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===2010s===
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! rowspan="5" |[[2010 in film|2010]]<br />{{small|[[83rd Academy Awards|(83rd)]]}}
| '''''[[The Social Network]]'''''
| '''[[Aaron Sorkin]]'''
| '''The book ''[[The Accidental Billionaires|The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal]]'' by [[Ben Mezrich]]'''
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| ''[[127 Hours]]''
| [[Simon Beaufoy]] & [[Danny Boyle]]
| The memoir ''[[Between a Rock and a Hard Place (book)|Between a Rock and a Hard Place]]'' by [[Aron Ralston]]
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| ''[[Toy Story 3]]''
| Screenplay: [[Michael Arndt]]; Story: [[John Lasseter]], [[Andrew Stanton]] & [[Lee Unkrich]]
| [[List of Toy Story characters|Characters]] from the film ''[[Toy Story]]'' by [[Pete Docter]], Lasseter, [[Joe Ranft]], & Stanton
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| ''[[True Grit (2010 film)|True Grit]]''
| [[Coen brothers|Coen Brothers]]
| [[True Grit (novel)|The novel]] by [[Charles Portis]]
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| ''[[Winter's Bone]]''
| [[Debra Granik]] & [[Anne Rosellini]]
| The novel by [[Daniel Woodrell]]
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! rowspan="5" |[[2011 in film|2011]]<br />{{small|[[84th Academy Awards|(84th)]]}}
| '''''[[The Descendants]]'''''
| '''[[Nat Faxon]], [[Alexander Payne]] & [[Jim Rash]]'''
| '''[[The Descendants (novel)|The novel]] by [[Kaui Hart Hemmings]]'''
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| ''[[Hugo (film)|Hugo]]''
| [[John Logan (writer)|John Logan]]
| The novel ''[[The Invention of Hugo Cabret]]'' by [[Brian Selznick]]
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| ''[[The Ides of March (2011 film)|The Ides of March]]''
| [[George Clooney]], [[Grant Heslov]] & [[Beau Willimon]]
| The play ''[[Farragut North (play)|Farragut North]]'' by Willimon
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| ''[[Moneyball (film)|Moneyball]]''
| Screenplay: [[Aaron Sorkin]] & [[Steven Zaillian]]; Story: [[Stan Chervin]]
| The book ''[[Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game]]'' by [[Michael Lewis]]
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| ''[[Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film)|Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy]]''
| [[Bridget O'Connor]] {{small|([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|p.n.]])}} & [[Peter Straughan]]
| [[Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy|The novel]] by [[John le Carré]]
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! rowspan="5" |[[2012 in film|2012]]<br />{{small|[[85th Academy Awards|(85th)]]}}
| '''''[[Argo (2012 film)|Argo]]'''''
| '''[[Chris Terrio]]'''
| '''The memoir ''The Master of Disguise'' by [[Tony Mendez]] & article "The Great Escape: How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran" by [[Joshuah Bearman]]'''
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| ''[[Beasts of the Southern Wild]]''
| [[Lucy Alibar]] & [[Benh Zeitlin]]
| The play ''Juicy and Delicious'' by Alibar
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| ''[[Life of Pi (film)|Life of Pi]]''
| [[David Magee]]
| [[Life of Pi|The novel]] by [[Yann Martel]]
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| ''[[Lincoln (film)|Lincoln]]''
| [[Tony Kushner]]
| The book ''[[Team of Rivals|Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln]]'' by [[Doris Kearns Goodwin]]
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| ''[[Silver Linings Playbook]]''
| [[David O. Russell]]
| [[The Silver Linings Playbook|The novel]] by [[Matthew Quick]]
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! rowspan="5" |[[2013 in film|2013]]<br />{{small|[[86th Academy Awards|(86th)]]}}
| '''''[[12 Years a Slave (film)|12 Years a Slave]]'''''
| '''[[John Ridley]]'''
| '''[[Twelve Years a Slave|The memoir]] by [[Solomon Northup]]'''
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| ''[[Before Midnight (2013 film)|Before Midnight]]''
| [[Julie Delpy]], [[Ethan Hawke]] & [[Richard Linklater]]
| Characters from the film ''[[Before Sunrise]]'' by [[Kim Krizan]] & Linklater
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| ''[[Captain Phillips (film)|Captain Phillips]]''
| [[Billy Ray (screenwriter)|Billy Ray]]
| The memoir ''[[A Captain's Duty|A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea]]'' by [[Richard Phillips (merchant mariner)|Richard Phillips]] & Stephan Talty
