BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for Best Adapted Screenplay has been presented to its winners since 1968:

*2007 - "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)" - Ronald Harwood
**"Atonement" - Christopher Hampton
**"The Kite Runner" - David Benioff
**"No Country for Old Men" - Ethan and Joel Coen
**"There Will Be Blood" - Paul Thomas Anderson

*2006 - "The Last King of Scotland" - Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock
**"Casino Royale" - Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Paul Haggis
**"The Departed" - William Monahan
**"The Devil Wears Prada" - Aline Brosh McKenna
**"Notes on a Scandal" - Patrick Marber

*2005 - "Brokeback Mountain" - Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana
**"Capote" – Dan Futterman
**"The Constant Gardener" – Jeffrey Caine
**"A History of Violence" – Josh Olson
**"Pride & Prejudice" – Deborah Moggach

*2004 - "Sideways" - Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
**"Les choristes (The Chorus)" – Christophe Barratier, Philippe Lopes-Curval
**"Closer" – Patrick Marber
**"Diarios de motocicleta (The Motorcycle Diaries)" – José Rivera
**"Finding Neverland" – David Magee

*2003 - ' - Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson"'
**"Big Fish" – John August
**"Cold Mountain" – Anthony Minghella
**"Girl with a Pearl Earring" – Olivia Hetreed
**"Mystic River" – Brian Helgeland

*2002 - "Adaptation." - Charlie Kaufman, Donald Kaufman
**"About a Boy" – Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz
**"Catch Me If You Can" – Jeff Nathanson
**"The Hours" – David Hare
**"The Pianist" – Ronald Harwood

*2001 - "Shrek" - Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman, Roger S.H. Schulman
**"A Beautiful Mind – Akiva Goldsman
**"Bridget Jones's Diary" – Helen Fielding, Andrew Davies, Richard Curtis
**"Iris" – Richard Eyre, Charles Wood
**"" – Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson

*2000 - "Traffic" - Stephen Gaghan
**"Chocolat" – Robert Nelson Jacobs
**"Wonder Boys" – Steve Kloves
**"Wo hu cang long" – James Schamus, Hui-Ling Wang, Kuo Jung Tsai
**"High Fidelity" – D.V. DeVincentis, Steve Pink, John Cusack, Scott Rosenberg

*1999 - "The End of the Affair" - Neil Jordan
**"East Is East" – Ayub Khan-Din
**"The Talented Mr. Ripley" – Anthony Minghella
**"An Ideal Husband" – Oliver Parker

*1998 - "Primary Colors" - Elaine May
**"Hilary and Jackie" – Frank Cottrell Boyce
**"Little Voice" – Mark Herman
**"Wag the Dog" – Hilary Henkin, David Mamet

*1997 - "Romeo + Juliet" - Craig Pearce, Baz Luhrmann
**"L.A. Confidential" – Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson
**"The Wings of the Dove" – Hossein Amini
**"The Ice Storm" – James Schamus

*1996 - "The English Patient" - Anthony Minghella
**"The Crucible" – Arthur Miller
**"Evita" – Alan Parker, Oliver Stone
**"Richard III" – Ian McKellen, Richard Loncraine

*1995 - "Trainspotting" - John Hodge
**"Babe" – George Miller Chris Noonan
**"Leaving Las Vegas" – Mike Figgis
**"The Madness of King George" – Alan Bennett
**"Il Postino" – Anna Pavignano, Michael Radford, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli, Massimo Troisi
**"Sense and Sensibility" – Emma Thompson

*1994 - "Quiz Show" - Paul Attanasio
**"Forrest Gump" – Eric Roth
**"" – Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz
**"The Browning Version" – Ronald Harwood
**"The Joy Luck Club" – Amy Tan, Ronald Bass

*1993 - "Schindler's List" - Steven Zaillian
**"In the Name of the Father" – Terry George, Jim Sheridan
**"The Remains of the Day" – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
**"Shadowlands" – William Nicholson
**"Scent of a Woman" – Bo Goldman

*1992 - "The Player" - Michael Tolkin
**"Howards End" – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
**"JFK" – Oliver Stone, Zachary Sklar
**"Strictly Ballroom" – Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce

*1991 - "The Commitments" - Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Roddy Doyle
**"Cyrano de Bergerac" – Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Jean-Claude Carrière
**"Dances with Wolves" – Michael Blake
**"The Silence of the Lambs" – Ted Tally

*1990 - "Goodfellas" - Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese
**"Born on the Fourth of July" – Oliver Stone, Ron Kovic
**"Driving Miss Daisy" – Alfred Uhry
**"Postcards from the Edge" – Carrie Fisher
**"The War of the Roses" – Michael Leeson

*1988 - "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" - Jean-Claude Carrière, Philip Kaufman
**"Babettes gæstebud" – Gabriel Axel
**"Empire of the Sun" – Tom Stoppard
**"Who Framed Roger Rabbit" – Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman

*1987 - "Jean de Florette" - Claude Berri, Gérard Brach
**"84 Charing Cross Road" – Hugh Whitemore
**"Little Dorrit" – Christine Edzard
**"Prick Up Your Ears" – Alan Bennett

*1986 - "Out of Africa" - Kurt Luedtke
**"Children of a Lesser God" – Hesper Anderson, Mark Medoff
**"The Color Purple" – Menno Meyjes
**"Ran" – Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Masato Ide
**"A Room with a View" – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

*1985 - "Prizzi's Honor" - Richard Condon, Janet Roach
**"Amadeus" – Peter Shaffer
**"A Passage to India" – David Lean
**"The Shooting Party" – Julian Bond

*1984 - "The Killing Fields" - Bruce Robinson
**"Another Country" – Julian Mitchell
**"The Dresser" – Ronald Harwood
**" Paris, Texas" – Sam Shepard

*1983 - "Heat and Dust" - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
**"Betrayal" – Harold Pinter
**"Educating Rita" – Willy Russell
**"Tootsie" – Larry Gelbart; Murray Schisgal