Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Winning Movies

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Since 1927, there have been over 90 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Winners. This page will rank all Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Winning movies from Best to Worst in five different sortable columns of information. If you use the sort and search buttons the massive table becomes very interactive.

Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Winning Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Year	Movie (Year)	Rating	S
1972	The Godfather (1972) AA Best Picture Win
1974	The Godfather: Part II (1974) AA Best Picture Win
1950	All About Eve (1950) AA Best Picture Win
1939	Gone with the Wind (1939) AA Best Picture Win
1993	Schindler's List (1993) AA Best Picture Win
1942	Casablanca (1942) AA Best Picture Win
1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) AA Best Picture Win
1946	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) AA Best Picture Win
1991	The Silence of the Lambs (1991) AA Best Picture Win
1957	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) AA Best Picture Win
1934	It Happened One Night (1934) AA Best Picture Win
2006	The Departed (2006) AA Best Picture Win
2012	Argo (2012) AA Best Picture Win
1984	Amadeus (1984) AA Best Picture Win
1994	Forrest Gump (1994) AA Best Picture Win
1983	Terms of Endearment (1983) AA Best Picture Win
1971	The French Connection (1971) AA Best Picture Win
1945	The Lost Weekend (1945) AA Best Picture Win
1967	In the Heat of the Night (1967) AA Best Picture Win
1953	From Here to Eternity (1953) AA Best Picture Win
1942	Mrs. Miniver (1942) AA Best Picture Win
1969	Midnight Cowboy (1969) AA Best Picture Win
1990	Dances with Wolves (1990) AA Best Picture Win
1966	A Man for All Seasons (1966) AA Best Picture Win
1989	Driving Miss Daisy (1989) AA Best Picture Win
2001	A Beautiful Mind (2001) AA Best Picture Win
1980	Ordinary People (1980) AA Best Picture Win
1944	Going My Way (1944) AA Best Picture Win
1979	Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) AA Best Picture Win
1937	The Life of Emile Zola (1937) AA Best Picture Win
1956	Around the World in 80 Days (1956) AA Best Picture Win
1963	Tom Jones (1963) AA Best Picture Win
2007	No Country for Old Men (2007) AA Best Picture Win
2008	Slumdog Millionaire (2008) AA Best Picture Win
1958	Gigi (1958) AA Best Picture Win
1962	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) AA Best Picture Nom
2002	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) AA Best Picture Nom
1985	Out of Africa (1985) AA Best Picture Win
1987	The Last Emperor (1987) AA Best Picture Win
1940	The Philadelphia Story (1940) AA Best Picture Nom
1955	Marty (1955) AA Best Picture Win
1968	The Lion in Winter (1968) AA Best Picture Nom
1965	Doctor Zhivago (1965) AA Best Picture Nom
1973	The Exorcist (1973) AA Best Picture Nom
1976	All the President's Men (1976) AA Best Picture Nom
1960	Elmer Gantry (1960) AA Best Picture Nom
1997	L.A. Confidential (1997) AA Best Picture Nom
1948	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) AA Best Picture Nom
1961	Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) AA Best Picture Nom
1947	Miracle on 34th Street (1947) AA Best Picture Nom
1927	7th Heaven (1927) AA Best Picture Nom
1981	On Golden Pond (1981) AA Best Picture Nom
1951	A Place in the Sun (1951) AA Best Picture Nom
1970	MASH (1970) AA Best Picture Nom
1949	A Letter to Three Wives (1949) AA Best Picture Nom
2000	Traffic (2000) AA Best Picture Nom
1931	Cimarron (1931) AA Best Picture Win
2010	The Social Network (2010) AA Best Picture Nom
1933	Little Women (1933) AA Best Picture Nom
1964	Becket (1964) AA Best Picture Nom
1954	The Country Girl (1954) AA Best Picture Nom
2005	Brokeback Mountain (2005) AA Best Picture Nom
1941	Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) AA Best Picture Nom
1977	Julia (1977) AA Best Picture Nom
1930	The Big House (1930) AA Best Picture Nom
2013	12 Years a Slave (2013) AA Best Picture Win
1978	Midnight Express (1978) AA Best Picture Nom
2004	Sideways (2004) AA Best Picture Nom
1938	Pygmalion (1938) AA Best Picture Nom
1952	The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
2014	The Imitation Game (2014) AA Best Picture Nom
2011	The Descendants (2011) AA Best Picture Nom
1995	Sense and Sensibility (1995) AA Best Picture Nom
1931	Bad Girl (1931) AA Best Picture Nom
1999	The Cider House Rules (1999) AA Best Picture Nom
1988	Dangerous Liaisons (1988) AA Best Picture Nom
2002	The Pianist (2002) AA Best Picture Nom
1992	Howards End (1992) AA Best Picture Nom
2016	Moonlight (2016) AA Best Picture Win
2015	The Big Short (2015) AA Best Picture Nom
1985	A Room with a View (1985) AA Best Picture Nom
2009	Precious (2009) AA Best Picture Nom
2021	CODA (2021) AA Best Picture Win
1935	The Informer (1935) AA Best Picture Nom
1936	The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) AA Best Picture Nom
1928	The Patriot (1928) AA Best Picture Nom
1982	Missing (1982) AA Best Picture Nom
1959	Room at the Top (1959) AA Best Picture Nom
1996	Sling Blade (1996)
2018	BlacKkKlansman (2018) AA Best Picture Nom
2017	Call Me By Your Name (2017) AA Best Picture Nom
2019	Jojo Rabbit (2019) AA Best Picture Nom
2024	Conclave (2024) AA Best Picture Nom
2020	The Father (2020)
2023	American Fiction (2023) AA Best Picture Nom
2022	Women Talking (2022) AA Best Picture Nom
1998	Gods and Monsters (1998)

