Adapted from George Armitage Miller | Miller, George A ( 2003 ).

* Lady for a Day ( 1933 )— Adapted by Robert Riskin, who suggested the name change from Runyon's title " Madame La Gimp ," the film garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director ( Frank Capra ), Best Actress ( May Robson ), and Best Adaptation for the Screen ( Riskin ).

Adapted from the story " The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown ".

Adapted from Runyon's stories " The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown " and " Blood Pressure ".

Adapted from by Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin

The near 3-hour-long epic, which chronicled the saga of the Corleone family, received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics, and fetched Coppola the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, which he shared with Mario Puzo, and two Golden Globe Awards-for Best Director and Best Screenplay.

The film won the 1981 British Academy of Film and Television Arts ( Film ) Best Screenplay Award, as well as the 1980 Writers Guild of America Award ( Screen ) for Best Comedy Adapted from Another Medium.

Adapted from Antonia Fraser's book Marie Antoinette: The Journey, the film was Dunst's second with director Sofia Coppola.

* Adapted from the 9th edition ( 1888 ) of the Encyclopædia Britannica

* The stages of Xenopus embryonic development Adapted from P. D.

* Jamaican — Roberts, Walter Adolphe: Pierrot Wounded, Adapted from the French of P. Alberty ( 1917 ).

Therefore the film ended up being excluded from the race for the Foreign Language Film Award, even though it was successful and received numerous other awards, including an Academy Award for Best Original Song, an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, and the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language.

( Adapted from Barbara Tuchman )

Adapted from the art of swordsmanship, Eiko ( glory ) is a hymn to the glory of the human adventure, taking the practitioner between earth and heaven, ideal and reality.

Adapted from the CIA World Factbook 2000.

* Adapted from the notes of Hopoyv Fekseko ( D. Joseph Alderson )

Adapted by Frances Marion from the 1913 play by Eleanor Gates.

Adapted almost directly from the low freeboard, French river bateaus, with their straight sides and removable thwarts, bank dories could be nested inside each other and stored on the decks of fishing schooners, such as the Gazela Primeiro, for their trip to fishing banks, such as the Grand Banks.

Adapted from a radio play Bolt had written in 1954, it is generally regarded as Bolt's finest work-and certainly his most successful.

** WGA Screen Award – Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium: George Seaton

* Adapted by Mike Kenny and directed by Gail McIntyre The Snow Queen was performed at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds from 5 December 2008 to 10 January 2009.

The script of the latter earned him an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, but Lardner would later distance himself from the film due to the fact that director Robert Altman changed the script so much.

( Adapted from the Hagerman Fossil Beds Official Map and Guide.

Adapted by Paul Attanasio from Richard Goodwin's memoir Remembering America, the film is based upon the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s.

Adapted theatrical performances of the novel remained in continual production in the United States for at least eighty years.

Adapted several times for the screen, the novel became a bestseller.

Adapted from the novel by Don Sharp, the story takes place in a Norfolk country village where the locals decide to fight against a proposal to build a rocket range on a bird sanctuary.

Adapted by Clifford Odets from the novel by Richard Llewellyn and directed by Odets, the movie stars Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald, June Duprez, Jane Wyatt, George Coulouris, and Dan Duryea.

Adapted from the novel The Flower Drum Song by C. Y. Lee, it tells the story of a culture clash with a Chinese family living in San Francisco.

Adapted from the John Fowles novel by Harold Pinter, it starred Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep.

* The Man in the Royal Suite — Adapted by Collier from a novel by Edgar Wallace for The Four Just Men, April 27, 1960 ( Season 1, Episode 27 ).

Adapted from the celebrated novel of the same name, by the author of the Diary of a Physician, and arranged for the stage, by Richard Brinsley Peake

The next Merchant-Ivory project Shakespeare Wallah ( 1965 ), was a critical success, and it was followed by a number of other collaborations between the three, including an adaptation of Jhabvala's novel Heat and Dust, ( 1983 ); the docudrama The Courtesans of Bombay ( 1983 ); A Room with a View ( 1985 ), for which she won her first Oscar ; Mr. and Mrs. Bridge ( 1990 ); Howards End ( 1992 ), her second Oscar win ; and The Remains of the Day ( 1993 ), for which she was nominated for a third Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, though she did not win.

Adapted from the Raymond Chandler Philip Marlowe detective novel, the film is noteworthy for the revolutionary way it is filmed entirely from Marlowe's vantage point.

In 1988, Kaufman was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for The Unbearable Lightness of Being, based on the novel by Milan Kundera.

In this novel ( originally a series of short stories ) the Adapted Men are reshaped human beings, designed for life on a variety of other planets.

* Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay ( nomination ) – Albert Maltz ( front: Michael Blankfort ) from the novel Blood Brother by Elliott Arnold

Adapted from the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses, which takes place in late 18th century France, the film is set in late 18th century Korea, during the Joseon dynasty.

Adapted from the stage play version of Herman Melville's short novel Billy Budd, it starred Terence Stamp as Billy Budd, Robert Ryan as John Claggart, and Ustinov as Captain Vere.

Adapted from the earlier film of the same title under the personal direction of Zhou Enlai, which in turn adapted from the novel by Liang Xin, it depicts the liberation of a peasant girl in Hainan Island and her rise in the Chinese Communist Party.

* Goggle Eyes ( adaptation of an Anne Fine novel ) ( 1993 ) ( Won a Writers ' Guild Award for Best Adapted TV Serial )

Based on the novel by Pierre Boulle, the two were not given screen credit and the Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay went to Pierre Boulle, who did not speak English.

* Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter ( IDW Comics, July 2009 ) Adapted from the novel by Richard Stark, illustrated by Cooke.

* Richard Stark's Parker: The Outfit ( IDW Comics, October 2010 ) Adapted from the novel by Richard Stark, illustrated by Cooke.

* Richard Stark's Parker: The Score ( IDW Comics, May 2012 ) Adapted from the novel by Richard Stark, illustrated by Cooke.

* Richard Stark's Parker: Slayground ( IDW Comics, TBA ) Adapted from the novel by Richard Stark, illustrated by Cooke.

James Kennaway, who adapted the screenplay from his novel, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, but lost to Elmer Gantry.