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| WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY) | Erik Anderson | Bryan Bonafede | Chris Pepper | Evan Kost | James Narvey | Kenneth Polishchuk | Júlia Albuquerque | Monika Nikolić | Richard Anthony | Robert Schirmer | TOTAL POINTS |
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| 1 | Moonlight | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 50 |
| 2 | Arrival | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 40 |
| 3 | Lion | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 26 | |
| 4 | Hidden Figures | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 14 | ||
| 5 | Fences | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | ||
| 6 | Nocturnal Animals | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | |||||||
| 7 | Love & Friendship | 4 | 2 | |||||||||
| 8 | Silence | 5 | 1 | |||||||||
| OTHER CONTENDERS | ||||||||||||
| Deadpool | ||||||||||||
| Elle | ||||||||||||
| Hacksaw Ridge | ||||||||||||
| Loving | ||||||||||||
| Sully |
2024 North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA) Nominations 
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2024 Utah Film Critics Association (UFCA) Nominations 
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Don’t believe in “Love and Friendship” here… (#5, 10 points, 6 mentions from GRG atm)
What do you think would be there instead?
It may be more clear after MVFF. For now my guts tell me to choose between Live by Night / Lion / Nocturnal Animals / Elle.
It’s a pretty bleak category, all things considered. Not a huge year for Adapted Screenplays.
I think “Love and Friendship” is too lightweight for AMPAS. Only possibility is in costume design.
So, it is definitely Lion atm. But after Billy Lynn’s flop we return again to free 5th slot)
Sully is in