Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States. It is awarded each year to the writer of a screenplay adapted from another source usually a novel, play, short story, or TV series but sometimes another film. All sequels are automatically considered adaptations by this standard since the sequel must be based on the original story. RxpyGQ/0.jpg' alt='In The Loop Screenplay' title='In The Loop Screenplay' />War of the Worlds script at the Internet Movie Script Database. The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States. It is awarded each year to the writer. Ive already lived through this day Somebodys going to kill me tonight. Universal has unveiled the first fulllength trailer for a new original horror. CU A MODERNLOOKING CHRISTMAS BOOK ENTITLED ELF A Christmas book entitled ELF sits on a table, a drawing of 62 BUDDY THE ELF the guy weve seen from all the. Simon Foster is a hapless junior minister whose access to the halls of power in Downing Street is marginal, and whose opinion has never really mattered. Until now. Join our Oscar insider email list to get the latest news on all things Academy Awards. Share this Rating. Title In the Loop 2009 7. Want to share IMDbs rating on your own site Use the HTML below. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. See also the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, a similar award for screenplays that are not adaptations. SuperlativeseditThe first person to win twice in this category is Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who won the award in two consecutive years, 1. Others to win twice in this category include George Seaton, Robert Bolt who also won in consecutive years, Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, Alvin Sargent, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Alexander Payne and Michael Wilson. Payne won both awards as part of a writing duo, with Jim Taylor, and writing trio, with Jim Rash and Nat Faxon. Michael Wilson was blacklisted at the time of his second Oscar, so the award was given to a front novelist Pierre Boulle. However, the Academy officially recognized him as the winner several years later. Frances Marion was the first woman to win in this category, in 1. Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney were the first to win for adapting their own work, for The Life of Emile Zola. Philip G. Epstein and Julius J. Epstein are the first siblings to win in this category, for Casablanca. James Goldman and William Goldman are the first to win for separate films. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen are the third winning siblings, for No Country for Old Men. Mario Puzo is the one of two writers whose work has been adapted and resulted in two wins. Puzos novel The Godfather resulted in wins in 1. The other is E. M. Forster, whose novels A Room with a View and Howards End resulted in wins for Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Larry Mc. Murtry is the only person who has won for Brokeback Mountain for adapting someone elses work and whose work has been adapted by someone else resulting in a win, Terms of Endearment. Emma Thompson is the only winner who has also won for acting. Winners Billy Bob Thornton and John Huston have only received nominations not wins in the acting categories. Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh are the only married couple to win, for The Lord of the Rings The Return of the King. Geoffrey S. Fletcher for Precious, John Ridley for 1. Years a Slave, and Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin Mc. Craney both for Moonlight are the only African Americans to win in this category Fletcher is also the first African American to win in any writing category. Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Paddy Chayefsky, Francis Ford Coppola, Horton Foote, William Goldman, Robert Benton, Bo Goldman, and the Coen brothers have won Oscars for both original and adapted screenplays. Notable nomineeseditNoted novelists and playwrights nominated in this category include George Bernard Shaw who shared an award for an adaptation of his play Pygmalion, Graham Greene, Tennessee Williams, Vladimir Nabokov, James Hilton, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Lillian Hellman, Irwin Shaw, James Agee, Norman Corwin, S. J. Perelman, Terence Rattigan, John Osborne, Robert Bolt, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Larry Mc. Murtry, Arthur Miller, John Irving, David Hare, Tony Kushner, and August Wilson. Winners and nomineeseditWinners are listed first in colored row, followed by the other nominees. Year. Film. ScreenwritersAdapted from. Elmer Gantry. Richard Brooks. The novel Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis. Inherit the Wind. Nedrick Youngfront Nathan E. Douglas1. 