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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
Aug 7, 2024 · 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)
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 ).
Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) - Francis Veber, Edouard Molinaro, Marcello Danon, Jean Poiret
Feb 5, 2014 · WRITING (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) Breaker Morant – Jonathan Hardy, David Stevens, Bruce Beresford. Coal Miner’s Daughter – Tom Rickman. The Elephant Man – Christopher DeVore, Eric Bergren, David Lynch. Ordinary People – Alvin Sargent. The Stunt Man – Lawrence B. Marcus, Richard Rush.
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.
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 ...
Sep 9, 2022 · 1980 Academy Awards. Updated September 9, 2022 | Infoplease Staff. The 1980 Academy Awards were presented March 31, 1981 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. Best Picture. Coal Miner's Daughter, Bernard Schwartz, producer (Universal)