Year | Film | Recipient(s) | Source material |
1970 (23rd) | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
I Never Sang for My Father | Robert Anderson | The play by Robert Anderson |
Airport | George Seaton | The novel by Arthur Hailey |
Catch-22 | Buck Henry | The novel by Joseph Heller |
The Great White Hope | Howard Sackler | The play by Howard Sackler |
Little Big Man | Calder Willingham | The novel by Thomas Berger |
Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
M*A*S*H | Ring Lardner Jr. | The novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker |
Lovers and Other Strangers | Renée Taylor, Joseph Bologna, David Zelag Goodman | The play by Renée Taylor and Joseph Bologna |
The Owl and the Pussycat | Buck Henry | The play by Bill Manhoff |
The Twelve Chairs | Mel Brooks | The novel by Ilf and Petrov |
Where's Poppa | Robert Klane | The novel by Robert Klane |
1971 (24th) | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
The French Connection | Ernest Tidyman | The book by Robin Moore |
A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick | The novel by Anthony Burgess |
Johnny Got His Gun | Dalton Trumbo | The novel by Dalton Trumbo |
The Last Picture Show | Larry McMurtry, and Peter Bodganovich | The novel by Larry McMurtry |
McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Robert Altman, and Brian McKay | The novel McCabe by Edmund Naughton |
Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
Kotch | John Paxton | The novel by Katharine Topkins |
The Boy Friend | Ken Russell | The musical by Sandy Wilson |
Fiddler on the Roof | Joseph Stein | The musical by Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick and Joseph Stein and the novel by Sholem Aleichem |
Little Murders | Jules Feiffer | The play by Jules Feiffer |
A New Leaf | Elaine May | The short story "The Green Heart" by Jack Ritchie |
1972 (25th) | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
The Godfather | Mario Puzo, and Francis Ford Coppola | The novel by Mario Puzo |
Deliverance | James Dickey | The novel by James Dickey |
Pete 'n' Tillie | Julius J. Epstein | The novella Witch's Milk by Peter De Vries |
Slaughterhouse-Five | Stephen Geller | The novel by Kurt Vonnegut |
Sounder | Lonne Elder III | The novel by William H. Armstrong |
Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
Cabaret | Jay Presson Allen | The musical by John Van Druten and the book by Joe Masteroff |
Avanti! | Billy Wilder, and I.A.L. Diamond | The play by Samuel A. Taylor |
Butterflies Are Free | Leonard Gershe | The play by Leonard Gershe |
The Heartbreak Kid | Neil Simon | The short story "A Change of Plan" by Bruce Jay Friedman |
Travels with My Aunt | Jay Presson Allen, and Hugh Wheeler | The novel by Graham Greene |
1973 (26th) | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
Serpico | Waldo Salt, and Norman Wexler | The book by Peter Maas |
Cinderella Liberty | Darryl Ponicsan | The novel by Darryl Ponicsan |
The Exorcist | William Peter Blatty | The novel by William Peter Blatty |
The Last Detail | Robert Towne | The novel by Darryl Ponicsan |
The Paper Chase | James Bridges | The novel by John Jay Osborn Jr. |
Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
Paper Moon | Alvin Sargent | The novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown |
40 Carats | Leonard Gershe | The play by Jay Presson Allen based on the play Quarante carats by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy |
Godspell | David Greenne, and John-Michael Tebelak | The musical by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak |
1974 (27th) | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
The Godfather Part II | Francis Ford Coppola, and Mario Puzo | The novel The Godfather by Mario Puzo |
Conrack | Irving Ravetch, and Harriet Frank Jr. | The memoir The Water Is Wide by Pat Conroy |
Lenny | Julian Barry | The play by Julian Barry |
The Parallax View | David Giler and Lorenzo Sempler Jr. | The novel by Loren Singer |
The Talking of Pelham One Two Three | Peter Stone | The novel by John Godey |
Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | Mordecai Richler, and Lionel Chetwynd | The novel by Mordecai Richler |
The Front Page | Billy Wilder, and I.A.L. Diamond | The comedy by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur |
Young Frankenstein | Gene Wilder, and Mel Brooks | The characters on the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley |
1975 (28th) | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Lawrence Hauben, and Bo Goldman | The novel by Ken Kesey |
Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick | The novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray |
Jaws | Peter Benchley, and Carl Gottlieb | The novel by Peter Benchley |
The Man in the Glass Booth | Edward Anhalt | The novel and play by Robert Shaw |
The Man Who Would Be King | John Huston, and Gladys Hill | The novella by Rudyard Kipling |
Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
The Sunshine Boys | Neil Simon | The play by Neil Simon |
Hester Street | Joan Micklin Silver | The novella Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto by Abraham Cahan |
The Prisoner of Second Avenue | Neil Simon | The play by Neil Simon |
1976 (29th) | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
All the President's Men | William Goldman | The book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward |
Bound for Glory | Robert Getchell | The book by Woody Guthrie |
Marathon Man | William Goldman | The novel by William Goldman |
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution | Nicholas Meyer | The novel by Nicholas Meyer |
The Shootist | Miles Hood Swarthout, and Scott Hale | The novel by Glendon Swarthout |
Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
The Pink Panther Strikes Again | Frank Waldman, and Blake Edwards | The film series The Pink Panther |
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings | Hal Barwood, and Matthew Robbins | The novel by William Brashler |
Family Plot | Ernest Lehman | The novel The Rainbird Pattern by Victor Canning |
The Ritz | Terrence McNally | The play by Terrence McNally |
Stay Hungry | Charles Gaines, and Bob Rafelson | The novel by Charles Gaines |
1977 (30th) | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
Julia | Alvin Sargent | A chapter from the book Pentimento by Lillian Hellman |
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden | Gavin Lambert, and Lewis John Carlino | The novel by Joanne Greenberg |
Islands in the Stream | Denne Bart Petitclerc | The novel by Ernest Hemingway |
Looking for Mr. Goodbar | Richard Brooks | The novel by Judith Rossner |
Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
Oh, God! | Larry Gelbart | The novel by Avery Corman |
Semi-Tough | Walter Bernstein | The novel by Dan Jenkins |
The Spy Who Loved Me | Christopher Wood, and Richard Maibaum | The characters by Ian Fleming |
1978 (31st) | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
Midnight Express | Oliver Stone | The book by Billy Hayes |
Bloodbrothers | Walter Newman | The novel by Richard Price |
Go Tell the Spartans | Wendell Mayes | The novel Incident at Muc Wa by Daniel Ford |
Invasion of the Body Snatchers | W.D. Richter | The novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney |
Who'll Stop the Rain | Judith Rascoe, and Robert Stone | The novel Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone |
Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
Heaven Can Wait | Elaine May, and Warren Beatty | The play by Harry Segall |
California Suite | Neil Simon | The play by Neil Simon |
Same Time, Next Year | Bernard Slade | The play by Bernard Slade |
Superman | Mario Puzo, David Newman, Leslie Newman, and Robert Benton | The character Superman by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster |
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? | Peter Stone | The novel by Nan Lyons and Ivan Lyons |
1979 (32nd) | Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium |
Kramer vs. Kramer | Robert Benton | The novel by Avery Corman |
Norma Rae | Irving Ravetch, and Harriet Frank Jr. | The book Crystal Lee, a Woman of Inheritance by Henry P. Leifermann |
Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium |
Being There | Jerzy Kosinski | The novel by Jerzy Kosinski |
A Little Romance | Allan Burns | The novel E=mc2 Mon Amour by Patrick Cauvin |
Starting Over | James L. Brooks | The novel by Dan Wakefield |