Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the annual awards given by the Chicago Film Critics Association.

Winners

2000s

Year	Winner	Writer(s)	Source
2006	The Departed	William Monahan	film by Alan Mak Siu-fai and Felix Chong
	Little Children	Todd Field and Tom Perrotta	novel by Tom Perrotta
	Notes on a Scandal	Patrick Marber	novel by Zoë Heller
	A Prairie Home Companion	Garrison Keillor	radio variety show by Garrison Keillor
	Thank You for Smoking	Jason Reitman	novel by Christopher Buckley
2007	No Country for Old Men	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	novel by Cormac McCarthy
	Atonement	Christopher Hampton	novel by Ian McEwan
	Into the Wild	Sean Penn	book by Jon Krakauer
	There Will Be Blood	Paul Thomas Anderson	novel by Upton Sinclair
	Zodiac	James Vanderbilt	book by Robert Graysmith
2008	Slumdog Millionaire	Simon Beaufoy	novel by Vikas Swarup
	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Eric Roth	short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
	The Dark Knight	Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan	comic by Bob Kane
	Doubt	John Patrick Shanley	play by John Patrick Shanley
	Frost/Nixon	Peter Morgan	play by Peter Morgan
2009	Up in the Air	Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner	novel by Walter Kirn
	An Education	Nick Hornby	memoir by Lynn Barber
	In the Loop	Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, and Tony Roche
	The Informant!	Scott Z. Burns	book by Kurt Eichenwald
	Where the Wild Things Are	Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers	book by Maurice Sendak

2010s

Year	Winner	Writer(s)	Source
2010	The Social Network	Aaron Sorkin	novel by Ben Mezrich
	Rabbit Hole	David Lindsay-Abaire	play by David Lindsay-Abaire
	Toy Story 3	Michael Arndt
	True Grit	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	novel by Charles Portis
	Winter's Bone	Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini	novel by Daniel Woodrell
2011	Moneyball	Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin	book by Michael Lewis
	The Descendants	Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash	novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings
	Drive	Hossein Amini	book by James Sallis
	Hugo	John Logan	novel by Brian Selznick
	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan	book by John le Carré
2012	Lincoln	Tony Kushner	novel by Doris Kearns Goodwin
	Argo	Chris Terrio	novel by Tony Mendez article by Joshuah Bearman
	Beasts of the Southern Wild	Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin	novel by Lucy Alibar
	The Perks of Being a Wallflower	Stephen Chbosky	book by Stephen Chbosky
	Silver Linings Playbook	David O. Russell	novel by Matthew Quick
2013	12 Years a Slave	John Ridley	memoir by Solomon Northup
	August: Osage County	Tracy Letts	play by Tracy Letts
	Before Midnight	Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy	characters by Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan
	Philomena	Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope	novel by Martin Sixsmith
	The Wolf of Wall Street	Terence Winter	memoir by Jordan Belfort
2014	Gone Girl	Gillian Flynn	novel by Gillian Flynn
	The Imitation Game	Graham Moore	novel by Andrew Hodges
	Inherent Vice	Paul Thomas Anderson	book by Thomas Pynchon
	Under the Skin	Walter Campbell	novel by Michel Faber
	Wild	Nick Hornby	memoir by Cheryl Strayed
2015	The Big Short	Adam McKay and Charles Randolph	novel by Michael Lewis
	Anomalisa	Charlie Kaufman	play by Charlie Kaufman
	Brooklyn	Nick Hornby	novel by Colm Tóibín
	Room	Emma Donoghue	novel by Emma Donoghue
	Steve Jobs	Aaron Sorkin	book by Walter Isaacson

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