Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
The Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the three screenwriting Writers Guild of America Awards, one that is specifically for film. The Writers Guild of America began making the distinction between an original screenplay and an adapted screenplay in 1970, when Waldo Salt, screenwriter for Midnight Cowboy, won for "Best Adapted Drama" and Arnold Schulman won "Best Adapted Comedy" for his screenplay of Goodbye, Columbus.[1] Separate awards for dramas and comedies continued until 1985.[1]
Since 1990, the WGA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay has been a good indicator for its Oscar equivalent, the Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay. All but the following WGA winners were also Oscar winners:[citation needed]
- in 1992 The Player lost to Howards End,
- in 1998 Out of Sight lost to Gods and Monsters,
- in 1999 Election lost to The Cider House Rules,
- in 2002 The Hours lost to The Pianist (not nominated for a WGA Award) and
- in 2003 American Splendor lost to The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
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Winners and nominated films
The following lists the nominated films. For the films that won, the screenwriter(s) and the work from which the screenplay was adapted is also noted.
1970s
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- 1984: The Killing Fields [3]
- screenplay by Bruce Robinson
- 1985: Prizzi's Honor [3]
- screenplay by Richard Condon and Janet Roach
- based on the novel by Condon
- 1986: A Room with a View
- screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- based on the novel by E.M. Forster
- screenplay by Steve Martin
- based on the play by Edmond Rostand
- 1988: Dangerous Liaisons
- screenplay by Christopher Hampton
- based on the novel by Choderlos de Laclos and the play by Hampton
- 1989: Driving Miss Daisy
- screenplay by Alfred Uhry
- based on his play
1990s
References and footnotes
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