kräly po predstavi, Ashley Dukes preveo predstavu Der Patriot autora Alfreda Neumanna nastaloj po priči Paul I autora Dmirtija Merazhkovskog
 The Cop - William Taylor Garnett po priči autora Elliott Judd Clawson
 In Old Arizona - Tom Barry po priči The Caballero's Way autora O. Henry
 The Last of Mrs. Cheyney - Hanns Kräly po predstavi autora Frederick Lonsdale
 The Leatherneck - Elliott Judd Clawson original
 Our Dancing Daughters - Josephine Lovett original
 Sal of Singapore - Elliott Judd Clawson po priči The Sentimentalists autor Dale Collinsa
 Skyscraper - Elliott Judd Clawson, William Taylor Garnett po priči autora Dudley Murphya
 The Valiant - Tom Barry, John Hunter Booth po predstavi autora Halworthy Halla i Roberta Middlemassa
 A Woman of Affairs - Bess Meredyth po romanu The Green Hat autora Michael Arlena
 Wonder of Women - Bess Meredyth po romanu Die Frau des Steffen Tromholt, autor Hermanna Sudermanna
 1929/1930 The Big House - Joseph Farnham, Martin Flavin, Frances Marion, Lennox Marion original
 All Quiet on the Western Front - Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott, Del Andrews po romanu autora Erich Marije Remarquea
 Disraeli - Julien Josephson po predstavi autora Louis N. Parkera
 The Divorcee - John Meehan po romanu Ex-Wife autorke Ursule Parrott
 Street of Chance - Lenore J. Coffee, Howard Estabrook po priči autor Oliver H. P. Garretta

1930-e 
Godine 1930/31 Nagrada je ponovo podeljena na originalni i adaptirani scenario.
 1930/1931 Cimarron - Howard Estabrook po romanu autorke Edna Ferber
 The Criminal Code - Seton I. Miller, Fred Niblo Jr. po predstavi autora Martin Flavina
 Holiday - Horace Jackson iz predstave autora Philip Barrya
 Little Caesar - Francis Edward Faragoli, Robert N. Lee, Robert Lord, Darryl F. Zanuck po romanu autora William R. Burnetta
 Skippy - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Don Marquis, Norman Z. McLeod, Sam Mintz po stripu autora Percy Crosa
 1931/1932 Bad Girl - Edwin J. Burke po romanu i predstavi autora Viña Delmar
 Arrowsmith - Sidney Howard po romanu autora Sinclair Lewisa
 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Samuel Hoffenstein, Percy Heath po romanu autora Robert Louis Stevensona
 1932/1933 Little Women - Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason po romanu autorke Louisa May Alcott
 Lady for a Day - Robert Riskin po priči Madame la Gimp autora Damon Runyona
 State Fair - Paul Green, Sonya Levien po romanu autora Philip Stonga
 1934 It Happened One Night - Robert Riskin po priči Night Bus autora Samuel Hopkins Adamsa
 The Thin Man - Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich po romanu autora Dashiell Hammetta
 Viva Villa! - Ben Hecht po knjizi, autor Edgecumb Pinchon i O. B. Stade

Godine 1935. nagrada se dodeljuje kao Oscar za najbolji scenario.
 
 1935 The Informer - Dudley Nichols po romanu autora Liam O'Flaherty. Ovo je prva ikada odbijena nagrada Oscar.
 Captain Blood - Casey Robinson po romanu autora Rafael Sabatini
 The Lives of a Bengal Lancer - Waldemar Young, John L. Balderston, Achmed Abdullah, Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt po romanu autora Francis Yeats-Brown
 Mutiny on the Bounty - Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman, Carey Wilson po romanu autora Charles Nordhoffa i James Norman Halla
 1936 The Story of Louis Pasteur - Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney po njihovoj priči
 After the Thin Man - Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett po priči autora Dashiell Hammett
 Dodsworth - Sidney Howard po romanu autora Sinclair Lewis
 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town - Robert Riskin po priči Opera Hat autora Clarence Budington Kelland
 My Man Godfrey - Morrie Ryskind, Eric Hatch po romanu autora Erica Hatcha
 1937 The Life of Emile Zola - Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, Norman Raine po knjizi Zola and His Time autora Matthew Josephsona
 The Awful Truth - Viña Delmar iz predstave , autor Arthur Richman
 Captains Courageous - Marc Connelly, John Lee Mahin, Dale Van Every po romanu autora Rudyard Kipling
 Stage Door - Morrie Ryskind, Anthony Veiller iz predstave autorke Edna Ferber i George S. Kaufman
 A Star Is Born - Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, Robert Carson po priči autora William A. Wellman i Roberta Carsona
 1938 Pygmalion - Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis, W.P. Lipscomb, George Bernard Shaw po predstavi autora George Bernard Shawa
 Boys Town - John Meehan, Dore Schary po priči autorke Dore Schary i Eleanore Griffin
 The Citadel - Ian Dalrymple, Frank Wead, Elizabeth Hill po romanu autora A. J. Cronina
