Over the years, Uncle Vanya has been adapted for film several times.
- Uncle Vanya, a 1957 adaptation of a concurrent Off-Broadway production that starred Franchot Tone, who co-produced and co-directed the film
- Uncle Vanya, a version of the star-studded 1962–63 Chichester Festival stage production, directed for the stage by Laurence Olivier, who played Astrov, and also starring Michael Redgrave as Vanya, Max Adrian as Professor Serebryakov, Rosemary Harris as Yelena, and Olivier's wife Joan Plowright as Sonya. Harold Hobson of The Sunday Times described the Chichester production as "the admitted master achievement in British twentieth-century theatre" while The New Yorker called it "probably the best 'Vanya' in English we shall ever see".[18]
- Uncle Vanya, a 1970 Russian film version, adapted and directed by Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky.
- Uncle Vanya, a 1991 episode of the BBC Performance anthology for TV, starring Ian Holm and David Warner
- Vanya on 42nd Street, a 1994 American film version, adapted by David Mamet and directed by Louis Malle. It stars Wallace Shawn and Julianne Moore. Originally a little-known studio production, it was adapted for the screen, where it garnered wider acclaim.
- Country Life, a 1994 Australian adaptation, set in the Outback, starring Sam Neill as the equivalent of Astrov
- August, a 1996 English film adaptation, set in Wales, directed by and starring Anthony Hopkins in the Vanya role. Hopkins played Astrov in a BBC Play of the Month production in 1970.
- Sonya's Story, an opera adapted by director Sally Burgess, composer Neal Thornton and designer Charles Phu, portraying events in the play Uncle Vanya from the character Sonya's perspective, premiered in 2010.
- Chekhov: Fast & Furious, a multimedia theatric performance project by the Franco-Austrian performance collective Superamas which translates the themes of the “old” theatre into our time, premiered in 2018 at the Vienna Festival in Austria.[19]
- Uncle Vanya, a recording of the interrupted 2020 run at London's Harold Pinter Theatre, adapted by Conor McPherson, starring Aimee Lou Wood, Rosalind Eleazar, Roger Allam, Toby Jones, and Richard Armitage. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was decided to bring the cast back under guidelines and film the play for release in cinemas and later on the BBC.[20]
- Drive My Car, a 2021 film by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, includes a production of Uncle Vanya, with the characters echoing the emotional turmoil of Chekhov's characters as they reveal their trauma and deeply complicated feelings.[21] It is based on a short story collection by Haruki Murakami.[22]
- Vanya, a one-man adaptation for the stage starring Andrew Scott and directed by Sam Yates, had its West End debut in September 2023. It was co-created by Simon Stephens, Sam Yates, Rosanna Vize and Scott himself.[23] The production won best revival at the 2024 Laurence Olivier Awards and Scott was nominated for his performance. A filmed recording was released in cinemas through National Theatre Live in February 2024.[23]
