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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 Previously Produced or Published) - Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski
Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Terence Rattigan, John Gay
Feb 9, 2020 · The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is given each year to a script “based on material from another medium.” That other medium being adapted is often a novel ( The Lord of the Rings ), a stage production ( Fences ), or another film ( A Star is Born ).
Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Screenplay by John Hale, Bridget Boland; Adaptation by Richard Sokolove
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.
The story became a movie starring Henry Fonda and garnered Rose an Academy Award nomination for best screenplay based on material from another medium. What became an illustrious career began in New York City, with Rose attending what is now City University of New York for one year during the 1930s.
