| Year | Winner | Writer(s) | Source | 
  | 2010 | The Social Network | Aaron Sorkin | novel by Ben Mezrich | 
  | Rabbit Hole | David Lindsay-Abaire | play by David Lindsay-Abaire | 
  | Toy Story 3 | Michael Arndt |  | 
  | True Grit | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | novel by Charles Portis | 
  | Winter's Bone | Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini | novel by Daniel Woodrell | 
  | 2011 | Moneyball | Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin | book by Michael Lewis | 
  | The Descendants | Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash | novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings | 
  | Drive | Hossein Amini | book by James Sallis | 
  | Hugo | John Logan | novel by Brian Selznick | 
  | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan | book by John le Carré | 
  | 2012 | Lincoln | Tony Kushner | novel by Doris Kearns Goodwin | 
  | Argo | Chris Terrio | novel by Tony Mendez article by Joshuah Bearman
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  | Beasts of the Southern Wild | Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin | novel by Lucy Alibar | 
  | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Stephen Chbosky | book by Stephen Chbosky | 
  | Silver Linings Playbook | David O. Russell | novel by Matthew Quick | 
  | 2013 | 12 Years a Slave | John Ridley | memoir by Solomon Northup | 
  | August: Osage County | Tracy Letts | play by Tracy Letts | 
  | Before Midnight | Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, and Julie Delpy | characters by Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan | 
  | Philomena | Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope | novel by Martin Sixsmith | 
  | The Wolf of Wall Street | Terence Winter | memoir by Jordan Belfort | 
  | 2014 | Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn | novel by Gillian Flynn | 
  | The Imitation Game | Graham Moore | novel by Andrew Hodges | 
  | Inherent Vice | Paul Thomas Anderson | book by Thomas Pynchon | 
  | Under the Skin | Walter Campbell | novel by Michel Faber | 
  | Wild | Nick Hornby | memoir by Cheryl Strayed | 
  | 2015 | The Big Short | Adam McKay and Charles Randolph | novel by Michael Lewis | 
  | Anomalisa | Charlie Kaufman | play by Charlie Kaufman | 
  | Brooklyn | Nick Hornby | novel by Colm Tóibín | 
  | Room | Emma Donoghue | novel by Emma Donoghue | 
  | Steve Jobs | Aaron Sorkin | book by Walter Isaacson | 
  | 2016 | The Handmaiden | Seo-Kyung Chung and Chan-wook Park | novel by Sarah Waters | 
  | Arrival | Eric Heisserer | short story by Ted Chiang | 
  | Elle | David Birke | novel by Philippe Djian | 
  | Love & Friendship | Whit Stillman | novel by Jane Austen | 
  | Silence | Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese | novel by Shūsaku Endō | 
  | 2017 | Call Me by Your Name | James Ivory | novel by André Aciman | 
  | Blade Runner 2049 | Hampton Fancher and Michael Green | short story by Philip K. Dick | 
  | The Disaster Artist | Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber | book by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell | 
  | Logan | Scott Frank, James Mangold & Michael Green | character by Roy Thomas, Len Wein and John Romita Sr. | 
  | Mudbound | Dee Rees and Virgil Williams | novel by Hillary Jordan | 
  | 2018 | If Beale Street Could Talk | Barry Jenkins | novel by James Baldwin | 
  | BlacKkKlansman | Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee | memoir by Ron Stallworth | 
  | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty | memoir by Lee Israel | 
  | The Death of Stalin | Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin and Peter Fellows | graphic novel by Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin | 
  | A Star Is Born | Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters and Eric Roth | script by William A. Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell | 
  | 2019 | Little Women | Greta Gerwig | novel by Louisa May Alcott | 
  | A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster | Can You Say... Hero? by Tom Junod | 
  | Hustlers | Lorene Scafaria | The Hustlers at Scores: The Ex-Strippers Who Stole From (Mostly) Rich Men and Gave to, Well, Themselves by Jessica Pressler | 
  | The Irishman | Steven Zaillian | I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt | 
  | Jojo Rabbit | Taika Waititi | Caging Skies by Christine Leunens |