Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

Notes

• "†" indicates the winner of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
• "‡" indicates a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

1960s

Best Adapted Drama

• 1969: Midnight Cowboy – Waldo Salt †

Best Adapted Comedy

• 1969: Goodbye, Columbus – Arnold Schulman ‡

1970s

Best Adapted Drama

• 1970: I Never Sang for My Father – Robert Anderson ‡
• 1971: The French Connection – Ernest Tidyman †
• 1972: The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo †
• 1973: Serpico – Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler ‡
• 1974: The Godfather Part II – Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo †
• 1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben †
• 1976: All the President's Men – William Goldman †
• 1977: Islands in the Stream – Denne Bart Petitclerc
• 1978: Midnight Express – Oliver Stone †
• 1979: Kramer vs. Kramer – Robert Benton †

Best Adapted Comedy

• 1970: MASH – Ring Lardner Jr. †
• 1971: Kotch – John Paxton
• 1972: Cabaret – Jay Presson Allen ‡
• 1973: Paper Moon – Alvin Sargent ‡
• 1974: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz – Lionel Chetwynd and Mordecai Richler ‡
• 1975: The Sunshine Boys – Neil Simon ‡
• 1976: The Pink Panther Strikes Again – Blake Edwards and Frank Waldman
• 1977: Oh, God! – Larry Gelbart ‡
• 1978: Heaven Can Wait – Elaine May and Warren Beatty ‡ and Same Time, Next Year – Bernard Slade ‡
• 1979: Being There – Jerzy Kosiński

1980s

Best Adapted Drama

• 1980: Ordinary People – Alvin Sargent †
• 1981: On Golden Pond – Ernest Thompson †
• 1982: Missing – Costa-Gavras and Donald E. Stewart †
• 1983: Reuben, Reuben – Julius J. Epstein ‡

Best Adapted Comedy

• 1980: Airplane! – Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker
• 1981: Rich and Famous – Gerard Ayres
• 1982: Victor Victoria – Blake Edwards ‡
• 1983: Terms of Endearment – James L. Brooks †

1990s

2000s

2010s