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The César Award for Best Adaptation (French: César de la meilleure adaptation) is an award presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma. It was initially awarded from 1983 to 1985, and then awarded again in 2006, when the original category (César Award for Best Writing) was split into two awards, the other being César Award for Best Original Screenplay.
| César Award for Best Adaptation | |
|---|---|
| Country | France |
| Presented by | Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma |
| First awarded | 1983–1985; 2006–present |
| Currently held by | Valérie Donzelli and Audrey Diwan for Just the Two of Us (2024) |
| Website | academie-cinema |
1980s
| Year | Winners and nominees | Original title | Writer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 (8th) | L'Étoile du Nord | Jean Aurenche, Pierre Granier-Deferre and Michel Grisolia | |
| Danton | Jean-Claude Carrière and Jacek Gasiorowski | ||
| Les Misérables | Alain Decaux and Robert Hossein | ||
| Hécate | Hécate, maîtresse de la nuit | Pascal Jardin and Daniel Schmid | |
| 1984 (9th) | One Deadly Summer | L'Été meurtrier | Sébastien Japrisot |
| For Those I Loved | Au nom de tous les miens | Robert Enrico | |
| So Long, Stooge | Tchao Pantin | Claude Berri and Alain Page | |
| 1985 (10th) | A Sunday in the Country | Un dimanche à la campagne | Bertrand Tavernier and Colo Tavernier |
| Le Bon Plaisir | Francis Girod and Françoise Giroud | ||
| The Public Woman | La Femme publique | Dominique Garnier and Andrzej Żuławski | |
The César Award for Best Writing was awarded from 1986 to 2005.
2000s
| Year | Winners and nominees | Original title | Writer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 (31st) | The Beat That My Heart Skipped | De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté | Jacques Audiard and Tonino Benacquista |
| The Axe | Le couperet | Costa-Gavras and Jean-Claude Grumberg | |
| In His Hands | Entre ses mains | Anne Fontaine and Julien Boivent | |
| Gabrielle | Patrice Chéreau and Anne-Louise Trividic for | ||
| The Last Mitterrand | Le promeneur du Champ-de-Mars | Xavier Beauvois, Guillaume Bréaud and Jean-Eric Troubat | |
| 2007 (32nd) | Lady Chatterley | Roger Bohbot, Pascale Ferran and Pierre Trividic | |
| Don't Worry, I'm Fine | Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas | Philippe Lioret and Olivier Adam | |
| OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies | OSS 117: Le Caire, nid d'espions | Jean-François Halin and Michel Hazanavicius for | |
| Private Fears in Public Places | Cœurs | Jean-Michel Ribes | |
| Tell No One | Ne le dis à personne | Guillaume Canand and Philippe Lefèbvre for | |
| 2008 (33rd) | Persepolis | Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi | |
| Darling | Christine Carrière | ||
| The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Le scaphandre et le papillon | Ronald Harwood | |
| Hunting and Gathering | Ensemble, c'est tout | Claude Berri | |
| A Secret | Un secret | Nathalie Carter and Claude Miller | |
| 2009 (34th) | The Class | Entre les murs | François Bégaudeau, Robin Campillo and Laurent Cantet |
| The Beautiful Person | La belle personne | Christophe Honoré and Gilles Taurand | |
| Crime Is Our Business | Le crime est notre affaire | François Caviglioli and Pascal Thomas | |
| Love Me No More | Deux jours à tuer | Éric Assous, Jérôme Beaujour, Jean Becker and François d'Épenoux | |
| Public Enemy Number One: Part 1 and 2 | L'instinct de mort and L'ennemi public n°1 | Abdel Raouf Dafri and Jean-François Richet | |
2010s
2020s
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