That could be good news for many of this year's nominees for Best Adapted Screenplay. Four of the five are also up for the top prize. Here is our breakdown of the race as it stands today.

Also, for the last six years, Best Adapted Screenplay has gone to the film's director; Conclave is the only adapted script in this category that the director didn't cowrite. But A Complete Unknown ...

“Conclave,” based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Robert Harris, nabbed the award for best adapted screenplay. The novel follows the complicated, sometimes underhanded twists and turns ...

Peter Straughan has won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Conclave at the 97th Academy Awards, held on March 2, 2025. Straughan previously picked up the Golden Globe, Critics’ Choice ...

Peter Straughan won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for "Conclave." In his speech, Straughan thanked the cast, crew and his daughter, among others. Other nominees in the category included ...

Next up on my little book to screen series is a popular coming of age drama from 1986. Based on a 1982 Stephen King novella, ...

Sarah Polley took home the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for Women Talking, a film about “people who don’t agree on every single issue manage to sit together in a room and carve out a way ...