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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. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor only the ...
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.
It was first handed out in 1978 when the award for Best Screenplay (which was first presented at the 1974-75 awards) was split into two categories: Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay. The award has since been presented intermittently from 1978-1979, 1983-1987, 1989, 1993-2006, and then from 2008-present. [2]
The Black List is known for highlighting unproduced screenplays and vaulting titles like 'Spotlight' and 'Slumdog Millionaire' into the zeitgeist. It's now expanding into fiction.
Cord Jefferson is officially an Oscar winner! The writer and filmmaker's feature film debut, American Fiction, nabbed the Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay, beating out predicted front runners ...
The categories for screenplays have gone through several changes since their inception in 1995: From 1995 to 1996, the category Best Screenplay was presented, with no official nominees being announced but instead only a winner. From 1997 to 2000, the category was split into two, divided into Best Original Screenplay and Best Screenplay Adaptation.
The Australian Film Institute Award for Best Screenplay, Original or Adapted is an award in the annual Australian Film Institute Awards. It has been awarded annually since 1967 . In 2011, it was changed to the AACTA Awards .
The Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the three screenwriting Writers Guild of America Awards, focused specifically for film.The Writers Guild of America began making the distinction between an original screenplay and an adapted screenplay in 1970, when Waldo Salt, screenwriter for Midnight Cowboy, won for "Best Adapted Drama" and Arnold Schulman won "Best ...