The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for Best Adapted Screenplay has been presented to its winners since 1983.  Before it was called the BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay.

Winners and nominees

1980s
1983: Heat and Dust – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
 Betrayal – Harold Pinter
 Educating Rita – Willy Russell
 Tootsie – Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal

1984: The Killing Fields – Bruce Robinson
 Another Country – Julian Mitchell
 The Dresser – Ronald Harwood
 Paris, Texas – Sam Shepard

1985: Prizzi's Honor – Richard Condon and Janet Roach
 Amadeus – Peter Shaffer
 A Passage to India – David Lean
 The Shooting Party – Julian Bond

1986: Out of Africa – Kurt Luedtke
 Children of a Lesser God – Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff
 The Color Purple – Menno Meyjes
 Ran – Masato Ide, Akira Kurosawa and Hideo Oguni
 A Room with a View – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

1987: Jean de Florette – Claude Berri and Gérard Brach
 84 Charing Cross Road – Hugh Whitemore
 Little Dorrit – Christine Edzard
 Prick Up Your Ears – Alan Bennett

1988: The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Jean-Claude Carrière and Philip Kaufman
 Babettes gæstebud – Gabriel Axel
 Empire of the Sun – Tom Stoppard
 Who Framed Roger Rabbit – Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman

1989: Dangerous Liaisons – Christopher Hampton 
 The Accidental Tourist – Frank Galati and Lawrence Kasdan
 My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown – Shane Connaughton and Jim Sheridan
 Shirley Valentine – Willy Russell

1990s
1990: Goodfellas – Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese
 Born on the Fourth of July – Ron Kovic and Oliver Stone
 Driving Miss Daisy – Alfred Uhry
 Postcards from the Edge – Carrie Fisher
 The War of the Roses – Michael J. Leeson

1991: The Commitments – Dick Clement, Roddy Doyle and Ian La Frenais
 Cyrano de Bergerac – Jean-Claude Carrière and Jean-Paul Rappeneau
 Dances with Wolves – Michael Blake
 The Silence of the Lambs – Ted Tally

1992: The Player – Michael Tolkin
 Howards End – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
 JFK – Zachary Sklar and Oliver Stone
 Strictly Ballroom – Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce

1993: Schindler's List - Steven Zaillian
 In the Name of the Father – Terry George, Jim Sheridan
 The Remains of the Day – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
 Shadowlands – William Nicholson
 Scent of a Woman – Bo Goldman

1994: Quiz Show – Paul Attanasio
 The Browning Version – Ronald Harwood
 Forrest Gump – Eric Roth
 The Joy Luck Club – Ronald Bass and Amy Tan
 Three Colours: Red (Trois couleurs: Rouge) – Krzysztof Kieslowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz

1995: Trainspotting – John Hodge
 Babe – George Miller and Chris Noonan
 Leaving Las Vegas – Mike Figgis
 The Madness of King George – Alan Bennett
 The Postman (Il postino) – Anna Pavignano, Michael Radford, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli and Massimo Troisi
 Sense and Sensibility – Emma Thompson

1996: The English Patient – Anthony Minghella
 The Crucible – Arthur Miller
 Evita – Alan Parker and Oliver Stone
 Richard III – Richard Loncraine and Ian McKellen

1997: Romeo + Juliet – Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce
 The Ice Storm – James Schamus
 L.A. Confidential – Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland
 The Wings of the Dove – Hossein Amini

1998: Primary Colors – Elaine May
 Hilary and Jackie – Frank Cottrell Boyce
 Little Voice – Mark Herman
 Wag the Dog – Hilary Henkin and David Mamet

1999: The End of the Affair – Neil Jordan
 East Is East – Ayub Khan-Din
 An Ideal Husband – Oliver Parker
 The Talented Mr. Ripley – Anthony Minghella

2000s
2000: Traffic – Stephen Gaghan
 Chocolat – Robert Nelson Jacobs
 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long) – James Schamus, Hui-Ling Wang, Kuo Jung Tsai
 High Fidelity – John Cusack, D.V. DeVincentis, Steve Pink and Scott Rosenberg
 Wonder Boys – Steve Kloves

2001: Shrek – Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Roger S.H. Schulman and Joe Stillman
 A Beautiful Mind – Akiva Goldsman
 Bridget Jones's Diary – Richard Curtis, Andrew Davies and Helen Fielding
 Iris – Richard Eyre and Charles Wood
 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh

2002: Adaptation. – Charlie and Donald Kaufman
 About a Boy – Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz
 Catch Me If You Can – Jeff Nathanson
 The Hours – David Hare
 The Pianist – Ronald Harwood

2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh
 Big Fish – John August
 Cold Mountain – Anthony Minghella
 Girl with a Pearl Earring – Olivia Hetreed
 Mystic River – Brian Helgeland

2004: Sideways – Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
 The Chorus (Les choristes) – Christophe Barratier and Philippe Lopes-Curval
 Closer – Patrick Marber
 Finding Neverland – David Magee
 The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de motocicleta) – José Rivera

2005: Brokeback Mountain – Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana
 Capote – Dan Futterman
 The Constant Gardener – Jeffrey Caine
 A History of Violence – Josh Olson
 Pride & Prejudice – Deborah Moggach

2006: The Last King of Scotland – Jeremy Brock and Peter Morgan

 Casino Royale – Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade
 The Departed – William Monahan
 The Devil Wears Prada – Aline Brosh McKenna
 Notes on a Scandal – Patrick Marber

2007: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – Ronald Harwood
 Atonement – Christopher Hampton
 The Kite Runner – David Benioff
 No Country for Old Men – Ethan and Joel Coen
 There Will Be Blood – Paul Thomas Anderson

2008: Slumdog Millionaire – Simon Beaufoy
 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Roth
 Frost/Nixon – Peter Morgan
 The Reader – David Hare
 Revolutionary Road – Justin Haythe

2009: Up in the Air – Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
 Precious – Geoffrey Fletcher
 District 9 – Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
 An Education – Nick Hornby
 In the Loop – Simon Blackwell , Jesse Armstrong , Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche

2010s
2010 The Social Network – Aaron Sorkin
 127 Hours – Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy
 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Rasmus Heisterberg and Nikolaj Arcel
 Toy Story 3 – Michael Arndt
 True Grit – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

Related pages
 BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay

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