The National Board of Review Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is an annual film award given (since 2003) by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.[1] The years in the table indicate the evaluated films years, the award ceremonies took place in the following year.
| Year | Winner | Writer(s) | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | All the Pretty Horses | novel by Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 2001 | In the Bedroom | short story by Andre Dubus | ||
| 2002 | Confessions of a Dangerous Mind | novel by Chuck Barris | ||
| 2003 | Cold Mountain | novel by Charles Frazier | ||
| 2004 | Sideways | novel by Rex Pickett | ||
| 2005 | Syriana | book by Robert Baer[2] | ||
| 2006 | The Painted Veil | novel by W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 2007 | No Country for Old Men | novel by Cormac McCarthy | ||
| 2008 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| Slumdog Millionaire | novel by Vikas Swarup | |||
| 2009 | Up in the Air | novel by Walter Kirn |
| Year | Winner | Writer(s) | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | The Social Network | book by Ben Mezrich | ||
| 2011 | The Descendants | novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings[3] | ||
| 2012 | Silver Linings Playbook | novel by Matthew Quick | ||
| 2013 | The Wolf of Wall Street | novel by Jordan Belfort[4] | ||
| 2014 | Inherent Vice | novel by Thomas Pynchon | ||
| 2015 | The Martian | novel by Andy Weir[5] | ||
| 2016 | Silence | novel by Shūsaku Endō | ||
| 2017 | The Disaster Artist | book by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell | ||
| 2018 | If Beale Street Could Talk | |||
| 2019 | The Irishman | book by Charles Brandt |
| Year | Winner | Writer(s) | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | News of the World | novel by Paulette Jiles | ||
| 2021 | The Tragedy of Macbeth | play by William Shakespeare | ||
| 2022 | All Quiet on the Western Front | novel by Erich Maria Remarque | ||
| 2023 | Poor Things | novel by Alasdair Gray |