BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

1983: Heat and Dust – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

• Betrayal – Harold Pinter
• Educating Rita – Willy Russell
• Tootsie – Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal

1984: The Killing Fields – Bruce Robinson

• Another Country – Julian Mitchell
• The Dresser – Ronald Harwood
• Paris, Texas – Sam Shepard

1985: Prizzi's Honor – Richard Condon and Janet Roach

• Amadeus – Peter Shaffer
• A Passage to India – David Lean
• The Shooting Party – Julian Bond

1986: Out of Africa – Kurt Luedtke

• Children of a Lesser God – Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff
• The Color Purple – Menno Meyjes
• Ran – Masato Ide, Akira Kurosawa and Hideo Oguni
• A Room with a View – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

1987: Jean de Florette – Claude Berri and Gérard Brach

• 84 Charing Cross Road – Hugh Whitemore
• Little Dorrit – Christine Edzard
• Prick Up Your Ears – Alan Bennett

1988: The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Jean-Claude Carrière and Philip Kaufman

• Babettes gæstebud – Gabriel Axel
• Empire of the Sun – Tom Stoppard
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit – Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman

1989: Dangerous Liaisons – Christopher Hampton

• The Accidental Tourist – Frank Galati and Lawrence Kasdan
• My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown – Shane Connaughton and Jim Sheridan
• Shirley Valentine – Willy Russell

1990: Goodfellas – Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese

• Born on the Fourth of July – Ron Kovic and Oliver Stone
• Driving Miss Daisy – Alfred Uhry
• Postcards from the Edge – Carrie Fisher
• The War of the Roses – Michael J. Leeson

1991: The Commitments – Dick Clement, Roddy Doyle and Ian La Frenais

• Cyrano de Bergerac – Jean-Claude Carrière and Jean-Paul Rappeneau
• Dances with Wolves – Michael Blake
• The Silence of the Lambs – Ted Tally

1992: The Player – Michael Tolkin

• Howards End – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
• JFK – Zachary Sklar and Oliver Stone
• Strictly Ballroom – Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce

1993: Schindler's List - Steven Zaillian

• In the Name of the Father – Terry George, Jim Sheridan
• The Remains of the Day – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
• Shadowlands – William Nicholson
• Scent of a Woman – Bo Goldman

1994: Quiz Show – Paul Attanasio

• The Browning Version – Ronald Harwood
• Forrest Gump – Eric Roth
• The Joy Luck Club – Ronald Bass and Amy Tan
• Three Colours: Red (Trois couleurs: Rouge) – Krzysztof Kieslowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz

1995: Trainspotting – John Hodge

• Babe – George Miller and Chris Noonan
• Leaving Las Vegas – Mike Figgis
• The Madness of King George – Alan Bennett
• The Postman (Il postino) – Anna Pavignano, Michael Radford, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli and Massimo Troisi
• Sense and Sensibility – Emma Thompson

1996: The English Patient – Anthony Minghella

• The Crucible – Arthur Miller
• Evita – Alan Parker and Oliver Stone
• Richard III – Richard Loncraine and Ian McKellen

1997: Romeo + Juliet – Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce

• The Ice Storm – James Schamus
• L.A. Confidential – Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland
• The Wings of the Dove – Hossein Amini

1998: Primary Colors – Elaine May

• Hilary and Jackie – Frank Cottrell Boyce
• Little Voice – Mark Herman
• Wag the Dog – Hilary Henkin and David Mamet

1999: The End of the Affair – Neil Jordan

• East Is East – Ayub Khan-Din
• An Ideal Husband – Oliver Parker
• The Talented Mr. Ripley – Anthony Minghella

2000: Traffic – Stephen Gaghan

• Chocolat – Robert Nelson Jacobs
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long) – James Schamus, Hui-Ling Wang, Kuo Jung Tsai
• High Fidelity – John Cusack, D.V. DeVincentis, Steve Pink and Scott Rosenberg
• Wonder Boys – Steve Kloves

2001: Shrek – Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Roger S.H. Schulman and Joe Stillman

• A Beautiful Mind – Akiva Goldsman
• Bridget Jones's Diary – Richard Curtis, Andrew Davies and Helen Fielding
• Iris – Richard Eyre and Charles Wood
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh

2002: Adaptation. – Charlie and Donald Kaufman

• About a Boy – Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz
• Catch Me If You Can – Jeff Nathanson
• The Hours – David Hare
• The Pianist – Ronald Harwood

2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh

• Big Fish – John August
• Cold Mountain – Anthony Minghella
• Girl with a Pearl Earring – Olivia Hetreed
• Mystic River – Brian Helgeland

2004: Sideways – Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor

• The Chorus (Les choristes) – Christophe Barratier and Philippe Lopes-Curval
• Closer – Patrick Marber
• Finding Neverland – David Magee
• The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de motocicleta) – José Rivera

2005: Brokeback Mountain – Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana

• Capote – Dan Futterman
• The Constant Gardener – Jeffrey Caine
• A History of Violence – Josh Olson
• Pride & Prejudice – Deborah Moggach

2006: The Last King of Scotland – Jeremy Brock and Peter Morgan

• Casino Royale – Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade
• The Departed – William Monahan
• The Devil Wears Prada – Aline Brosh McKenna
• Notes on a Scandal – Patrick Marber

2007: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – Ronald Harwood

• Atonement – Christopher Hampton
• The Kite Runner – David Benioff
• No Country for Old Men – Ethan and Joel Coen
• There Will Be Blood – Paul Thomas Anderson

2008: Slumdog Millionaire – Simon Beaufoy

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Roth
• Frost/Nixon – Peter Morgan
• The Reader – David Hare
• Revolutionary Road – Justin Haythe

2009: Up in the Air – Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

• Precious – Geoffrey Fletcher
• District 9 – Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
• An Education – Nick Hornby
• In the Loop – Simon Blackwell , Jesse Armstrong , Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche

2010 The Social Network – Aaron Sorkin

• 127 Hours – Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Rasmus Heisterberg and Nikolaj Arcel
• Toy Story 3 – Michael Arndt
• True Grit – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen