Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is an annual award given by the International Press Academy.

Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Awarded for	Best Adapted Screenplay
Country	United States
Presented by	International Press Academy
First award	1996
Currently held by	Cord Jefferson – American Fiction (2023)

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
1996	The English Patient	Anthony Minghella
	The Crucible	Arthur Miller
	Jude	Hossein Amini
	The Portrait of a Lady	Laura Jones
	Trainspotting	John Hodge
1997	L.A. Confidential	Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland
	Amistad	David Franzoni
	The Ice Storm	James Schamus
	The Sweet Hereafter	Atom Egoyan
	The Wings of the Dove	Hossein Amini
1998	Gods and Monsters	Bill Condon
	Beloved	Adam Brooks, Akosua Busia, and Richard LaGravenese
	Hilary and Jackie	Frank Cottrell Boyce
	Little Voice	Mark Herman
	The Thin Red Line	Terrence Malick
1999	The Cider House Rules	John Irving
	Felicia's Journey	Atom Egoyan
	A Map of the World	Peter Hedges and Polly Platt
	Onegin	Peter Ettedgui and Michael Ignatieff
	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Anthony Minghella
	Titus	Julie Taymor

2000s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
2000	Quills	Doug Wright
	The House of Mirth	Terence Davies
	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
	Thirteen Days	David Self
	Traffic	Stephen Gaghan
2001	In the Bedroom	Robert Festinger and Todd Field
	A Beautiful Mind	Akiva Goldsman
	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	John Cameron Mitchell
	Last Orders	Fred Schepisi
	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh
2002	Adaptation.	Charlie and Donald Kaufman
	Chicago	Bill Condon
	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Stephen Sinclair, and Fran Walsh
	My Big Fat Greek Wedding	Nia Vardalos
	The Pianist	Ronald Harwood
2003	Mystic River	Brian Helgeland
	American Splendor	Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
	Cold Mountain	Anthony Minghella
	Seabiscuit	Gary Ross
	Shattered Glass	Billy Ray
	Whale Rider	Niki Caro
2004	Million Dollar Baby	Paul Haggis
	Closer	Patrick Marber
	The Phantom of the Opera	Joel Schumacher
	Sideways	Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
2005	Memoirs of a Geisha	Robin Swicord
	Brokeback Mountain	Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana
	Capote	Dan Futterman
	Jarhead	William Broyles Jr.
	Shopgirl	Steve Martin
	Walk the Line	Gill Dennis and James Mangold
2006	The Departed	William Monahan
	Dreamgirls	Bill Condon
	Flags of Our Fathers	William Broyles, Jr. and Paul Haggis
	Little Children	Todd Field and Tom Perrotta
	A Prairie Home Companion	Garrison Keillor
	Thank You for Smoking	Jason Reitman
2007	Atonement	Christopher Hampton
	Away from Her	Sarah Polley
	The Kite Runner	David Benioff
	Lust, Caution (Se, jie)	Hui-Ling Wang and James Schamus
	No Country for Old Men	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
	Zodiac	James Vanderbilt
2008	Frost/Nixon	Peter Morgan
	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
	Doubt	John Patrick Shanley
	Elegy	Philip Roth
	The Reader	David Hare
	Revolutionary Road	Justin Haythe
	Slumdog Millionaire	Simon Beaufoy
2009	Precious	Geoffrey S. Fletcher
	District 9	Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
	An Education	Nick Hornby
	Julie & Julia	Nora Ephron
	Up in the Air	Sheldon Turner and Jason Reitman

