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 ...

The Ralph Fiennes-starring political thriller succumbed to romantic-comedy Anora for the Academy Award’s headline prize, ...

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 ...

“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 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sean Baker won the original screenpla y Oscar for "Anora," a comedy-drama about a sex worker who marries the son of a Russian oligarch, on Sunday at the 97th Academy Awards.

Lee’s biographical crime comedy-drama won Best Adapted Screenplay at Sunday night’s award ceremony. The script beat out fellow nominees The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, If Beale Street Could Talk ...

Standing on the Oscar stage, accepting the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for “American Fiction,” writer/director ...

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 ...

Standing on the Oscar stage, accepting the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for “American Fiction,” writer/director ...

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 ...