best adapted screenplay
Adria Arjona and Glen Powell in 'Hit Man'
Awards Predictions
Fresh off "American Fiction" winning the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, a pair of films that played at TIFF the same year are ready for their awards season moment.
BARBIE, from left: Ryan Gosling, Margot Robbie, 2023. ph: Jaap Buitendijk / © Warner Bos. / Courtesy Everett Collection
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With a category change, "Barbie" is challenging the leader of the pack, "American Fiction."
ORIGIN, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, 2023. © Neon / Courtesy Everett Collection
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"Origin" made the cut, alongside "Oppenheimer" and "Poor Things."
Christopher Nolan and Cillian Murphy on the set of "Oppenheimer"
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Box office winners "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" could also duke it out in this category.
WOMEN TALKING, from left: Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Judith Ivey, Sheila McCarthy, Michelle McLeod, Jessie Buckley, 2022. ph: Michael Gibson / © Orion Pictures / courtesy Everett Collection
"Women Talking" finds a formidable rival in "All Quiet on the Western Front," but remains the Oscar frontrunner for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Sarah Polley winning the USC Scripter Award for adapting "Women Talking" could have implications for the Oscars.
The winner of the Scripter for film often goes on to win Adapted Screenplay at the Oscars.
SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 11: (Top, L-R) Martin McDonagh, Lesley Paterson, Kazuo Ishiguro, Tony Kushner, Anne Thompson, Rian Johnson, Todd Field, (Bottom, L-R) Daniel Scheinert, Ruben Östlund, and Sarah Polley attend the Writer's Panel during the 38th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival at The Arlington Theatre on February 11, 2023 in Santa Barbara, California. (Photo by Rebecca Sapp/Getty Images for SBIFF)
This year's Oscar nominees revealed some choice nuggets on the annual writers panel at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
"Women Talking"
"Women Talking" writer-director Sarah Polley continues to build momentum in the race for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022). (L-R) Kathryn Hahn as Claire, Madelyn Cline as Whiskey, Edward Norton as Myles, Leslie Odom Jr. as Lionel, and Kate Hudson as Birdie. Cr. John Wilson/Netflix © 2022.
"Glass Onion" stands tall in a year full of sequel contenders for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar.
Women Talking
"Top Gun: Maverick" and "Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio" made the cut alongside Best Adapted Screenplay frontrunner "Women Talking."
"The Banshees of Inisherin"
Due to strict eligibility rules, there will be even more notable absences at the 2023 WGA Awards.
WHITE NOISE - (L-R) Don Cheadle (Murray) and Adam Driver (Jack). Cr: Wilson Webb/NETFLIX © 2022
Films of all kinds of scale are in the running for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar this year.
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