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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) - Sidney Carroll, Robert Rossen
- Best Picture
- Directing
- Actor
- Actress
- Actor in A Supporting Role
- Actress in A Supporting Role
- Writing
- Music
- Film Editing
- Cinematography
Lawrence of Arabia – Sam Spiegel The Longest Day – Darryl F. Zanuck Meredith Willson’s The Music Man – Morton Da Costa Mutiny on the Bounty – Aaron Rosenberg To Kill a Mockingbird– Alan J. Pakula
David and Lisa – Frank Perry Divorce–Italian Style – Pietro Germi Lawrence of Arabia – David Lean The Miracle Worker – Arthur Penn To Kill a Mockingbird– Robert Mulligan
Burt Lancaster – Birdman of Alcatraz Jack Lemmon – Days of Wine and Roses Marcello Mastroianni – Divorce–Italian Style Peter O’Toole – Lawrence of Arabia Gregory Peck – To Kill a Mockingbird
Anne Bancroft – The Miracle Worker Bette Davis – What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Katharine Hepburn – Long Day’s Journey into Night Geraldine Page – Sweet Bird of Youth Lee Remick – Days of Wine and Roses
Ed Begley – Sweet Bird of Youth Victor Buono – What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Telly Savalas – Birdman of Alcatraz Omar Sharif – Lawrence of Arabia Terence Stamp – Billy Budd
Mary Badham – To Kill a Mockingbird Patty Duke – The Miracle Worker Shirley Knight – Sweet Bird of Youth Angela Lansbury – The Manchurian Candidate Thelma Ritter – Birdman of Alcatraz
David and Lisa – Eleanor Perry Lawrence of Arabia – Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov The Miracle Worker – William Gibson To Kill a Mockingbird– Horton Foote
“Days Of Wine And Roses” – Days of Wine and Roses – Music by Henry Mancini; Lyrics by Johnny Mercer “Love Song From Mutiny On The Bounty (Follow Me)” – Mutiny on the Bounty – Music by Bronislau Kaper; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster “Song From Two For The Seesaw (Second Chance)” – Two for the Seesaw – Music by Andre Previn; Lyrics by Dory Langdon “T...
Lawrence of Arabia – Anne Coates The Longest Day – Samuel E. Beetley The Manchurian Candidate – Ferris Webster Meredith Willson’s The Music Man – William Ziegler Mutiny on the Bounty– John McSweeney, Jr.
Birdman of Alcatraz – Burnett Guffey The Longest Day – Jean Bourgoin, Walter Wottitz, (Henri Persin) To Kill a Mockingbird – Russell Harlan Two for the Seesaw – Ted McCord What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?– Ernest Haller
Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Terence Rattigan, John Gay
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 members. At the inaugural Academy Awards ceremony, in 1929, the award recognized the work in films released from August 1, 1927, to August 1, 1928.
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