Want to know the best Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Winning Movies? How about the worst Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Winning Movies? Curious about Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Winning Movies box office grosses or which Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Winning Movies picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Winning Movies got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which one got the worst reviews? Well, you have come to the right place because we have all of that information.
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
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
1979
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
AA Best Picture Win
1944
Going My Way (1944)
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
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
2007
No Country for Old Men (2007)
AA Best Picture Win
2002
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
AA Best Picture Nom
1985
Out of Africa (1985)
AA Best Picture Win
1940
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
AA Best Picture Nom
1968
The Lion in Winter (1968)
AA Best Picture Nom
1987
The Last Emperor (1987)
AA Best Picture Win
1965
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
AA Best Picture Nom
1973
The Exorcist (1973)
AA Best Picture Nom
1955
Marty (1955)
AA Best Picture Win
1976
All the President's Men (1976)
AA Best Picture Nom
1960
Elmer Gantry (1960)
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
1997
L.A. Confidential (1997)
AA Best Picture Nom
1948
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
AA Best Picture Nom
1951
A Place in the Sun (1951)
AA Best Picture Nom
1961
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
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
1933
Little Women (1933)
AA Best Picture Nom
1954
The Country Girl (1954)
AA Best Picture Nom
2010
The Social Network (2010)
AA Best Picture Nom
1964
Becket (1964)
AA Best Picture Nom
2005
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
AA Best Picture Nom
1930
The Big House (1930)
AA Best Picture Nom
1941
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
AA Best Picture Nom
1977
Julia (1977)
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
2014
The Imitation Game (2014)
AA Best Picture Nom
1938
Pygmalion (1938)
AA Best Picture Nom
1952
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
1995
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
AA Best Picture Nom
2011
The Descendants (2011)
AA Best Picture Nom
1999
The Cider House Rules (1999)
AA Best Picture Nom
1931
Bad Girl (1931)
AA Best Picture Nom
1988
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
AA Best Picture Nom
2002
The Pianist (2002)
AA Best Picture Nom
2016
Moonlight (2016)
AA Best Picture Win
1992
Howards End (1992)
AA Best Picture Nom
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)
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.
- Sort by winners
- Sort Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Winning Movies by actual domestic box office grosses (in millions)
- Sort Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Winning Movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Winning Movies by critic reviews and audiences voting. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Winning Movies received.
- Sort Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Winning Movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score. The ceiling to earn points for box office is $200 million…once a movie passes that mark it stops earning points in that category.
| 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 | 926.9 | 1,687.80 | 1 | 97 | 11 / 03 | 100.0 | |
| 2 | The Godfather: Part II (1974) AA Best Picture Win |
Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo |
47.5 | 298.7 | 589.70 | 9 | 94 | 11 / 06 | 100.0 | |
| 3 | All About Eve (1950) AA Best Picture Win |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 8.9 | 216.8 | 307.70 | 9 | 92 | 14 / 06 | 100.0 | |
| 4 | Gone with the Wind (1939) AA Best Picture Win |
Sidney Howard | 56.6 | 2,375.2 | 4,188.50 | 1 | 92 | 13 / 08 | 100.0 | |
| 5 | Schindler's List (1993) AA Best Picture Win |
Steven Zaillian | 96.1 | 272.7 | 911.90 | 9 | 94 | 12 / 07 | 100.0 | |
| 6 | Casablanca (1942) AA Best Picture Win |
Epstein, Epstein & Koch |
11.8 | 479.9 | 880.50 | 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 | 624.6 | 935.80 | 3 | 90 | 09 / 05 | 99.9 | |
| 8 | The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) AA Best Picture Win |
Robert E. Sherwood | 19.3 | 648.7 | 1,052.50 | 1 | 90 | 08 / 07 | 99.9 | |
| 9 | The Silence of the Lambs (1991) AA Best Picture Win |
Ted Tally | 130.7 | 364.9 | 761.20 | 4 | 91 | 07 / 05 | 99.9 | |
| 10 | The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) AA Best Picture Win |
Boulle, Foreman, & Wilson |
30.4 | 638.9 | 638.90 | 1 | 88 | 08 / 07 | 99.9 | |
| 11 | It Happened One Night (1934) AA Best Picture Win |
Robert Riskin | 5.2 | 265.9 | 438.60 | 3 | 90 | 05 / 05 | 99.9 | |
| 12 | The Departed (2006) AA Best Picture Win |
William Monahan | 132.4 | 236.4 | 517.60 | 16 | 90 | 05 / 04 | 99.9 | |
| 13 | Argo (2012) AA Best Picture Win |
Chris Terrio | 136.0 | 200.8 | 342.90 | 22 | 90 | 07 / 03 | 99.9 | |
| 14 | Amadeus (1984) AA Best Picture Win |
Peter Shaffer | 69.2 | 241.9 | 241.90 | 11 | 86 | 11 / 08 | 99.9 | |
| 15 | Forrest Gump (1994) AA Best Picture Win |
Eric Roth | 320.7 | 923.6 | 1,924.90 | 2 | 83 | 13 / 06 | 99.9 | |
| 16 | Terms of Endearment (1983) AA Best Picture Win |
James L. Brooks (56th) James L. Brooks | 108.4 | 404.4 | 404.40 | 2 | 83 | 11 / 05 | 99.9 | |
| 17 | The French Connection (1971) AA Best Picture Win |
Ernest Tidyman | 51.7 | 368.2 | 368.20 | 4 | 84 | 08 / 05 | 99.9 | |
| 18 | The Lost Weekend (1945) AA Best Picture Win |
Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder |
9.5 | 326.9 | 326.90 | 17 | 85 | 07 / 04 | 99.9 | |
| 19 | In the Heat of the Night (1967) AA Best Picture Win |
Stirling Silliphant | 24.0 | 233.1 | 233.10 | 11 | 84 | 07 / 05 | 99.9 | |
| 20 | From Here to Eternity (1953) AA Best Picture Win |
Daniel Taradash | 30.9 | 605.3 | 605.30 | 2 | 81 | 13 / 08 | 99.9 | |
| 21 | Mrs. Miniver (1942) AA Best Picture Win |
Froeschel, Hilton, West & Wimperis |
15.3 | 620.3 | 1,027.70 | 2 | 81 | 12 / 06 | 99.9 | |
| 22 | Midnight Cowboy (1969) AA Best Picture Win |
