#adapted screenplay

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Read the 2025 Oscar-Nominated Screenplays

Adapted Screenplay

A Complete Unknown (Searchlight)

Conclave (Focus Features)

Emilia Perez (Netflix)

Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)

Sing Sing (A24)

Original Screenplay

Anora (Neon)

The Brutalist (A24)

A Real Pain (Fox Searchlight)

September 5 (Paramount)

The Substance (Mubi)

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2022 Golden Chinchillas

Adapted Screenplay

Winner: Bones and All (David Kajganich) / Based on the novel Bones & All by Camille DeAngelis

The Nominees

Both Sides of the Blade (Christine Angot and Claire Denis)

Catherine Called Birdy (Lena Dunham)

Three Thousand Years of Longing (Augusta Gore and George Miller)

The Wonder (Alice Birch, Emma Donohue, and Sebastian Lelio)

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Best original screenplay

Anatomy of a fall, that’s great, Justine Trist

Best Adapted Screenplay

American Fiction Cord Jefferson

I want to see this

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Adapted Screenplay: Can Gerwig beat American Fiction?

The nominees are:

American Fiction

Barbie

Oppenheimer

Poor Things

The Zone of Interest

Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction picked up the BAFTA and Critics' Choice awards, solidifying its spot as the frontrunner for Best Adapted Screenplay, but competition remains fierce.

Oppenheimer is strong across the board, but voters have other opportunities to recognize Christopher Nolan. Poor Things was the pick of the National Board of Review and The Zone of Interest is gaining steam.

But the strongest challenger may be Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, which has at times been in the Original Screenplay category, putting a large question mark over this match-up. While Barbie is likely to pick up Best Song and at least one of Production Design and Costume Design, snubs for director Gerwig and lead actress Margot Robbie may leave Academy voters wanting for an opportunity to provide the film with a major award. America Ferrera’s nomination also signals a lot of love for the excellent monologue she delivers.

With the delay of this year’s WGA awards, we have a little less clarity into who might take home the Oscar. Still, I think Cord Jefferson might just have enough momentum to withstand the coming tides.

Who will win: American Fiction

But look out for: Barbie

Who I’d vote for: American Fiction

If I could add one more: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

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Kevrock’s Oscar Guide 2024

 BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Nominations

American Fiction – Cord Jefferson. Based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett.

Barbie – Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach. Based on characters created by Ruth Handler.

Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan. Based on the biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.

Poor Things – Tony McNamara based on the novel by Alasdair Gray.

The Zone of Interest – Jonathan Glazer. Based on the novel by Martin Amis.

Will win: Oppenheimer. The heft of the book and film match its subject and through three hours and scores of speaking parts (and a timeline almost as fractured as Nolan’s other films) the screenplay never loses its theme – the heroic efforts of a brilliant scientist and born leader to produce a weapon that could end the bloodiest war in history before some of the most evil men in the world can come up with their own version of it, and how he lived to see those efforts make the world more dangerous than he could ever have imagined.

Should win: American Fiction. Jefferson didn’t just adapt Percival Everett’s great novel about one man’s icy satirical rage over the portrayal of his race in fiction. He translated it from a wicked satire of ghetto cliches into a plea for a multiplicity of Afro-American stories without sacrificing the books sardonic tone. And the scene where Monk is trying to make his fake characters into even bigger cartoons, and they talk him out of it is as good a demonstration as any of how American fiction works.

Shoulda been nominated. Spider Man: Across the Spider-Verse –Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.  Lord and  Miller’s script follows what seems to be millions of alt-universe Spider-Men (Spider-Punk!) in an interdimensional story that holds its contradictions better than Everything Everywhere All at Once did. It also enters in elements of Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, as well as a critique of stiff-necked comics fans, all in a story about fate, free will, star-crossed lovers and (of course) power and responsibility that’ll touch your heart as your head spins. And it’s only part two.

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FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

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What makes this especially ridiculous is that Barbie, specifically, is 100% rooted in the decades of cultural narrative and conversation that built up around the toys. There may not have been an official Barbie story (though there have, of course, been Barbie books) but there is an accumulated one that this movie was building off of and responding to. If you showed Barbie to a person who had no prior knowledge of the toys or of the stereotypes associated with them, they would be absolutely lost. Hell, even the slogan in the film's trailer - "if you love Barbie, this film is for you; if you hate Barbie, this film is for you" - acknowledges that people who have no familiarity with Barbie will get nothing out of it.

I'm actually getting kind of angry about this. You guys took Mattel's money and you're still going to get Oscar nominations for it. Don't go acting above it all just because the Academy will not pretend that your IP-based movie is not IP-based.

Watching people go dramatically "Glass Onion is in ADAPTED screenplay? What is it ADAPTED from???" but like. It's a sequel. Under the rules it's adapted from Knives Out

People act like this is some arcane rule but if you look in the credits of original sequels you'll see "Based on Characters created by...". In this case Benoit Blanc. It's silly when it's the same writer writing the same characters but I guess it makes sense if it's new screenwriters being handed characters created by someone else since they are adapting those past writer's work

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the absolute lack of media literacy from people who haven’t even seen oppenheimer is making my head spin but whatever

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i was the target demographic of "fan who would hate this season the most". my critrole tastes were specifically aligned and designed in a lab to hate nearly every single creative decision and change that was made

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here to talk sebchal 🙏 I like aus for them and I feel like the obvious one is professor seb but now I’m thinking like … established oscar winner seb and ingenue scene partner charles

hello there’s many a sebchal ask in the inbox but…… my god…. sebastian being nominated for another oscar and his costar, this upcoming young bright little thing has been nominated for best supporting actor… their new film was quite the indie hit and all eyes on charles. seb makes charged glances at him the whole awards ceremony even though his wife is sitting right there. also charles wears a dress obviously and when he accepts his award blushing and stumbling and nervous seb just has to fuck him hoist the dress up etc. I HAVE SO MANY VISIONS anon you are a GENUIS

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ikrrrrrrrrrrr honestly so fucking deserved especially when you take into account how little money netflix actually put into oscar campaigning holy shit. just a little miffed it didn't pick up best adapted screenplay bc like even though women talking was just epic, i don't think it added much as a film since most of the great parts were already present in the novel, although sarah polley definitely slayed and deserved it.

OH MY FUCKING FRICKING GOD

FOUR OSCARS

FOUR OSCARS!!!!!

AND FELIX AND ALBRECHT ARE THERE. I AM SCREAMING AND WAKING EVERYONE UP I DON'T CARE THIS IS SO GOOD!!!!!

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Logan (2017, James Mangold)

28/07/2024

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Me everyday all the way through the oscars knowing Dune only has 5 nominations

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BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

All Quiet on the Western Front

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Living

Top Gun Maverick

Women Talking

Will Win: Women Talking. The category is a little light  – It’s hard to imagine a movie that contains the line “I could never stay mad at you, Maverick” would be nominated in any other year. So the classical gravity of this quietly polarizing fable about the politics of sexual exploitation in a theocratic commune may put this one over the top.

Should Win: Women Talking. Haven’t read the novel it was based on but I’m impressed with the way it uses an archaic culture to talk about right here, right now.

Shoulda been nominated: Prey. Here’s how you relaunch a franchise. Take the Manifest Destiny subtext of the original aliens-hunt-humans-for-sport concept and place it front and center by making the attacked Earthlings 16th century Comanches championed by a teenage heroine. One of the most audacious reboots in cinema history. 

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FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY