| Year | Writer(s) | Film | Source material(s) |
|---|
2010 [6] | Aaron Sorkin | The Social Network | The book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich |
| Ben Affleck, Peter Craig, and Aaron Stockard | The Town | The novel Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan |
| Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, and Lee Unkrich | Toy Story 3 | The Toy Story films by Pete Docter, Lasseter, Stanton, et al. |
| Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy | 127 Hours | The book Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston |
| Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | True Grit | The novel by Charles Portis |
| Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini | Winter's Bone | The novel by Daniel Woodrell |
2011 [7] | Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, and Stan Chervin | Moneyball | The book by Michael Lewis |
| John Logan | Hugo | The book The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick |
| Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash | The Descendants | The novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings |
| Eric Roth | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | The novel by Jonathan Safran Foer |
| Tate Taylor | The Help | The novel by Kathryn Stockett |
2012 [8] | Tony Kushner | Lincoln | The book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin |
| Stephen Chbosky | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | The novel by Chbosky |
| David Magee | Life of Pi | The novel by Yann Martel |
| David O. Russell | Silver Linings Playbook | The novel by Matthew Quick |
| Chris Terrio | Argo | The book The Master of Disguise by Antonio J. Mendez and article "The Great Escape: How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran" by Joshuah Bearman |
2013 [9] | John Ridley | 12 Years a Slave | The memoir by Solomon Northup |
| Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope | Philomena | The book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee by Martin Sixsmith |
| Tracy Letts | August: Osage County | The play by Letts |
| Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy | Before Midnight | The characters from the film Before Sunrise by Linklater and Kim Krizan |
| Billy Ray | Captain Phillips | The book A Captain's Duty by Richard Phillips and Stephan Talty |
| Terence Winter | The Wolf of Wall Street | The book by Jordan Belfort |
2014 [10] | Gillian Flynn | Gone Girl | The novel by Flynn |
| Paul Thomas Anderson | Inherent Vice | The novel by Thomas Pynchon |
| Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Richard LaGravenese, and William Nicholson | Unbroken | The book by Laura Hillenbrand |
| Nick Hornby | Wild | The memoir by Cheryl Strayed |
| Anthony McCarten | The Theory of Everything | The memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Hawking |
| Graham Moore | The Imitation Game | The book Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges |
2015 [11] | Adam McKay and Charles Randolph | The Big Short | The book by Michael Lewis |
| Emma Donoghue | Room | The novel by Emma Donoghue |
| Drew Goddard | The Martian | The novel by Andy Weir |
| Nick Hornby | Brooklyn | The novel by Colm Tóibín |
| Aaron Sorkin | Steve Jobs | The book by Walter Isaacson |
2016 [12] | Eric Heisserer | Arrival | The novella "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang |
| Luke Davies | Lion | The book A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley and Larry Buttrose |
| Tom Ford | Nocturnal Animals | The novel Tony and Susan by Austin Wright |
| Todd Komarnicki | Sully | The memoir Highest Duty by Chesley Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow |
| Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi | Hidden Figures | The book by Margot Lee Shetterly |
| August Wilson (posthumous) | Fences | The play by Wilson |
2017 [13] | James Ivory | Call Me by Your Name | The novel by André Aciman |
| Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber | The Disaster Artist | The book by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell |
| Dee Rees and Virgil Williams | Mudbound | The novel by Hillary Jordan |
| Aaron Sorkin | Molly's Game | The memoir by Molly Bloom |
| Jack Thorne, Steven Conrad, and Stephen Chbosky | Wonder | The novel by R. J. Palacio |
2018 [14] | Barry Jenkins | If Beale Street Could Talk | The novel by James Baldwin |
| Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole | Black Panther | The Marvel Comics by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby |
| Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | The memoir by Lee Israel |
| Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper, and Will Fetters | A Star Is Born | The 1954 screenplay by Moss Hart and 1976 screenplay by John Gregory Dunne, Joan Didion and Frank Pierson; story by Robert Carson and William Wellman |
| Josh Singer | First Man | The book by James R. Hansen |
| Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, and Spike Lee | BlacKkKlansman | The memoir Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth |
2019 [15] | Greta Gerwig | Little Women | The novel by Louisa May Alcott |
| Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue | A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | The article "Can You Say ... Hero?" by Tom Junod |
| Anthony McCarten | The Two Popes | The play The Pope by McCarten |
| Todd Phillips and Scott Silver | Joker | The characters by Bill Finger, Bob Kane, and Jerry Robinson |
| Taika Waititi | Jojo Rabbit | The novel Caging Skies by Christine Leunens |
| Steven Zaillian | The Irishman | The book I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt |