Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

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The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is a prestigious Oscar given annually to honor the most outstanding screenplay adapted from previously existing material, such as novels, plays, or other films.

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Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay canonical 480
Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay 14
Best Adapted Screenplay 11

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Academy Award category
film award
screenwriting award
alsoKnownAs Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
surface form: Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay
awardFor best adapted screenplay
basedOn novels
other films
other previously produced material
plays
previously existing material
short stories
television works
country United States of America
surface form: United States
firstAwardedForFilmYear 1927–1928
frequency annual
genre screenwriting
hasCategoryType writing
hasCriterion screenplay must be adapted from previously produced or published material
source material must be credited
hasNotableMultipleWinners Alexander Payne
Billy Wilder
Christopher Hampton
Ethan Coen
Francis Ford Coppola
James Ivory
Joel Coen
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Mario Puzo
Michael Wilson
Philippe Claudel
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
hasNotableWinner 12 Years a Slave
Coda
No Country for Old Men
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Schindler's List
The Departed
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
The Imitation Game
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Social Network
To Kill a Mockingbird
inception 1929
language English
partOf Academy Award
surface form: Academy Awards
presentedAt annual Academy Awards ceremony
presentedBy Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
relatedTo Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
Academy Award for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story
surface form: Academy Award for Best Writing
selectionProcess final winners voted on by all eligible Academy members
voted on by members of the Writers Branch of the Academy
shortName Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay self-linksurface differs
surface form: Best Adapted Screenplay

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