Year | Winner | Writer(s) | Source |
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2010 [13] | The Social Network | Aaron Sorkin | The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich |
127 Hours | Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy | Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston |
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | Michael Bacall & Edgar Wright | Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley |
True Grit | Joel Coen & Ethan Coen | True Grit by Charles Portis |
Winter’s Bone | Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini | Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell |
2011 [14] | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré |
The Descendants | Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, & Alexander Payne | The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings |
Drive | Hossein Amini | Drive by James Sallis |
Moneyball | Steven Zaillian & Aaron Sorkin | Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis |
We Need to Talk About Kevin | Lynne Ramsay & Rory Stewart Kinnear | We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver |
2012 [15] | Argo | Chris Terrio | The Master of Disguise by Antonio J. Mendez and "The Great Escape: How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran" by Joshuah Bearman |
Beasts of the Southern Wild | Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin | Juicy and Delicious by Lucy Alibar |
Cloud Atlas | Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer, & Andy Wachowski | Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell |
Cosmopolis | David Cronenberg | Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo |
Lincoln | Tony Kushner | Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin |
2013 [16] | 12 Years a Slave | John Ridley | Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup |
Before Midnight | Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, & Ethan Hawke | Characters by Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan |
In the House | Juan Mayorga & François Ozon | The Boy in the Last Row by Juan Mayorga |
Short Term 12 | Destin Cretton | Short Term 12 (short) by Destin Daniel Cretton |
The Wind Rises | Hayao Miyazaki | 風立ちぬ (The Wind Has Risen) by Hayao Miyazaki |
2014 [17] | Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn | Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn |
Inherent Vice | Paul Thomas Anderson | Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon |
Snowpiercer | Bong Joon-ho & Kelly Masterson | Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand, &Jean-Marc Rochette |
Under the Skin | Walter Campbell & Jonathan Glazer | Under the Skin by Michel Faber |
We Are the Best! | Lukas Moodysson | Never Goodnight by Coco Moodysson |
2015 [18] | Carol | Phyllis Nagy | The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith |
Brooklyn | Nick Hornby | Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín |
The Martian | Drew Goddard | The Martian by Andy Weir |
Room | Emma Donoghue | Room by Emma Donoghue |
Steve Jobs | Aaron Sorkin | Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson |
2016 [19] | Arrival | Eric Heisserer | "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang |
Elle | David Birke & Philippe Djian | Oh... by Philippe Djian |
Love & Friendship | Whit Stillman | Lady Susan by Jane Austen |
Moonlight | Barry Jenkins & Tarell Alvin McCraney | In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by |
Nocturnal Animals | Tom Ford | Tony and Susan by Austin Wright |
2017 [20] | Call Me by Your Name | James Ivory | Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman |
The Beguiled | Sofia Coppola | The Beguiled by Thomas P. Cullinan & The Beguiled by Albert Maltz |
The Disaster Artist | Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber | The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sestero & Tom Bissell |
The Lost City of Z | James Gray | The Lost City of Z by David Grann |
Molly's Game | Aaron Sorkin | Molly's Game by Molly Bloom |
2018 [21] | If Beale Street Could Talk | Barry Jenkins | If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin |
BlacKkKlansman | Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, & Spike Lee | Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth |
Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Nicole Holofcener & Jeff Whitty | Can You Ever Forgive Me? by Lee Israel |
Leave No Trace | Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini | My Abandonment by Peter Rock |
Widows | Gillian Flynn & Steve McQueen | Widows by Lynda La Plante |
2019 [22] | The Irishman | Steven Zaillian | I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt |
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster | "Can You Say ... Hero?" by Tom Junod |
Hustlers | Lorene Scafaria | "The Hustlers at Scores" by Jessica Pressler |
Jojo Rabbit | Taika Waititi | Caging Skies by Christine Leunens |
Little Women | Greta Gerwig | Little Women by Louisa May Alcott |