| Year | Film | Writer(s) |
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1970
(23rd) [24] | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
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| I Never Sang for My Father | Robert Anderson |
| Airport ‡ | George Seaton |
| Catch-22 | Buck Henry |
| Little Big Man | Calder Willingham |
| The Great White Hope | Howard Sackler |
| Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
|---|
| Patton † | Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North |
| Five Easy pieces ‡ | Carole Eastman (As Adrien Joyce) |
| Love Story ‡ | Erich segal |
1971
(24th) [25] | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
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| The French Connection † | Ernest Tidyman |
| A Clockwork Orange ‡ | Stanley Kubrick |
| Johnny Got His Gun | Dalton Trumbo |
| McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Robert Altman, and Brian McKay |
| The Last Picture Show ‡ | Larry McMurtry, and Peter Bodganovich |
| Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
|---|
| Sunday Bloody Sunday ‡ | Penelope Gilliatt |
| Klute ‡ | Andy Lewis, and David E. Lewis |
| Summer of '42 ‡ | Hernan Raucher |
| The Hellstrom Chronicle | David Seltzer |
1972
(25th) [26] | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
|---|
| The Godfather † | Mario Puzo, and Francis Ford Coppola |
| Deliverance | James Dickley |
| Pete 'n' Tillie ‡ | Julius J. Epstein |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | Stephen Geller |
| Sounder ‡ | Lonne Elder III |
| Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
|---|
| The Candidate † | Jeremy Larner |
| Bad Company | David Newman, and Robert Benton |
| Images | Robert Altman |
| The Culpepper Cattle Co. | Eric Bercovici, and Gregory Prentiss |
| The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid | Philip Kaufman |
1973
(26th) [27] | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
|---|
| Serpico ‡ | Waldo Salt, and Norman Wexler |
| Cinderella Liberty | Darryl Ponicsan |
| The Exorcist † | William Peter Blatty |
| The Last Detail ‡ | Robert Towne |
| The Paper Chase ‡ | James Bridges |
| Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
|---|
| Save the Tiger | Steve Shagan |
| Mean Streets | Martin Scorsese, and Mardik Martin |
| Payday | Don Carpenter |
| The Sting † | David S. Ward |
| The Way We Were | Arthur Laurents |
1974
(27th) [28] | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
|---|
| The Godfather Part II † | Francis Ford Coppola, and Mario Puzo |
| Conrack | Irving Ravetch, and Harriet Frank Jr. |
| Lenny ‡ | Julian Barry |
| The Parallax View | David Giler, and Lorenzo Sempler Jr. |
| The Talking of Pelham One Two Three | Peter Stone |
| Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
|---|
| Chinatown † | Robert Towne |
| A Woman Under the Influence | John Cassavetes |
| Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore ‡ | Robert Getchell |
| Harry and Tonto ‡ | Paul Mazursky, and Josh Greenfeld |
| The Conversation ‡ | Francis Ford Coppola |
1975
(28th) [29] | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
|---|
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest † | Lawrence Hauben, and Bo Goldman |
| Barry Lyndon ‡ | Stanley Kubrick |
| The Man Whou Would Be King ‡ | John Huston, and Gladys Hill |
| Jaws | Peter Benchley, and Carl Gottlieb |
| The Man in the Glass Booth | Edward Anhalt |
| Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
|---|
| Dog Day Afternoon † | Frank Pierson |
| French Connection II | Alexander Jacobs, Robert Dillon, and Laurie Dillon |
| Nashville | Joan Twekesbury |
| The Wind and the Lion | John Milius |
1976
(29th) [30] | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
|---|
| All the President's Men † | William Goldman |
| Bound for Glory ‡ | Robert Getchell |
| The Seven-Per-Cent Solution ‡ | Nicholas Meyer |
| Marathon Man | William Goldman |
| The Shootist | Miles Hood Swarthout, and Scott Hale |
| Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
|---|
| Network † | Paddy Chayefsky |
| The Omen | David Seltzer |
| Rocky ‡ | Sylvester Stallone |
| Taxi Driver | Paul Schrader |
| The Front ‡ | Walter Bernstein |
1977
(30th) [31] | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
|---|
| Julia † | Alvin Sargent |
| I Never Promised You a Rose Garden ‡ | Gavin Lambert, and Lewis John Carlino |
| Islands in the Stream | Denne Bart Petitclerc |
| Looking for Mr. Goodbar | Richard Brooks |
| Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
|---|
| The Turning Point ‡ | Arthur Laurents |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Steven Spielberg |
| Saturday Night Fever | Norman Wexler |
| The Late Show ‡ | Robert Benton |
1978
(31st) [32] | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
|---|
| Midnight Express † | Oliver Stone |
| Bloodbrothers ‡ | Walter Newman |
| Go Tell the Spartans | Wendell Mayes |
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers | W.D. Richter |
| Who'll Stop the Rain | Judith Rascoe, and Robert Stone |
| Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
|---|
| Coming Home † | Nancy Dowd, Robert C. Jones, and Waldo Salt |
| An Unmarried Woman | Paul Mazursky |
| Days of Heaven | Terrence Malick |
| Interiors ‡ | Woody Allen |
| The Deer Hunter ‡ | Deric Washburn, Michael Cimino, Louis Garfinkle, and Quinn K. Redeker |
1979
(32nd) [33] | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
|---|
| Kramer vs. Kramer † | Robert Benton |
| Norma Rae ‡ | Irving Ravetch, and Harriet Frank Jr. |
| Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen |
|---|
| The China Syndrome ‡ | Mike Gray, T. S. Cook, and James Bridges |
| Apocalypse Now | John Milius, and Francis Ford Coppola |
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