1Harold Jacob Smith. The play Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. Sons and Lovers. Gavin Lambert. T. E. B. Clarke. The novel Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence. The Sundowners. Isobel Lennart. The novel The Sundowners by Jon Cleary. Tunes of Glory. James Kennaway. The novel Tunes of Glory by James Kennaway. Judgment at Nuremberg. Abby Mann. The teleplay Judgment at Nuremberg, written by Abby Mann. Breakfast at Tiffanys. George Axelrod. The novella Breakfast at Tiffanys by Truman Capote. The Guns of Navarone. Carl Foreman. The novel The Guns of Navarone by Alistair Mac. Lean. The Hustler. Sydney Carroll. Robert Rossen. The novel The Hustler by Walter Tevis. West Side Story. Ernest Lehman. The play West Side Story, book by Arthur Laurents, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. To Kill a Mockingbird. Horton Foote. The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. David and Lisa. Eleanor Perry. The story Lisa and David by Theodore Isaac Rubin. Lawrence of Arabia. Robert Bolt. Michael Wilsonnot on original ballot1. The writings of T. E. Lawrence. Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov. The novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. The Miracle Worker. William Gibson. The play The Miracle Worker by William Gibson. Tom Jones. John Osborne. The novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding. Captain Newman, M. D. Richard L. Breen. Henry Ephron. Phoebe Ephron. The novel Captain Newman, M. D. by Leo Rosten. Hud. Irving Ravetch. Harriet Frank Jr. The novel Horseman, Pass By by Larry Mc. Murtry. Lilies of the Field. James Poe. The novel Lilies of the Field by William E. Barrett. Sundays and Cybele. Serge BourguignonscenariodialogueAntoine TudalscenarioThe novel Les Dimanches de Ville dAvray by Bernard Eschassriaux. Becket. Edward Anhalt. The play Becket by Jean Anouilh. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Stanley Kubrick. Terry Southern. Peter George. The novel Red Alert by Peter George. Mary Poppins. Bill Walsh. Don Da. Gradi. The Mary Poppins series by P. L. Travers. My Fair Lady. Alan Jay Lerner. The play My Fair Lady, book by Alan Jay Lerner. The play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. Zorba the Greek. Michael Cacoyannis. The novel The Life of Alexis Zorba by Nikos Kazantzakis. Doctor Zhivago. Robert Bolt. The novel Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. Cat Ballou. Walter Newman. Frank R. Pierson. The novel The Ballad of Cat Ballou by Roy Chanslor. The Collector. Stanley Mann. John Kohn. The novel The Collector by John Fowles. Ship of Fools. Abby Mann. The novel Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter. A Thousand Clowns. Herb Gardner. The play A Thousand Clowns by Herb Gardner. A Man for All Seasons. Robert Bolt. The play A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt. Alfie. Bill Naughton. The play Alfie by Bill Naughton. The Professionals. Richard Brooks. The novel A Mule for the Marquesa by Frank ORourke. The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming. William Rose. The novel Off Islanders by Nathaniel Benchley. Whos Afraid of Virginia WoolfErnest Lehman. The play Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf Edward Albee. In the Heat of the Night. Stirling Silliphant. Vodafone Dongle K4201 Software more. The novel In the Heat of the Night by John Ball. Cool Hand Luke. Donn Pearce. Frank R. Pierson. The novel Cool Hand Luke by Donn Pearce. The Graduate. Calder Willingham. Buck Henry. The novel The Graduate by Charles Webb. In Cold Blood. Richard Brooks. The novel In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Ulysses. Joseph Strick. Fred Haines. The novel Ulysses by James Joyce. The Lion in Winter. James Goldman. The play The Lion in Winter by James Goldman. The Odd Couple. Neil Simon. The play The Odd Couple by Neil Simon. Oliver Vernon Harris. Rotary Salmon Killer Tool. The musical Oliver, book by Lionel Bart. The novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Rachel, Rachel. Stewart Stern. The novel A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence. Rosemarys Baby. Roman Polanski. The novel Rosemarys Baby by Ira Levin.