• The Cop - William Taylor Garnett from a story by Elliott Judd Clawson
• In Old Arizona - Tom Barry from the story The Caballero's Way by O. Henry
• The Last of Mrs. Cheyney - Hanns Kräly from a play by Frederick Lonsdale
• The Leatherneck - Elliott Judd Clawson original
• Our Dancing Daughters - Josephine Lovett original
• Sal of Singapore - Elliott Judd Clawson from the story The Sentimentalists by Dale Collins
• Skyscraper - Elliott Judd Clawson, William Taylor Garnett from a story by Dudley Murphy
• The Valiant - Tom Barry, John Hunter Booth from a play by Halworthy Hall and Robert Middlemass
• A Woman of Affairs - Bess Meredyth from the novel The Green Hat by Michael Arlen
• Wonder of Women - Bess Meredyth from the novel Die Frau des Steffen Tromholt by Hermann Sudermann

• All Quiet on the Western Front - Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott, Del Andrews from a novel by Erich Maria Remarque
• Disraeli - Julien Josephson from a play by Louis N. Parker
• The Divorcee - John Meehan from the novel Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott
• Street of Chance - Lenore J. Coffee, Howard Estabrook from the story by Oliver H. P. Garrett

1930s

• The Criminal Code - Seton I. Miller, Fred Niblo Jr. from a play by Martin Flavin
• Holiday - Horace Jackson from the play by Philip Barry
• Little Caesar - Francis Edward Faragoh, Robert N. Lee, Robert Lord, Darryl F. Zanuck from the novel by William R. Burnett
• Skippy - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Don Marquis, Norman Z. McLeod, Sam Mintz from the comic strip by Percy Crosby

• Arrowsmith - Sidney Howard from the novel by Sinclair Lewis
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Samuel Hoffenstein, Percy Heath from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson

• Lady for a Day - Robert Riskin from the story Madame la Gimp by Damon Runyon
• State Fair - Paul Green, Sonya Levien from the novel by Philip Stong

• The Thin Man - Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich from a novel by Dashiell Hammett
• Viva Villa! - Ben Hecht from the book by Edgecumb Pinchon and O. B. Stade

• Captain Blood - write-in candidate Casey Robinson from the novel by Rafael Sabatini
• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer - Waldemar Young, John L. Balderston, Achmed Abdullah, Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt from the novel by Francis Yeats-Brown
• Mutiny on the Bounty - Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman, Carey Wilson from the novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

• After the Thin Man - Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett from a story by Dashiell Hammett
• Dodsworth - Sidney Howard from his 1934 play adapted from the 1929 novel by Sinclair Lewis
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town - Robert Riskin from the story Opera Hat by Clarence Budington Kelland
• My Man Godfrey - Morrie Ryskind, Eric Hatch from the novel by Eric Hatch

• The Awful Truth - Viña Delmar from the play by Arthur Richman
• Captains Courageous - Marc Connelly, John Lee Mahin, Dale Van Every from the novel by Rudyard Kipling
• Stage Door - Morrie Ryskind, Anthony Veiller from the play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman
• A Star Is Born - Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, Robert Carson from a story by William A. Wellman and Robert Carson

• Boys Town - John Meehan, Dore Schary from the story by Dore Schary and Eleanore Griffin
• The Citadel - Ian Dalrymple, Frank Wead, Elizabeth Hill from the novel by A. J. Cronin
• Four Daughters - Lenore J. Coffee, Julius J. Epstein from the novel Sister Act by Fannie Hurst
• You Can't Take It with You - Robert Riskin from the play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart

• Goodbye, Mr. Chips - R. C. Sherriff, Claudine West, Eric Maschwitz from the novel by James Hilton
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Sidney Buchman from the story by Lewis R. Foster
• Ninotchka - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch from the story by Melchior Lengyel
• Wuthering Heights - Charles MacArthur, Ben Hecht from the novel by Emily Brontë

1940s

• The Grapes of Wrath - Nunnally Johnson from the novel by John Steinbeck
• Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman - Donald Ogden Stewart, Dalton Trumbo from the novel by Christopher Morley
• The Long Voyage Home - Dudley Nichols from a composite of the short plays The Moon of the Caribees, In the Zone, Bound East for Cardiff and The Long Voyage Home by Eugene O'Neill
• Rebecca - Philip MacDonald, Michael Hogan from the novel by Daphne du Maurier

