Academy Award for best adapted screenplay: Quick Facts

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Also Known As

Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay • Best Adapted Screenplay • Best Adaptation • Best Screenplay – Adaptation

Notable Honorees

John Huston • George Bernard Shaw • Billy Wilder • Francis Ford Coppola • Larry McMurtry • Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Spike Lee • Aaron Sorkin • John Farrow • Oliver Stone • Robert Benton • Richard Brooks • Emma Thompson • Billy Bob Thornton • Paul Thomas Anderson • John Irving • John Osborne • Alexander Payne • Peter Jackson • William Goldman • Bernardo Bertolucci • Costa-Gavras • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala • Alan Jay Lerner • Robert E. Sherwood • James L. Brooks • Donald Ogden Stewart • Mario Puzo • Paddy Chayefsky • James Goldman • Ethan Coen • William Peter Blatty • Joel Coen • Sidney Howard • Horton Foote • S.J. Perelman • Robert Bolt

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