The Godfather
- Year:
- 1972
- Director:
- Francis Ford Coppola
Best Adapted Screenplay
Schindler's List
- Year:
- 1993
- Director:
- Steven Spielberg
The Godfather Part II
- Year:
- 1974
- Director:
- Francis Ford Coppola
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Year:
- 1975
- Director:
- Milos Forman
All About Eve
- Year:
- 1950
- Director:
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Forrest Gump
- Year:
- 1994
- Director:
- Robert Zemeckis
Casablanca
- Year:
- 1943
- Director:
- Michael Curtiz
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Year:
- 1948
- Director:
- John Huston
The Silence of the Lambs
- Year:
- 1991
- Director:
- Jonathan Demme
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- Year:
- 2003
- Director:
- Peter Jackson
Call Me by Your Name
- Year:
- 2017
- Director:
- Luca Guadagnino
The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Year:
- 1957
- Director:
- David Lean
The Best Years of Our Lives
- Year:
- 1946
- Director:
- William Wyler
Amadeus
- Year:
- 1984
- Director:
- Milos Forman
The Father
- Year:
- 2020
- Director:
- Florian Zeller
The Lion in Winter
- Year:
- 1968
- Director:
- Anthony Harvey
It Happened One Night
- Year:
- 1934
- Director:
- Frank Capra
The Philadelphia Story
- Year:
- 1940
- Director:
- George Cukor
The Pianist
- Year:
- 2002
- Director:
- Roman Polanski
Judgment at Nuremberg
- Year:
- 1961
- Director:
- Stanley Kramer
A Man for All Seasons
- Year:
- 1966
- Director:
- Fred Zinnemann
CODA
- Year:
- 2021
- Director:
- Sian Heder
The Big Short
- Year:
- 2015
- Director:
- Adam McKay
Gone with the Wind
- Year:
- 1939
- Director:
- Victor Fleming
No Country for Old Men
- Year:
- 2007
- Director:
- Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
L.A. Confidential
- Year:
- 1997
- Director:
- Curtis Hanson
All the President's Men
- Year:
- 1976
- Director:
- Alan J. Pakula
A Place in the Sun
- Year:
- 1951
- Director:
- George Stevens
The Departed
- Year:
- 2006
- Director:
- Martin Scorsese
Doctor Zhivago
- Year:
- 1965
- Director:
- David Lean
Becket
- Year:
- 1964
- Director:
- Peter Glenville
Dances with Wolves
- Year:
- 1990
- Director:
- Kevin Costner
7th Heaven
- Year:
- 1927
- Director:
- Frank Borzage
The Bad and the Beautiful
- Year:
- 1952
- Director:
- Vincente Minnelli
Pygmalion
- Year:
- 1938
- Director:
- Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
American Fiction
- Year:
- 2023
- Director:
- Cord Jefferson
In the Heat of the Night
- Year:
- 1967
- Director:
- Norman Jewison
The Exorcist
- Year:
- 1973
- Director:
- William Friedkin
Moonlight
- Year:
- 2016
- Director:
- Barry Jenkins
12 Years a Slave
- Year:
- 2013
- Director:
- Steve McQueen
From Here to Eternity
- Year:
- 1953
- Director:
- Fred Zinnemann
Jojo Rabbit
- Year:
- 2019
- Director:
- Taika Waititi
Dangerous Liaisons
- Year:
- 1988
- Director:
- Stephen Frears
Brokeback Mountain
- Year:
- 2005
- Director:
- Ang Lee
A Beautiful Mind
- Year:
- 2001
- Director:
- Ron Howard
Missing
- Year:
- 1982
- Director:
- Costa-Gavras
Midnight Cowboy
- Year:
- 1969
- Director:
- John Schlesinger
The Informer
- Year:
- 1935
- Director:
- John Ford
Gods and Monsters
- Year:
- 1998
- Director:
- Bill Condon
The French Connection
- Year:
- 1971
- Director:
- William Friedkin
The Big House
- Year:
- 1930
- Director:
- George W. Hill, Ward Wing
Elmer Gantry
- Year:
- 1960
- Director:
- Richard Brooks
Kramer vs. Kramer
- Year:
- 1979
- Director:
- Robert Benton
The Cider House Rules
- Year:
- 1999
- Director:
- Lasse Hallström
The Patriot
- Year:
- 1928
- Director:
- Ernst Lubitsch
Julia
- Year:
- 1977
- Director:
- Fred Zinnemann
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
- Year:
- 1941
- Director:
- Alexander Hall
The Country Girl
- Year:
- 1954
- Director:
- George Seaton
Bad Girl
- Year:
- 1931
- Director:
- Frank Borzage
Argo
- Year:
- 2012
- Director:
- Ben Affleck
BlacKkKlansman
- Year:
- 2018
- Director:
- Spike Lee
Midnight Express
- Year:
- 1978
- Director:
- Alan Parker
Driving Miss Daisy
- Year:
- 1989
- Director:
- Bruce Beresford
M*A*S*H
- Year:
- 1970
- Director:
- Robert Altman
Howards End
- Year:
- 1992
- Director:
- James Ivory
The Story of Louis Pasteur
- Year:
- 1936
- Director:
- William Dieterle
Marty
- Year:
- 1955
- Director:
- Delbert Mann
A Letter to Three Wives
- Year:
- 1949
- Director:
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
To Kill a Mockingbird
- Year:
- 1962
- Director:
- Robert Mulligan
Going My Way
- Year:
- 1944
- Director:
- Leo McCarey
The Last Emperor
- Year:
- 1987
- Director:
- Bernardo Bertolucci
Gigi
- Year:
- 1958
- Director:
- Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters
Little Women
- Year:
- 1933
- Director:
- George Cukor
Miracle on 34th Street
- Year:
- 1947
- Director:
- George Seaton
Around the World in 80 Days
- Year:
- 1956
- Director:
- Michael Anderson, John Farrow
The Lost Weekend
- Year:
- 1945
- Director:
- Billy Wilder
Ordinary People
- Year:
- 1980
- Director:
- Robert Redford
Sense and Sensibility
- Year:
- 1995
- Director:
- Ang Lee
The Descendants
- Year:
- 2011
- Director:
- Alexander Payne
Cimarron
- Year:
- 1931
- Director:
- Wesley Ruggles
The Imitation Game
- Year:
- 2014
- Director:
- Morten Tyldum
Sling Blade
- Year:
- 1996
- Director:
- Billy Bob Thornton
A Room with a View
- Year:
- 1986
- Director:
- James Ivory
Room at the Top
- Year:
- 1958
- Director:
- Jack Clayton
Mrs. Miniver
- Year:
- 1942
- Director:
- William Wyler
The Life of Emile Zola
- Year:
- 1937
- Director:
- William Dieterle
Precious
- Year:
- 2009
- Director:
- Lee Daniels
On Golden Pond
- Year:
- 1981
- Director:
- Mark Rydell
Sideways
- Year:
- 2004
- Director:
- Alexander Payne
Out of Africa
- Year:
- 1985
- Director:
- Sydney Pollack
Women Talking
- Year:
- 2022
- Director:
- Sarah Polley
Slumdog Millionaire
- Year:
- 2008
- Director:
- Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan
Traffic
- Year:
- 2000
- Director:
- Steven Soderbergh
The Social Network
- Year:
- 2010
- Director:
- David Fincher
One Battle After Another
- Year:
- 2025
- Director:
- Paul Thomas Anderson
Tom Jones
- Year:
- 1963
- Director:
- Tony Richardson
Terms of Endearment
- Year:
- 1983
- Director:
- James L. Brooks