Academy Award untuk Skenario Adaptasi Terbaik
Penghargaan dan nominasi > 2000-an

| Tahun | Film | Nomine | Bahan Sumber |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2000 (ke-73) | Traffic | Stephen Gaghan | Serial televisi "Traffik" oleh Simon Moore |
| 2000 (ke-73) | Chocolat | Robert Nelson Jacobs | Novel "Chocolat" oleh Joanne Harris |
| 2000 (ke-73) | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Wang Hui-ling, James Schamus & Kuo Jung Tsai | Novel "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" oleh Wang Dulu |
| 2000 (ke-73) | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Joel and Ethan Coen | Puisi "Odyssey" oleh Homer |
| 2000 (ke-73) | Wonder Boys | Steve Kloves | Novel "Wonder Boys" oleh Michael Chabon |
| 2001 (ke-74) | A Beautiful Mind | Akiva Goldsman | Buku "A Beautiful Mind" oleh Sylvia Nasar |
| 2001 (ke-74) | Ghost World | Daniel Clowes & Terry Zwigoff | Novel grafis "Ghost World" oleh Clowes |
| 2001 (ke-74) | In the Bedroom | Rob Festinger & Todd Field | Cerita pendek "Killings" oleh Andre Dubus |
| 2001 (ke-74) | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson & Fran Walsh | Novel "The Fellowship of the Ring" oleh J. R. R. Tolkien |
| 2001 (ke-74) | Shrek | Ted Elliott, Roger S. H. Schulman, Joe Stillman & Terry Rossio | Buku "Shrek!" oleh William Steig |
| 2002 (ke-75) | The Pianist | Ronald Harwood | Memoar "The Pianist" oleh Władysław Szpilman |
| 2002 (ke-75) | About a Boy | Peter Hedges, Chris & Paul Weitz | Novel "About a Boy" oleh Nick Hornby |
| 2002 (ke-75) | Adaptation | Charlie & Donald Kaufman | Buku "The Orchid Thief" oleh Susan Orlean |
| 2002 (ke-75) | Chicago | Bill Condon | Musikal "Chicago" oleh Fred Ebb & Bob Fosse |
| 2002 (ke-75) | The Hours | David Hare | Novel "The Hours" oleh Michael Cunningham |
| 2003 (ke-76) | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson & Fran Walsh | Novel The Return of the King oleh J. R. R. Tolkien |
| 2003 (ke-76) | American Splendor | Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini | Buku-buku komik "American Splendor" oleh Harvey Pekar & novel grafis "Our Cancer Year" oleh Pekar & Joyce Brabner |
| 2003 (ke-76) | City of God | Bráulio Mantovani | Novel "City of God" oleh Paulo Lins |
| 2003 (ke-76) | Mystic River | Brian Helgeland | Novel "Mystic River" oleh Dennis Lehane |
| 2003 (ke-76) | Seabiscuit | Gary Ross | Buku "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" oleh Laura Hillenbrand |
| 2004 (ke-77) | Sideways | Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor | Novel "Sideways" oleh Rex Pickett |
| 2004 (ke-77) | Before Sunset | Skenario: Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke & Richard Linklater; Cerita: Kim Krizan & Linklater | Karakter-karakter dari film Before Sunrise oleh Krizan & Linklater |
| 2004 (ke-77) | Finding Neverland | David Magee | Naskah drama "The Man Who Was Peter Pan" oleh Allan Knee |
| 2004 (ke-77) | Million Dollar Baby | Paul Haggis | Kumpulan cerita pendek "Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner" oleh F.X. Toole |
| 2004 (ke-77) | The Motorcycle Diaries | José Rivera | Memoar "Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary" oleh Alberto Granado & Buku "The Motorcycle Diaries" oleh Che Guevara |
| 2005 (ke-78) | Brokeback Mountain | Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana | Cerita pendek "Brokeback Mountain" oleh Annie Proulx |
| 2005 (ke-78) | Capote | Dan Futterman | Buku "Capote" oleh Gerald Clarke |
| 2005 (ke-78) | The Constant Gardener | Jeffrey Caine | Novel "The Constant Gardener" oleh John le Carré |
| 2005 (ke-78) | A History of Violence | Josh Olson | Novel grafis "A History of Violence" oleh Vince Locke & John Wagner |
| 2005 (ke-78) | Munich | Tony Kushner & Eric Roth | Buku "Vengeance" oleh George Jonas |
| 2006 (ke-79) | The Departed | William Monahan | Film "Infernal Affairs" oleh Felix Chong & Alan Mak |
| 2006 (ke-79) | Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan | Skenario: Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham, Anthony Hines & Dan Mazer; Cerita: Baron Cohen, Baynham, Hines & Todd Phillips | Karakter Borat Sagdiyev dari serial televisi "Da Ali G Show" oleh Baron Cohen |
| 2006 (ke-79) | Children of Men | David Arata, Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby & Timothy J. Sexton | Novel "The Children of Men" oleh P. D. James |
| 2006 (ke-79) | Little Children | Todd Field & Tom Perrotta | Novel "Little Children" oleh Perrotta |
| 2006 (ke-79) | Notes on a Scandal | Patrick Marber | Novel "Notes on a Scandal" oleh Zoë Heller |
| 2007 (ke-80) | No Country for Old Men | Coen Brothers | Novel "No Country for Old Men" oleh Cormac McCarthy |
| 2007 (ke-80) | Atonement | Christopher Hampton | Novel "Atonement" oleh Ian McEwan |
| 2007 (ke-80) | Away from Her | Sarah Polley | Cerita pendek "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" oleh Alice Munro |
| 2007 (ke-80) | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Ronald Harwood | Memoar "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" oleh Jean-Dominique Bauby |
| 2007 (ke-80) | There Will Be Blood | Paul Thomas Anderson | Novel "Oil!" oleh Upton Sinclair |
| 2008 (ke-81) | Slumdog Millionaire | Simon Beaufoy | Novel "Q & A" oleh Vikas Swarup |
| 2008 (ke-81) | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Skenario: Eric Roth; Cerita: Roth & Robin Swicord | Cerita pendek "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" oleh F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 2008 (ke-81) | Doubt | John Patrick Shanley | Naskah drama "Doubt: A Parable" oleh Shanley |
| 2008 (ke-81) | Frost/Nixon | Peter Morgan | Naskah drama "Frost/Nixon" oleh Morgan |
| 2008 (ke-81) | The Reader | David Hare | Novel "The Reader" oleh Bernhard Schlink |
| 2009 (ke-82) | Precious | Geoffrey S. Fletcher | Novel "Push" oleh Sapphire |
| 2009 (ke-82) | District 9 | Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell | Film pendek "Alive in Joburg" oleh Blomkamp |
| 2009 (ke-82) | An Education | Nick Hornby | Memoar "An Education" oleh Lynn Barber |
| 2009 (ke-82) | In the Loop | Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche | Karakter Malcolm Tucker dari serial televisi "The Thick of It" oleh Iannucci |
| 2009 (ke-82) | Up in the Air | Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner | Novel "Up in the Air" oleh Walter Kirn |