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The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay adapted from previously established material. The most frequently adapted media are novels, but other adapted narrative formats include stage plays, musicals, short stories, TV series, and other films and film characters.
* Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - James Goldman Actor - Peter O'Toole Costume Design - Margaret Furse
Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, located in Beverly Hills, California. It honors outstanding achievement by screenwriters for a screenplay adapted from another work, such as a play or novel, from a given year, as determined by the academy’s voting.
Feb 9, 2020 · The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is given each year to a script “based on material from another medium.” That other medium being adapted is often a novel ( The Lord of the Rings ), a stage production ( Fences ), or another film ( A Star is Born ).
in 1957, the modern division of the award into "original" and "adapted" screenplays was finally implemented - with only two renamed categories: Best Screenplay - Based on Material From Another Medium (Adapted Screenplay) and Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Original Screenplay); the category of Best Motion Picture ...
The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story.
Best Writing (Screenplay - based on material from another medium) The Lion in Winter James Goldman; Best Writing (Story and Screenplay - written directly for the screen) The Producers Mel Brooks; Honorary Award. John Chambers Note: …for his outstanding makeup achievement for Planet of the Apes. Onna White
