| Year | Winner | Writer(s) | Source |
|---|
| 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 |