Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

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	Ref.
2002	Charlie Kaufman	Adaptation.	The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean	[1]
	Peter Hedges, Chris Weitz, and Paul Weitz	About a Boy	About a Boy by Nick Hornby
2003	Brian Helgeland	Mystic River	novel by Dennis Lehane	[2]
	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	[3]
	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	[4]
2007	Aaron Sorkin	Charlie Wilson's War	novel by George Crile III	[5]
2008	Simon Beaufoy	Slumdog Millionaire	Q & A by Vikas Swarup	[6]
2009	Sheldon Turner and Jason Reitman	Up in the Air	novel by Walter Kirn	[7]
	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

Year	Writer(s)	Film	Source	Ref.
2010	Aaron Sorkin	The Social Network	The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich	[8]
	Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy	127 Hours	Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston
	Michael Arndt	Toy Story 3	characters by John Lasseter
	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	True Grit	novel by Charles Portis
	Debra Granik and Anne Rosselini	Winter's Bone	novel by Daniel Woodrell
2011	Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash	The Descendants	novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings	[9]
	Tate Taylor	The Help	novel by Kathryn Stockett
	John Logan	Hugo	The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
	Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin	Moneyball	novel by Charles Portis
	Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	novel by John le Carré
2012	David O. Russell	Silver Linings Playbook	The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick	[10]
	Chris Terrio	Argo	The Master of Disguise by Tony Mendez
	David Magee	Life of Pi	novel by Yann Martel
	Tony Kushner	Lincoln	Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
	Stephen Chbosky	The Perks of Being a Wallflower	novel by Stephen Chbosky
2013	John Ridley	12 Years a Slave	memoir by Solomon Northup	[11]
	Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy	Before Midnight	characters by Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan
	Billy Ray	Captain Phillips	A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea by Richard Phillips
	Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber	The Spectacular Now	novel by Tim Tharp
	Terence Winter	The Wolf of Wall Street	memoir by Jordan Belfort
2014	Gillian Flynn	Gone Girl	novel by Gillian Flynn	[12]
	Graham Moore	The Imitation Game	Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
	Paul Thomas Anderson	Inherent Vice	novel by Thomas Pynchon
	Anthony McCarten	The Theory of Everything	Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Hawking
	Nick Hornby	Wild	memoir by Cheryl Strayed
2015	Emma Donoghue	Room	novel by Emma Donoghue	[13]
	Nick Hornby	Brooklyn	novel by Colm Tóibín
	Phyllis Nagy	Carol	The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
	Drew Goddard	The Martian	novel by Andy Weir
	Aaron Sorkin	Steve Jobs	biography by Walter Isaacson
2016	Eric Heisserer	Arrival	"Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang	[14]
	August Wilson	Fences	play by August Wilson
	Luke Davies	Lion	A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
	Patrick Ness	A Monster Calls	novel by Patrick Ness
	Tom Ford	Nocturnal Animals	Tony and Susan by Austin Wright
2017	Virgil Williams and Dee Rees	Mudbound	novel by Hillary Jordan	[15]
	Hampton Fancher and Michael Green	Blade Runner 2049	characters from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
	James Ivory	Call Me by Your Name	novel by André Aciman
	Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber	The Disaster Artist	memoir by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell
	Aaron Sorkin	Molly's Game	memoir by Molly Bloom
2018	Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty	Can You Ever Forgive Me?	memoir by Lee Israel	[16]
	Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel, and Kevin Willmott	BlacKkKlansman	Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth
	Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole	Black Panther	characters by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee
	Barry Jenkins	If Beale Street Could Talk	novel by James Baldwin
	Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters, and Eric Roth	A Star Is Born	A Star Is Born by William A. Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker, and Alan Campbell
2019	Greta Gerwig	Little Women	novel by Louisa May Alcott	[17]
	Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster	A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood	article "Can You Say ... Hero?" by Tom Junod
	Taika Waititi	Jojo Rabbit	Caging Skies by Christine Leunens
	Todd Phillips and Scott Silver	Joker	characters created by Bill Finger, Bob Kane, and Jerry Robinson
	Steven Zaillian	The Irishman	I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt

2020s

Year	Writer(s)	Film	Source	Ref.
2020	Chloé Zhao	Nomadland	book by Jessica Bruder	[18]
	Charlie Kaufman	I'm Thinking of Ending Things	novel by Iain Reid
	Kemp Powers	One Night in Miami...	play by Kemp Powers
	Jonathan Raymond and Kelly Reichardt	First Cow	The Half-Life by Jonathan Raymond
	Ruben Santiago-Hudson	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	play by August Wilson
2021	Jane Campion	The Power of the Dog	novel by Thomas Savage	[19]
	Sian Heder	CODA	La Famille Bélier by Victoria Bedos, Thomas Bidegain, Stanislas Carré de Malberg, and Éric Lartigau
	Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts, and Denis Villeneuve	Dune	novel by Frank Herbert
	Steven Levenson	tick, tick... BOOM!	musical by Jonathan Larson
	Tony Kushner	West Side Story	musical by Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, and Arthur Laurents
2022	Rian Johnson	Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery	characters by Rian Johnson	[20]
	Guillermo del Toro and Patrick McHale	Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio	The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
	Rebecca Lenkiewicz	She Said	book by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
	Samuel D. Hunter	The Whale	play by Samuel D. Hunter
	Sarah Polley	Women Talking	novel by Miriam Toews
2023	Cord Jefferson	American Fiction	Erasure by Percival Everett	[21]
	Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese	Killers of the Flower Moon	book by David Grann
	Christopher Nolan	Oppenheimer	American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
	Ava DuVernay	Origin	Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
	Tony McNamara	Poor Things	novel by Alasdair Gray
2024	Peter Straughan	Conclave	novel by Robert Harris	[22]
	Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts	Dune: Part Two	novel by Frank Herbert
	RaMell Ross, and Joslyn Barnes	Nickel Boys	novel by Colson Whitehead
	Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar	Sing Sing	"The Sing Sing Follies" by John H. Richardson, Breakin' the Mummy's Code
	Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox	Wicked	musical by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman

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