Chlotrudis Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
The Chlotrudis Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is an award given by the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film to the writer or writers of the screenplay adapted from other sources that voted by participating members. The Chlotrudis Awards is an annual ceremony where the best of the previous year's independent and international film are honored,
Winners and nominees
Note: From 1998 through 2000, there was only one award given in the category of Best Screenplay. After that year, awards were given in two categories, the Best Adapted Screenplay and the Best Original Screenplay.
1990s
- '1998 Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson —L.A. Confidential'' (Best Screenplay)
:*Paul Attanasio — Donnie Brasco
:*Ben Affleck and Matt Damon — Good Will Hunting
:*Tom Jankiewicz, D.V. DeVincentis, Steve Pink and John Cusack — Grosse Pointe Blank
:*Paula Milne — Hollow Reed
:*Bart Freundlich — The Myth of Fingerprints
- '1999 Todd Solondz —Happiness'' (Best Screenplay)
:*Vincenzo Cerami and Roberto Benigni — Life is Beautiful
:*Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard — Shakespeare in Love
:*Don Roos — The Opposite of [...]
:*David Mamet — The Spanish Prisoner
:*Andrew Niccol — The Truman Show
2000s
- '2000 Charlie Kaufman —Being John Malkovich'' (Best Screenplay)
:*Alan Ball — American Beauty
:*Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor — Election
:*David Cronenberg — eXistenZ
:*Don McKellar — Last Night
:*Patricia Rozema — Mansfield Park
:*Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson — Rushmore
:*Brad Bird and Tim McCanlies — Magnolia
:*M. Night Shyamalan — The Sixth Sense
- '2001 Mary Harron and Guinevere Turner —American Psycho''
:*Claire Denis and Jean-Pol Fargeau — Beau travail
:*Sofia Coppola — The Virgin Suicides
:*Julie Taymor — Titus
:*Stephen Gaghan — Traffic
:*Daniel Reitz and Jon Matthews — Urbania
- '2002 Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson —The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring''
:*John Cameron Mitchell — Hedwig and the Angry Inch
:*Robert Festinger and Todd Field — In the Bedroom
:*Christopher Nolan — Memento
:*Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff — Amores perros
- '2003 Andrew Bovell —Lantana''
:*Marina de Van and François Ozon — 8 Women
:*Michael Haneke — The Piano Teacher
:*Erin Cressida Wilson and Steven Shainberg — Secretary
- '2004 Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini —American Splendor''
:*Don Coscarelli — Bubba Ho-tep
:*Daniel MacIvor — Marion Bridge
:*Liana Dognini and Lynne Ramsay — Morvern Callar
:*Billy Ray — Shattered Glass
:*Rose Troche — The Safety of Objects
:*Craig Lucas — The Secret Lives of Dentists
:*Niki Caro — Whale Rider
- '2005 Guy Maddin and George Toles —The Saddest Music in the World''
:*Michael Cunningham — A Home at the End of the World
:*Jose Rivera — The Motorcycle Diaries
:*Krzysztof Kieslowski — Big Animal
:*Dae-woo Kim, Hyeon-jeong Kim, and Je-yong Lee — Untold Scandal
:*Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor — Sideways
:*Yôji Yamada and Yoshitaka Asama — The Twilight Samurai
- '2006 Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana —Brokeback Mountain''
:*Dan Futterman — Capote
:*Jo-yun Hwang, Chun-hyeong Lim, Joon-hyung Lim and Chan-wook Park — Oldboy
:*Jun Ichikawa — Tony Takitani
:*Gregg Araki — Mysterious Skin
- '2007 Frank Cottrell Boyce —A [...] and Bull Story''
:*Richard Linklater — A Scanner Darkly
:*Tony Grisoni — Brothers of the Head
:*Emmanuel Carrère — La Moustache
:*Todd Field and Tom Perrotta — Little Children
:*Alan Bennett — The History Boys
- '2008 Sarah Polley —Away from Her''
:*Ronald Harwood — The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
:*Ethan and Joel Coen — No Country for Old Men
:*Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi — Persepolis
:*Paul Thomas Anderson — There Will Be Blood
- '2009 John Ajvide Lindqvist —Let the Right One In''
:*Jean-François Halin and Michel Hazanavicius — OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
:*Maureen Medved — The Tracey Fragments
:*Lucía Puenzo — XXY