National Board of Review Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The National Board of Review Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is an annual award (since 2003) given by the National Board of Review.

Winners

2000s

Year Winner Writer(s) Source
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
2006 The Painted Veil Ron Nyswaner novel by W. Somerset Maugham
2007 No Country for Old Men Joel 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 & Sheldon Turner novel by Walter Kirn

2010s

Year Winner Writer(s) Source
2010 The Social Network Aaron Sorkin book by Ben Mezrich
2011 The Descendants Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings
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