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| ''[[Philomena (film)|Philomena]]''
| [[Steve Coogan]] & [[Jeff Pope]]
| The book ''The Lost Child of Philomena Lee'' by [[Martin Sixsmith]]
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| ''[[The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film)|The Wolf of Wall Street]]''
| [[Terence Winter]]
| [[The Wolf of Wall Street (book)|The memoir]] by [[Jordan Belfort]]
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! rowspan="5" |[[2014 in film|2014]]<br />{{small|[[87th Academy Awards|(87th)]]}}
| '''''[[The Imitation Game]]'''''
| '''[[Graham Moore (writer)|Graham Moore]]'''
| '''The book ''[[Alan Turing: The Enigma]]'' by [[Andrew Hodges]]'''
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| ''[[American Sniper]]''
| [[Jason Hall (screenwriter)|Jason Hall]]
| The memoir ''[[American Sniper (book)|American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History]]'' by Jim DeFelice, [[Chris Kyle]] & Scott McEwan
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| ''[[Inherent Vice (film)|Inherent Vice]]''
| [[Paul Thomas Anderson]]
| [[Inherent Vice|The novel]] by [[Thomas Pynchon]]
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| ''[[The Theory of Everything (2014 film)|The Theory of Everything]]''
| [[Anthony McCarten]]
| The memoir ''Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen'' by [[Jane Hawking]]
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| ''[[Whiplash (2014 film)|Whiplash]]''
| [[Damien Chazelle]]
| [[Whiplash (2013 film)|The short film]] by Chazelle
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! rowspan="5" |[[2015 in film|2015]]<br />{{small|[[88th Academy Awards|(88th)]]}}
| '''''[[The Big Short (film)|The Big Short]]'''''
| '''[[Charles Randolph]] & [[Adam McKay]]'''
| ''' The book ''[[The Big Short|The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine]]'' by [[Michael Lewis]]'''
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| ''[[Brooklyn (film)|Brooklyn]]''
| [[Nick Hornby]]
| [[Brooklyn (novel)|The novel]] by [[Colm Tóibín]]
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| ''[[Carol (film)|Carol]]''
| [[Phyllis Nagy]]
| The novel ''[[The Price of Salt]]'' by [[Patricia Highsmith]]
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| ''[[The Martian (film)|The Martian]]''
| [[Drew Goddard]]
| [[The Martian (Weir novel)|The novel]] by [[Andy Weir]]
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| ''[[Room (2015 film)|Room]]''
| [[Emma Donoghue]]
| [[Room (novel)|The novel]] by Donoghue
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! rowspan="5" |[[2016 in film|2016]]<br />{{small|[[89th Academy Awards|(89th)]]}} <br /><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-oscars-2017-nominees-winners-list-20170123-story.html |title=Academy Awards 2017: Complete list of Oscar winners and nominees |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=February 26, 2017 |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=January 8, 2018}}</ref>
| '''''[[Moonlight (2016 film)|Moonlight]]'''''
| '''Screenplay: [[Barry Jenkins]]; Story: [[Tarell Alvin McCraney]]'''
| '''The unpublished play ''In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue'' by McCraney'''
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| ''[[Arrival (film)|Arrival]]''
| [[Eric Heisserer]]
| The novella "[[Story of Your Life]]" by [[Ted Chiang]]
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| ''[[Fences (film)|Fences]]''
| [[August Wilson]] {{small|([[List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees|p.n.]])}}
| [[Fences (play)|The play]] by Wilson
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| ''[[Hidden Figures]]''
| [[Theodore Melfi]] & [[Allison Schroeder]]
| The book ''[[Hidden Figures (book)|Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race]]'' by [[Margot Lee Shetterly]]
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| ''[[Lion (2016 film)|Lion]]''
| [[Luke Davies]]
| The memoir ''[[A Long Way Home (book)|A Long Way Home]]'' by [[Saroo Brierley]] & [[Larry Buttrose]]
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! rowspan="5" |[[2017 in film|2017]]<br />{{small|[[90th Academy Awards|(90th)]]}} <br /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/90th_noms_announcement.pdf |title=90th Oscar Nominations Announced |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=January 23, 2018 |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180123225943/http://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/90th_noms_announcement.pdf |archive-date=January 23, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| '''''[[Call Me by Your Name (film)|Call Me by Your Name]]'''''
