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Annual award
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
2010s
| Year
|
Writer(s)
|
Film
|
Source
|
| 2010 |
Aaron Sorkin |
The Social Network |
The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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
