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Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay
The Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States. It is awarded each year to the writer of a screenplay adapted from another source (usually a novel, play, short story, or TV show but also sometimes another film). All...
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Simon Beaufoy
Simon Beaufoy (born 1966) is a British screenwriter. Born in Keighley, he was educated at Malsis School in Cross Hills Ermysted's Grammar School and Sedbergh School, he read English at St Peter's College, Oxford and graduated from the Arts Institute...
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Ethan Coen
Ethan Coen is a film director and film writer.
Joel Coen
Joel Coen is a film director and film writer.
William Monahan
William J. Monahan (born November 3, 1960) is an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter and novelist. After graduating from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he studied Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, Monahan moved to New York...
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Larry McMurtry
Larry Jeff McMurtry (born June 3, 1936) is an American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and Academy Award winning screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the "old west" or in contemporary Texas. He is known for his Pulitzer Prize...
Diana Ossana
Diana Ossana is an American Academy Award-winning writer who has collaborated on writing screenplays, teleplays, and novels with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry since they first worked together in 1992, on the semi-fictionalized...
Alexander Payne
Constantine Alexander Payne (born February 10, 1961) is an American Academy Award-winning film director and screenwriter. His films are noted for their dark humour and satirical depictions of contemporary American society. His films also revolve...
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Jim Taylor
Jim Taylor (born 1962 in Bellevue, Washington) is an Oscar-, Golden Globe- and BAFTA award-winning American screenwriter, best known as the writing partner of Alexander Payne. Together they have written:
Taylor is also one of the writers who worked...
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Peter Jackson
Peter Robert Jackson, CNZM (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand filmmaker, producer and screenwriter, best known for The Lord of the Rings trilogy adapted from the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien. He is also known for his 2005 remake of King Kong and...
Fran Walsh
Frances Walsh, MNZM, (born January 10, 1959), is a screenwriter, film producer and musician. She is the wife of filmmaker Peter Jackson. They have two children, Billy Jackson and Katie Jackson. Walsh has contributed to all of Jackson's films since...
Philippa Boyens
Philippa Boyens, MNZM, is an Academy Award winning New Zealand screenwriter who co-wrote the screenplay for Peter Jackson's film series The Lord of the Rings with Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, for which the trio won an Oscar at the 76th Academy...
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Ronald Harwood
Ronald Harwood CBE, (born 9 November 1934) is an author, playwright and screenwriter. He is most noted for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for The Dresser (for which he was nominated for an Oscar) and The Pianist, for...
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Akiva Goldsman
Akiva J. Goldsman (born July 7, 1962) is an American screenwriter and producer in the motion picture industry. He received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the 2001 film, A Beautiful Mind, which also won the Oscar for Best Picture....
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Stephen Gaghan
Stephen Gaghan (born May 6, 1965) is an Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning American film writer and director. He is noted for writing the screenplay for Steven Soderbergh's film Traffic, based on a Channel 4 series, for which he won the Academy...
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John Irving
John Winslow Irving (born John Wallace Blunt, Jr.; March 2, 1942) is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.
Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978....
Bill Condon
William "Bill" Condon (born October 22, 1955) is an American screenwriter and director.
Condon was born in New York City, the son of a detective, and was raised in an Irish Catholic family. He attended Regis High School and Columbia College of...
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Curtis Hanson
Curtis Lee Hanson (born March 24, 1945) is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker.
Hanson was born in Reno, Nevada and grew up in Los Angeles, the son of Beverly June and William Hanson. Hanson dropped out of high school, finding work as a...
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Brian Helgeland
Brian Thomas Helgeland (born January 17, 1961) is an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, film producer and director.
Helgeland was born in Providence, Rhode Island. His mother, Karin, is from Norway and his father from Brooklyn, New York....
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Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton (born August 4, 1955) is an American actor, director, musician, playwright and screenwriter. His rise to fame began in the mid-1990s, after writing, directing, and starring in the film Sling Blade, for which he won an Oscar for...
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Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson (born 15 April 1959) is an Academy Award-winning British actress, comedian, and screenwriter. She is also a patron of the Refugee Council.
