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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	Coen brothers	11,342
2	Emma Thompson	9,665
3	Oliver Stone	8,337
4	Peter Jackson	7,426
5	Francis Ford Coppola	5,527
6	George Bernard Shaw	5,247
7	Billy Bob Thornton	4,297
8	Billy Wilder	3,159
9	John Irving	1,489
10	Alexander Payne	1,103
11	John Osborne	872
12	William Peter Blatty	693
13	Larry McMurtry	639
14	Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)	578
15	Fran Walsh	543
16	Stephen Gaghan	459
17	Akiva Goldsman	426
18	Curtis Hanson	382
19	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	377
20	Peter Shaffer	351
21	Costa-Gavras	318
22	Eric Roth	270
23	Steven Zaillian	268
24	Richard Brooks	262
25	Robert Bolt	208
26	Christopher Hampton	193
27	Robert Benton	189
28	Ring Lardner, Jr.	177
29	Alan Jay Lerner	174
30	Simon Beaufoy	166
31	Alvin Sargent	147
32	John Farrow	135
33	Ronald Harwood	129
34	Sidney Howard	98
35	Philippa Boyens	92
36	Carl Foreman	91
37	George Seaton	79
38	Waldo Salt	68
39	Charles Brackett	61
40	Geoffrey S. Fletcher	60
41	Alfred Uhry	57
42	Michael Wilson (writer)	55
43	Ernest Tidyman	50
44	Bo Goldman	48
45	Abby Mann	48
46	Diana Ossana	46
47	Menno Meyjes	46
48	Jim Taylor (writer)	40
49	Dudley Nichols	39
50	Donald Ogden Stewart	28
51	Neil Paterson (writer)	28
52	Daniel Taradash	28
53	Howard Estabrook	18
54	Benjamin Glazer	16
55	Frank Butler (writer)	13
56	Norman Reilly Raine	7

Subcategories

• Films whose writer won the Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award

Parent categories

• Academy Award winners
• Screenwriters

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