I'm entering the credits for a French movie Les Choristes and this is what the credits say about the writing section:

Scénario de Christophe Barratier -> Screenwriter

D'après le film La Cage aux Rossignols -> Based on the film
Réalisé par Jean Dreville -> (director of the film which it is based on)
Dialogues: Noel-Noel -> (Dialogues for the film which it is based on)
Adaptation: René Wheeler et Noel-Noel -> (Adaptation for the film which it is based on)
Scénario: Georges Chaperot et René Wheeler -> (Screenwriters for the film which it is based on)

I don't really know how to add these. Well obviously Christophe Barratier as Screenwriter. I'm inclined to add Jean Dreville, Georges Chaperot and René Wheeler as OMB. Dialogues and Adaptations aren't valid credits by the rules anyway. The other two credits are the main makers/writers of the OMB. What do you all think?

Quoting M_E:

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OMB is a writing credit, so directors should never get OMB credit, if they don't have a proper writing credit (written by, screenplay by, or teleplay by).

Chaperot & Wheeler get OMB credit, but Jean Dreville doesn't.

I'm not sure about "adaptation" credits, personally I leave them out or keep them local, so I wouldn't include them in OMB either.

This film is based on another film which is made by the director and his team. So that's why I'm inclined to add the director of the OMB credits... When a film is based on a painting you would credit the painter as OMB although he's not a writer. The OMB credit is a medium and its maker(s).

Quoting Winston Smith:

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Regrettably your inclination is outside the rules, This it is at this time a local only issue. The rules should and will be modified at some point but it is not for us as users to impose our will on the online when something is outside the rules.

Which rule do you mean because the OMB rule is as follows:
Writing -> Original Material By or Based on [anything] By (note: adapted from another medium).

In this case: Based on La Cage aux Rossignols
Directed by Jean Dreville
etc.

Which part of this rule prohibits me adding Jean Dreville? (it a serious question and not me wanting to be right or wrong). So no attacks please.

Haven't seen him in a while, but James is correct.  We credit the people who wrote the original material, not the person who directed, produced it, filmed it, edited it, etc.