Writers Guild of America Awards, Best Adapted Screenplay

2025

Joslyn Barnes / Nickel Boys

Denis Villeneuve / Dune: Part Two

Richard Linklater / Hit Man

Glen Powell / Hit Man

Dana Fox / Wicked

Winnie Holzman / Wicked

Jay Cocks / A Complete Unknown

James Mangold / A Complete Unknown

Jon Spaihts / Dune: Part Two

RaMell Ross / Nickel Boys

2024

Cord Jefferson / American Fiction

Eric Roth / Killers of the Flower Moon

Kelly Fremon Craig / Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

Martin Scorsese / Killers of the Flower Moon

Christopher Nolan / Oppenheimer

Julia Cox / NYAD

2023

Justin Marks / Top Gun: Maverick

Ehren Kruger / Top Gun: Maverick

Ryan Coogler / Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Rebecca Lenkiewicz / She Said

Joe Robert Cole / Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Sarah Polley / Women Talking

Christopher McQuarrie / Top Gun: Maverick

2022

Sian Heder / CODA

2021

Sacha Baron Cohen / Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe To American Regime For Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Luke Davies / News of the World

Ramin Bahrani / The White Tiger

Paul Greengrass / News of the World

Ruben Santiago-Hudson / Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Kemp Powers / One Night in Miami...

Anthony Hines / Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe To American Regime For Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

2020

Steven Zaillian / The Irishman

Taika Waititi / Jojo Rabbit

Greta Gerwig / Little Women

Todd Phillips / Joker

2019

Jeff Whitty / Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Spike Lee / BlacKkKlansman

Eric Roth / A Star is Born

Nicole Holofcener / Can You Ever Forgive Me?

2018

Aaron Sorkin / Molly's Game

2017

Tom Ford / Nocturnal Animals

2016

Aaron Sorkin / Steve Jobs

2015

Guardians of the Galaxy

Tina Fey / Mean Girls

2014

Ethan Hawke / Before Midnight

Tracy Letts / August: Osage County

Richard Linklater / Before Midnight

Terence Winter / The Wolf of Wall Street

Julie Delpy / Before Midnight

2012

Steven Zaillian / Moneyball

Aaron Sorkin / Moneyball

2011

Simon Beaufoy / 127 Hours

Danny Boyle / 127 Hours

Aaron Sorkin / The Social Network

2010

Nora Ephron / Julie & Julia

Jason Reitman / Up in the Air

Sheldon Turner / Up in the Air

2009

Christopher Nolan / The Dark Knight

Jonathan Nolan / The Dark Knight

David S. Goyer / The Dark Knight

2008

Joel Coen / No Country for Old Men

Ethan Coen / No Country for Old Men

2007

Sacha Baron Cohen / Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Todd Phillips / Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Dan Mazer / Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Peter Baynham / Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Anthony Hines / Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Aline Brosh McKenna / The Devil Wears Prada

2005

Richard Linklater / Before Sunset

Julie Delpy / Before Sunset

Ethan Hawke / Before Sunset

2004

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2003

Bill Condon / Chicago

2001

James Schamus / 卧虎藏龙

1999

Bill Condon / Gods and Monsters

1998

James Schamus / The Ice Storm

1997

Billy Bob Thornton / Sling Blade

1995

Eric Roth / Forrest Gump

1992

Oliver Stone / JFK

Pat Conroy / The Prince of Tides

Becky Johnston / The Prince of Tides

1990

Oliver Stone / Born on the Fourth of July

1988

Stanley Kubrick / Full Metal Jacket

Michael Herr / Full Metal Jacket

Steve Martin / Roxanne

1985

David Lean / A Passage to India

Robert Towne / Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

1981

Alvin Sargent / Ordinary People

Tom Rickman / Coal Miner's Daughter

1970

John Mortimer / John and Mary

Waldo Salt / Midnight Cowboy

1969

Carson McCullers / The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

1962

Sidney Carroll / The Hustler

1959

Alan Jay Lerner / Gigi

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