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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.
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.
Mar 11, 2024 · “American Fiction” won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay, a triumph for writer-director Cord Jefferson, whose publishing-industry satire marks his first ever feature film.
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 ).
Mar 13, 2023 · Sarah Polley, the filmmaker behind MGM’s Women Talking, won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay at the 2023 Academy Awards. “I just want to thank the Academy for not being mortally offended by the words ‘women’ and ‘talking’ being so close together like that,” Polley said in her acceptance speech.
Mar 10, 2024 · LOS ANGELES -- "American Fiction" took home the Oscar for best adapted screenplay. "This means the world to me," said director Cord Jefferson during his acceptance speech.
Feb 9, 2020 · The swift rise of Taika Waititi hit a crescendo during the 92nd annual Academy Awards. The Jojo Rabbit filmmaker and star won an Oscar for adapted screenplay on Sunday night, the first Academy...
Mar 27, 2022 · Sian Heder brought the Oscar audience to its feet winning her first Academy Award for adapting CODA (Child Of Deaf Adult), from the 2014 French film La famille Bélier written by Victoria...
Mar 27, 2022 · Sian Heder has won the best adapted screenplay Oscars for her film 'CODA' at the 2022 Academy Awards.
Mar 13, 2023 · Sarah Polley, winner of the best adapted screenplay award for Women Talking, poses in the media room during the 95th annual Academy Awards on Sunday evening in Hollywood, Calif. (Arturo...
