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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.
Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) - Elaine May, Warren Beatty
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 ).
1977 & 1978: Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen–based on factual material or on story material not previously published or produced) 1979 : Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)
Feb 5, 2014 · Barbara Barrie – Breaking Away. Candice Bergen – Starting Over. Mariel Hemingway – Manhattan. Meryl Streep – Kramer vs. Kramer. WRITING (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) Apocalypse Now – John Milius, Francis Coppola. Kramer vs. Kramer – Robert Benton.
in 1957, the modern division of the award into "original" and "adapted" screenplays was finally implemented - with only two renamed categories: Best Screenplay - Based on Material From Another Medium (Adapted Screenplay) and Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Original Screenplay); the category of Best Motion Picture ...
