The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is presented by the Critics Choice Association at the annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards.
Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay | |
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Awarded for | Best Adapted Screenwriting of a Motion Picture |
Location | Los Angeles, California |
Presented by | Critics Choice Association |
First awarded | Emma Thompson for Sense and Sensibility (1995) |
Currently held by | Cord Jefferson for American Fiction (2023) |
Website | www.criticschoice.com |
The categories for screenplays have gone through several changes since their inception in 1995:
In 2009, the distinction between original and adapted was implemented again, with two categories presented ever since, Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Year | Writer | Film |
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1995 [1] |
Emma Thompson | Sense and Sensibility |
1996 [2] |
Anthony Minghella | The English Patient |
Year | Writer(s) | Film | Source material |
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1997 | Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson | L.A. Confidential | The novel by James Ellroy |
1998 | Scott Smith | A Simple Plan | The novel by Smith |
1999 | Frank Darabont | The Green Mile | The novel by Stephen King |
Year | Writer(s) | Film | Source material |
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2000 [3] |
Stephen Gaghan (TIE) | Traffic | The British television serial Traffik by Simon Moore |
Steve Kloves (TIE) | Wonder Boys | The novel by Michael Chabon |
Year | Writer(s) | Film |
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2001 [4] |
Christopher Nolan | Memento |
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | The Man Who Wasn't There | |
Akiva Goldsman | A Beautiful Mind |
Year | Writer(s) | Film | Source material |
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2009 [5] |
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner | Up in the Air | The novel by Walter Kirn |
Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach | Fantastic Mr. Fox | The novel by Roald Dahl | |
Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell | District 9 | The short film Alive in Joburg by Bloomkamp | |
Geoffrey Fletcher | Precious | The novel Push by Sapphire | |
Tom Ford and David Scearce | A Single Man | The novel by Christopher Isherwood | |
Nick Hornby | An Education | The memoir by Lynn Barber |