| 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 |