<P> See also the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, a similar award for screenplays that are not adaptations . </P> <P> The first person to win twice in this category is 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, Alexander Payne and Michael Wilson . Payne won both awards as part of a writing duo, with Jim Taylor, and writing trio, with Jim Rash and Nat Faxon . 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 . </P> <P> Frances Marion was the first woman to win in this category, in 1930 . </P> <P> Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney were the first to win for adapting their own work, for The Life of Emile Zola . </P>

Who was the first woman to win the academy award for best adapted screenplay