bafta award for best adapted screenplay
1980s
Table:
Year

Film

Screenwriter(s)

Adapted from

1983
37th

Heat and Dust

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Betrayal

Harold Pinter

Betrayal by Harold Pinter

Educating Rita

Willy Russell

Educating Rita by Willy Russell

Tootsie

Larry Gelbart, Murray Schisgal

1984
38th

The Killing Fields

Bruce Robinson

The experiences of Dith Pran and Sydney Schanberg.

Another Country

Julian Mitchell

Another Country by Julian Mitchell

The Dresser

Ronald Harwood

The Dresser by Ronald Harwood

Paris, Texas

Sam Shepard

1985
39th

Prizzi's Honor

Richard Condon, Janet Roach

Prizzi's Honor by Richard Condon

Amadeus

Peter Shaffer

Amadeus by Peter Shaffer

A Passage to India

David Lean

A Passage to India by E. M. Forster

The Shooting Party

Julian Bond

The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate

1986
40th

Out of Africa

Kurt Luedtke

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

Children of a Lesser God

Hesper Anderson, Mark Medoff

Children of a Lesser God by Mark Medoff

The Color Purple

Menno Meyjes

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Ran

Masato Ide, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni

Legends of the daimyo Mōri Motonari, as well as King Lear by William Shakespeare.

A Room with a View

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

1987
41st

Jean de Florette

Claude Berri, Gérard Brach

L'Eau des collines by Marcel Pagnol

84 Charing Cross Road

Hugh Whitemore

84 Charing Cross Road by James Roose-Evans

Little Dorrit

Christine Edzard

Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

Prick Up Your Ears

Alan Bennett

Prick Up Your Ears by John Lahr

1988
42nd

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Jean-Claude Carrière, Philip Kaufman

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Babettes gæstebud

Gabriel Axel

Babette's Feast by Isak Dinesan

Empire of the Sun

Tom Stoppard

Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman

Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf

1989
43rd

Dangerous Liaisons

Christopher Hampton

Les liaisons dangereuses by Christopher Hampton

The Accidental Tourist

Frank Galati, Lawrence Kasdan

The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

Shane Connaughton, Jim Sheridan

My Left Foot by Christy Brown

Shirley Valentine

Willy Russell

Shirley Valentine by Willy Russell

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