National Board of Review Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The National Board of Review Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is an annual film award given (since 2003) by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.^[1]

2000s[]

Year	Winner	Writer(s)	Source
2000	All the Pretty Horses	Ted Tally	novel by Cormac McCarthy
2001	In the Bedroom	Robert Festinger and Todd Field	short story by Andre Dubus
2002	Confessions of a Dangerous Mind	Charlie Kaufman	novel by Chuck Barris
2003	Cold Mountain	Anthony Minghella	novel by Charles Frazier
2004	*Sideways*	Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor	novel by Rex Pickett
2005	Syriana	Stephen Gaghan	book by Robert Baer^[2]
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
2008	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Eric Roth	short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2008	Slumdog Millionaire	Simon Beaufoy	novel by Vikas Swarup
2009	Up in the Air	Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner	novel by Walter Kirn

Year	Winner	Writer(s)	Source
2010	The Social Network	Aaron Sorkin	book by Ben Mezrich
2011	The Descendants	Nat Faxon, Alexander Payne, and Jim Rash	novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings^[3]
2012	Silver Linings Playbook	David O. Russell	novel by Matthew Quick
2013	The Wolf of Wall Street	Terence Winter	novel by Jordan Belfort^[4]
2014	Inherent Vice	Paul Thomas Anderson	novel by Thomas Pynchon
2015	The Martian	Drew Goddard	novel by Andy Weir^[5]
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

Year	Winner	Writer(s)	Source
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