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BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

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The BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is a film award presented annually at the British Academy Film Awards to a screenwriter for a specific film. It is awarded by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, and video games (and formerly also for children's film and television). Since 1983, selected films have been awarded with the BAFTA award for Best Adapted Screenplay at an annual ceremony.

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In the following lists, the titles and names in bold with a gold background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the remaining nominees. The winner is also the first name listed in each category.

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History

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award for Best Adapted Screenplay has been presented to its winners since 1968, when the original category (BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay) was split into two awards, the other being the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay.[citation needed]

Christopher Hampton and Peter Straughan hold the record for the most wins in this category, with two each. Ronald Harwood, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Eric Roth and Aaron Sorkin tie for the most nominations in this category, with four each.

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Winners and nominees

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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala won for Heat and Dust (1983)
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Philip Kaufman won The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
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Christopher Hampton won twice for Dangerous Liaisons (1987) and The Father (2020)
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Martin Scorsese won for Goodfellas (1990)
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Nicholas Pileggi won for Goodfellas (1990)
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Michael Tolkin won for The Player (1992)
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Baz Luhrmann won for Romeo + Juliet (1997)
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Elaine May won for Primary Colors (1998)
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Neil Jordan won for The End of the Affair (1999)
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Charlie Kaufman won for Adaptation (2002)
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Peter Jackson won for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
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Alexander Payne won for Sideways (2004)
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Peter Morgan won for The Last King of Scotland (2005)
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Jason Reitman won for Up in the Air (2009)
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Aaron Sorkin won for The Social Network (2010)
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David O. Russell won for Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
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Steve Coogan won for Philomena (2013)
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Adam McKay won for The Big Short (2015)
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James Ivory won for Call Me by Your Name (2017)
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Spike Lee won for BlacKkKlansman (2018)
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Taika Waititi won for Jojo Rabbit (2018)
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Sian Heder won for Coda (2021)
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Edward Berger won for All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
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Cord Jefferson won for American Fiction (2023)

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Multiple wins and nominations

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