What is BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay?
{{redlinks|date=December 2015}} The '''[[British Academy of Film and Television Arts]] (BAFTA) Award for Best Adapted Screenplay''' has been presented to its winners since 1983. Before it was called the [[BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay]]. ==Winners and nominees== ===1980s=== '''1983:''' ''[[Heat and Dust (film)|Heat and Dust]]'' &ndash; [[Ruth Prawer Jhabvala]] * ''[[Betrayal (1983 film)|Betrayal]]'' &ndash; [[Harold Pinter]] * ''[[Educating Rita (film)|Educating Rita]]'' &ndash; [[Willy Russell]] * ''[[Tootsie]]'' &ndash; [[Larry Gelbart]] and [[Murray Schisgal]] '''1984:''' ''[[The Killing Fields (film)|The Killing Fields]]'' &ndash; [[Bruce Robinson]] * ''[[Another Country (1984 film)|Another Country]]'' &ndash; [[Julian Mitchell]] * ''[[The Dresser]]'' &ndash; [[Ronald Harwood]] * ''[[Paris, Texas (film)|Paris, Texas]]'' &ndash; [[Sam Shepard]] '''1985:''' ''[[Prizzi's Honor]]'' &ndash; [[Richard Condon]] and [[Janet Roach]] * ''[[Amadeus (film)|Amadeus]]'' &ndash; [[Peter Shaffer]] * ''[[A Passage to India (film)|A Passage to India]]'' &ndash; [[David Lean]] * ''[[The Shooting Party]]'' &ndash; [[Julian Bond]] '''1986:''' ''[[Out of Africa (film)|Out of Africa]]'' &ndash; [[Kurt Luedtke]] * ''[[Children of a Lesser God]]'' &ndash; [[Hesper Anderson]] and [[Mark Medoff]] * ''[[The Color Purple (film)|The Color Purple]]'' &ndash; [[Menno Meyjes]] * ''[[Ran (film)|Ran]]'' &ndash; [[Masato Ide]], [[Akira Kurosawa]] and [[Hideo Oguni]] * ''[[A Room with a View (film)|A Room with a View]]'' &ndash; [[Ruth Prawer Jhabvala]] '''1987:''' ''[[Jean de Florette]]'' &ndash; [[Claude Berri]] and [[Gérard Brach]] * ''[[84 Charing Cross Road (film)|84 Charing Cross Road]]'' &ndash; [[Hugh Whitemore]] * ''[[Little Dorrit (film)|Little Dorrit]]'' &ndash; [[Christine Edzard]] * ''[[Prick Up Your Ears]]'' &ndash; [[Alan Bennett]] '''1988:''' ''[[The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film)|The Unbearable Lightness of Being]]'' &ndash; [[Jean-Claude Carrière]] and [[Philip Kaufman]] * ''[[Babettes gæstebud]]'' &ndash; [[Gabr