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 - 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 Gerard 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 Carriere and Philip Kaufman
Babettes gaestebud - 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 Carriere 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) - Jose 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
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BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
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