Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is an annual award given by the International Press Academy.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Winners and nominees	Writer(s)
1996	The English Patient	Anthony Minghella
	The Crucible	Arthur Miller
	Jude	Hossein Amini
	The Portrait of a Lady	Laura Jones
	Trainspotting	John Hodge
1997	L.A. Confidential	Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland
	Amistad	David Franzoni
	The Ice Storm	James Schamus
	The Sweet Hereafter	Atom Egoyan
	The Wings of the Dove	Hossein Amini
1998	Gods and Monsters	Bill Condon
	Beloved	Adam Brooks, Akosua Busia, and Richard LaGravenese
	Hilary and Jackie	Frank Cottrell Boyce
	Little Voice	Mark Herman
	The Thin Red Line	Terrence Malick
1999	The Cider House Rules	John Irving
	Felicia's Journey	Atom Egoyan
	A Map of the World	Peter Hedges and Polly Platt
	Onegin	Peter Ettedgui and Michael Ignatieff
	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Anthony Minghella
	Titus	Julie Taymor

2000s

Year	Winners and nominees	Writer(s)
2000	Quills	Doug Wright
	The House of Mirth	Terence Davies
	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Joel and Ethan Coen
	Thirteen Days	David Self
	Traffic	Stephen Gaghan
2001	In the Bedroom	Robert Festinger and Todd Field
	A Beautiful Mind	Akiva Goldsman
	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	John Cameron Mitchell
	Last Orders	Fred Schepisi
	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh
2002	Adaptation.	Charlie and Donald Kaufman
	Chicago	Bill Condon
	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Stephen Sinclair, and Fran Walsh
	My Big Fat Greek Wedding	Nia Vardalos
	The Pianist	Ronald Harwood
2003	Mystic River	Brian Helgeland
	American Splendor	Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
	Cold Mountain	Anthony Minghella
	Seabiscuit	Gary Ross
	Shattered Glass	Billy Ray
	Whale Rider	Niki Caro
2004	Million Dollar Baby	Paul Haggis
	Closer	Patrick Marber
	The Phantom of the Opera	Joel Schumacher
	Sideways	Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
2005	Memoirs of a Geisha	Robin Swicord
	Brokeback Mountain	Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana
	Capote	Dan Futterman
	Jarhead	William Broyles Jr.
	Shopgirl	Steve Martin
	Walk the Line	Gill Dennis and James Mangold
2006	The Departed	William Monahan
	Dreamgirls	Bill Condon
	Flags of Our Fathers	William Broyles, Jr. and Paul Haggis
	Little Children	Todd Field and Tom Perrotta
	A Prairie Home Companion	Garrison Keillor
	Thank You for Smoking	Jason Reitman
2007	Atonement	Christopher Hampton
	Away from Her	Sarah Polley
	The Kite Runner	David Benioff
	Lust, Caution (Se, jie)	Hui-Ling Wang and James Schamus
	No Country for Old Men	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
	Zodiac	James Vanderbilt
2008	Frost/Nixon	Peter Morgan
	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
	Doubt	John Patrick Shanley
	Elegy	Philip Roth
	The Reader	David Hare
	Revolutionary Road	Justin Haythe
	Slumdog Millionaire	Simon Beaufoy
2009	Precious	Geoffrey S. Fletcher
	District 9	Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
	An Education	Nick Hornby
	Julie & Julia	Nora Ephron
	Up in the Air	Sheldon Turner and Jason Reitman

2010s

Year	Winners and nominees	Writer(s)
2010	The Social Network	Aaron Sorkin
	127 Hours	Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy
	Fair Game	Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth
	The Ghost Writer	Robert Harris and Roman Polanski
	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg
	Scott Pilgrim vs. the World	Michael Bacall and Edgar Wright
	The Town	Ben Affleck, Peter Craig, and Aaron Stockard
	Winter's Bone	Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini
2011	The Descendants	Alexander Payne, Jim Rash, and Nat Faxon
	The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn	Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish, and Steven Moffat
	Albert Nobbs	Glenn Close and John Banville
	The Help	Tate Taylor
	Moneyball	Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian
	War Horse	Lee Hall and Richard Curtis
2012	Life of Pi	David Magee
	Anna Karenina	Tom Stoppard
	Argo	Chris Terrio
	Lincoln	Tony Kushner
	Silver Linings Playbook	David O. Russell
	The Sessions	Ben Lewin
2013	Philomena	Jeff Pope and Steve Coogan
	12 Years a Slave	John Ridley
	Before Midnight	Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy
	Captain Phillips	Billy Ray
	Lone Survivor	Peter Berg
	The Wolf of Wall Street	Terence Winter
2014	The Imitation Game	Graham Moore
	American Sniper	Jason Hall
	Gone Girl	Gillian Flynn
	Inherent Vice	Paul Thomas Anderson
	The Theory of Everything	Anthony McCarten
	Wild	Cheryl Strayed and Nick Hornby
2015[1]	Steve Jobs	Aaron Sorkin
	Black Mass	Jez Butterworth and Mark Mallouk
	The Danish Girl	Lucinda Coxon
	The Martian	Drew Goddard
	The Revenant	Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Mark L. Smith
	Room	Emma Donoghue
2016[2]	Hacksaw Ridge	Andrew Knight and Robert Schenkkan
	Hidden Figures	Allison Schroeder
	The Jungle Book	Justin Marks
	Lion	Luke Davies
	Snowden	Kieran Fitzgerald and Oliver Stone
	Sully	Todd Komarnicki

References

1. "Satellite Awards (2015)". International Press Academy. IPA. December 2, 2015. pressacademy.com. Retrieved December 2, 2015.
2. "Satellite Awards (2016)" (PDF). International Press Academy. IPA. November 28, 2016. pressacademy.com. Retrieved November 29, 2016.