Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Winners
# Little Women
Année: 1994 | Pays: US
Réalisateur: Gillian Armstrong
Distribution: Winona Ryder, Trini Alvarado, Samantha Mathis, Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes
Synopsis
With their father away as a chaplain in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a close family who inevitably have their squabbles and tragedies. But the bond holds even when, later, male friends start to become a part of the household.
# Gone with the Wind
Année: 1939 | Pays: US
Réalisateur: Victor Fleming
Distribution: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Howard, Hattie McDaniel
Synopsis
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
# Casablanca
Année: 1943 | Pays: US
Réalisateur: Michael Curtiz
Distribution: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt
Synopsis
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
# All About Eve
Année: 1950 | Pays: US
Réalisateur: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Distribution: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill
Synopsis
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
# Judgment at Nuremberg
Année: 1961 | Pays: United States of America
Réalisateur: Stanley Kramer
Distribution: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell
Synopsis
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not
# To Kill a Mockingbird
Année: 1962 | Pays: US
Réalisateur: Robert Mulligan
Distribution: Mary Badham, Gregory Peck, Phillip Alford, John Megna, Frank Overton
Synopsis
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.
# Tom Jones
Année: 1963 | Pays: United Kingdom
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Synopsis
Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?
# Doctor Zhivago
Année: 1965 | Pays: Italy, United Kingdom, United States of America
Réalisateur: David Lean
Distribution: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness
Synopsis
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
# The Godfather
Année: 1972 | Pays: United States of America
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Synopsis
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his y
# The Exorcist
Année: 1973 | Pays: US
Réalisateur: William Friedkin
Distribution: Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Jason Miller, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb
Synopsis
When a charming 12-year-old girl takes on the characteristics and voices of others, doctors say there is nothing they can do. As people begin to die, the girl's mother realizes her daughter has been possessed by the Devil. Her daughter's only possible hope lies with two priests and the ancient rite of demonic exorcism.
# The Godfather Part II
Année: 1974 | Pays: United States of America
Réalisateur: Francis Ford Coppola
Distribution: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, John Cazale
Synopsis
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vega
# One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Année: 1975 | Pays: US
Réalisateur: Miloš Forman
Distribution: Jack Nicholson, Brad Dourif, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito, William Redfield
Synopsis
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
# Ordinary People
Année: 2018 | Pays: KR
Réalisateur: Im Jin-soon
Distribution: Don Lee, Kim Sae-ron, Jang Gwang, Lee Sang-yeob, Shin Se-hwi
Synopsis
A gym teacher and his female student look for her missing friend. But as they investigate, they find that her disappearance is a part of a larger conspiracy.
# Missing
Année: 2023 | Pays: US
Réalisateur: Will Merrick
Distribution: Storm Reid, Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker, Daniel Henney
Synopsis
When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers... and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all.
# Amadeus
Année: 1984 | Pays: US
Réalisateur: Miloš Forman
Distribution: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice
Synopsis
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Viennese composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
# Dances with Wolves
Année: 1990 | Pays: GB
Réalisateur: Kevin Costner
Distribution: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant, Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman
Synopsis
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.
# Howards End
Année: 1992 | Pays: Japan, United Kingdom, United States of America
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A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with t
# Schindler's List
Année: 1993 | Pays: United States of America
Réalisateur: Steven Spielberg
Distribution: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall
Synopsis
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
# Forrest Gump
Année: 1994 | Pays: United States of America
Réalisateur: Robert Zemeckis
Distribution: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field
Synopsis
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has
# Sense and Sensibility
Année: 1995 | Pays: GB
Réalisateur: Ang Lee
Distribution: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant, Gemma Jones
Synopsis
The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. When Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son from his first marriage, John and wife Fanny. But these circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's current wife, and daughters Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.
# Traffic
Année: 2000 | Pays: Germany, United States of America
Réalisateur: Steven Soderbergh
Distribution: Michael Douglas, Benicio del Toro, Jacob Vargas, Tomás Milián, Russell G. Jones
Synopsis
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his
# A Beautiful Mind
Année: 2001 | Pays: US
Réalisateur: Ron Howard
Distribution: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Paul Bettany, Christopher Plummer
Synopsis
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. As a brilliant but socially awkward mathematician, he made a groundbreaking discovery early in his career and stands on the brink of international acclaim. But as the handsome and arrogant Nash accepts secret work in cryptography, he becomes entangled in a mysterious conspiracy. His life takes a nightmarish turn and he soon finds himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery.
# The Pianist
Année: 2002 | Pays: FR
Réalisateur: Roman Polanski
Distribution: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Emilia Fox
Synopsis
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
# The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Année: 2003 | Pays: NZ
Réalisateur: Peter Jackson
Distribution: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Andy Serkis
Synopsis
As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forces of Light and Dark compete to determine the outcome--one member of the Fellowship of the Ring is revealed as the noble heir to the throne of the Kings of Men. Yet, the sole hope for triumph over evil lies with a brave hobbit, Frodo, who, accompanied by his loyal friend Sam and the hideous, wretched Gollum, ventures deep into the very dark heart of Mordor on his seemingly impossible quest to destroy the Ring of Power.
# Sideways
Année: 2004 | Pays: Hungary, United States of America
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Two middle-aged men embark on a spiritual journey through Californian wine country. One is an unpublished novelist suffering from depression, and the other is only days away from walking down the aisl
# Brokeback Mountain
Année: 2005 | Pays: CA
Réalisateur: Ang Lee
Distribution: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway, Randy Quaid
Synopsis
In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.
# The Departed
Année: 2006 | Pays: HK
Réalisateur: Martin Scorsese
Distribution: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen
Synopsis
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.
# No Country for Old Men
Année: 2007 | Pays: United States of America
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Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail.
# The Social Network
Année: 2010 | Pays: United States of America
Réalisateur: David Fincher
Distribution: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer, Max Minghella
Synopsis
The tale of a new breed of cultural insurgent: a punk genius who sparked a revolution and changed the face of human interaction for a generation, and perhaps forever.
# The Imitation Game
Année: 2014 | Pays: US
Réalisateur: Morten Tyldum
Distribution: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Allen Leech
Synopsis
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
# The Big Short
Année: 2015 | Pays: US
Réalisateur: Adam McKay
Distribution: Steve Carell, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, Marisa Tomei
Synopsis
The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.
# Moonlight
Année: 2016 | Pays: US
Réalisateur: Barry Jenkins
Distribution: Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Janelle Monáe, Ashton Sanders, Jharrel Jerome
Synopsis
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
# Call Me by Your Name
Année: 2017 | Pays: BR
Réalisateur: Luca Guadagnino
Distribution: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel
Synopsis
In 1980s Italy, a relationship begins between seventeen-year-old teenage Elio and the older adult man hired as his father's research assistant.
# BlacKkKlansman
Année: 2018 | Pays: US
Réalisateur: Spike Lee
Distribution: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Topher Grace, Laura Harrier, Alec Baldwin
Synopsis
Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
# Jojo Rabbit
Année: 2019 | Pays: NZ
Réalisateur: Taika Waititi
Distribution: Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Scarlett Johansson, Taika Waititi, Sam Rockwell
Synopsis
A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
# The Father
Année: 2020 | Pays: FR
Réalisateur: Florian Zeller
Distribution: Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Mark Gatiss, Olivia Williams, Imogen Poots
Synopsis
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
# CODA
Année: 2021 | Pays: FR
Réalisateur: Siân Heder
Distribution: Emilia Jones, Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur, Eugenio Derbez, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo
Synopsis
As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.