Waldo Salt | 58.6 | 484.6 | 484.60 | 2 | 85 | 07 / 03 | 99.8 | |
| 23 | Dances with Wolves (1990) AA Best Picture Win |
Michael Blake | 185.0 | 513.9 | 1,180.60 | 3 | 81 | 12 / 07 | 99.8 | |
| 24 | A Man for All Seasons (1966) AA Best Picture Win |
Robert Bolt | 31.9 | 340.5 | 340.50 | 4 | 81 | 08 / 06 | 99.8 | |
| 25 | Driving Miss Daisy (1989) AA Best Picture Win |
Alfred Uhry | 106.6 | 315.5 | 431.50 | 9 | 81 | 09 / 04 | 99.8 | |
| 26 | A Beautiful Mind (2001) AA Best Picture Win |
Akiva Goldsman | 170.7 | 355.1 | 652.10 | 11 | 82 | 08 / 04 | 99.8 | |
| 27 | Ordinary People (1980) AA Best Picture Win |
Alvn Sargent | 54.8 | 247.5 | 247.50 | 12 | 82 | 06 / 04 | 99.8 | |
| 29 | Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) AA Best Picture Win |
Robert Benton | 106.3 | 497.4 | 566.20 | 1 | 76 | 09 / 05 | 99.8 | |
| 28 | Going My Way (1944) AA Best Picture Win |
Frank Butler & Frank Cavett |
17.1 | 627.8 | 627.80 | 1 | 75 | 10 / 07 | 99.8 | |
| 30 | The Life of Emile Zola (1937) AA Best Picture Win |
Herald, Herczeg & Reilly-Raine |
7.7 | 348.5 | 719.60 | 7 | 72 | 10 / 03 | 99.7 | |
| 31 | Around the World in 80 Days (1956) AA Best Picture Win |
Farrow, Perelman & Poe |
35.5 | 758.1 | 758.10 | 2 | 70 | 08 / 05 | 99.7 | |
| 32 | Tom Jones (1963) AA Best Picture Win |
John Osborne | 37.3 | 510.2 | 510.20 | 3 | 69 | 10 / 04 | 99.7 | |
| 33 | Slumdog Millionaire (2008) AA Best Picture Win |
Simon Beaufoy | 141.3 | 231.3 | 618.40 | 17 | 69 | 10 / 08 | 99.7 | |
| 34 | Gigi (1958) AA Best Picture Win |
Alan Jay Lerner | 20.9 | 409.7 | 588.70 | 4 | 68 | 09 / 09 | 99.7 | |
| 35 | To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) AA Best Picture Nom |
Horton Foote | 22.9 | 358.1 | 358.10 | 7 | 90 | 08 / 03 | 99.7 | |
| 36 | No Country for Old Men (2007) AA Best Picture Win |
Ethan Coen & Joel Coen |
74.3 | 126.9 | 293.10 | 36 | 92 | 08 / 04 | 99.7 | |
| 37 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) AA Best Picture Nom |
Peter Jackson, Walsh & Boyens |
334.0 | 676.6 | 1,858.70 | 2 | 92 | 06 / 02 | 99.7 | |
| 38 | Out of Africa (1985) AA Best Picture Win |
Kurt Luedtke | 87.1 | 288.2 | 881.00 | 5 | 66 | 11 / 07 | 99.7 | |
| 39 | The Philadelphia Story (1940) AA Best Picture Nom |
Donald Ogden Stewart | 6.8 | 284.6 | 390.70 | 7 | 91 | 06 / 02 | 99.6 | |
| 40 | The Lion in Winter (1968) AA Best Picture Nom |
James Goldman | 28.6 | 256.4 | 256.40 | 10 | 88 | 07 / 03 | 99.6 | |
| 41 | The Last Emperor (1987) AA Best Picture Win |
Bernardo Bertolucci & Mark Peploe |
44.0 | 132.2 | 132.20 | 25 | 85 | 09 / 09 | 99.6 | |
| 42 | Doctor Zhivago (1965) AA Best Picture Nom |
Robert Bolt | 126.6 | 1,457.9 | 2,634.30 | 2 | 82 | 10 / 05 | 99.6 | |
| 43 | The Exorcist (1973) AA Best Picture Nom |
William Peter Blatty | 195.8 | 1,299.8 | 2,680.60 | 1 | 86 | 10 / 02 | 99.6 | |
| 44 | Marty (1955) AA Best Picture Win |
Paddy Chayefsky | 5.7 | 129.1 | 129.10 | 58 | 85 | 08 / 04 | 99.5 | |
| 45 | All the President's Men (1976) AA Best Picture Nom |
William Goldman | 90.9 | 501.5 | 501.50 | 4 | 83 | 08 / 04 | 99.5 | |
| 46 | Elmer Gantry (1960) AA Best Picture Nom |
Richard Brooks | 13.2 | 225.0 | 225.00 | 15 | 87 | 05 / 03 | 99.5 | |
| 47 | Miracle on 34th Street (1947) AA Best Picture Nom |
