Female-Written Films Dominate Adapted Screenplay Category for First Time Since 1992
Adapted Screenplay: 3 Women![]()
Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog), Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Lost Daughter) and Siân Heder (CODA) all received adapted screenplay nominations for their respective films.
Those nods mark the most female-written films recognized in the category since 1992, where nominated films included The Prince of Tides (Becky Johnston and Pat Conroy), Europa Europa (Agnieszka Holland) and Fried Green Tomatoes (Fannie Flagg and Carol Sobieski).
Brokeback Mountain
The last woman to win an Oscar for adapted screenplay was Diana Ossana for the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain, which she wrote with Larry McMurty.
There have been 8 films written by women that have won Oscars for adapted screenplay including:
The Big House (1930) written by Frances Marion, Little Women (1933) written by Sarah Y. Mason, Mrs. Miniver (1942) written by Claudine West, A Room with a View (1986) and Howard’s End (1992) both written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Sense and Sensibility (1995) written by Emma Thompson, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) by Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens and Brokeback Mountain by Ossana and McMurty.
