OSCAR HISTORY
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay 
One of the most important things to remember about motion pictures is that every single movie begins when a gifted writer sits down with an empty page and puts those two awesome words down ... "FADE IN." From there, they craft a screenplay from which every other element flows, eventually resulting in an audience sitting down to see the film unfold that started in the mind of a screenwriter, or sometimes even more daunting, a screenwriter taking an already published work to adapt it to the film medium. For either case, these were the wonderful and imaginative screenplays that the Academy selected as the best each year.
2018:
BLACKkKLANSMAN BY Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, & Spike Lee
(View Acceptance Speech)
2003:
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, & Peter Jackson
(View Acceptance Speech)
1957:
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI by Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman, & Michael Wilson
(View Oscar Moment)
1942:
MRS. MINIVER by George Froeschel, James Hilton, Claudine West, & Arthur Wimperis
(View Film Clip)
1938:
PYGMALION by Ian Dalrymple, Cecil Lewis, W.P. Lipscomb, & George Bernard Shaw
(Watch Full Movie)
1929 / 30:
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1928 / 29:
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