 Four Daughters - Lenore J. Coffee, Julius J. Epstein po romanu Sister Act , autora Fannie Hurst
 You Can't Take It with You - Robert Riskin iz predstave autora George S. Kaufman i Moss Hart
 1939 Gone with the Wind - Sidney Howard po romanu autorke Margaret Mitchell
 Good, autor e, Mr. Chips - R. C. Sherriff, Claudine West, Eric Maschwitz po romanu autora James Hilton
 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Sidney Buchman po priči autora Lewis R. Foster
 Ninotchka - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch po priči autora Melchior Lengyel
 Wuthering Heights - Charles MacArthur, Ben Hecht po romanu autorke Emily Brontë

1940-e 
 1940 The Philadelphia Story - Donald Ogden Stewart iz predstave , autor Philip Barry
 The Grapes of Wrath - Nunnally Johnson po romanu, autor John Steinbeck
 Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman - Donald Ogden Stewart, Dalton Trumbo po romanu, autor Christopher Morley
 The Long Voyage Home - Dudley Nichols po zbirci kratkih predstava The Moon of the Caribees, In the Zone, Bound East for Cardiff i The Long Voyage Home , autor Eugene O'Neill
 Rebecca - Philip MacDonald, Michael Hogan po romanu, autor Daphne du Maurier
 1941 Here Comes Mr. Jordan - Sidney Buchman, Seton Miller iz predstave Heaven Can Wait , autor Harry Segall
 Hold Back the Dawn - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder po knjizi, autor Ketti Frings
 How Green Was My Valley - Philip Dunne (pisac) po romanu, autor Richard Llewellyn
 The Little Foxes - Lillian Hellman from her own play
 The Maltese Falcon - John Huston po romanu, autor Dashiell Hammett
 1942 Mrs. Miniver - George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, Arthur Wimperis based on the novel , autor Jan Struther
 Forty-Ninth Parallel - Rodney Ackland, Emeric Pressburger po priči , autor Emeric Pressburger
 The Pride of the Yankees - Herman J. Mankiewicz, Jo Swerling po priči , autor Paul Gallico 
 Random Harvest - George Froeschel, Claudine West, Arthur Wimperis po romanu, autor James Hilton
 The Talk of the Town - Sidney Buchman, Irwin Shaw po priči , autor Sidney Harmon
 1943 Casablanca - Philip Epstein, Julius J. Epstein, Howard Koch iz predstave Everybody Comes to Rick's , autor Murray Burnett and Joan Alison 
 Holy Matrimony - Nunally Johnson po romanu Buried Alive , autor Arnold Bennett
 The More the Merrier - Richard Flournoy, Lewis R. Foster, Frank Ross, Robert Russell po priči , autor Frank Ross and Robert Russell
 The Song of Bernadette - George Seaton po romanu, autor Franz Werfel
 Watch on the Rhine - Dashiell Hammett iz predstave , autor Lillian Hellman
 1944 Going My Way - Frank Butler, Frank Cavett po priči , autor Leo McCarey
 Double Indemnity - Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler po romanu Double Indemnity in Three of a Kind , autor James M. Cain
 Gaslight - John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, John L. Balderston iz predstave Angel Street , autor Patrick Hamilton 
 Laura - Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, Betty Reinhardt po romanu, autor Vera Caspary
 Meet Me in St. Louis - Irving Brecher, Fred F. Finklehoffe po romanu, autor Sally Benson
 1945 The Lost Weekend - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder po romanu, autor Charles R. Jackson
 Mildred Pierce - Ranald MacDougall po romanu, autor James M. Cain
 The Pride of the Marines - Albert Maltz po knjizi, autor Roger Butterfield
 Story of G.I. Joe - Leopold Atlas, Guy Endore, Philip Stevenson from the books Brave Men and Here Is Your War , autor Ernie Pyle
 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Frank Davis, Tess Slesinger po romanu, autor Betty Smith 
 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives - Robert Sherwood po romanu Glory for Me , autor MacKinlay Kantor
 Anna and the King of Siam - Sally Benson, Talbot Jennings po knjizi, autor Margaret Landon
 Brief Encounter - Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, Ronald Neame iz predstave Still Life , autor Noel Coward
 The Killers - Anthony Veiller from the short story , autor Ernest Hemingway
 Rome, Open City - Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini po priči , autor Sergio Amidei, Alberto Consiglio
 1947 Miracle on 34th Street - George Seaton po priči , autor Valentine Davies
 Boomerang - Richard Murphy based on the article , autor Anthony Abbot (pseudonym of Fulton Oursler)
 Crossfire - John Paxton po romanu The Brick Foxhole , autor Richard Brooks
 Gentleman's Agreement - Moss Hart po romanu, autor Laura Z. Hobson
 Great Expectations - David Lean, Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan po romanu, autor Charles Dickens
 1948 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - John Huston po romanu, autor B. Traven
