Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Annual award
The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the annual awards given by the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association.
Winners and nominees
2000s
Year | Writer(s) | Film | Source |
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2002 | Charlie Kaufman | Adaptation. | The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean |
2003 | Brian Helgeland | Mystic River | novel by Dennis Lehane |
Bráulio Mantovani | City of God (Cidade de Deus) | novel by Paulo Lins | |
Peter Jackson, Frances Walsh, and Philippa Boyens | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | novel by J. R. R. Tolkien | |
Billy Ray | Shattered Glass | article by H. G. Bissinger | |
Peter Weir and John Collee | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | novels by Patrick O'Brian | |
2004 | Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor | Sideways | novel by Rex Pickett |
2005 | Dan Futterman | Capote | In Cold Blood by Truman Capote |
Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana | Brokeback Mountain | short story by Annie Proulx | |
Arthur Golden, Robin Swicord, and Doug Wright | Memoirs of a Geisha | novel by Arthur Golden | |
Tony Kushner and Eric Roth | Munich | book by George Jonas | |
Deborah Moggach | Pride and Prejudice | novel by Jane Austen | |
2006 | Jason Reitman | Thank You for Smoking | novel by Christopher Buckley |
2007 | Aaron Sorkin | Charlie Wilson's War | novel by George Crile III |
2008 | Simon Beaufoy | Slumdog Millionaire | Q & A by Vikas Swarup |
2009 | Sheldon Turner and Jason Reitman | Up in the Air | novel by Walter Kirn |
Nick Hornby | An Education | memoir by Lynn Barber | |
Geoffrey Fletcher | Precious | novel by Sapphire | |
John Lee Hancock | The Blind Side | book by Michael Lewis | |
Joe Penhall | The Road | novel by Cormac McCarthy |
2010s
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Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
- Charlie Kaufman (2002)
- Brian Helgeland (2003)
- Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004)
- Dan Futterman (2005)
- Jason Reitman (2006)
- Aaron Sorkin (2007)
- Simon Beaufoy (2008)
- Sheldon Turner and Jason Reitman (2009)
- Aaron Sorkin (2010)
- Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (2011)
- David O. Russell (2012)
- John Ridley (2013)
- Gillian Flynn (2014)
- Emma Donoghue (2015)
- Eric Heisserer (2016)
- Virgil Williams and Dee Rees (2017)
- Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty (2018)
- Greta Gerwig (2019)
- Chloé Zhao (2020)
- Jane Campion (2021)
- Rian Johnson (2022)
- Cord Jefferson (2023)