• Hold Back the Dawn - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder from the book by Ketti Frings
• How Green Was My Valley - Philip Dunne (writer) from the novel by Richard Llewellyn
• The Little Foxes - Lillian Hellman from her own play
• The Maltese Falcon - John Huston from the novel by Dashiell Hammett

• 49th Parallel - Rodney Ackland, Emeric Pressburger from the story by Emeric Pressburger
• The Pride of the Yankees - Herman J. Mankiewicz, Jo Swerling from the story by Paul Gallico
• Random Harvest - George Froeschel, Claudine West, Arthur Wimperis from the novel by James Hilton
• The Talk of the Town - Sidney Buchman, Irwin Shaw from the story by Sidney Harmon

• Holy Matrimony - Nunnally Johnson from the novel Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett
• The More the Merrier - Richard Flournoy, Lewis R. Foster, Frank Ross, Robert Russell from the story by Frank Ross and Robert Russell
• The Song of Bernadette - George Seaton from the novel by Franz Werfel
• Watch on the Rhine - Dashiell Hammett from the play by Lillian Hellman

• Double Indemnity - Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler from the novel Double Indemnity in Three of a Kind by James M. Cain
• Gaslight - John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, John L. Balderston from the play Angel Street by Patrick Hamilton
• Laura - Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, Betty Reinhardt from the novel by Vera Caspary
• Meet Me in St. Louis - Irving Brecher, Fred F. Finklehoffe from the novel by Sally Benson

• Mildred Pierce - Ranald MacDougall from the novel by James M. Cain
• The Pride of the Marines - Albert Maltz from the book by Roger Butterfield
• Story of G.I. Joe - Leopold Atlas, Guy Endore, Philip Stevenson from the books Brave Men and Here Is Your War by Ernie Pyle
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Frank Davis, Tess Slesinger from the novel by Betty Smith

• Anna and the King of Siam - Sally Benson, Talbot Jennings from book by Margaret Landon
• Brief Encounter - Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, Ronald Neame from the play Still Life by Noel Coward
• The Killers - Anthony Veiller from the short story by Ernest Hemingway
• Rome, Open City - Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini from the story by Sergio Amidei, Alberto Consiglio

• Boomerang - Richard Murphy based on the article by Anthony Abbot (pseudonym of Fulton Oursler)
• Crossfire - John Paxton from the novel The Brick Foxhole by Richard Brooks
• Gentleman's Agreement - Moss Hart from the novel by Laura Z. Hobson
• Great Expectations - David Lean, Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan from the novel by Charles Dickens

• A Foreign Affair - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Richard L. Breen from the story by David Shaw
• Johnny Belinda - Irmgard von Cube, Allen Vincent from the play by Elmer Blaney Harris
• The Search - Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler from their story
• The Snake Pit - Frank Partos, Millen Brand from the novel by Mary Jane Ward

• All the King's Men - Robert Rossen from the novel by Robert Penn Warren
• The Bicycle Thief - Cesare Zavattini from the novel by Luigi Bartolini
• Champion - Carl Foreman from the short story by Ring Lardner
• The Fallen Idol - Graham Greene from his short story The Basement Room

1950s

• The Asphalt Jungle - Ben Maddow, John Huston from the novel by W.R. Burnett
• Born Yesterday - Albert Mannheimer, from the play, Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin
• Broken Arrow - Albert Maltz (front: Michael Blankfort) from the novel Blood Brother by Elliott Arnold
• Father of the Bride - Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett from the novel by Edward Streeter

• The African Queen - James Agee, John Huston from the novel by C.S. Forester
• Detective Story - Robert Wyler, Philip Yordan from the play by Sidney Kingsley
• La Ronde - Jacques Natanson, Max Ophüls from the play Reigen by Arthur Schnitzler
• A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams, from his play

• Five Fingers - Michael Wilson from the novel Operation Cicero by L.C. Moyzisch
• High Noon - Carl Foreman from the story The Tin Star by John W. Cunningham
• The Man in the White Suit - John Dighton, Roger MacDougall, Alexander Mackendrick from the play by Roger MacDougall
• The Quiet Man - Frank S. Nugent, from the story Green Rushes by Maurice Walsh

• The Cruel Sea - Eric Ambler from the novel by Nicholas Monsarrat
• Lilli - Helen Deutsch from the story Love of Seven Dolls by Paul Gallico
• Roman Holiday - Ian McLellan Hunter, John Dighton from the story by Dalton Trumbo (front: Ian McLellan Hunter)
• Shane - A.B. Guthrie Jr. from the novel by Jack Schaefer

