Writers Guild of America Awards, Best Adapted Screenplay

2025

Jay Cocks / A Complete Unknown

Richard Linklater / Hit Man

RaMell Ross / Nickel Boys

Joslyn Barnes / Nickel Boys

Denis Villeneuve / Dune: Part Two

Jon Spaihts / Dune: Part Two

Winnie Holzman / Wicked

Dana Fox / Wicked

James Mangold / A Complete Unknown

Glen Powell / Hit Man

2024

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

Julia Cox / NYAD

Christopher Nolan / Oppenheimer

Cord Jefferson / American Fiction

Eric Roth / Killers of the Flower Moon

Martin Scorsese / Killers of the Flower Moon

2023

Sarah Polley / Women Talking

Ryan Coogler / Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Joe Robert Cole / Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Justin Marks / Top Gun: Maverick

Christopher McQuarrie / Top Gun: Maverick

Ehren Kruger / Top Gun: Maverick

Rebecca Lenkiewicz / She Said

2022

Sian Heder / CODA

2021

Luke Davies / News of the World

Paul Greengrass / News of the World

Ramin Bahrani / The White Tiger

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

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

Ruben Santiago-Hudson / Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

2020

Todd Phillips / Joker

Taika Waititi / Jojo Rabbit

Greta Gerwig / Little Women

Steven Zaillian / The Irishman

2019

Eric Roth / A Star is Born

Nicole Holofcener / Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Jeff Whitty / Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Spike Lee / BlacKkKlansman

2018

Aaron Sorkin / Molly's Game

2017

Tom Ford / Nocturnal Animals

2016

Aaron Sorkin / Steve Jobs

2015

Tina Fey / Mean Girls

Guardians of the Galaxy

2014

Tracy Letts / August: Osage County

Richard Linklater / Before Midnight

Terence Winter / The Wolf of Wall Street

Julie Delpy / Before Midnight

Ethan Hawke / Before Midnight

2012

Aaron Sorkin / Moneyball

Steven Zaillian / Moneyball

2011

Danny Boyle / 127 Hours

Aaron Sorkin / The Social Network

Simon Beaufoy / 127 Hours

2010

Nora Ephron / Julie & Julia

Sheldon Turner / Up in the Air

Jason Reitman / Up in the Air

2009

David S. Goyer / The Dark Knight

Jonathan Nolan / The Dark Knight

Christopher Nolan / The Dark Knight

2008

Ethan Coen / No Country for Old Men

Joel Coen / No Country for Old Men

2007

Todd Phillips / 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

Sacha Baron Cohen / 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

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

Becky Johnston / The Prince of Tides

Pat Conroy / The Prince of Tides

Oliver Stone / JFK

1990

Oliver Stone / Born on the Fourth of July

1988

Michael Herr / Full Metal Jacket

Stanley Kubrick / 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

Tom Rickman / Coal Miner's Daughter

Alvin Sargent / Ordinary People

1970

Waldo Salt / Midnight Cowboy

John Mortimer / John and Mary

1969

Carson McCullers / The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

1962

Sidney Carroll / The Hustler

1959

Alan Jay Lerner / Gigi

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