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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.
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Writing, Adapted Screenplay: awarded to the writer of a screenplay adapted from another source (novel or play usually) Writing, Original Screenplay: awarded to the writer of a script not based on previously published material; Top Academy Award Screenwriting Nominees and Winners:
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