Best Adapted Screenplay Winner

Fast Facts:

  1. Winner: The Coen Brothers
  2. Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay
  3. Movie: No Country for Old Men
  4. Presenters: Josh Brolin
  5. At the 2008 Oscars

Competition for Best Adapted Screenplay

  1. Christopher Hampton for Atonement
  2. Sarah Polley for Away From Her
  3. Ronald Harwood for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  4. Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood

Coen Brothers Acceptance Speech: Thank you very much for this. Thank you Scott Rudin for bringing us the novel and giving us a chance to make this movie. Whatever success we've had in this area is entirely attributable to how selective we are. We've only adapted Homer and Cormac McCarthy. Thank you.

  • Thank you very much.


Coen Brothers Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Acceptance Speech

  • YouTube Video: Best Adapted Screenplay (Time: 3:13)


  • Coen Brothers Oscar Acceptance Speech: Thank you very much for this. Than you Scott Rudin for bringing us the novel and giving us a chance to make this movie. Whateve success we've had in this area is entirely attributable to how selective we are. We've only adapted Homer and Cormac McCarthy. Thank you.
  • Thank you very much.