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  1. The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay adapted from previously established material. The most frequently adapted media are novels, but other adapted narrative formats include stage plays, musicals, short stories, TV series, and other films and film characters.

  2. oscars.org. The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story. Beginning with the Oscars for 1957, the two categories were combined to honor ...

  3. The Academy Award for Best Writing is divided into two subcategories: Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay)

  4. Prior to its current name, the award was known as the Academy Award for Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium. [1] [2] The Best Adapted Screenplay category has been a part of the Academy Awards since their inception ...

  5. Writing (Adapted Screenplay) - Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche

  6. award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, located in Beverly Hills, California. It honors outstanding achievement by screenwriters for a screenplay adapted from another work, such as a play or novel, from a given year, as determined by the academy’s voting members.

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  8. Feb 9, 2020 · The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is given each year to a script “based on material from another medium.” That other medium being adapted is often a novel (The Lord of the Rings), a stage production (Fences), or another film (A Star is Born).