 A Foreign Affair - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Richard L. Breen po priči , autor David Shaw
 Johnny Belinda - Irmgard von Cube, Allen Vincent iz predstave , autor Elmer Blaney Harris
 The Search - Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler from their story
 The Snake Pit - Frank Partos, Millen Brand po romanu, autor Mary Jane Ward
 1949 A Letter to Three Wives - Joseph Mankiewicz po romanu Letter to Five Wives , autor John Klempner
 All the King's Men - Robert Rossen po romanu, autor Robert Penn Warren
 The Bicycle Thief - Cesare Zavattini po romanu, autor Luigi Bartolini
 Champion - Carl Foreman from the short story , autor Ring Lardner
 The Fallen Idol - Graham Greene from his short story The Basement Room

1950-e 
 1950 All About Eve - Joseph Mankiewicz from the short story The Wisdom of Eve , autor Mary Orr
 The Asphalt Jungle - Ben Maddow, John Huston po romanu, autor W.R. Burnett
 Born Yesterday - Albert Mannheimer, po predstavi, Born Yesterday , autor Garson Kanin
 Broken Arrow (1950 film) - Albert Maltz (front: Michael Blankfort) po romanu Blood Brother , autor Elliott Arnold
 Father of the Bride - Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett po romanu, autor Edward Streeter
 1951 A Place in the Sun - Harry Brown, Michael Wilson po romanu An American Tragedy , autor Theodore Dreiser i po predstavi An American Tragedy , autor Patrick Kearney
 The African Queen - James Agee, John Huston po romanu, autor C.S. Forester
 Detective Story - Robert Wyler, Philip Yordan iz predstave , autor Sidney Kingsley
 La Ronde - Jacques Natanson, Max Ophüls iz predstave Reigen , autor Arthur Schnitzler
 A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams, po svojoj predstavi
 1952 The Bad and the Beautiful - Charles Schnee po priči Tribute to a Badman , autor Charles Bradshaw
 Five Fingers  - Michael Wilson po romanu Operation Cicero , autor L.C. Moyzisch
 High Noon - Carl Foreman po priči The Tin Star , autor John W. Cunningham
 The Man in the White Suit - John Dighton, Roger MacDougall, Alexander Mackendrick iz predstave , autor Roger MacDougall
 The Quiet Man - Frank S. Nugent, po priči Green Rushes , autor Maurice Walsh
 1953 From Here to Eternity - Daniel Taradash po romanu, autor James Jones
 The Cruel Sea - Eric Ambler po romanu, autor Nicholas Monsarrat
 Lilli - Helen Deutsch po priči Love of Seven Dolls , autor Paul Gallico
 Roman Holiday - Ian McLellan Hunter, John Dighton po priči , autor Dalton Trumbo (front: Ian McLellan Hunter)
 Shane - A.B. Guthrie Jr. po romanu, autor Jack Schaefer
 1954 The Country Girl - George Seaton iz predstave , autor Clifford Odets
 The Caine Mutiny - Stanley Roberts po romanu, autor Herman Wouk
 Rear Window - John Michael Hayes po priči It Had to Be Murder , autor Cornell Woolrich
 Sabrina - Billy Wilder, Samuel Taylor, Ernest Lehman po romanu Sabrina Fair , autor Samuel Taylor
 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - Albert Hackett, Frances Gooderich, Dorothy Kingsley po priči The Sobbin' Women , autor Stephen Vincent Benét
 1955 Marty - Paddy Chayefsky po svojoj televizijskoj drami
 Bad Day at Black Rock  - Millard Kaufman po priči Bad Day at Hondo , autor Howard Breslin
 Blackboard Jungle - Richard Brooks po romanu, autor Evan Hunter
 East of Eden - Paul Osborn po romanu, autor John Steinbeck
 Love Me or Leave Me - Daniel Fuchs, Isobel Lennart po priči , autor Daniel Fuchs
For 1956 the Category was renamed Screenplay--Adapted:
 1956 Around the World in Eighty Days - John Farrow, S. J. Perelman, James Poe po romanu, autor Jules Verne
 Ba, autor Doll - Tennessee Williams po svojoj predstavi Twenty-seven Wagons Full of Cotton and The Unsatisfactory Supper
 Friendly Persuasion - Michael Wilson po romanu, autor Jessamyn West (N.B.: Početkom 1956. godine, ime pisca Michaela Wilsona – dobitnika Osacara – izbrisano je sa filma Friendly Persuasion od strane Allied Artists, producenta i drugih kompanija. Ugovor potpisan sa Screen Writers Guild-om odobravao je izostavljanje imena svih onih koji su optuženi za komunističke stavove.)
 Giant - Fred Guiol, Ivan Moffat po romanu, autor Edna Ferber
 Lust for Life - Norman Corwin po romanu, autor Irving Stone
For 1957 the category was renamed Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium:
 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai - Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson (potpisan: Pierre Boulle) bazirano na romanu, autor Pierre Boulle (N.B.: Iako je Pierre Boulle primio nagradu, bilo je poznato da su scenario napisali Carl Foreman i Michael Wilson, koji su bili na crnoj sliti.). Godine 1984, Oscar je posthumno dodeljen Wilsonu i Foremanu. 
 Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison  - John Huston, John Lee Mahin po romanu, autor Charles Shaw
 Peyton Place - John Michael Hayes po romanu, autor Grace Metalious
 Sayonara - Paul Osborn po romanu, autor James Michener
 12 Angry Men - Reginald Rose po svojoj predstavi
 1958 Gigi - Alan Jay Lerner based on the novel , autor Colette
 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Richard Brooks, James Poe iz predstave , autor Tennessee Williams
 The Horse's Mouth - Alec Guinness po romanu, autor Joyce Cary
 I Want to Live! - Nelson Gidding, Don M. Mankiewicz na osnovu pisama, autorke Barbara Graham i članka, autora Ed Montgomeryja
 Separate Tables - John Gay, Terence Rattigan iz predstave , autor Terence Rattigan
 1959 Room at the Top - Neil Paterson po romanu, autor John Braine
 Anatomy of a Murder - Wendell Mayes, autora Robert Travera (pseudonim John D. Voelkera
 Ben-Hur - Karl Tunberg po romanu, autor Lew Wallace
 The Nun's Story - Robert Anderson po knjizi, autor Kathryn Hulme
 Some Like it Hot - Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond po pričisuggested , autor Robert Thoeren and M. Logan

1960-e 
 1960 Elmer Gantry - Richard Brooks po romanu, autor Sinclair Lewis
 Inherit the Wind - Nedrick Young (primio: Nathan E. Douglas), Harold Jacob Smith iz predstave , autor Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee 
 Sons and Lovers - Gavin Lambert, T.E.B. Clarke po romanu, autor D.H. Lawrence
 The Sundowners - Isobel Lennart po romanu, autor Jon Cleary
 Tunes of Glory - James Kennaway from his novel
 1961 Judgment at Nuremberg - Ab, autor Mann po svojoj drami
 Breakfast at Tiffany's  - George Axelrod po romanu, autor Truman Capote
 The Guns of Navarone - Carl Foreman po romanu, autor Alistair MacLean
 The Hustler - Sydney Carroll, Robert Rossen po romanu, autor Walter Tevis
 West Side Story - Ernest Lehman iz predstave , autor Arthur Laurents
 1962 To Kill a Mockingbird - Horton Foote po romanu, autor Harper Lee
 David and Lisa - Eleanor Perry po romanu, autor Theodore Isaac Rubin
 Lawrence of Arabia - Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson (N.B.: originalno je nominovan samo Robert Bolt) na osnovu tekstova T.E. Lawrencea
 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov po svom romanu
 The Miracle Worker - William Gibson po svojoj predstavi
 1963 Tom Jones - John Osborne po romanu The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling , autor Henry Fielding
 Captain Newman, M.D. - Richard L. Breen, Henry Ephron, Phoebe Ephron po romanu, autor Leo Rosten
 Hud - Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr. po romanu Horseman, Pass , autor  , autor Larry McMurtry
 Lilies of the Field - James Poe po romanu, autor William E. Barrett
 Sundays and Cybele - Serge Bourguignon, Bernard Eschassériaux po romanu Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray , autor Bernard Eschassériaux
 1964 Becket - Edward Anhalt iz predstave , autor Jean Anouilh
 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George po romanu Red Alert , autor Peter George
 Mary Poppins - Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi from the books , autor P.L. Travers
 My Fair Lady - Alan Jay Lerner from his musical play and the play Pygmalion , autor George Bernard Shaw
 Zorba the Greek - Michael Cacoyannis po romanu The Life of Alexis Zorba , autor Nikos Kazantzakis
 1965 Doctor Zhivago - Robert Bolt po romanu, autor Boris Pasternak 
 Cat Ballou - Walter Newman, Frank Pierson po romanu The Ballad of Cat Ballou , autor Roy Chanslor
 The Collector - Stanley Mann, John Kohn po romanu, autor John Fowles
 Ship of Fools - Ab, autor Mann po romanu, autor Katherine Anne Porter
 A Thousand Clowns - Herb Gardner po svojoj predstavi
 1966 A Man for All Seasons - Robert Bolt po svojoj predstavi
 Alfie - Bill Naughton po svojoj predstavi
 The Professionals - Richard Brooks po romanu A Mule for the Marquesa , autor Frank O'Rourke
 The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming - William Rode po romanu Off-Islanders , autor Nathaniel Benchley