George Seaton | 7.2 | 227.4 | 227.40 | 35 | 86 | 04 / 03 | 99.5 | |
| 48 | 7th Heaven (1927) AA Best Picture Nom |
Benjamin Glazer | 6.2 | 229.5 | 229.50 | 4 | 84 | 05 / 03 | 99.4 | |
| 49 | On Golden Pond (1981) AA Best Picture Nom |
Ernest Thompson | 112.8 | 476.7 | 476.70 | 2 | 79 | 10 / 03 | 99.3 | |
| 50 | L.A. Confidential (1997) AA Best Picture Nom |
Curtis Hanson & Brian Helgeland |
64.6 | 165.4 | 323.10 | 22 | 93 | 09 / 02 | 99.2 | |
| 51 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) AA Best Picture Nom |
John Huston | 6.1 | 177.8 | 316.60 | 45 | 90 | 04 / 03 | 99.2 | |
| 52 | A Place in the Sun (1951) AA Best Picture Nom |
Harry Brown & Michael Wilson |
10.0 | 235.0 | 463.30 | 10 | 76 | 09 / 06 | 99.2 | |
| 53 | Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) AA Best Picture Nom |
Abby Mann | 11.3 | 179.2 | 179.20 | 19 | 86 | 11 / 02 | 99.2 | |
| 54 | MASH (1970) AA Best Picture Nom |
Ring Lardner Jr. | 82.9 | 628.4 | 628.40 | 3 | 84 | 05 / 01 | 99.2 | |
| 55 | A Letter to Three Wives (1949) AA Best Picture Nom |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 7.6 | 208.7 | 208.70 | 22 | 84 | 03 / 02 | 99.1 | |
| 56 | Traffic (2000) AA Best Picture Nom |
Stephen Gaghan | 124.1 | 270.6 | 452.40 | 15 | 81 | 05 / 04 | 99.1 | |
| 57 | Cimarron (1931) AA Best Picture Win |
Howard Estabrook | 3.6 | 200.0 | 243.20 | 14 | 59 | 07 / 03 | 99.1 | |
| 58 | Little Women (1933) AA Best Picture Nom |
Victor Heerman & Sarah Y. Mason |
4.0 | 203.9 | 302.10 | 13 | 82 | 03 / 01 | 99.0 | |
| 59 | The Country Girl (1954) AA Best Picture Nom |
George Seaton | 18.3 | 467.1 | 467.10 | 6 | 77 | 07 / 02 | 98.9 | |
| 60 | The Social Network (2010) AA Best Picture Nom |
Aaron Sorkin | 96.7 | 144.0 | 334.50 | 32 | 91 | 08 / 03 | 98.8 | |
| 61 | Becket (1964) AA Best Picture Nom |
Edward Anhalt | 14.3 | 178.6 | 178.60 | 12 | 79 | 12 / 01 | 98.6 | |
| 62 | Brokeback Mountain (2005) AA Best Picture Nom |
Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana |
83.0 | 152.5 | 326.90 | 22 | 87 | 08 / 03 | 98.5 | |
| 63 | The Big House (1930) AA Best Picture Nom |
Frances Marion | 3.9 | 231.2 | 310.00 | 9 | 75 | 04 / 02 | 98.4 | |
| 64 | Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) AA Best Picture Nom |
Sidney Buchman & Seton I. Miller |
3.9 | 162.4 | 162.40 | 55 | 84 | 07 / 02 | 98.3 | |
| 65 | Julia (1977) AA Best Picture Nom |
Alvin Sargent | 35.3 | 185.9 | 185.90 | 26 | 71 | 11 / 03 | 98.1 | |
| 66 | 12 Years a Slave (2013) AA Best Picture Win |
John Ridley | 56.7 | 81.9 | 271.30 | 62 | 85 | 09 / 03 | 98.1 | |
| 67 | Midnight Express (1978) AA Best Picture Nom |
Oliver Stone | 34.2 | 171.8 | 171.80 | 17 | 77 | 06 / 02 | 97.5 | |
| 68 | Sideways (2004) AA Best Picture Nom |
Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor |
71.5 | 135.3 | 207.70 | 40 | 87 | 05 / 01 | 96.9 | |
| 69 | The Imitation Game (2014) AA Best Picture Nom |
Graham Moore | 91.1 | 131.1 | 335.90 | 37 | 86 | 08 / 01 | 96.6 | |
| 70 | Pygmalion (1938) AA Best Picture Nom |
Shaw, Dalrymple, Lewis & Lipscomb |
3.5 | 151.1 | 151.10 | 53 | 82 | 04 / 01 | 96.6 | |
| 71 | The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) | Charles Schnee | 6.6 | 140.5 | 200.20 | 37 | 85 | 06 / 05 | 96.6 | |
