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] The years in the table indicate the evaluated films years, the award ceremonies took place in the following year.
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2022 | All Quiet on the Western Front | Ian Stokell, Lesley Paterson and Edward Berger | novel by Erich Maria Remarque |
| 2023 | Poor Things | Tony McNamara | novel by Alasdair Gray |