 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Ernest Lehman iz predstave , autor Edward Albee
 1967 In the Heat of the Night - Stirling Silliphant po romanu, autor John Ball
 Cool Hand Luke - Donn Pearce, Frank Pierson po romanu, autor Donn Pearce
 The Graduate - Calder Willingham, Buck Henry po romanu, autor Charles Webb
 In Cold Blood - Richard Brooks po romanu, autor Truman Capote
 Ulysses - Joseph Strick, Fred Haines po romanu, autor James Joyce
 1968 The Lion in Winter - James Goldman po svojoj predstavi
 The Odd Couple - Neil Simon po svojoj predstavi
 Oliver! - Vernon Harris from the musical , autor Lionel Bart and the novel Oliver Twist , autor Charles Dickens
 Rachel, Rachel - Stewart Stern po romanu A Jest of God , autor Margaret Laurence
 Rosemary's Ba, autor  - Roman Polanski po romanu, autor Ira Levin
 1969 Midnight Cowboy - Waldo Salt po romanu, autor James Leo Herlihy
 Anne of the Thousand Days - John Hale, Bridget Boland, Richard Sokolove iz predstave , autor Maxwell Anderson
 Good, autor e, Columbus - Arnold Schulman po romanu, autor Philip Roth
 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - James Poe, Robert E. Thompson po romanu, autor Horace McCoy
 Z - Jorge Semprún, Costa-Gavras po romanu, autor Vassilis Vassilikos

1970-e 
 1970 M*A*S*H - Ring Lardner Jr. po romanu, autor Richard Hooker
 Airport - George Seaton po romanu, autor Arthur Hailey
 I Never Sang for My Father - Robert Anderson po svojoj predstavi
 Lovers and Other Strangers - Joseph Bologna, David Zelag Goodman Renée Taylor iz predstave , autor Joseph Bologna and Renée Taylor
 Women in Love - Larry Kramer po romanu, autor D.H. Lawrence
 1971 The French Connection - Ernest Tidyman po romanu, autor Robin Moore
 A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick po romanu, autor Anthony Burgess
 The Conformist - Bernardo Bertolucci po romanu Il Conformista , autor Alberto Moravia
 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Ugo Pirro, Vittorio Bonicelli po romanu Giardino dei Finzi-Contini , autor Giorgio Bassani
 The Last Picture Show - Larry McMurtry Peter Bogdanovich po romanu, autor Larry McMurtry
 1972 The Godfather - Mario Puzo, Francis Coppola po romanu, autor Mario Puzo
 Cabaret - Jay Preston Allen from the musical , autor Joe Masteroff, the play I Am a Camera , autor John Van Druten and the book Berlin Stories , autor Christopher Isherwood
 The Emigrants - Bengt Forslund, Jan Troell from the novels Utvandrarna and Invandrarna , autor Vilhelm Moberg
 Pete 'n' Tillie - Julius J. Epstein po priči Witch's Milk , autor Peter De Vries
 Sounder - Lonne Elder III po knjizi, autor William H. Armstrong
 1973 The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty po romanu of William Blatty
 The Last Detail - Robert Towne po romanu, autor Darryl Ponicsan
 The Paper Chase - James Bridges po romanu, autor John Jay Osborn Jr.
 Paper Moon - Alvin Sargent po romanu Addie Pray , autor Joe David Brown
 Serpico - Waldo Salt, Norman Wexler po knjizi, autor Peter Maas
From 1974 the Category was renamed Screenplay Adapted From Other Material: 
 1974 The Godfather, Part II - Francis Coppola, Mario Puzo po romanu The Godfather , autor Mario Puzo
 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Lionel Chetwynd, Mordecai Richler po knjizi, autor Mordecai Richler
 Lenny - Julian Barry po svojoj predstavi
 Murder on the Orient Express - Paul Dehn po romanu, autor Agatha Christie
 Young Frankenstein - Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks po romanu Frankenstein , autor Mary Shelley
 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Bo Goldman, Laurence Hauben po romanu, autor Ken Kesey
 Barry Lyndon - Stanley Kubrick po romanu The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. , autor William Makepeace Thackeray
 The Man Who Would Be King - John Huston, Gladys Hill po priči , autor Rudyard Kipling
 Profumo Di Donna - Ruggero Maccari, Dino Risi po romanu Il buio e il mare , autor Giovanni Arpino
 The Sunshine Boys - Neil Simon po svojoj predstavi
Od 1976. ova nagrada nosi ime Oscar za scenario zasnovan na materijalu iz drugog medija.
