| Tahun |
Penulis |
Film |
Sumber |
| 2010 | Aaron Sorkin | The Social Network | The Accidental Billionaires karya Ben Mezrich |
| Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy | 127 Hours | Between a Rock and a Hard Place karya Aron Ralston |
| Michael Arndt | Toy Story 3 | para karakter buatan John Lasseter |
| Joel Coen dan Ethan Coen | True Grit | novel karya Charles Portis |
| Debra Granik dan Anne Rosselini | Winter's Bone | novel karya Daniel Woodrell |
| 2011 | Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, dan Jim Rash | The Descendants | novel karya Kaui Hart Hemmings |
| Tate Taylor | The Help | novel karya Kathryn Stockett |
| John Logan | Hugo | The Invention of Hugo Cabret karya Brian Selznick |
| Steven Zaillian dan Aaron Sorkin | Moneyball | novel karya Charles Portis |
| Bridget O'Connor dan Peter Straughan | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | novel karya John le Carré |
| 2012 | David O. Russell | Silver Linings Playbook | The Silver Linings Playbook karya Matthew Quick |
| Chris Terrio | Argo | The Master of Disguise karya Tony Mendez |
| David Magee | Life of Pi | novel karya Yann Martel |
| Tony Kushner | Lincoln | Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln karya Doris Kearns Goodwin |
| Stephen Chbosky | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | novel karya Stephen Chbosky |
| 2013 | John Ridley | 12 Years a Slave | memoir karya Solomon Northup |
| Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, dan Julie Delpy | Before Midnight | para karakter buatan Richard Linklater dan Kim Krizan |
| Billy Ray | Captain Phillips | A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea karya Richard Phillips |
| Scott Neustadter dan Michael H. Weber | The Spectacular Now | novel karya Tim Tharp |
| Terence Winter | The Wolf of Wall Street | memoir karya Jordan Belfort |
| 2014 | Gillian Flynn | Gone Girl | novel karya Gillian Flynn |
| Graham Moore | The Imitation Game | Alan Turing: The Enigma karya Andrew Hodges |
| Paul Thomas Anderson | Inherent Vice | novel karya Thomas Pynchon |
| Anthony McCarten | The Theory of Everything | Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen karya Jane Hawking |
| Nick Hornby | Wild | memoir karya Cheryl Strayed |
| 2015 | Emma Donoghue | Room | novel karya Emma Donoghue |
| Nick Hornby | Brooklyn | novel karya Colm Tóibín |
| Phyllis Nagy | Carol | The Price of Salt karya Patricia Highsmith |
| Drew Goddard | The Martian | novel karya Andy Weir |
| Aaron Sorkin | Steve Jobs | biografi karya Walter Isaacson |
| 2016 | Eric Heisserer | Arrival | "Story of Your Life" karya Ted Chiang |
| August Wilson | Fences | sandiwara karya August Wilson |
| Luke Davies | Lion | A Long Way Home karya Saroo Brierley |
| Patrick Ness | A Monster Calls | novel karya Patrick Ness |
| Tom Ford | Nocturnal Animals | Tony and Susan karya Austin Wright |
| 2017 | Virgil Williams dan Dee Rees | Mudbound | novel karya Hillary Jordan |
| Hampton Fancher dan Michael Green | Blade Runner 2049 | para karakter dari Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? karya Philip K. Dick |
| James Ivory | Call Me by Your Name | novel karya André Aciman |
| Scott Neustadter dan Michael H. Weber | The Disaster Artist | memoir karya Greg Sestero dan Tom Bissell |
| Aaron Sorkin | Molly's Game | memoir karya Molly Bloom |
| 2018 | Nicole Holofcener dan Jeff Whitty | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | memoir karya Lee Israel |
| Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel, and Kevin Willmott | BlacKkKlansman | Black Klansman karya Ron Stallworth |
| Ryan Coogler dan Joe Robert Cole | Black Panther | para karakter buatan Jack Kirby dan Stan Lee |
| Barry Jenkins | If Beale Street Could Talk | novel karya James Baldwin |
| Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters, dam Eric Roth | A Star Is Born | A Star Is Born karya William A. Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker, dan Alan Campbell |