Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay 1981
53rd Academy Awards · held March 31, 1981 · 5 nominees
- Winner Ordinary People · Alvin Sargent
- Nominee Breaker Morant · Bruce Beresford, David Stevens, Jonathan Hardy
- Nominee Coal Miner's Daughter · Thomas Rickman
- Nominee The Elephant Man · Christopher De Vore, David Lynch, Eric Bergren
- Nominee The Stunt Man · Lawrence B. Marcus, Richard Rush