Not much movement in November in the screenplay categories. The 35th Gotham Film Awards awarded Pillion and It Was Just an Accident with their adapted and original screenplay, respectively. It’s a good starting point for the latter, but December is when these races will really start to get interesting.
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY PREDICTIONS:
1. One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.) – Gotham
Paul Thomas Anderson
2. Hamnet (Focus Features)
Maggie O’Farrell & Chloé Zhao
3. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (Netflix)
Rian Johnson
4. No Other Choice (NEON) – Gotham
Park Chan-wook, Don McKellar, Lee Kyoung-mi & Lee Ja-hye
5. Train Dreams (Netflix) – Gotham
Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar
IN CONTENTION
Bugonia (Focus Features)
Die My Love (MUBI)
Frankenstein (Netflix)
The History of Sound (MUBI)
The Voice of Hind Rajab (TBD)
Nouvelle Vague (Netflix)
Nuremberg (Sony Pictures Classics)
Pillion (A24) – Gotham
The Smashing Machine (A24)
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (20th Century Studios)
Wicked: For Good (Universal Pictures)
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY PREDICTIONS:
1. Sinners (Warner Bros.)
Ryan Coogler
2. It Was Just an Accident (NEON) – Gotham
Jafar Panahi
3. Sentimental Value (NEON)
Joachim Trier & Eskil Vogt
4. Marty Supreme (A24)
Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie
5. Jay Kelly (Netflix)
Noah Baumbach & Emily Mortimer
IN CONTENTION
A House of Dynamite (Netflix)
Is This Thing On? (Searchlight Pictures)
Rental Family (Searchlight Pictures)
The Secret Agent (NEON) – Gotham
Sorry, Baby (A24) – Gotham
The Testament of Ann Lee (Searchlight Pictures)
Weapons (Warner Bros.)