Academy Award for best adapted screenplay

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Best Screenplay – Adaptation • Best Adaptation • Best Adapted Screenplay • Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay

Notable Honorees

John Huston • George Bernard Shaw • Billy Wilder • Francis Ford Coppola • Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Spike Lee • John Farrow • Oliver Stone • Robert Benton • Richard Brooks • Aaron Sorkin • Emma Thompson • Billy Bob Thornton • John Osborne • Alexander Payne • John Irving • Peter Jackson • Larry McMurtry • William Goldman • Bernardo Bertolucci • Costa-Gavras • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala • Alan Jay Lerner • Robert E. Sherwood • James L. Brooks • Mario Puzo • Paddy Chayefsky • Ethan Coen • William Peter Blatty • James Goldman • Joel Coen • Donald Ogden Stewart • Sidney Howard • Horton Foote • S.J. Perelman • Robert Bolt

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