| 72 | Sense and Sensibility (1995) AA Best Picture Nom |
Emma Thompson | 43.2 | 116.6 | 363.50 | 40 | 89 | 07 / 01 | 96.2 | |
| 73 | The Descendants (2011) AA Best Picture Nom |
Faxon, Payne & Rash |
82.6 | 122.4 | 262.60 | 39 | 89 | 05 / 01 | 96.1 | |
| 74 | The Cider House Rules (1999) AA Best Picture Nom |
John Irving | 57.5 | 133.6 | 205.60 | 41 | 76 | 07 / 02 | 94.4 | |
| 75 | Bad Girl (1931) AA Best Picture Nom |
Edwin J. Burke | 3.3 | 182.1 | 182.10 | 18 | 62 | 03 / 02 | 94.1 | |
| 76 | Dangerous Liaisons (1988) AA Best Picture Nom |
Christopher Hampton | 34.7 | 99.1 | 99.10 | 31 | 84 | 07 / 03 | 94.1 | |
| 77 | The Pianist (2002) AA Best Picture Nom |
Ronald Harwood | 32.6 | 66.0 | 243.30 | 80 | 92 | 07 / 03 | 93.6 | |
| 78 | Moonlight (2016) AA Best Picture Win |
Barry Jenkins & Tarell Alvin McCraney |
27.9 | 37.8 | 88.40 | 96 | 80 | 08 / 03 | 93.4 | |
| 79 | Howards End (1992) AA Best Picture Nom |
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | 26.1 | 74.0 | 74.00 | 48 | 88 | 09 / 03 | 93.3 | |
| 80 | The Big Short (2015) AA Best Picture Nom |
Adam McKay & Charles Randolph |
70.3 | 97.9 | 186.00 | 41 | 84 | 05 / 01 | 92.6 | |
| 81 | A Room with a View (1985) AA Best Picture Nom |
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | 21.0 | 69.4 | 69.40 | 43 | 86 | 08 / 03 | 92.0 | |
| 82 | Precious (2009) AA Best Picture Nom |
Geoffrey S. Fletcher | 47.6 | 74.5 | 99.70 | 63 | 85 | 06 / 02 | 91.2 | |
| 83 | CODA (2021) AA Best Picture Win |
Sian Heder | 0.1 | 0.1 | 1.50 | 209 | 87 | 03 / 03 | 90.6 | |
| 84 | The Informer (1935) AA Best Picture Nom |
Dudley Nichols | 1.3 | 63.6 | 132.90 | 104 | 83 | 06 / 04 | 90.2 | |
| 85 | The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) AA Best Picture Nom |
Pierre Collings & Sheridan Gibney |
2.2 | 104.2 | 186.00 | 90 | 71 | 04 / 03 | 89.7 | |
| 86 | The Patriot (1928) AA Best Picture Nom |
Hanns Kräly | 2.9 | 99.2 | 99.20 | 25 | 73 | 05 / 01 | 89.1 | |
| 87 | Missing (1982) AA Best Picture Nom |
Costa-Gavras & Donald E. Stewart |
14.0 | 56.0 | 56.00 | 51 | 87 | 04 / 01 | 88.8 | |
| 88 | Room at the Top (1959) AA Best Picture Nom |
Neil Paterson | 2.7 | 53.2 | 53.20 | 87 | 83 | 06 / 02 | 88.3 | |
| 89 | Sling Blade (1996) | Billy Bob Thornton | 24.4 | 65.0 | 65.00 | 67 | 90 | 02 / 01 | 88.1 | |
| 90 | BlacKkKlansman (2018) AA Best Picture Nom |
Spike Lee, Rabinowitz, Wachtel & Willmott |
49.3 | 63.2 | 117.60 | 58 | 80 | 06 / 01 | 87.7 | |
| 91 | Call Me By Your Name (2017) AA Best Picture Nom |
James Ivory | 18.1 | 23.7 | 53.90 | 104 | 90 | 04 / 01 | 86.3 | |
| 92 | Jojo Rabbit (2019) AA Best Picture Nom |
Taika Waititi | 33.4 | 42.8 | 112.00 | 76 | 78 | 06 / 01 | 84.8 | |
| 93 | Conclave (2024) AA Best Picture Nom |
Peter Straughan | 32.6 | 32.6 | 103.30 | 45 | 79 | 08 / 00 | 83.9 | |
| 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 | 82.8 | |
| 95 | American Fiction (2023) AA Best Picture Nom |
Cord Jefferson | 21.1 | 23.0 | 25.10 | 70 | 79 | 05 / 01 | 81.7 | |
| 96 | Women Talking (2022) AA Best Picture Nom |
Sarah Polley | 5.5 | 6.1 | 9.70 | 86 | 80 | 02 / 01 | 77.2 | |
| 97 | Gods and Monsters (1998) | Bill Condon | 6.5 | 16.2 | 16.20 | 136 | 78 | 03 / 01 | 73.8 |
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
Great UMR Page