BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Facts for Kids

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for Best Adapted Screenplay has been presented to its winners since 1983. Before it was called the BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay.

Winners and nominees
- 1980s
- 1990s
- 2000s
- 2010s
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Winners and nominees

1980s

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

1990s

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

2000s

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