Thompson was born in Paddington, London, England. Her father was the actor Eric Thompson, best...
Eric Roth
Eric Roth (born 22 March 1945) is an American screenwriter. He won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Forrest Gump (1994). He also co-wrote the screenplay for Michael Mann's The Insider (1999) and for the Steven Spielberg film Munich (2005)....
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Steven Zaillian
Steven Zaillian (born 30 January 1953) is an American screenwriter, film director, editor, producer, and founder of Film Rites. He won an Academy Award for his screenplay for Schindler's List and he has been nominated two times for Awakenings and...
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE (born May 7, 1927) is a Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of...
Ted Tally
Ted Tally (born April 9, 1952) is an Academy Award winning American playwright and screenwriter. He was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Born William Theodore Tally in North Carolina, Tally was...
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Michael Blake
Michael Blake (born July 5, 1945) is an American author, best known for his film adaptation of his novel Dances with Wolves. He is currently writing a film adaptation of his novel The Holy Road.
Early in his life, Blake's family lived in Texas,...
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Alfred Uhry
Alfred Fox Uhry (born 3 December 1936) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. In 2006, he was the first individual to receive the Academy Award, Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize for dramatic...
Christopher Hampton
Christopher James Hampton CBE, FRSL (born January 26, 1946) is an Academy Award-winning British playwright, screen writer and film director. He is best known for his play based on the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses and the film version Dangerous...
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Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci (born March 16, 1940) is an Italian film director and screenwriter, probably best known for such films as The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor and The Dreamers.
Bertolucci was born in the Italian city of Parma,...
Mark Peploe
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Kurt Luedtke
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Peter Shaffer
Sir Peter Levin Shaffer (born 15 May 1926) is an English dramatist, author of numerous award-winning plays, several of which have been filmed.
Shaffer was born to a Jewish family in Liverpool, the son of Reka (née Fredman) and Jack Shaffer, who was...
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James L. Brooks
James L. Brooks (born May 9, 1940) is an American director, producer and screenwriter. Growing up in North Bergen, New Jersey, Brooks endured a fractured family life and passed the time by reading and writing. After dropping out of New York...
Costa Gavras
Constantinos Gavras (born February 13, 1933), better known as Costa-Gavras (Κώστας Γαβράς), is a Greek born French filmmaker, best known for films with overt political themes, most famously the fast-paced thriller, Z (1969). Most of his movies were...
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Donald Stewart
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Ernest Thompson
Ernest Thompson (born Richard Ernest Thompson; November 6, 1949) is an American writer, actor, and director.
Thompson was born in Bellows Falls, Vermont. He spent his early years in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, moving to Maryland as a...
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Alvin Sargent
Alvin Sargent (born on April 12, 1927 in Pennsylvania) is an American screenwriter.
Sargent graduated from Upper Darby High School in 1945. As of 2006, he is one of 35 alums to be on Upper Darby High School's Wall of Fame
Sargent began writing for...
Robert Benton
Robert Douglas Benton (born September 29, 1932) is an American screenwriter and film director.
Benton was born in Waxahachie, Texas, the son of Dorothy (née Spaulding) and Ellery Douglass Benton, a telephone company employee. He attended the...
Oliver Stone
William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American film director and screenwriter. Stone came to prominence as a director with a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an American infantry soldier, and his...
William Goldman
William Goldman (born August 12, 1931) is an American novelist, playwright and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. He lives in New York City.
Goldman grew up in a Jewish family in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois. His brother...
Frank R. Pierson
Frank Romer Pierson (born 12 May 1925) is an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter and film director.
Pierson was born in Chappaqua, New York, the son of Louise (née Randall), a writer, and Harold C. Pierson, an entrepreneur. Pierson attended...
Robert Towne
Robert Burton Towne (born November 23, 1934) is an American screenwriter and director.
He is married to Luisa Gaule. His former father-in-law is late actor John Payne, star of the western series, The Restless Gun. Towne's daughter (with actress...
