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 Adapted Comedy" for his screenplay of Goodbye, Columbus. Separate awards for dramas and comedies continued until 1985.
Winners and nominees
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Writers with multiple awards
3 Awards
Alexander Payne
Alvin Sargent
2 Awards
Francis Ford Coppola
Blake Edwards
Mario Puzo
Waldo Salt
Jim Taylor
Writers with multiple nominations
The following writers have received three or more nominations: 6 Nominations Steven Zaillian