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The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay adapted from previously established material. The most frequently adapted media are novels, but other adapted narrative formats include stage plays, musicals, short stories, TV series, and other films and film characters.
Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) - Oliver Stone, Ron Kovic
Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Screenplay by John Hale, Bridget Boland; Adaptation by Richard Sokolove
- Best Picture
- Directing
- Actor in A Leading Role
- Actress in A Leading Role
- Actor in A Supporting Role
- Actress in A Supporting Role
- Writing
- Music
- Film Editing
- Cinematography
Awakenings – Walter F. Parkes, Lawrence Lasker Dances With Wolves – Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner Ghost – Lisa Weinstein The Godfather, Part III – Francis Ford Coppola Good Fellas– Irwin Winkler
Dances With Wolves – Kevin Costner The Godfather, Part III – Francis Ford Coppola Good Fellas – Martin Scorsese The Grifters – Stephen Frears Reversal of Fortune– Barbet Schroeder
Kevin Costner – Dances With Wolves Robert De Niro – Awakenings Gerard Depardieu – Cyrano de Bergerac Richard Harris – The Field Jeremy Irons – Reversal of Fortune
Kathy Bates – Misery Anjelica Huston – The Grifters Julia Roberts – Pretty Woman Meryl Streep – Postcards from the Edge Joanne Woodward – Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Bruce Davison – Longtime Companion Andy Garcia – The Godfather, Part III Graham Greene – Dances With Wolves Al Pacino – Dick Tracy Joe Pesci – Good Fellas
Annette Bening – The Grifters Lorraine Bracco – Good Fellas Whoopi Goldberg – Ghost Diane Ladd – Wild at Heart Mary McDonnell – Dances With Wolves
Awakenings – Steven Zaillian Dances With Wolves – Michael Blake Good Fellas – Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese The Grifters – Donald E. Westlake Reversal of Fortune– Nicholas Kazan
“Blaze Of Glory” – Young Guns II – Music, Lyric by Jon Bon Jovi “I’m Checkin’ Out” – Postcards from the Edge – Music, Lyric by Shel Silverstein “Promise Me You’ll Remember” – The Godfather, Part III – Music by Carmine Coppola; Lyric by John Bettis “Somewhere In My Memory” – Home Alone – Music by John Williams; Lyric by Leslie Bricusse “Sooner Or La...
Dances With Wolves – Neil Travis Ghost – Walter Murch The Godfather, Part III – Barry Malkin, Lisa Fruchtman, Walter Murch Good Fellas – Thelma Schoonmaker The Hunt for Red October– Dennis Virkler, John Wright
Avalon – Allen Daviau Dances With Wolves – Dean Semler Dick Tracy – Vittorio Storaro The Godfather, Part III – Gordon Willis Henry & June– Philippe Rousselot
Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Terence Rattigan, John Gay
Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, located in Beverly Hills, California. It honors outstanding achievement by screenwriters for a screenplay adapted from another work, such as a play or novel, from a given year, as determined by the academy’s voting.