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R	Movie (Year)	UMR Co-Star Links			Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil)				UMR Score
R	Movie (Year)	UMR Co-Star Links	Actual B.O. Domestic (mil)	Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil)	Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil)	B.O. Rank by Year	Review	Oscar Nom / Win	UMR Score	S
1	The Godfather (1972) AA Best Picture Win	Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo	134.1	986.0	1,795.60	1	97	11 / 03	100.0
2	The Godfather: Part II (1974) AA Best Picture Win	Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo	47.5	317.8	627.30	9	94	11 / 06	100.0
3	All About Eve (1950) AA Best Picture Win	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	8.9	230.7	327.40	9	92	14 / 06	100.0
4	Gone with the Wind (1939) AA Best Picture Win	Sidney Howard	56.6	2,526.8	4,455.90	1	92	13 / 08	100.0
5	Schindler's List (1993) AA Best Picture Win	Steven Zaillian	96.1	290.1	970.10	9	94	12 / 07	100.0
6	Casablanca (1942) AA Best Picture Win	Epstein, Epstein & Koch	11.8	510.5	936.70	5	95	08 / 03	100.0
7	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) AA Best Picture Win	Bo Goldman & Lawrence Hauben	109.0	664.5	995.60	3	90	09 / 05	99.9
8	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) AA Best Picture Win	Robert E. Sherwood	19.3	690.2	1,119.70	1	90	08 / 07	99.9
9	The Silence of the Lambs (1991) AA Best Picture Win	Ted Tally	130.7	388.2	809.80	4	91	07 / 05	99.9
10	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) AA Best Picture Win	Boulle, Foreman, & Wilson	30.4	679.7	679.70	1	88	08 / 07	99.9
11	It Happened One Night (1934) AA Best Picture Win	Robert Riskin	5.2	282.8	466.60	3	90	05 / 05	99.9
12	The Departed (2006) AA Best Picture Win	William Monahan	132.4	251.5	550.60	16	90	05 / 04	99.9
13	Argo (2012) AA Best Picture Win	Chris Terrio	136.0	213.6	364.80	22	90	07 / 03	99.9
14	Amadeus (1984) AA Best Picture Win	Peter Shaffer	69.2	257.3	257.30	11	86	11 / 08	99.9
15	Forrest Gump (1994) AA Best Picture Win	Eric Roth	320.7	982.5	2,047.80	2	83	13 / 06	99.9
16	Terms of Endearment (1983) AA Best Picture Win	James L. Brooks (56th) James L. Brooks	108.4	430.3	430.30	2	83	11 / 05	99.9
17	The French Connection (1971) AA Best Picture Win	Ernest Tidyman	51.7	391.7	391.70	4	84	08 / 05	99.9
18	The Lost Weekend (1945) AA Best Picture Win	Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder	9.5	347.8	347.80	17	85	07 / 04	99.9
19	In the Heat of the Night (1967) AA Best Picture Win	Stirling Silliphant	24.0	248.0	248.00	11	84	07 / 05	99.9
20	From Here to Eternity (1953) AA Best Picture Win	Daniel Taradash	30.9	643.9	643.90	2	81	13 / 08	99.9
21	Mrs. Miniver (1942) AA Best Picture Win	Froeschel, Hilton, West & Wimperis	15.3	659.9	1,093.30	2	81	12 / 06	99.9
22	Midnight Cowboy (1969) AA Best Picture Win	Waldo Salt	58.6	515.6	515.60	2	85	07 / 03	99.9
23	Dances with Wolves (1990) AA Best Picture Win	Michael Blake	185.0	546.7	1,255.90	3	81	12 / 07	99.8