William Peter Blatty
William Peter Blatty (born January 7, 1928) is an American writer and filmmaker. He wrote the novel The Exorcist (1971) and the subsequent screenplay version for which he won an Academy Award.
Blatty was born in New York City, the son of Lebanese...
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an Italian-American film director, producer and screenwriter. Away from showbusiness, Coppola is also a vintner, magazine publisher and hotelier. He is a graduate of Hofstra University where he studied...
Mario Puzo
Mario Gianluigi Puzo (October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was a two time Academy Award-winning Italian American author and screenwriter, known for his novels about the Mafia, especially The Godfather (1969), which he later co-adapted into a film with...
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Ernest Tidyman
Ernest Tidyman (January 1, 1928 - July 14, 1984) was a Cleveland-born American author and screenwriter, best known for his novels featuring the African-American detective John Shaft. He also co-wrote the film version of Shaft with John D.F. Black in...
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Ring Lardner Jr.
Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner Jr. (August 19, 1915 – October 31, 2000) was an American journalist and screenwriter, who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s.
Born in Chicago, he was the son...
Waldo Salt
Waldo Pressman Salt (October 18, 1914 – March 7, 1987) was an American screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Salt graduated from Stanford University at age...
James Goldman
James Goldman (June 30, 1927 – October 28, 1998) was an American Academy Award-winning screenwriter and playwright, and the brother of screenwriter and novelist William Goldman.
He was born in Chicago, Illinois and grew up primarily in Highland Park...
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Stirling Silliphant
Stirling Dale Silliphant (16 January 1918 – 26 April 1996) was a prolific American screenwriter and producer. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, moved to Glendale, California as a child, graduated from Hoover High School, and educated at the...
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Robert Bolt
Robert Oxton Bolt, CBE (15 August 1924 – 21 February 1995) was an English playwright and a two-time Oscar winning screenwriter.
He was born in Sale, Cheshire. At Manchester Grammar School his affinity for Sir Thomas More first developed. He attended...
Edward Anhalt
After working as a journalist and documentary filmmaker for Pathe and CBS-TV, Edward Anhalt (March 28, 1914 - September 3, 2000) teamed with his second wife Edna Anhalt, during World War II to write pulp fiction. (Edna was the second of his five...
John Osborne
John James Osborne (12 December 1929 – 24 December 1994) was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and critic of The Establishment. The success of his 1956 play Look Back in Anger transformed English theatre. In a productive life of more than...
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Horton Foote
Albert Horton Foote, Jr. (March 14, 1916 – March 4, 2009) was an American playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known for his Academy Award-winning screenplays for the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird and the 1983 film Tender Mercies, and his...
Abby Mann
Abby Mann (December 1, 1927 – March 25, 2008) was an American film writer and producer.
Born as Abraham Goodman in Philadelphia, he grew up in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was best known for his work on controversial subjects and social drama....
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Richard Brooks
Richard Brooks (May 18, 1912 – March 11, 1992) was an American screenwriter, director, novelist and occasional producer.
Brooks was born Ruben Sax to Russian Jewish immigrants in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and graduated from West Philadelphia High...
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Neil Paterson
James Edmund Neil Paterson (31 December 1916 – 19 April 1995), known as Neil Paterson, was a Scottish Academy Award winning screenwriter.
Born in Greenock, Renfrewshire (now part of Inverclyde), Paterson graduated from the University of Edinburgh...
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Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner (vales verga was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film. He won three Tony Awards...
Pierre Boulle
Pierre Boulle (20 February 1912 – 30 January 1994) was a French novelist largely known for two famous works, The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963).
Born Pierre-François-Marie-Louis Boulle in Avignon, France, Boulle was...
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Michael Wilson
Michael Wilson (July 1, 1914 – April 9, 1978) was an American multiple-Academy Award winning screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism.
Wilson was born and raised Roman Catholic in McAlester,...
Carl Foreman
Carl Foreman CBE (July 23, 1914 – June 26, 1984) was an American screenwriter and film producer who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.
Born in Chicago, Illinois to a working-class Jewish family, he studied at the...
