BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

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.

### 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