24	A Man for All Seasons (1966) AA Best Picture Win	Robert Bolt	31.9	362.2	362.20	4	81	08 / 06	99.8
25	Driving Miss Daisy (1989) AA Best Picture Win	Alfred Uhry	106.6	335.6	459.00	9	81	09 / 04	99.8
26	A Beautiful Mind (2001) AA Best Picture Win	Akiva Goldsman	170.7	377.7	693.70	11	82	08 / 04	99.8
27	Ordinary People (1980) AA Best Picture Win	Alvn Sargent	54.8	263.3	263.30	12	82	06 / 04	99.8
28	Going My Way (1944) AA Best Picture Win	Frank Butler & Frank Cavett	17.1	667.8	667.80	1	75	10 / 07	99.8
29	Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) AA Best Picture Win	Robert Benton	106.3	529.2	602.40	1	76	09 / 05	99.8
30	The Life of Emile Zola (1937) AA Best Picture Win	Herald, Herczeg & Reilly-Raine	7.7	370.8	765.60	7	72	10 / 03	99.7
31	Around the World in 80 Days (1956) AA Best Picture Win	Farrow, Perelman & Poe	35.5	806.5	806.50	2	70	08 / 05	99.7
32	Tom Jones (1963) AA Best Picture Win	John Osborne	37.3	542.8	542.80	3	69	10 / 04	99.7
36	No Country for Old Men (2007) AA Best Picture Win	Ethan Coen & Joel Coen	74.3	135.0	311.80	36	92	08 / 04	99.7
33	Slumdog Millionaire (2008) AA Best Picture Win	Simon Beaufoy	141.3	246.0	657.90	17	69	10 / 08	99.7
34	Gigi (1958) AA Best Picture Win	Alan Jay Lerner	20.9	435.8	626.30	4	68	09 / 09	99.7
35	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) AA Best Picture Nom	Horton Foote	22.9	381.0	381.00	7	90	08 / 03	99.7
37	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) AA Best Picture Nom	Peter Jackson, Walsh & Boyens	334.0	719.8	1,977.30	2	92	06 / 02	99.7
38	Out of Africa (1985) AA Best Picture Win	Kurt Luedtke	87.1	306.6	937.20	5	66	11 / 07	99.7
41	The Last Emperor (1987) AA Best Picture Win	Bernardo Bertolucci & Mark Peploe	44.0	140.6	140.60	25	85	09 / 09	99.7
39	The Philadelphia Story (1940) AA Best Picture Nom	Donald Ogden Stewart	6.8	302.8	415.70	7	91	06 / 02	99.6
44	Marty (1955) AA Best Picture Win	Paddy Chayefsky	5.7	137.4	137.40	58	85	08 / 04	99.6
40	The Lion in Winter (1968) AA Best Picture Nom	James Goldman	28.6	272.8	272.80	10	88	07 / 03	99.6
42	Doctor Zhivago (1965) AA Best Picture Nom	Robert Bolt	126.6	1,550.9	2,802.40	2	82	10 / 05	99.6
43	The Exorcist (1973) AA Best Picture Nom	William Peter Blatty	195.8	1,382.8	2,851.70	1	86	10 / 02	99.6
45	All the President's Men (1976) AA Best Picture Nom	William Goldman	90.9	533.5	533.50	4	83	08 / 04	99.5
46	Elmer Gantry (1960) AA Best Picture Nom	Richard Brooks	13.2	239.3	239.30	15	87	05 / 03	99.5
50	L.A. Confidential (1997) AA Best Picture Nom	Curtis Hanson & Brian Helgeland	64.6	176.0	343.70	22	93	09 / 02	99.5
51	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) AA Best Picture Nom	John Huston	6.1	189.1	336.80	45	90	04 / 03	99.5
53	Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) AA Best Picture Nom	Abby Mann	11.3	190.6	190.60	19	86	11 / 02	99.4
47	Miracle on 34th Street (1947) AA Best Picture Nom	George Seaton	7.2	242.0	242.00	35	86	04 / 03	99.4
48	7th Heaven (1927) AA Best Picture Nom	Benjamin Glazer	6.2	244.1	244.10	4	84	05 / 03	99.3
