Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Screenplay is one of the annual film awards given by the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association.

Winners

2000s

Year	Winner	Writer(s)	Source
2002	Charlie Kaufman	Adaptation.	The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
2003	Brian Helgeland	Mystic River	novel by Dennis Lehane
	Bráulio Mantovani	City of God (Cidade de Deus)	novel by Paulo Lins
	Peter Jackson, Frances Walsh and Philippa Boyens	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	novel by J. R. R. Tolkien
	Billy Ray	Shattered Glass	article by H. G. Bissinger
	Peter Weir and John Collee	Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World	novels by Patrick O'Brian
2004	Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor	Sideways	novel by Rex Pickett
2005	Dan Futterman	Capote	In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
	Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana	Brokeback Mountain	short story by Annie Proulx
	Arthur Golden, Robin Swicord and Doug Wright	Memoirs of a Geisha	novel by Arthur Golden
	Tony Kushner and Eric Roth	Munich	book by George Jonas
	Deborah Moggach	Pride and Prejudice	novel by Jane Austen
2006	Jason Reitman	Thank You for Smoking	novel by Christopher Buckley
2007	Aaron Sorkin	Charlie Wilson's War	novel by George Crile III
2008	Simon Beaufoy	Slumdog Millionaire	Q & A by Vikas Swarup
2009	Sheldon Turner and Jason Reitman	Up in the Air	novel by Walter Kirn
	Nick Hornby	An Education	memoir by Lynn Barber
	Geoffrey Fletcher	Precious	novel by Sapphire
	John Lee Hancock	The Blind Side	book by Michael Lewis
	Joe Penhall	The Road	novel by Cormac McCarthy

2010s

Year	Winner	Writer(s)	Source
2010	Aaron Sorkin	The Social Network	The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich
	Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy	127 Hours	Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston
	Michael Arndt	Toy Story 3	characters by John Lasseter
	Joel and Ethan Coen	True Grit	novel by Charles Portis
	Debra Granik and Anne Rosselini	Winter's Bone	novel by Daniel Woodrell
2011	Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash	The Descendants	novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings
	Tate Taylor	The Help	novel by Kathryn Stockett
	John Logan	Hugo	The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
	Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin	Moneyball	novel by Charles Portis
	Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carré
2012	David O. Russell	Silver Linings Playbook	The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
	Chris Terrio	Argo	The Master of Disguise by Tony Mendez
	David Magee	Life of Pi	novel by Yann Martel
	Tony Kushner	Lincoln	Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
	Stephen Chbosky	The Perks of Being a Wallflower	novel by Stephen Chbosky
2013	John Ridley	12 Years a Slave	memoir by Solomon Northup
	Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy	Before Midnight	characters by Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan
	Billy Ray	Captain Phillips	A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea by Richard Phillips
	Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber	The Spectacular Now	novel by Tim Tharp
	Terence Winter	The Wolf of Wall Street	memoir by Jordan Belfort
2014	Gillian Flynn	Gone Girl	novel by Gillian Flynn
	Graham Moore	The Imitation Game	Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
	Paul Thomas Anderson	Inherent Vice	novel by Thomas Pynchon
	Anthony McCarten	The Theory of Everything	Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Hawking
	Nick Hornby	Wild	memoir by Cheryl Strayed