National Board of Review Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Annual US film award
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The National Board of Review Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is an annual award given (since 2003) by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.[1] The years in the table indicate the evaluated films years; the award ceremonies took place in the following year.
Winners
2000s
- Best Screenplay
| Year | Winner | Writer(s) | Source material | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | All the Pretty Horses | Ted Tally | novel by Cormac McCarthy | [2] |
| 2001 | In the Bedroom | Rob Festinger and Todd Field | short story by Andre Dubus | [3] |
| 2002 | Adaptation Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Human Nature | Charlie Kaufman | book by Susan Orlean novel by Chuck Barris (Original Screenplay) | [4] |
- Best Adapted Screenplay
| Year | Winner | Writer(s) | Source material | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Cold Mountain | Anthony Minghella | novel by Charles Frazier | [5] |
| 2004 | Sideways | Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor | novel by Rex Pickett | [6] |
| 2005 | Syriana | Stephen Gaghan | book by Robert Baer | [7] |
| 2006 | The Painted Veil | Ron Nyswaner | novel by W. Somerset Maugham | [8] |
| 2007 | No Country for Old Men | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | novel by Cormac McCarthy | [9] |
| 2008 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Eric Roth | short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald | [10] |
| Slumdog Millionaire | Simon Beaufoy | novel by Vikas Swarup | ||
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner | novel by Walter Kirn | [11] |
2010s
| Year | Winner | Writer(s) | Source material | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | The Social Network | Aaron Sorkin | book by Ben Mezrich | [12] |
| 2011 | The Descendants | Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash | novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings | [13] |
| 2012 | Silver Linings Playbook | David O. Russell | novel by Matthew Quick | [14] |
| 2013 | The Wolf of Wall Street | Terence Winter | book by Jordan Belfort | [15] |
| 2014 | Inherent Vice | Paul Thomas Anderson | novel by Thomas Pynchon | [16] |
| 2015 | The Martian | Drew Goddard | novel by Andy Weir | [17] |
| 2016 | Silence | Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese | novel by Shūsaku Endō | [18] |
| 2017 | The Disaster Artist | Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber | book by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell | [19] |
| 2018 | If Beale Street Could Talk | Barry Jenkins | novel by James Baldwin | [20] |
| 2019 | The Irishman | Steven Zaillian | book by Charles Brandt | [21] |
2020s
| Year | Winner | Writer(s) | Source material | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | News of the World | Paul Greengrass and Luke Davies | novel by Paulette Jiles | [22] |
| 2021 | The Tragedy of Macbeth | Joel Coen | play by William Shakespeare | [23] |
| 2022 | All Quiet on the Western Front | Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, and Ian Stokell | novel by Erich Maria Remarque | [24] |
| 2023 | Poor Things | Tony McNamara | novel by Alasdair Gray | [25] |
| 2024 | Sing Sing | Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar | book by John H. Richardson | [26] |
| 2025 | Train Dreams | novella by Denis Johnson | [27] |
Multiple winners
- 2 wins
- Clint Bentley (consecutive)
- Joel Coen
- Greg Kwedar (consecutive)
- Alexander Payne