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Sarah Y. Mason (Little Women) was the first woman to win for adaptation from previously established material; she shared the award with her husband, Victor Heerman. They are also the first of two married couples to win in this category; Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh ( The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ) are the others.
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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 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. The next four ceremonies honored work in films released from August to July. The 6th ceremony honored work from August to December, and, beginning with the 7th ceremony (1935), only work in movies released the previous calendar year was eligible for consideration.
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. Beginning with the 8th ceremony (1935), a screenplay award was given that was the equivalent of the modern award for best adapted screenplay. At the 29th ceremony (1956), the screenplay category was split into best adaptation and best original screenplay. The award had various names before the academy finally settled on best adapted screenplay for the 75th ceremony (2002). The winning screenwriters are given a gold-plated statuette known as an Oscar.
Below is a list of the winning screenwriters and the films for which they won. The years indicate when the eligible films were released.
•1927–28: adaptation: Benjamin Glazer (7th Heaven)
•1928–29: writing: Hans Kraly (The Patriot)
•1929–30: none
•1930–31: adaptation: Howard Estabrook (Cimarron)
•1931–32: adaptation: Edward Burke (Bad Girl)
•1932–33: adaptation: Victor Heerman and Sarah Y. Mason (Little Women)
•1940: screenplay: Donald Ogden Stewart (The Philadelphia Story)
•1941: screenplay: Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller (Here Comes Mr. Jordan)
•1942: screenplay: Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel, James Hilton, and Claudine West (Mrs. Miniver)
•1943: screenplay: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch (Casablanca)
•1944: screenplay: Frank Butler and Frank Cavett (Going My Way)
•1945: screenplay: Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder (The Lost Weekend)
•1960: Richard Brooks (Elmer Gantry)
•1961: Abby Mann (Judgment at Nuremberg)
•1962: Horton Foote (To Kill a Mockingbird)
•1963: John Osborne (Tom Jones)
•1964: Edward Anhalt (Becket)
•1965: Robert Bolt (Doctor Zhivago)
•1980: Alvin Sargent (Ordinary People)
•1981: Ernest Thompson (On Golden Pond)
•1982: Costa-Gavras and Donald Steward (Missing)
•1983: James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment)
•1984: Peter Shaffer (Amadeus)
•1985: Kurt Luedtke (Out of Africa)
•2000: Stephen Gaghan (Traffic)
•2001: Akiva Goldsman (A Beautiful Mind)
•2002: Ronald Harwood (The Pianist)
•2003: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)
•2004: Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (Sideways)
•2005: Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (Brokeback Mountain)
•2020: Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller (The Father)
•2021: Siân Heder (CODA)
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Frances Marion ( The Big House) was the first woman to win for her original script, although she won Best Writing, which then included both original and adapted screenplays before a separate award for Best Original Screenplay was introduced.
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