Year
|
Film
|
Recipient(s)
|
Source material
|
1970
(23rd)
[3]
|
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)
[4]
|
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)
[5]
|
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)
[6]
|
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)
[7]
|
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)
[8]
|
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)
[9]
|
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)
[10]
|
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)
[11]
|
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)
[12]
|
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
|