2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (October)

Jojo Rabbit bounces back this month, while A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood just hangs on, precariously, to the top 5.

Adapted Screenplay is rather barren this year, which could mean that unusual or unexpected films could find their way in here. STX Entertainment’s Hustlers, from Lorene Scafaria, exploded at the box office and could be a contender. The quick turnaround of Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell from Warner Bros is very much a possibility. It’s hitting AFI FEST so WB is playing the awards game with it in a way they didn’t with The Mule last year. Another Warner Bros property, Joker, is ripe for an upset here too. Then there’s Toy Story 4. The first and third entries in the Toy Story series earned Adapted Screenplay nominations. Could #4 hit the mark?

Here are my 2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions in Adapted Screenplay for October 16, 2019.

Green – moves up Red – moves down Blue – new/re-entry

1. The Two Popes (Netflix)
2. Jojo Rabbit (Fox Searchlight)
3. The Irishman (Netflix)
4. Little Women (Sony/Columbia)
5. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Sony/TriStar)

NEXT UP (alphabetical by film)

Dark Waters (Focus Features)
Joker (Warner Bros)
Just Mercy (Warner Bros)
Hustlers (STX Entertainment)
Toy Story 4 (Disney/Pixar)

OTHER CONTENDERS (alphabetical by film)

The Aeronauts (Amazon)
The Ballad of Richard Jewell (Warner Bros)
Downton Abbey (Focus Features)
The Good Liar (Warner Bros)
The King (Netflix)
Motherless Brooklyn (Warner Bros)

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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