Tag: Adapted Screenplay

Here are the nominees for this year's USC Scripter Awards, which honors the screenwriters and the authors of the best ...

The Screenplay awards at the Oscars very rarely have to do with the writing itself. Most of the time now, ...

Kemp Powers has two extraordinary films in awards contention this year — he co-directed and co-wrote Disney/Pixar’s Soul and Amazon’s ...

This has been a strange Oscar year. All the unusual factors that were in play when it started remain in ...

The trend lately has been for directors at the top of the Oscar race to either write or co-write their ...

The screenplay race, like the director race, is ordinarily tightly tied to Best Picture. Though it can also sometimes be ...

Gavin Hood's latest film Official Secrets opened this past weekend. It's a film about a whistleblower who faces the dilemma ...

The torrential storm had moved past Santa Barbra County by the time the Writer's Panel kicked off, but road closures ...

It's been said that you can't make a good movie out of a bad screenplay. There are plenty of bad ...

Alex and Greg have a young son who prefers dolls to action toys. Claire Danes and Jim Parsons, are both ...

Moonlight took the prize for Adapted Screenplay, all but solidifying its Oscar win. Earlier: We still don't know officially what ...

The Oscar-nominated screenwriters from La La Land, Hidden Figures, Moonlight, 20th Century Women, Arrival, Lion and Hell or High Water ...

Patrick Ness shared the same editor as Siobhan Dowd, and he was already familiar with her work. He didn't expect ...

Yesterday's story focused on how original screenplays, and not adapted, could feature into the Best Picture race. But today, I'd ...

It seems to me that there are some categories where voters will have likely seen most of the nominees. How ...

If you care to watch.  There are a few notable writers who are glaringly missing from this.

2010 can only be called the Year of the Director where the Oscar race is concerned. I wouldn't presume to ...

The Oscar race is a funny thing. I'm sure you'll be as surprised as I was to learn that Aaron ...

It is less common for a Best Picture frontrunner to be driven by an original screenplay. Most of the recent ...