 1976 All the President's Men - William Goldman po knjizi, autor Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
 Bound for Glory - Robert Getchell po knjizi, autor Woody Guthrie
 Fellini's Casanova - Federico Fellini, Bernardino Zapponi from the autobiography Histoire de ma vie , autor Giacomo Casanova
 The Seven-Per-Cent Solution - Nicholas Meyer from his novel
 Voyage of the Damned - David Butler, Steve Shagan po knjizi, autor Gordon Thomas; saradnja , autor Max Morgan Witts
 1977 Julia - Alvin Sargent po romanu Pentimento , autor Lillian Hellman
 Equus - Peter Shaffer po svojoj predstavi
 I Never Promised You a Rose Garden - Gavin Lambert, Lewis John Carlino po romanu, autor Hannah Greene
 Oh, God! - Larry Gelbart po romanu, autor Avery Corman
 That Obscure Object of Desire - Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière po romanu La femme et le pantin , autor Pierre Louÿs
 1978 Midnight Express - Oliver Stone po knjizi, autor Billy Hayes and William Hoffer 
 Bloodbrothers - Walter Newman po romanu, autor Richard Price
 California Suite - Neil Simon po svojoj predstavi
 Heaven Can Wait - Elaine May, Warren Beatty iz predstave , autor Harry Seagal
 Same Time, Next Year - Bernard Slade po svojoj predstavi
 1979 Kramer vs. Kramer - Robert Benton po romanu, autor Avery Corman
 Apocalypse Now - John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola po romanu Heart of Darkness , autor Joseph Conrad
 La Cage aux folles - Marcello Danon, Edouard Molinaro, Jean Poiret, Francis Veber iz predstave , autor Jean Poiret
 A Little Romance - Allan Burns po romanu E=MC2 mon amour , autor Patrick Cauvin (pseudonym of Claude Klotz)
 Norma Rae - Harriet Frank Jr., Irving Ravetch

1980-e 
 1980 Ordinary People - Alvin Sargent po romanu, autor Judith Guest
 Breaker Morant - Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens, Bruce Beresford iz predstave , autor Kenneth Ross
 Coal Miner's Daughter - Tom Rickman na osnovu autobiografije , autor Loretta Lynn i George Vecsey
 The Elephant Man - Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren, David Lynch po knjizi The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences , autora Sir Frederick Trevesa i The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity , autora Ashley Montagua
 The Stunt Man - Lawrence B. Marcus, Richard Rush po romanu, autor Paul Brodeur
 1981 On Golden Pond - Ernest Thompson po svojoj predstavi
 The French Lieutenant's Woman - Harold Pinter po romanu, autor John Fowles
 Pennies From Heaven - Dennis Potter na osnovu svoje miniserije
 Prince of the City - Jay Presson Allen, Sidney Lumet po knjizi, autor Robert Daley
 Ragtime - Michael Weller po romanu, autor E.L. Doctorow
 1982 Missing - Constantin Costa-Gavras, Donald Stewart po knjizi, autor Thomas Hauser
 Das Boot - Wolfgang Petersen po romanu, autor Lothar G. Buchheim
 Sophie's Choice - Alan J. Pakula po romanu, autor William Styron
 The Verdict - David Mamet po romanu, autor Barry Reed
 Victor/Victoria - Blake Edwards from the earlier film screenplay , autor Reinhold Schünzel
 1983 Terms of Endearment - James L. Brooks po romanu, autor Larry McMurtry
 The Betrayal - Harold Pinter po svojoj predstavi
 The Dresser - Ronald Harwood po svojoj predstavi
 Educating Rita - Willy Russell po svojoj predstavi
 Reuben, Reuben - Julius J. Epstein po romanu, autor Peter De Vries and the play Spoonford , autor Herman Shumlin
 1984 Amadeus - Peter Shaffer iz predstave Amadeus
 Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes  - P.H. Vazak, Michael Austin from the novel Tarzan of the Apes , autor Edgar Rice Burroughs
 The Killing Fields - Bruce Robinson na osnovu članka The Death and Life of Dith Pran , autor Sydney Schanberg
 A Passage to India - David Lean po romanu, autor E.M. Forster
 A Soldier's Story - Charles Fuller na osnovu svoje drame A Soldier's Play
 1985 Out of Africa - Kurt Luedtke na osnovu memoara Isak Dinesena, knjige Silence Will Speak , autora Errol Trzebinskija i knjige Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller, autorke Judith Thurman
 The Color Purple - Menno Meyjes po romanu, autor Alice Walker
 Kiss of the Spider Woman - Leonard Schrader po romanu, autor Manuel Puig
 Prizzi's Honor  - Richard Condon, Janet Roach po romanu, autor Richard Condon
 The Trip to Bountiful - Horton Foote po svojoj predstavi
 1986 A Room with a View - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala po romanu, autor E.M. Forster
 Children of a Lesser God - Hesper Anderson, Mark Medoff iz predstave , autor Mark Medoff
 The Color of Money - Richard Price po romanu, autor Walter Tevis
 Crimes of the Heart  - Beth Henley from her play
 Stand , autor Me - Raynold Gideon, Bruce A. Evans from the novella The Body , autor Stephen King
 1987 The Last Emperor - Bernardo Bertolucci, Mark Peploe from the autobiography From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi , autor Henry Pu Yi
 The Dead - Tony Huston po priči , autor James Joyce
 Fatal Attraction - James Dearden na osnovu scenarija, autor James Dearden (Ovo je bio rimejk ranijeg televizijskog filma)
 Full Metal Jacket - Gustav Hasford, Michael Herr, Stanley Kubrick po romanu The Short-Timers , autor Gustav Hasford
 Mitt liv som hund - Brasse Brännström, Per Berglund, Lasse Hallström, Reidar Jönsson po romanu, autor Reidar Jönsson
 1988 Dangerous Liaisons - Christopher Hampton po romanu, autor Choderlos de Laclos and the play , autor Christopher Hampton
 The Accidental Tourist - Frank Galati, Lawrence Kasdan from the novel , autor Anne Tyler
 Gorillas in the Mist - Anna Hamilton Phelan from the article , autor Harold T.P. Hayes
 Little Dorrit - Christine Edzard po romanu, autor Charles Dickens
 The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Jean-Claude Carrière, Philip Kaufman po romanu, autor Milan Kundera
 1989 Driving Miss Daisy - Alfred Uhry iz predstave , autor Alfred Uhry
 Born on the Fourth of July - Ron Kovic, Oliver Stone from the autobiography , autor Ron Kovic
 Enemies, a Love Story - Paul Mazursky, Roger L. Simon po romanu, autor Isaac Bashevis Singer
 Field of Dreams - Phil Alden Robinson po romanu Shoeless Joe , autor W.P. Kinsella
 My Left Foot - Shane Connaughton, Jim Sheridan na osnovu autobiografije Christy Brown

1990-e 
 1990 Dances with Wolves - Michael Blake po romanu autora Michael Blake
 Awakenings - Steven Zaillian po knjizi autora Olivera Sacksa 
 Goodfellas - Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese po romanu Wise Guy autora Nicholasa Pileggia
 The Grifters - Donald E. Westlake po romanu autora Jima Thompsona
 Reversal of Fortune - Nicholas Kazan po romanu autora Alan M. Dershowitza
Od 1991. godine nagrada nosi ime Oscar za najbolji scenario zasnovan na prethodno objavljenom materijalu.
