The best adapted screenplay award by its own name would require the winningscreenplay to be a reasonably faithful adaptation of the material (in this case, of the plot) in the original source.
Unfortunately, putting together Fitzgerald’s short story and the (related?) movie The Strange case of Benjamin Button is more of a trivial spot-the-difference exercise rather than the fluid translation of words in images.
In case you want to play the Spot-the-difference, here is part of the solution:
1. When he is born, Benjamin is NOT abandoned by his father
2. The story is NOT told by the dying wife of Benjamin
3. Benjamin has a conflicting/abnormal relation with the father, and is no mother-like figure appears in the story
4.Benjamins, when he looks about 50, marries a younger lady, for whom he grows a striking dislike as age leaves its mark on her
5. The wife’s name is Hildegarde, not Daisy
6. Benjamin tries to go to Princeton, where he is rejected because his appearance does not match that of a freshman, and later on goes to Harvard, a high school and finally primary school and kindergarden
7. Benjamin serves in the Spanish Independence war and becomes a luitenant
8. Worse, in the short story Benjamin’s mental faculties match his physical appearance: when he is born, and looks old, he enjoys reading the Encyclopedia Britannica, when he is younger, that is after having lived, he enjoys drawing colored lines on pieces of paper
9. Benjamin has a SON, rather than a daughter, who dislikes him as time passes
10. Benjamin does not have any of the romances that he has in the movie.
Posted by scratfromscratch 
Posted by scratfromscratch 
Posted by scratfromscratch 
scratfromscratch