• The Caine Mutiny - Stanley Roberts from the novel by Herman Wouk
• Rear Window - John Michael Hayes from the story It Had to Be Murder by Cornell Woolrich
• Sabrina - Billy Wilder, Samuel Taylor, Ernest Lehman from the novel Sabrina Fair by Samuel Taylor
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - Albert Hackett, Frances Gooderich, Dorothy Kingsley from the story The Sobbin' Women by Stephen Vincent Benét

• Bad Day at Black Rock - Millard Kaufman from the story Bad Day at Hondo by Howard Breslin
• Blackboard Jungle - Richard Brooks from the novel by Evan Hunter
• East of Eden - Paul Osborn from the novel by John Steinbeck
• Love Me or Leave Me - Daniel Fuchs, Isobel Lennart from the story by Daniel Fuchs For 1956 the Category was renamed Screenplay--Adapted:
  

• Baby Doll - Tennessee Williams from his one act plays Twenty-seven Wagons Full of Cotton and The Unsatisfactory Supper
• Friendly Persuasion - Michael Wilson from the novel by Jessamyn West (Note: Early in 1956, the name of screenwriter Michael Wilson - a former Oscar winner - had been deleted from the credits of Friendly Persuasion by Allied Artists, the film's distributor, based on a 1952 agreement between the Screen Writers Guild and various production companies. That agreement gave the studios the right to omit from the screen the name of any individual who had failed to clear himself before a duly constituted legislative committee of U.S. Congress if accused of Communist affiliations, as was the case with Wilson at the time. The Academy, in the awkward position of possible conferring its highest honor on someone whose name had been omitted from screen credit, revised its bylaws at a special February 6, 1957 meeting. That revision, in essence, allowed that in such cases, the achievement itself could be eligible for nomination, but the specific writer wouldn't be. This bylaw was repealed by the Academy as "unworkable" on January 12, 1959. This nomination wasn't included on the final ballot)
• Giant - Fred Guiol, Ivan Moffat from the novel by Edna Ferber
• Lust for Life - Norman Corwin from the novel by Irving Stone For 1957 the category was renamed Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium:
  

• Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison - John Huston, John Lee Mahin from the novel by Charles Shaw
• Peyton Place - John Michael Hayes from the novel by Grace Metalious
• Sayonara - Paul Osborn from the novel by James Michener
• 12 Angry Men - Reginald Rose from his teleplay

• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Richard Brooks, James Poe from the play by Tennessee Williams
• The Horse's Mouth - Alec Guinness from the novel by Joyce Cary
• I Want to Live! - Nelson Gidding, Don M. Mankiewicz from the letters by Barbara Graham and the articles by Ed Montgomery
• Separate Tables - John Gay, Terence Rattigan from the play by Terence Rattigan

• Anatomy of a Murder - Wendell Mayes from the novel by Robert Traver (pseudonym of John D. Voelker
• Ben-Hur - Karl Tunberg from the novel by Lew Wallace
• The Nun's Story - Robert Anderson from the book by Kathryn Hulme
• Some Like it Hot - Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond from a story suggested by Robert Thoeren and M. Logan

1960s

• Inherit the Wind - Nedrick Young (front: Nathan E. Douglas), Harold Jacob Smith from the play by Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee (Note: Upon request of his widow and upon recommendation of the Writers Branch Executive Committee, the Board of Governors voted to restore the name of Nedrick Young to the nomination presented to Nathan E. Douglas, which was Mr. Young's pseudonym during the blacklisting period.)
• Sons and Lovers - Gavin Lambert, T.E.B. Clarke from the novel by D. H. Lawrence
• The Sundowners - Isobel Lennart from the novel by Jon Cleary
• Tunes of Glory - James Kennaway from his novel

• Breakfast at Tiffany's - George Axelrod from the novel by Truman Capote
• The Guns of Navarone - Carl Foreman from the novel by Alistair MacLean
• The Hustler - Sydney Carroll, Robert Rossen from the novel by Walter Tevis
• West Side Story - Ernest Lehman from the play by Arthur Laurents

• David and Lisa - Eleanor Perry from the novel by Theodore Isaac Rubin
• Lawrence of Arabia - Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson (Note: originally the nomination was solely for Robert Bolt) from the writings of T. E. Lawrence
• Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov from his novel
• The Miracle Worker - William Gibson from his play