49	On Golden Pond (1981) AA Best Picture Nom	Ernest Thompson	112.8	507.1	507.10	2	79	10 / 03	99.3
52	A Place in the Sun (1951) AA Best Picture Nom	Harry Brown & Michael Wilson	10.0	250.0	492.90	10	76	09 / 06	99.2
54	MASH (1970) AA Best Picture Nom	Ring Lardner Jr.	82.9	668.5	668.50	3	84	05 / 01	99.2
55	A Letter to Three Wives (1949) AA Best Picture Nom	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	7.6	222.1	222.10	22	84	03 / 02	99.2
56	Traffic (2000) AA Best Picture Nom	Stephen Gaghan	124.1	287.8	481.30	15	81	05 / 04	99.1
57	Cimarron (1931) AA Best Picture Win	Howard Estabrook	3.6	212.7	258.70	14	59	07 / 03	99.1
60	The Social Network (2010) AA Best Picture Nom	Aaron Sorkin	96.7	153.2	355.90	32	91	08 / 03	99.0
58	Little Women (1933) AA Best Picture Nom	Victor Heerman & Sarah Y. Mason	4.0	216.9	321.40	13	82	03 / 01	99.0
61	Becket (1964) AA Best Picture Nom	Edward Anhalt	14.3	190.0	190.00	12	79	12 / 01	98.9
59	The Country Girl (1954) AA Best Picture Nom	George Seaton	18.3	496.9	496.90	6	77	07 / 02	98.9
62	Brokeback Mountain (2005) AA Best Picture Nom	Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana	83.0	162.2	347.80	22	87	08 / 03	98.8
64	Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) AA Best Picture Nom	Sidney Buchman & Seton I. Miller	3.9	172.8	172.80	55	84	07 / 02	98.7
65	Julia (1977) AA Best Picture Nom	Alvin Sargent	35.3	197.8	197.80	26	71	11 / 03	98.6
63	The Big House (1930) AA Best Picture Nom	Frances Marion	3.9	246.0	329.80	9	75	04 / 02	98.4
66	12 Years a Slave (2013) AA Best Picture Win	John Ridley	56.7	87.1	288.60	62	85	09 / 03	98.3
67	Midnight Express (1978) AA Best Picture Nom	Oliver Stone	34.2	182.8	182.80	17	77	06 / 02	98.1
68	Sideways (2004) AA Best Picture Nom	Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor	71.5	143.9	221.00	40	87	05 / 01	97.4
70	Pygmalion (1938) AA Best Picture Nom	Shaw, Dalrymple, Lewis & Lipscomb	3.5	160.7	160.70	53	82	04 / 01	97.1
71	The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)	Charles Schnee	6.6	149.4	212.90	37	85	06 / 05	97.1
69	The Imitation Game (2014) AA Best Picture Nom	Graham Moore	91.1	139.4	357.30	37	86	08 / 01	97.0
73	The Descendants (2011) AA Best Picture Nom	Faxon, Payne & Rash	82.6	130.2	279.40	39	89	05 / 01	96.6
72	Sense and Sensibility (1995) AA Best Picture Nom	Emma Thompson	43.2	124.1	386.70	40	89	07 / 01	96.6
75	Bad Girl (1931) AA Best Picture Nom	Edwin J. Burke	3.3	193.7	193.70	18	62	03 / 02	95.0
74	The Cider House Rules (1999) AA Best Picture Nom	John Irving	57.5	142.2	218.70	41	76	07 / 02	94.9
76	Dangerous Liaisons (1988) AA Best Picture Nom	Christopher Hampton	34.7	105.4	105.40	31	84	07 / 03	94.4
77	The Pianist (2002) AA Best Picture Nom	Ronald Harwood	32.6	70.2	258.80	80	92	07 / 03	93.6
79	Howards End (1992) AA Best Picture Nom	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	26.1	78.7	78.70	48	88	09 / 03	93.4
78	Moonlight (2016) AA Best Picture Win	Barry Jenkins & Tarell Alvin McCraney	27.9	40.3	94.00	96	80	08 / 03	93.3