| '''[[James Ivory]]'''
| '''[[Call Me by Your Name (novel)|The novel]] by [[André Aciman]]'''
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| ''[[The Disaster Artist (film)|The Disaster Artist]]''
| [[Scott Neustadter]] & [[Michael H. Weber]]
| The memoir ''[[The Disaster Artist|The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made]]'' by [[Greg Sestero]] & [[Tom Bissell]]
|-
| ''[[Logan (film)|Logan]]''
| Screenplay: [[Scott Frank]], [[Michael Green (writer)|Michael Green]] & [[James Mangold]]; Story: Mangold
| The character [[Wolverine (character)|Wolverine]] from the comic books by [[John Romita Sr.]] & [[Len Wein]]
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| ''[[Molly's Game]]''
| [[Aaron Sorkin]]
| The memoir by [[Molly Bloom (author)|Molly Bloom]]
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| ''[[Mudbound (film)|Mudbound]]''
| [[Dee Rees]] & [[Virgil Williams]]
| [[Mudbound|The novel]] by [[Hillary Jordan]]
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! rowspan="5" |[[2018 in film|2018]]<br />{{small|[[91st Academy Awards|(91st)]]}} <br /> <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/91st_noms_announcement.pdf |title=91st Oscar Nominations Announced |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=January 22, 2019 |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123071313/https://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/91st_noms_announcement.pdf |archive-date=January 23, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| '''''[[BlacKkKlansman]]'''''
| '''[[Spike Lee]], David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel & [[Kevin Willmott]]'''
| '''The memoir ''Black Klansman'' by [[Ron Stallworth]]'''
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| ''[[The Ballad of Buster Scruggs]]''
| [[Coen brothers|Coen Brothers]]
| The short stories "All Gold Canyon" by [[Jack London]] & "The Gal Who Got Rattled" by [[Stewart Edward White]]
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| ''[[Can You Ever Forgive Me?]]''
| [[Nicole Holofcener]] & [[Jeff Whitty]]
| The memoir by [[Lee Israel]]
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| ''[[If Beale Street Could Talk (film)|If Beale Street Could Talk]]''
| [[Barry Jenkins]]
| [[If Beale Street Could Talk|The novel]] by [[James Baldwin]]
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| ''[[A Star Is Born (2018 film)|A Star Is Born]]''
| [[Bradley Cooper]], Will Fetters & [[Eric Roth]]
| The [[A Star Is Born (1954 film)|1954 film]] by [[Moss Hart]], [[A Star Is Born (1976 film)|1976 film]] by [[Joan Didion]], [[John Gregory Dunne]] & [[Frank Pierson]] & [[A Star Is Born (1937 film)|1937 film]] by [[Robert Carson (writer)|Robert Carson]] & [[William A. Wellman]]
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! rowspan="5" |[[2019 in film|2019]]<br />{{small|[[92nd Academy Awards|(92nd)]]}} <br /> <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/91st_noms_announcement.pdf |title=92nd Oscar Nominations Announced |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=January 22, 2019 |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=January 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123071313/https://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/91st_noms_announcement.pdf |archive-date=January 23, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| '''''[[Jojo Rabbit]]'''''
| '''[[Taika Waititi]]'''
| '''The novel ''Caging Skies'' by [[Christine Leunens]]'''
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| ''[[The Irishman]]''
| [[Steven Zaillian]]
| The memoir ''[[I Heard You Paint Houses|I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa]]'' by [[Charles Brandt]]
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| ''[[Joker (2019 film)|Joker]]''
| [[Todd Phillips]] & [[Scott Silver]]
| [[Joker (character)|The character]] from the comic books by [[Bill Finger]], [[Bob Kane]] & [[Jerry Robinson]]
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| ''[[Little Women (2019 film)|Little Women]]''
| [[Greta Gerwig]]
| [[Little Women|The novel]] by [[Louisa May Alcott]]
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| ''[[The Two Popes]]''
| [[Anthony McCarten]]
| The play ''The Pope'' by McCarten
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