César Award for Best Adaptation

The César Award for Best Adaptation (French: César de la meilleure adaptation) is an award presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma. It was initially awarded from 1983 to 1985, and then awarded again in 2006, when the original category (César Award for Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation) was split into two awards, the other being César Award for Best Original Screenplay.

César Award for Best Adaptation
2025 recipient: Jacques Audiard
Country	France
Presented by	Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma
First award	1983–1985; 2006–present
Currently held by	Jacques Audiard with Thomas Bidegain, Léa Mysius and Nicolas Livecchi for Emilia Pérez (2025)
Website	academie-cinema.org

Winners and nominees

1980s

Year	Winners and nominees	Original title	Writer(s)
1983 (8th)	L'Étoile du Nord		Jean Aurenche, Pierre Granier-Deferre and Michel Grisolia
	Danton		Jean-Claude Carrière and Jacek Gasiorowski
	Les Misérables		Alain Decaux and Robert Hossein
	Hécate	Hécate, maîtresse de la nuit	Pascal Jardin and Daniel Schmid
1984 (9th)	One Deadly Summer	L'Été meurtrier	Sébastien Japrisot
	For Those I Loved	Au nom de tous les miens	Robert Enrico
	So Long, Stooge	Tchao Pantin	Claude Berri and Alain Page
1985 (10th)	A Sunday in the Country	Un dimanche à la campagne	Bertrand Tavernier and Colo Tavernier
	Le Bon Plaisir		Francis Girod and Françoise Giroud
	The Public Woman	La Femme publique	Dominique Garnier and Andrzej Żuławski

The César Award for Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation was awarded from 1986 to 2005.

2000s

Year	Winners and nominees	Original title	Writer(s)
2006 (31st)	The Beat That My Heart Skipped	De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté	Jacques Audiard and Tonino Benacquista
	The Axe	Le couperet	Costa-Gavras and Jean-Claude Grumberg
	In His Hands	Entre ses mains	Anne Fontaine and Julien Boivent
	Gabrielle		Patrice Chéreau and Anne-Louise Trividic
	The Last Mitterrand	Le promeneur du Champ-de-Mars	Georges-Marc Benamou and Gilles Taurand
2007 (32nd)	Lady Chatterley		Roger Bohbot, Pascale Ferran and Pierre Trividic
	Don't Worry, I'm Fine	Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas	Philippe Lioret and Olivier Adam
	OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies	OSS 117: Le Caire, nid d'espions	Jean-François Halin and Michel Hazanavicius
	Private Fears in Public Places	Cœurs	Jean-Michel Ribes
	Tell No One	Ne le dis à personne	Guillaume Canet and Philippe Lefèbvre
2008 (33rd)	Persepolis		Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi
	Darling		Christine Carrière
	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	Le scaphandre et le papillon	Ronald Harwood
	Hunting and Gathering	Ensemble, c'est tout	Claude Berri
	A Secret	Un secret	Nathalie Carter and Claude Miller
2009 (34th)	The Class	Entre les murs	François Bégaudeau, Robin Campillo and Laurent Cantet
	The Beautiful Person	La belle personne	Christophe Honoré and Gilles Taurand
	Crime Is Our Business	Le crime est notre affaire	François Caviglioli and Pascal Thomas
	Love Me No More	Deux jours à tuer	Éric Assous, Jérôme Beaujour, Jean Becker and François d'Épenoux
	Public Enemy Number One: Part 1 and 2	L'instinct de mort and L'ennemi public n°1	Abdel Raouf Dafri and Jean-François Richet

2010s

Year	Winners and nominees	Original title	Writer(s)
2010 (35th)	Mademoiselle Chambon		Stéphane Brizé and Florence Vignon
	Coco Before Chanel	Coco avant Chanel	Anne Fontaine and Camille Fontaine
	One for the Road	Le Dernier pour la route	Philippe Godeau and Agnès De Sacy
	Le Petit Nicolas		Laurent Tirard and Grégoire Vigneron
	Wild Grass	Les Herbes folles	Alex Reval and Laurent Herbiet
2011 (36th)	The Ghost Writer		Robert Harris and Roman Polanski
	The Tree	L'Arbre	Julie Bertuccelli
	The Princess of Montpensier	La Princesse de Montpensier	Jean Cosmos, Francois-Olivier Rousseau and Bertrand Tavernier
	L'Homme qui voulait vivre sa vie		Éric Lartigau and Laurent de Bartillat
	Potiche		François Ozon
2012 (37th)	Carnage		Roman Polanski and Yasmina Reza
	Delicacy	La délicatesse	David Foenkinos
	Guilty	Présumé coupable	Vincent Garenq
	Omar Killed Me	Omar m'a tuer	Olivier Gorce, Roschdy Zem, Rachid Bouchareb and Olivier Lorelle
	Rebellion	L'Ordre et la Morale	Mathieu Kassovitz, Pierre Geller and Benoît Jaubert
2013 (38th)	Rust and Bone	De rouille et d'os	Jacques Audiard and Thomas Bidegain
	One Night	38 témoins	Lucas Belvaux
	What's in a Name?	Le prénom	Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellière
	In the House	Dans la maison	François Ozon
	Farewell, My Queen	Les Adieux à la reine	Gilles Taurand and Benoît Jacquot
2014 (39th)	Me, Myself and Mum	Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table!	Guillaume Gallienne
	The French Minister	Quai d'Orsay	Antonin Baudry, Christophe Blain and Bertrand Tavernier
	Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian	Jimmy P.	Arnaud Desplechin, Kent Jones and Julie Peyr
	Venus in Fur	La Vénus à la fourrure	David Ives and Roman Polanski
	Blue Is the Warmest Colour	La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2	Abdellatif Kechiche and Ghalia Lacroix
2015 (40th)	Diplomacy	Diplomatie	Cyril Gely, Volker Schlöndorff
	The Blue Room	La Chambre bleue	Mathieu Amalric, Stéphanie Cléau
	Lulu femme nue		Sólveig Anspach, Jean-Luc Gaget
	Not My Type	Pas son genre	Lucas Belvaux
	Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart	La Prochaine fois je viserai le cœur	Cédric Anger
2016 (41st)	Fatima		Philippe Faucon
	L'Affaire SK1		David Oelhoffen and Frédéric Tellier
	Macadam Stories	Asphalte	Samuel Benchetrit
	The Clearstream Affair	L'Enquête	Stéphane Cabel and Vincent Garenq
	Diary of a Chambermaid	Journal d'une femme de chambre	Benoît Jacquot and Hélène Zimmer
2017 (42nd)	My Life as a Courgette	Ma vie de Courgette	Céline Sciamma
	Elle		David Birke
	150 Milligrams	La Fille de Brest	Séverine Bosschem and Emmanuelle Bercot
	Frantz		François Ozon
	From the Land of the Moon	Mal de pierres	Nicole Garcia and Jacques Fieschi
	Heal the Living	Réparer les vivants	Katell Quillévéré and Gilles Taurand
2018 (43rd)	See You Up There	Au Revoir là-haut	Albert Dupontel and Pierre Lemaitre
	The Guardians	Les Gardiennes	Xavier Beauvois, Frédérique Moreau and Marie-Julie Maille
	Patients		Grand Corps Malade and Fadette Drouard
	Promise at Dawn	La Promesse de l'aube	Éric Barbier and Marie Eynard
	Redoubtable	Le Redoutable	Michel Hazanavicius
2019 (44th)	Little Tickles	Les Chatouilles	Andréa Bescond, Éric Métayer
	The Sisters Brothers	Les Frères Sisters	Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain
	Mademoiselle de Joncquières		Emmanuel Mouret
	An Impossible Love	Un amour impossible	Catherine Corsini, Laurette Polmanss
	Memoir of War	La Douleur	Emmanuel Finkiel

2020s

Year	Winners and nominees	Original title	Writer(s)
2020 (45th)	An Officer and a Spy	J'accuse	Roman Polanski and Robert Harris
	Adults in the Room		Costa-Gavras
	I Lost My Body	J'ai perdu mon corps	Jérémy Clapin and Guillaume Laurant
	Oh Mercy!	Roubaix, une lumière	Arnaud Desplechin and Léa Mysius
	Only the Animals	Seules les bêtes	Dominik Moll and Gilles Marchand
2021[1] (46th)	The Girl with a Bracelet	La Fille au bracelet	Stéphane Demoustier
	Wasp Network	Cuban Network	Olivier Assayas
	Mama Weed	La Daronne	Hannelore Cayre and Jean-Paul Salomé
	Summer of 85	Été 85	François Ozon
	Small Country: An African Childhood	Petit Pays	Éric Barbier
2022 (47th)	Lost Illusions	Illusions perdues	Xavier Giannoli and Jacques Fieschi
	The Accusation	Les Choses humaines	Yaël Langmann and Yvan Attal
	Happening	L'événement	Audrey Diwan and Marcia Romano
	Hold Me Tight	Serre moi fort	Mathieu Amalric
	Paris, 13th District	Les Olympiades	Jacques Audiard, Céline Sciamma and Léa Mysius
2023 (48th)	The Night of the 12th	La Nuit du 12	Gilles Marchand and Dominik Moll
	Final Cut	Coupez!	Michel Hazanavicius
	Undercover	Enquête sur un scandale d'État	Thierry de Peretti and Jeanne Aptekman
2024[2] (49th)	Just the Two of Us	L'Amour et les Forêts	Valérie Donzelli and Audrey Diwan
	Consent	Le Consentement	Vanessa Filho
	Last Summer	L'Été dernier	Catherine Breillat
2025 (50th)	Emilia Pérez		Jacques Audiard with Thomas Bidegain, Léa Mysius and Nicolas Livecchi
	The Count of Monte Cristo	Le Comte de Monte-Cristo	Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière
	The Most Precious of Cargoes	La Plus Précieuse des marchandises	Michel Hazanavicius and Jean-Claude Grumberg

See also

• César Award for Best Original Screenplay
• César Award for Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation
• Magritte Award for Best Screenplay
• Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
• Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
• BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
• BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay