Academy Award for best adapted screenplay

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Best Screenplay – Adaptation • Best Adaptation • Best Adapted Screenplay • Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay

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John Huston • George Bernard Shaw • Billy Wilder • Francis Ford Coppola • Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Richard Brooks • John Farrow • Oliver Stone • Robert Benton • Spike Lee • Billy Bob Thornton • John Osborne • Aaron Sorkin • Emma Thompson • Larry McMurtry • John Irving • Alexander Payne • William Goldman • Peter Jackson • Bernardo Bertolucci • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala • Alan Jay Lerner • Costa-Gavras • Robert E. Sherwood • Mario Puzo • S.J. Perelman • James L. Brooks • Paddy Chayefsky • Donald Ogden Stewart • Horton Foote • William Peter Blatty • James Goldman • Sidney Howard • Robert Bolt • Ethan Coen • Joel Coen

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