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Best Adapted Screenplay Oscars Predictions (February)

It seems highly likely Chloé Zhao will add a screenwriting Oscar to match her Best Director prize. The Nomadland screenplay remains in front for the…

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Posted in Awards Season Oscars

Best Adapted Screenplay Oscars Predictions (January)

No change with my frontrunner this month, as Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland screenplay continues to steamroll along. Whether exhaustion starts to set in and Academy voters…

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Best Adapted Screenplay Oscars Predictions (December)

In last month’s piece, I suggested First Cow could be acknowledged with a single nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. With its win for Best Film…

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Best Adapted Screenplay Oscars Predictions (November)

With numerous gripping, dialogue-heavy scenes and a pertinent narrative that connects the past and the present, One Night in Miami moves into frontrunner position this…

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Best Adapted Screenplay Predictions (October)

To match her frontrunner status in Best Director, Chloé Zhao finds herself similarly in the pole position for Best Adapted Screenplay for Nomadland. A female…

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Posted in Awards Season Screenwriting

Writers Guild Awards Can Keep This a Race

Many pundits may have put a fork in this shortened season that has moved so fast, so furious. Barely getting over Golden Globe hangovers, Oscar…

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Little Women
Posted in Awards Season News

USC Scripter Award Nominees Announced

The Scripter Award us given to what is considered the best screenwriting adaptation of the year by the USC (University of Southern California) Libraries. The…

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Filmotomy Podcast 65: Great Movie Adaptations

Hi #FilmTwitter what are your top 3 film adaptations (books adapted to film) and why? @Filmotomy @itsdougjam and @aaroncharles18 and myself will read them out…

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Posted in Oscars Screenwriting

For Your Consideration: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs for Best Adapted Screenplay

As a piece of narrative writing, Joel and Ethan Coen’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs ranks as one of their most challenging and provocative works….

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USC Scripter Finalists Revealed

The USC Scripter finalists have been announced. This honors the work for Adapted Screenplays and the source material. Winners will be revealed on 9th February,…

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Posted in Oscars Video

Awardscene: Adapted Screenplay and Original Screenplay

We’re back again to have an early look ahead at the potential contenders this awards season, as we head towards the Academy Awards. This episode…

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The Writers Guild Of America Announced Their Annual List Of Nominees

There were some expected inclusions like Get Out, Lady Bird, Call Me By Your Name, and The Shape Of Water. But there were also some slight…

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Posted in Oscars Screenwriting

James Ivory – A Filmmaker with an Unobstructed View

James Ivory’s career-long intellectual freedom, precise observation of human interaction and fiercely independent spirit was instrumental in elevating film to the level where a book like Call Me by Your Name could be translated to cinema.

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100 Not Nominated For Oscars – Part 20

So there we have it. 100 not nominated for Oscars. And, honestly, we could easily do a hundred more of these absentees. The final five,…

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