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The Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States. It is awarded each year to the writer of a screenplay adapted from another source (usually a novel or play).See also the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay, a similar award for screenplays that are not adapted from elsewhere.
Following is a listing of people who have won the award.
This award started with the name Best Writing, Adaptation
1 1920s
- 1927/ 1928 Seventh Heaven - Benjamin Glazer from a play by Austin Stong
- Glorious Betsy - Anthony Coldeway from a play by Rida Johnson Young
- The Jazz Singer - Alfred A. Cohn from the play Day of Atonement by Samson Raphaelson
In the 2nd and 3rd years there was only a single writing award for Writing Achievement with no distinction between original works and adaptations.
- 1928/ 1929 The Patriot - Hanns Kräly from a play by Ashley Dukes translated from the play Der Patriot by Alfred Neumann derived from the story Paul I by Dmitri Merezhkovsky
- 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 ValiantThe Valiant is a 1929 film which tells the story of a man condemned to execution who tries to convince two women that he is not their son and brother, and that they must get on with their lives. It stars Paul Muni, Marguerite Churchill, DeWitt Jennings, H - 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 ArlenMichael Arlen ( November 16, 1895 June 23, 1956) was an Armenian novelist and short story writer who had his greatest successes in the 1920s while living and writing in England. As a chronicler of the lives of young, rich and trendy people he has sometime
- Wonder of Women - Bess Meredyth from the novel Die Frau des Steffen Tromholt by Hermann SudermannHermann Sudermann ( September 30, 1857- November 21, 1928), German dramatist and novelist, was born at Matziken in East Prussia, close to the Russian frontier, of a Mennonite family long settled near Elbing. His father owned a small brewery in the village
- 1929/ 19301930 is the common year starting on Wednesday. see link for calendar) Events January-February January 6 The first diesel-engine automobile trip is completed ( Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City). January 27 Miguel Primo de Rivera resigns January 30 G The Big HouseThis article refers to the 1930 film, not the University of Michigan Stadium. The Big House is a 1930 film that was written by Joseph Farnham, Martin Flavin, Frances Marion and Lennox Robinson, and was directed by George W. Robert Montgomery plays a man c - Joseph Farnham , Martin Flavin , Frances Marion , Lennox Marion original
- All Quiet on the Western FrontA Novel written in 1929 by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I, All Quiet on the Western Front Im Westen nichts Neues in German), clearly elucidates not only the horrors of contemporary warfare, but also the deep detachment from German c - 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