2010s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
2010	The Social Network	Aaron Sorkin
	127 Hours	Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy
	Fair Game	Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth
	The Ghost Writer	Robert Harris and Roman Polanski
	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg
	Scott Pilgrim vs. the World	Michael Bacall and Edgar Wright
	The Town	Ben Affleck, Peter Craig, and Aaron Stockard
	Winter's Bone	Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini
2011	The Descendants	Alexander Payne, Jim Rash, and Nat Faxon
	The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn	Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish, and Steven Moffat
	Albert Nobbs	Glenn Close and John Banville
	The Help	Tate Taylor
	Moneyball	Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian
	War Horse	Lee Hall and Richard Curtis
2012	Life of Pi	David Magee
	Anna Karenina	Tom Stoppard
	Argo	Chris Terrio
	Lincoln	Tony Kushner
	Silver Linings Playbook	David O. Russell
	The Sessions	Ben Lewin
2013	Philomena	Jeff Pope and Steve Coogan
	12 Years a Slave	John Ridley
	Before Midnight	Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy
	Captain Phillips	Billy Ray
	Lone Survivor	Peter Berg
	The Wolf of Wall Street	Terence Winter
2014	The Imitation Game	Graham Moore
	American Sniper	Jason Hall
	Gone Girl	Gillian Flynn
	Inherent Vice	Paul Thomas Anderson
	The Theory of Everything	Anthony McCarten
	Wild	Cheryl Strayed and Nick Hornby
2015 [1]	Steve Jobs	Aaron Sorkin
	Black Mass	Jez Butterworth and Mark Mallouk
	The Danish Girl	Lucinda Coxon
	The Martian	Drew Goddard
	The Revenant	Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Mark L. Smith
	Room	Emma Donoghue
2016 [2]	Snowden	Kieran Fitzgerald and Oliver Stone
	Hacksaw Ridge	Andrew Knight and Robert Schenkkan
	Hidden Figures	Theodore Melfi and Allison Schroeder
	The Jungle Book	Justin Marks
	Lion	Luke Davies
	Sully	Todd Komarnicki
2017 [3]	The Disaster Artist	Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber
	Call Me by Your Name	James Ivory
	Molly's Game	Aaron Sorkin
	Victoria & Abdul	Lee Hall
	Wonderstruck	Brian Selznick
	Wonder Woman	Allan Heinberg, Zack Snyder, and Jason Fuchs
2018 [4]	Can You Ever Forgive Me?	Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty
	BlacKkKlansman	Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, and Charlie Wachtel
	The Death of Stalin	Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin, and Peter Fellows
	If Beale Street Could Talk	Barry Jenkins
	Leave No Trace	Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini
	A Star Is Born	Bradley Cooper and Eric Roth
2019 [5]	Joker	Todd Phillips and Scott Silver
	Dark Waters	Matthew Michael Carnahan, Mario Correa, and Nathaniel Rich
	The Irishman	Steven Zaillian
	Jojo Rabbit	Taika Waititi
	Motherless Brooklyn	Edward Norton
	The Two Popes	Anthony McCarten

2020s

Year	Film	Recipient(s)
2020 [6][7]	The Father	Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller
	The Life Ahead	Edoardo Ponti
	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Ruben Santiago-Hudson
	News of the World	Luke Davies and Paul Greengrass
	Nomadland	Jessica Bruder and Chloé Zhao
	One Night in Miami...	Kemp Powers
2021 [8]	CODA	Sian Heder
	Dune	Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts, and Denis Villeneuve
	The Lost Daughter	Maggie Gyllenhaal
	Passing	Rebecca Hall and Nella Larsen
	The Power of the Dog	Jane Campion
	The Tragedy of Macbeth	Joel Coen
2022 [9]	Women Talking	Sarah Polley
	Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery	Rian Johnson
	Living	Kazuo Ishiguro
	She Said	Rebecca Lenkiewicz
	Top Gun: Maverick	Peter Craig, Ehren Kruger, Justin Marks, Christopher McQuarrie, and Eric Warren Singer
	The Whale	Samuel D. Hunter
2023 [10][11]	American Fiction	Cord Jefferson
	All of Us Strangers	Andrew Haigh
	Killers of the Flower Moon	Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese
	Oppenheimer	Christopher Nolan
	Poor Things	Tony McNamara
	The Zone of Interest	Jonathan Glazer