This award started with the name
Best Writing, Adaptation
1927/28 Seventh Heaven Glorious Betsy - Anthony Coldeway from a play by Rida Johnson Young
The Jazz Singer Day of Atonement by Samson Raphaelson
In the 2nd and 3rd years there was only a single writing award for
Writing Achievement with no distinction between original works and adaptations.
1928/29 The Patriot Der Patriot by Alfred Neumann derived from the story Paul I by Dmitri Merezhkovsky
The Cop - William Taylor Garnett from a story by Elliott Judd Clawson
In Old Arizona The Caballero's Way by O. Henry
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney - Hanns Kräly from a play by Frederick Lonsdale
The Leatherneck - Elliott Judd Clawson original
Our Dancing Daughters - Josephine Lovett original
Sal of Singapore - Elliott Judd Clawson from the story The Sentimentalists by Dale Collins
Skyscraper - Elliott Judd Clawson, William Taylor Garnett from a story by Dudley Murphy
The Valiant A Woman of Affairs - Bess Meredyth fom the novel The Green Hat by Michael Arlen
Wonder of Women - Bess Meredyth from the novel Die Frau des Steffen Tromholt by Hermann Sudermann
1929/30 The Big House For the 1930/31 production year the award was again subdivided, and this one was once again
Best Writing, Adaptation .
1930/31 Cimarron Edna Ferber
The Criminal Code - Seton I. Miller, Fred Niblo Jr from a play by Martin Flavin
Holiday - Horace Jackson from the play by Philip Barry
Little Caesar Darryl F. Zanuck from the novel by William R. Burnett
Skippy Don Marquis , Norman Z. McLeod, Sam Mintz from the comic strip by Percy Crosby
1931/32 Bad Girl 1932/33 Little Women - Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason from the novel by Louisa May Alcott
Lady for a Day Madame la Gimp by Damon Runyon
State Fair - Paul Green, Sonya Levien from the novel by Philip Stong
1934 It Happened One Night Night Busa by Samuel Hopkins Adams
For 1935 the award became
Best Writing, Screenplay
1935 The Informer 1936 The Story of Louis Pasteur 1937 The Life of Emile Zola Zola and His Time by Matthew Josephson
1938 Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw from the play by George Bernard Shaw
1939 Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
1940 The Philadelphia Story 1941 Here Comes Mr. Jordan Heaven Can Wait by Harry Segall
1942 Mrs. Miniver James Hilton , Claudine West, Arthur Wimperis
1943 Casablanca 1944 Going My Way 1945 The Lost Weekend Billy Wilder
1946 The Best Years of Our Lives 1947 Miracle on 34th Street 1948 Treasure of the Sierra Madre - John Huston
1949 A Letter to Three Wives 1950 All About Eve 1951 A Place in the Sun 1952 The Bad and the Beautiful 1953 From Here to Eternity 1954 The Country Girl 1955 Marty Paddy Chayefsky
1956 Around the World in Eighty Days 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1958 Gigi 1959 Room at the Top 1960 Elmer Gantry 1961 Judgment at Nuremberg 1962 To Kill a Mockingbird 1963 Tom Jones 1964 Becket 1965 Doctor Zhivago 1966 A Man for All Seasons 1967 In the Heat of the Night 1968 The Lion in Winter 1969 Midnight Cowboy 1970 MASH 1971 The French Connection 1972 The Godfather 1973 The Exorcist 1974 The Godfather, Part II 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1976 All the President's Men 1977 Julia 1978 Midnight Express Oliver Stone
1979 Kramer vs. Kramer 1980 Ordinary People 1981 On Golden Pond 1982 Missing 1983 Terms of Endearment 1984 Amadeus 1985 Out of Africa 1986 A Room with a View 1987 The Last Emperor Bernardo Bertolucci , Mark Peploe
1988 Dangerous Liaisons 1989 Driving Miss Daisy 1990 Dances With Wolves 1991 The Silence of the Lambs 1992 Howards End 1993 Schindler's List 1994 Forrest Gump 1995 Sense and Sensibility 1996 Sling Blade Billy Bob Thornton
1997 L.A. Confidential 1998 Gods and Monsters 1999 The Cider House Rules John Irving
2000 Traffic 2001 A Beautiful Mind 2002 The Pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman
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