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25-621: Talbot Jennings ' screenplay was loosely based on a 1945 novel of the same name by Canadian author Thomas B. Costain , introducing an anachronistic Saxon rebellion against the Norman aristocracy as a vehicle for launching the protagonists on their journey to the Orient . It was filmed partly on location in England and Morocco which substitutes for the Gobi Desert of China . The film

50-601: A Saxon archer, sets out to make his fortune in Cathay (China) during the time of the Pax Mongolica . The pair join a caravan bearing gifts from the merchant Anthemus to Kublai Khan , who is preparing to invade Cathay. The caravan is under the protection of Mongol general Bayan of the Hundred Eyes . Impressed by Tristram's archery skill and his English longbow and Walter's scholarship, Bayan takes an interest in

75-479: A doctor with him on set. Hathaway later said he felt the movie was badly cast, saying Jack Hawkins was "too old" for his role ("it should have been played by someone like Van Johnson ") and that Cécile Aubry "didn't have a lick of sense. I tried to get Leslie Caron but Caron said she loved ballet and didn't want to be in pictures." He also says he and Orson Welles got along "terrible" because Welles would not follow direction. "It pleased him to outwit people. That

100-605: A mission to see the Song dynasty Empress of that part of Cathay not yet under Mongol rule. When he arrives, he is told that he must stay in Cathay as a "guest" for the rest of his life. Then he finds Tristram and Maryam had also been captured and imprisoned. During this time, Walter realizes he loves Maryam. The three of them decide to escape. Tristram dies. The small boat in which Maryam is waiting for Walter in drifts away before Walter can catch her. Walter returns to England alone. Walter

125-580: A unified England, is dismissed by the Saxon Walter, who considers the king’s overtures as perfidy. Rather than remain in England after being fraudulently disinherited by his Norman mother, Walter seeks his fortune in the Far East. Canham writes: While, on the one hand, Walter refuses to become involved in domestic quarrels, he reveals that his apparent patriotism—in this case his strong stance against

150-539: A writing team, with Jim Taylor for Sideways and Jim Rash and Nat Faxon for The Descendants . Michael Wilson was blacklisted at the time of his second Oscar, so the award was given to a front (novelist Pierre Boulle ). However, the Academy officially recognized him as the winner several years later. Billy Wilder , Charles Brackett , Paddy Chayefsky , Francis Ford Coppola , Horton Foote , William Goldman , Robert Benton , Bo Goldman , Waldo Salt , and

175-411: Is E. M. Forster , whose novels A Room with a View and Howards End resulted in wins for Ruth Prawer Jhabvala . Larry McMurtry is the only person who has won for adapting someone else's work ( Brokeback Mountain ), and whose own work has been adapted by someone else, resulting in a win ( Terms of Endearment ) . William Monahan ( The Departed ) and Sian Heder ( CODA ) are

200-565: Is the first person of Māori descent to receive the award. Emma Thompson ( Sense and Sensibility ) is the only winner who has also won for acting. Winners Billy Bob Thornton ( Sling Blade ) and John Huston ( The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ) have been nominated for acting but not won. Charles Schnee ( The Bad and the Beautiful ) , Billy Bob Thornton ( Sling Blade ), and Bill Condon ( Gods and Monsters ) are

225-601: Is welcomed back by the Norman King Edward because of all the cultural and scientific knowledge (including gunpowder ) he has brought back from China. The king knights Walter and grants him a coat of arms . Two Mongol emissaries from Bayan show up. They have brought the Black Rose to England to join Walter there. The Black Rose was the first film Henry Hathaway directed after an operation for cancer. He had

250-450: The Coen brothers have won Oscars for both original and adapted screenplays. Frances Marion ( The Big House ) was the first woman to win in any screenplay category, although she won for her original script for Best Writing, which then included both original and adapted screenplays before a separate award for Best Original Screenplay was introduced. Sarah Y. Mason ( Little Women ) was

275-496: The Englishmen. Lu Chung, the head of the caravan, blackmails Walter into assisting the escape of Maryam, Anthemus's half-English sister, nicknamed the "Black Rose", being sent as one of the gifts. Maryam loves Walter, but he is too interested in his adventure to pay her any attention. Tristram does not like all the killing and decides to get away. He takes Maryam with him because she wants to go to England. Bayan sends Walter on

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300-500: The Normans—is in fact secondary to his desire for power through possessions… After Walter’s fellow Saxon and comrade, Trisham the bowman, is killed, he returns to England. Canham describes the film’s denouement: “Walter, having fulfilled his destiny in a determinedly Fascist manner, receives recognition for discoveries that are not of his own making; relies on the power and protection of a warlord to further his interests and ends up getting

325-454: The first African-American writing duo to win; Spike Lee and Kevin Willmott ( BlacKkKlansman ) are the second, although their co-writers, David Rabinowitz and Charlie Wachtel, are both white. James Ivory ( Call Me by Your Name ) is the oldest person to receive the award at age 89. Charlie Wachtel ( BlacKkKlansman ) is the youngest at age 32. Taika Waititi ( Jojo Rabbit )

