National Board of Review Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

Winners
Names and titles in bold indicate writers that won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Names and titles with an asterisk (*) indicate films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, but did not win. Names and titles with two asterisks indicate films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
 * 2003 - Cold Mountain (Anthony Minghella)
 * 2004 - Sideways (Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor)
 * 2005 - Syriana** (Stephen Gaghan)
 * 2006 - The Painted Veil (Ron Nyswaner)
 * 2007 - No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen)
 * 2008 - Slumdog Millionaire (Simon Beaufoy) / The Curious Case of Benjamin Button* (Eric Roth)
 * 2009 - Up in the Air* (Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner)
 * 2010 - The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin)
 * 2011 - The Descendants (Nat Faxon, Alexander Payne, and Jim Rash)
 * 2012 - Silver Linings Playbook* David O. Russell)
 * 2013 - The Wolf of Wall Street* (Terence Winter)
 * 2014 - Inherent Vice* (Paul Thomas Anderson)
 * 2015 - The Martian* (Drew Goddard)
 * 2016 - Silence (Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese)
 * 2017 - The Disaster Artist* (Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber)
 * 2018 - If Beale Street Could Talk* (Barry Jenkins)

Most wins

 * 2 - Alexander Payne