• Captain Newman, M.D. - Richard L. Breen, Henry Ephron, Phoebe Ephron from the novel by Leo Rosten
• Hud - Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr. from the novel Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry
• Lilies of the Field - James Poe from the novel by William E. Barrett
• Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray) - Serge Bourguignon, Bernard Eschassériaux from the novel Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray by Bernard Eschassériaux

• - Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George from the novel Red Alert by Peter George
• Mary Poppins - Bill Walsh, Don DaGradi from the books by P.L. Travers
• My Fair Lady - Alan Jay Lerner from his musical play and the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
• Zorba the Greek (Alexis Zorbas) - Michael Cacoyannis from the novel The Life of Alexis Zorba by Nikos Kazantzakis

• Cat Ballou - Walter Newman, Frank Pierson from the novel The Ballad of Cat Ballou by Roy Chanslor
• The Collector - Stanley Mann, John Kohn from the novel by John Fowles
• Ship of Fools - Abby Mann from the novel by Katherine Anne Porter
• A Thousand Clowns - Herb Gardner from his play

• Alfie - Bill Naughton from his play
• The Professionals - Richard Brooks from the novel A Mule for the Marquesa by Frank O'Rourke
• The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming - William Rose from the novel Off-Islanders by Nathaniel Benchley
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Ernest Lehman from the play by Edward Albee

• Cool Hand Luke - Donn Pearce, Frank Pierson from the novel by Donn Pearce
• The Graduate - Calder Willingham, Buck Henry from the novel by Charles Webb
• In Cold Blood - Richard Brooks from the novel by Truman Capote
• Ulysses - Joseph Strick, Fred Haines from the novel by James Joyce

• The Odd Couple - Neil Simon from his play
• Oliver! - Vernon Harris from the musical by Lionel Bart and the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
• Rachel, Rachel - Stewart Stern from the novel A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence
• Rosemary's Baby - Roman Polanski from the novel by Ira Levin

• Anne of the Thousand Days - John Hale, Bridget Boland, Richard Sokolove from the play by Maxwell Anderson
• Goodbye, Columbus - Arnold Schulman from the novel by Philip Roth
• They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - James Poe, Robert E. Thompson from the novel by Horace McCoy
• Z - Jorge Semprún, Costa-Gavras from the novel by Vassilis Vassilikos

1970s

• Airport - George Seaton from the novel by Arthur Hailey
• I Never Sang for My Father - Robert Anderson from his play
• Lovers and Other Strangers - Joseph Bologna, David Zelag Goodman Renée Taylor from the play by Joseph Bologna and Renée Taylor
• Women in Love - Larry Kramer from the novel by D. H. Lawrence

• A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick from the novel by Anthony Burgess
• The Conformist (Il conformista) - Bernardo Bertolucci from the novel Il Conformista by Alberto Moravia
• The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini) - Ugo Pirro, Vittorio Bonicelli from the novel Giardino dei Finzi-Contini by Giorgio Bassani
• The Last Picture Show - Larry McMurtry Peter Bogdanovich from the novel by Larry McMurtry

• Cabaret - Jay Preston Allen from the musical by Joe Masteroff, the play I Am a Camera by John Van Druten and the book Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
• The Emigrants (Utvandrarna) - Bengt Forslund, Jan Troell from the novels The Emigrants and Invandrarna by Vilhelm Moberg.
• Pete 'n' Tillie - Julius J. Epstein from the story Witch's Milk by Peter De Vries
• Sounder - Lonne Elder III from the book by William H. Armstrong

• The Last Detail - Robert Towne from the novel by Darryl Ponicsan
• The Paper Chase - James Bridges from the novel by John Jay Osborn, Jr.
• Paper Moon - Alvin Sargent from the novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown
• Serpico - Waldo Salt, Norman Wexler from the book by Peter Maas From 1974 the Category was renamed Screenplay Adapted From Other Material:

• The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Lionel Chetwynd, Mordecai Richler from the book by Mordecai Richler
• Lenny - Julian Barry from his play
• Murder on the Orient Express - Paul Dehn from the novel by Agatha Christie
• Young Frankenstein - Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks from the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

• Barry Lyndon - Stanley Kubrick from the novel The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. by William Makepeace Thackeray
• The Man Who Would Be King - John Huston, Gladys Hill from the s