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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.
Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Screenplay by John Hale, Bridget Boland; Adaptation by Richard Sokolove
Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) - Roger L. Simon, Paul Mazursky
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 ).
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.
Writing (Story and Screenplay—based on factual material or material not previously published or produced)
6 wins & 12 nominations. Academy Awards, USA. 1987 Nominee Oscar. Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. Raynold Gideon. Bruce A. Evans. BMI Film & TV Awards. 1988 Winner Most Performed Song from a Film. Ben E. King. For the song "Stand By Me". Casting Society of America, USA. 1987 Nominee Artios Award.
in 1957, the modern division of the award into "original" and "adapted" screenplays was finally implemented - with only two renamed categories: Best Screenplay - Based on Material From Another Medium (Adapted Screenplay) and Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Original Screenplay); the category of Best Motion Picture ...
Feb 5, 2014 · SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award) To WILLIAM G. KROKAUGGER of Mole-Richardson Company for the design and engineering of a portable, 12,000 watt, lighting-control dimmer for use in motion picture production.
The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story.
