| 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 |
| 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 [fr] and Thierry Robin [fr] |
| 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 |
