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The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay adapted from previously established material. The most frequently adapted media are novels, but other adapted narrative formats include stage plays, musicals, short stories, TV series, and other films and film characters.
Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, located in Beverly Hills, California. It honors outstanding achievement by screenwriters for a screenplay adapted from another work, such as a play or novel, from a given year, as determined by the academy’s voting.
Feb 9, 2020 · The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is given each year to a script “based on material from another medium.” That other medium being adapted is often a novel ( The Lord of the Rings ), a stage production ( Fences ), or another film ( A Star is Born ).
Feb 5, 2014 · SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award) To WILLIAM L. BLOWERS of Belco Associates, Incorporated and THOMAS F. DENOVE for the development and manufacture of the Belco/Denove Cinemeter.
Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) - Oliver Stone, Ron Kovic
1990 Nominee Oscar. Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium; Phil Alden Robinson
Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) - Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese
