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  1. Adaptation. Adaptation is a 2002 American comedy-drama film directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman. It features an ensemble cast led by Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, and Chris Cooper, with Cara Seymour, Brian Cox, Tilda Swinton, Ron Livingston, and Maggie Gyllenhaal in supporting roles. Kaufman based Adaptation on his struggles to ...

    • December 6, 2002 (United States)
  2. Adaptation. (2002) - Awards, nominations, and wins. ... ADAPTATION. is a film that makes the word "original" seem ordinary. Both entertaining and intelligent, the ...

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  4. oscars .org. 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.

  5. Feb 14, 2003 · Adaptation.: Directed by Spike Jonze. With Nicolas Cage, Tilda Swinton, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper. A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.

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  6. This award has a complicated history. In the 1st ceremony (1927–28), an award was given for best adaptation. In the 2nd and 3rd ceremonies (1928–30), an award was given for best writing, with no distinction between original work and adaptations. From the 4th (1930–31) to the 7th (1934) ceremonies, an award was again given for best adaptation.

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  7. Mar 11, 2024 · Kevin Winter/Getty Images. Cord Jefferson made a plea to Hollywood after winning the Best Adapted Screenplay for American Fiction at the 2024 Academy Awards . The other nominees in the category ...

  8. Feb 9, 2020 · But Adam McKay and Charles Randolph did just that and won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Based on the book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, the film is about how a small group of investors managed to profit off the housing financial crisis of 2008.

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