 1991 The Silence of the Lambs - Ted Tally po romanu, autor Thomas Harris
 Europa Europa - Agnieszka Holland na osnovu autobiografije autora Salomon Perel
 Fried Green Tomatoes - Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski po romanu Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe autorke Fannie Flagg
 JFK - Oliver Stone, Zachary Sklar po romanu Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy autora Jim Marrsa i knjizi On the Trail of the Assassins autora Jim Garrisona
 The Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy, Becky Johnston po romanu autorke Pat Conroy
 1992 Howards End - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala po romanu autora E.M. Forstera
 Enchanted April - Peter Barnes po romanu autorke Elizabeth von Arnim
 The Player - Michael Tolkin po romanu autora Michael Tolkina
 A River Runs Through It - Richard Friedenberg po priči autora Norman Macleana
 Scent of a Woman - Bo Goldman po romanu Il Buio E Il Miele autora Giovanni Arpinoa
 1993 Schindler's List - Steven Zaillian po romanu autora Thomas Keneallya
 The Age of Innocence - Jay Cocks, Martin Scorsese po istoimenom romanu autorke Edith Wharton
 In the Name of the Father - Terry George, Jim Sheridan na osnovu autobiografije Proved Innocent autora Gerry Conlona
 The Remains of the Day - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala po romanu autora Kazuo Ishiguro
 Shadowlands - William Nicholson na osnovu svoje predstave
 1994 Forrest Gump - Eric Roth po romanu autora Winston Groom
 The Madness of King George - Alan Bennett iz predstave The Madness of George III autora Alan Bennetta
 Nobody's Fool - Robert Benton po romanu autora Richard Russoa
 Quiz Show - Paul Attanasio po romanu autora Richard N. Goodwin
 The Shawshank Redemption - Frank Darabont na osnovu priče Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption , autora Stephen Kinga
 1995 Sense and Sensibility - Emma Thompson po romanu autorke Jane Austen
 Apollo 13 - William Broyles Jr., Al Reinert po romanu Lost Moon , autora Jim Lovella i Jeffrey Klugera
 Babe - George Miller, Chris Noonan po romanu The Sheep Pig , autora Dick King-Smitha
 Leaving Las Vegas - Mike Figgis po romanua autor John O'Brien
 Il Postino - Anna Pavignano, Michael Radford, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli, Massimo Troisi po romanu Ardiente Paciencia autora Antonio Skármeta
 1996 Sling Blade - Billy Bob Thornton na osnovu svoje predstave
 The Crucible - Arthur Miller iz predstave autora Arthura Millera
 The English Patient - Anthony Minghella po romanu autor Michael Ondaatje
 Hamlet - Kenneth Branagh po Shakespeareovoj drami
 Trainspotting - John Hodge po romanua autora Irvine Welsh
 1997 L.A. Confidential - Curtis Hanson, Brian Helgeland po romanu autora James Ellroya
 Donnie Brasco - Paul Attanasio po romanu Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia autora Josepha Pistonea i Richard Woodleya
 The Sweet Hereafter - Atom Egoyan po romanu autora Russell Banks
 Wag the Dog - Hilary Henkin, David Mamet po romanu American Hero autora Larry Beinhart 
 The Wings of the Dove - Hossein Amini po romanu autora Henry James
 1998 Gods and Monsters - Bill Condon po romanu Father of Frankenstein autora Christopher Brama
 Out of Sight - Scott Frank po romanu autors Elmore Leonard
 Primary Colors - Elaine May po romanu autora Joe Kleina
 A Simple Plan - Scott B. Smith po romanu autora Scott B. Smitha
 The Thin Red Line - Terrence Malick po romanu autora Jamesa Jonesa
 1999 The Cider House Rules - John Irving po romanu autora John Irvinga
 Election - Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor po romanu autora Tom Perrottaa
 The Green Mile - Frank Darabont po romanu autora Stephen Kinga
 The Insider - Eric Roth, Michael Mann na osnovu članka The Man Who Knew Too Much , autorke Marie Brenner
 The Talented Mr. Ripley - Anthony Minghella po romanu autorke Patricia Highsmith

2000-e 
 2000 Traffic - Stephen Gaghan na osnovu drame Traffik , autora Simona Moorea
 Chocolat - Robert Nelson Jacobs po istoimenom romanu autorke Joanne Harris
 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Hui-Ling Wang, James Schamus i Kuo Jung Tsai po romanu autora Du Lu Wanga
 O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Ethan i Joel Coen na osnovu Homerove Odiseje
 Wonder Boys - Steven Kloves po istoimenom romanu autora Michael Chabona
 2001 A Beautiful Mind - Akiva Goldsman na osnovu biografije autorke Sylvije Nasar
 Ghost World - Daniel Clowes i Terry Zwigoff na osnovu stripova autora Daniel Clowesa
 In the Bedroom - Todd Field and Robert Festinger na osnovu priče Killings autora Andre Dubus
 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens i Peter Jackson po romanu, autora J.R.R. Tolkiena
 Shrek - Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman i Roger S.H. Schulman na osnovu knjige za decu autora William Steig 

Od 2002. nagrada nosi današnje ime.