350-592: The first siblings to win in this category. James Goldman ( The Lion in Winter ) and William Goldman ( All the President's Men ) are the first siblings to win for separate films. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen ( No Country for Old Men ) are the third winning siblings. Mario Puzo is the one of two writers whose work has been adapted and resulted in two wins. Puzo's novel The Godfather resulted in wins in 1972 and 1974 for himself and Francis Ford Coppola . The other

375-622: The first woman to win for adaptation from previously established material; she shared the award with her husband, Victor Heerman . They are also the first of two married couples to win in this category;  Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh ( The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ) are the others. Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney ( The Story of Louis Pasteur ) were the first to win for adapting their own work. Philip G. Epstein and Julius J. Epstein ( Casablanca ) are

400-512: The girl whom he had constantly abused and cynically mistreated.” Talbot Jennings Talbot Lanham Jennings (August 25, 1894 – May 30, 1985) was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received two Academy Award nominations for co-writing the screenplays for Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Anna and the King of Siam (1946). He was born in 1894 in Shoshone, Idaho , his father

425-430: The lately deceased Earl of Lessford, returns from Oxford and hears the reading of his father's will. He receives only a pair of boots, but Walter recognizes it as a token of his father's love for him. The earl's Norman widow takes Saxon hostages against possible unrest. Walter joins a group of Saxons who free them, but is forced to flee England when he is recognized. Walter, accompanied by his friend Tristram Griffen,

450-508: The only people who have won this award by using another full-length feature film as the credited source of the adaptation. Geoffrey S. Fletcher ( Precious ), John Ridley ( 12 Years a Slave ) and Cord Jefferson ( American Fiction ) are the only African-Americans to win solo in this category; Fletcher is also the first African-American to win in any writing category. Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney ( Moonlight ) are

475-921: The only winners whose respective films were not nominated for Best Picture . Noted novelists and playwrights nominated in this category include: George Bernard Shaw (who shared an award for an adaptation of his play Pygmalion ), Graham Greene , Tennessee Williams , Vladimir Nabokov , James Hilton , Dashiell Hammett , Raymond Chandler , Lillian Hellman , Irwin Shaw , James Agee , Norman Corwin , S. J. Perelman , Terence Rattigan , John Osborne , Robert Bolt , Harold Pinter , David Mamet , Larry McMurtry , Arthur Miller , John Irving , David Hare , Tony Kushner , August Wilson , Florian Zeller and Kazuo Ishiguro . Ted Elliott , Roger S. H. Schulman , Joe Stillman & Terry Rossio , writers of Shrek and Michael Arndt , John Lasseter , Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich , writers of Toy Story 3 , are as of 2020,

500-881: The story and characters of the original film. Prior to its current name, the award was known as the Academy Award for Best Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium. The Best Adapted Screenplay category has been a part of the Academy Awards since their inception. The first person to win twice in this category was Joseph L. Mankiewicz , who won the award in two consecutive years, 1949 and 1950. Others to win twice in this category include George Seaton , Robert Bolt (who also won in consecutive years), Francis Ford Coppola , Mario Puzo , Alvin Sargent , Ruth Prawer Jhabvala , Michael Wilson , Alexander Payne and Christopher Hampton . Payne won both awards as part of

525-767: The yearbook, Gem of the Mountains , and the Blue Bucket , the English Department literary publication. Jennings did a master's degree at Harvard University , then attended Yale Drama School . Talbot wrote and co-wrote 17 screenplays including Mutiny on the Bounty , Romeo and Juliet , Anna and the King of Siam , Knights of the Round Table , The Good Earth and Northwest Passage . He wrote many screenplays for television also. A story he wrote became The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), and

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550-497: Was an Episcopal archdeacon for Idaho and Wyoming. He attended Nampa High School before World War I in which he saw active service as an artilleryman in the U.S. Army , where he fought in five major battles. After to war he went to University of Idaho and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1924. He was president of the Associated Students and wrote Light on the Mountains , a state history set to music. He also edited

575-750: Was his last film. In the 1940 B-movie The Devil's Pipeline , Richard Arlen and Andy Devine play characters named Talbot and Jennings, apparently an inside joke by one of its writers. He died at East Glacier Park, Montana . Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay adapted from previously established material. The most frequently adapted media are novels, but other adapted narrative formats include stage plays, musicals, short stories, TV series, and other films and film characters. All sequels are also considered adaptations by this standard, being based on

600-469: Was partly conceived as a follow-up to the movie Prince of Foxes (1949), and reunited the earlier film's two male leads. British costume designer Michael Whittaker was nominated at the 23rd Academy Awards for his work on the film ( Best Costumes-Color ). Two hundred years after the Norman Conquest , during the reign of Edward I , Saxon scholar Walter of Gurnie, the illegitimate son of

625-717: Was the trouble with him throughout his career." However he admired Welles. The Black Rose is among the first American features to be filmed on location after the Second World War, shot largely in North Africa. Trade papers called the film a "notable box office attraction" in British cinemas in 1950. According to biographer Kingley Canham, Tyrone Power’s character, the dispossessed Walter of Gurnie, emerges as “an unsavory Hathaway hero.” The Norman king, Edward I (Micheal Rennie), who would relinquish his crown to see

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