The National Board of Review Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is an annual award given (since 2003) by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. The years in the table indicate the evaluated films years; the award ceremonies took place in the following year.
Winners
2000s Best Screenplay
Year Winner Writer(s) Source material 2000 All the Pretty Horses Ted Tally novel by Cormac McCarthy 2001 In the Bedroom Rob Festinger and Todd Field short story by Andre Dubus 2002 AdaptationConfessions of a Dangerous MindHuman Nature Charlie Kaufman book by Susan Orleannovel by Chuck Barris(Original Screenplay)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Year Winner Writer(s) Source material 2003 Cold Mountain Anthony Minghella novel by Charles Frazier 2004 Sideways || Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor || novel by Rex Pickett || style="text-align:center;"| |- | style="text-align:center;"| 2005 || Syriana Stephen Gaghan book by Robert Baer 2006 The Painted Veil Ron Nyswaner novel by W. Somerset Maugham 2007 No Country for Old Men || Joel Coen and Ethan Coen || novel by Cormac McCarthy || style="text-align:center;"| |- | rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"| 2008 || The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Eric Roth short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald Slumdog Millionaire Simon Beaufoy novel by Vikas Swarup 2009 Up in the Air Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner novel by Walter Kirn
2010s Year Winner Writer(s) Source material 2010 The Social Network Aaron Sorkin book by Ben Mezrich 2011 The Descendants Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings 2012 Silver Linings Playbook David O. Russell novel by Matthew Quick 2013 The Wolf of Wall Street Terence Winter book by Jordan Belfort 2014 Inherent Vice Paul Thomas Anderson novel by Thomas Pynchon 2015 The Martian Drew Goddard novel by Andy Weir 2016 Silence Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese novel by Shūsaku Endō 2017 The Disaster Artist Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber book by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell 2018 If Beale Street Could Talk Barry Jenkins novel by James Baldwin 2019 The Irishman Steven Zaillian book by Charles Brandt
2020s Year Winner Writer(s) Source material 2020 News of the World Paul Greengrass and Luke Davies novel by Paulette Jiles 2021 The Tragedy of Macbeth Joel Coen play by William Shakespeare 2022 All Quiet on the Western Front Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, and Ian Stokell novel by Erich Maria Remarque 2023 Poor Things Tony McNamara novel by Alasdair Gray 2024 Sing Sing Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar book by John H. Richardson 2025 Train Dreams novella by Denis Johnson
Multiple winners 2 wins Clint Bentley (consecutive) Joel Coen Greg Kwedar (consecutive) Alexander Payne
See also Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
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