 2002 The Pianist - Ronald Harwood po knjizi autora Władysław Szpilmana
 About a Boy - Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz i Paul Weitz po romanu autora Nick Horna
 Adaptation. - Charlie i Donald Kaufman po knjiziThe Orchid Thief autorke Susan Orlean
 Chicago - Bill Condon iz predstave autorke Maurine Dallas Watkins
 The Hours - David Hare po romanu autora Michaela Cunninghama
 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens i Peter Jackson po romanu autora Tolkiena
 American Splendor - Robert Pulcini i Shari Springer Berman na osnovu stripova autora Harvey Pekara i stripova Our Cancer Year autora Joyce Brabnera
 City of God - Braulio Mantovani po romanu autora Paulo Linsa
 Mystic River - Brian Helgeland po romanu autora Dennis Lehanea
 Seabiscuit - Gary Ross po knjizi autorke Laura Hillenbrand
 2004 Sideways - Alexander Payne i Jim Taylor po romanu, autor Rex Pickett
 Before Sunset - Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy i Ethan Hawke po priči autora Richarda Linklatera i Kim Krizan
 Finding Neverland - David Magee na osnovu predstave autor Allan Kneea
 Million Dollar Ba, autor  - Paul Haggis po Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner , autora F.X. Toolea
 The Motorcycle Diaries - José Rivera na osnovu knjiga Con el Che por America Latina autora Alberta Ganadoa i Notas de viaje autora Ernesta Guevara
 2005 Brokeback Mountain - Larry McMurtry i Diana Ossana na osnovu priče autorke E. Annie Proulx
 A History of Violence - Josh Olson po romanu autora Jona Wagnera i Vince Lockea
 Capote - Dan Futterman po knjizi autor Geralda Clarka
 The Constant Gardener - Jeffrey Caine po romanu autora John le Carréa
 Munich - Tony Kushner i Eric Roth po knjizi Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team autora Georga Jonasa
 2006 The Departed - William Monahan na osnovu filma Infernal Affairs. Na dodeli Oscara komentator je pogrešno rekao da je na osnovu japanskog filma. Film je, zapravo, iz Hong Konga. 
 Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham, Anthony Hines, Dan Mazer i Todd Phillips na osnovu TV serije Da Ali G Show
 Children of Men - Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ost, po romanu The Children of Men autora P. D. Jamesa
 Notes on a Scandal - Patrick Marber na osnovu istoimenog romana autorke Zoë Hellera
 Little Children - Todd Field iTom Perrotta po romanu autora Toma Perrotta
 2007 No Country for Old Men - Ethan i Joel Coen prema romanu Cormac McCarthya
 Atonement - Christopher Hampton prema romanu Ian McEwana
 Away from Her - Sarah Polley na osnovu priče, "The Bear Went Over the Mountain" spisateljice Alice Munro
 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon) - Ronald Harwood na osnovu memoara Jean-Dominique Baubya
 There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson prema romanu Oil! pisca Upton Sinclair
 2008 - Slumdog Millionaire – Simon Beaufoy prema romanu Q & A autor: Vikas Swarup
 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Roth i Robin Swicord na osnovu priče the short story autor: F. Scott Fitzgerald
 Doubt – John Patrick Shanley na osnovu svoje drame
 Frost/Nixon – Peter Morgan na osnovu svoje drame
 The Reader – David Hare prema istorimenom romanu autor: Bernhard Schlink
 2009 - Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire' – Geoffrey Fletcher prema romanu Push spisateljice Sapphire
 District 9 – Neill Blomkamp i Terri Tatchell prema kratkom filmu Alive in Joburg reditelja Neill Blomkamp
 An Education – Nick Hornby prema knjizi spisateljice Lynn Barber
 In the Loop – Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci i Tony Roche prema televizijskoj seriji The Thick of It
 Up in the Air – Jason Reitman i Sheldon Turner prema istoimenom romanu autor: Walter Kirn

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