80	The Big Short (2015) AA Best Picture Nom	Adam McKay & Charles Randolph	70.3	104.2	197.90	41	84	05 / 01	92.8
81	A Room with a View (1985) AA Best Picture Nom	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	21.0	73.8	73.80	43	86	08 / 03	92.0
82	Precious (2009) AA Best Picture Nom	Geoffrey S. Fletcher	47.6	79.3	106.10	63	85	06 / 02	91.2
83	CODA (2021) AA Best Picture Win	Sian Heder	0.1	0.1	1.50	200	87	03 / 03	90.6
84	The Informer (1935) AA Best Picture Nom	Dudley Nichols	1.3	67.7	141.40	104	83	06 / 04	90.1
85	The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) AA Best Picture Nom	Pierre Collings & Sheridan Gibney	2.2	110.8	197.80	90	71	04 / 03	89.7
86	The Patriot (1928) AA Best Picture Nom	Hanns Kräly	2.9	105.6	105.60	25	73	05 / 01	89.1
87	Missing (1982) AA Best Picture Nom	Costa-Gavras & Donald E. Stewart	14.0	59.5	59.50	51	87	04 / 01	88.6
88	Room at the Top (1959) AA Best Picture Nom	Neil Paterson	2.7	56.5	56.50	87	83	06 / 02	88.1
89	Sling Blade (1996)	Billy Bob Thornton	24.4	69.1	69.10	67	90	02 / 01	88.0
90	BlacKkKlansman (2018) AA Best Picture Nom	Spike Lee, Rabinowitz, Wachtel & Willmott	49.3	67.2	125.10	58	80	06 / 01	87.6
91	Call Me By Your Name (2017) AA Best Picture Nom	James Ivory	18.1	25.2	57.30	104	90	04 / 01	85.7
92	Jojo Rabbit (2019) AA Best Picture Nom	Taika Waititi	33.4	45.5	119.10	76	78	06 / 01	84.4
93	Conclave (2024) AA Best Picture Nom	Peter Straughan	32.6	32.6	103.30	45	79	08 / 00	84.1
94	The Father (2020)	Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller Top 5000 Florian Zeller Top 5000 Florian Zeller & Christopher Hampton Top 5000 Florian Zeller & Christopher Hampton	0.4	0.5	0.50	73	87	06 / 02	83.0
95	American Fiction (2023) AA Best Picture Nom	Cord Jefferson	21.1	23.0	25.10	70	79	05 / 01	81.9
96	Women Talking (2022) AA Best Picture Nom	Sarah Polley	5.5	6.1	9.70	86	80	02 / 01	77.4
97	Gods and Monsters (1998)	Bill Condon	6.5	17.2	17.20	136	78	03 / 01	73.2

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2 thoughts on “Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Winning Movies”

Flora Breen Robison says:

February 24, 2021 at 1:06 pm

I have seen 51 movies overall, but I am only going to focus on the top 20 in my comment.

I have seen 13 films in the top 20 best adapted screenplays with 5 of the top 10.

Favourite Best Adapted Screenplay Winners:

Gone With the Wind
Casablanca
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Bridge on the River Kwai
It Happened One Night
The French Connection
Mrs. Miniver
A Man For All Seasons
Driving Miss Daisy

Other Best Adapted Screenplay Winners:

Forest Gump
Terms of Endearment
The Lost Weekend
Dances With Wolves

Mike says:

February 24, 2021 at 12:45 am

Great UMR Page

Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Winning Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Winning Movies Can Be Ranked 5 Ways In The Table Below

The really cool thing about ther table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

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