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.

## Winners and nominees
### 1980s
**1983:** *Heat and Dust* &ndash; Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
* *Betrayal* &ndash; Harold Pinter
* *Educating Rita* &ndash; Willy Russell
* *Tootsie* &ndash; Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal

**1984:** *The Killing Fields* &ndash; Bruce Robinson
* *Another Country* &ndash; Julian Mitchell
* *The Dresser* &ndash; Ronald Harwood
* *Paris, Texas* &ndash; Sam Shepard

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

**2006:** *The Last King of Scotland* &ndash; Jeremy Brock and Peter Morgan

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

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

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

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

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

## Related pages
* BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay

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