2021 Oscars: The Screenplay Contenders (February)

Check out a full list below of Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay contenders and my current top 10 (in alphabetical order) for February.

2021 BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY TOP 10 PREDICTIONS (February)

• The Father (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Hillbilly Elegy (Netflix)
• The Humans (A24)
• I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Netflix)
• The Midnight Sky (Netflix)
• News of the World (Universal)
• Next Goal Wins (Searchlight)
• Nightmare Alley (Searchlight)
• Nomadland (Searchlight)
• Untitled Nora Fingscheidt Project (Netflix)

2021 BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY CONTENDERS

• Blonde (Netflix)
• Dune (Warner Bros)
• The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Searchlight)
• The Father (Sony Pictures Classics)
• French Exit (Sony Pictures Classics)
• The Green Knight (A24)
• Hillbilly Elegy (Netflix)
• The Humans (A24)
• I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Netflix)
• In the Heights (Warner Bros)
• The Last Duel (20th Century)
• The Life Ahead (Netflix)
• Macbeth (A24)
• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix)
• The Midnight Sky (Netflix)
• News of the World (Universal)
• Next Goal Wins (Searchlight)
• Nightmare Alley (Searchlight)
• Nomadland (Searchlight)
• Prisoner 760 (STX Entertainment)
• The Prom (Netflix)
• Untitled Nora Fingscheidt Project (Netflix)
• West Side Story (20th Century)
• The White Tiger (Netflix)
• Wild Mountain Thyme (Bleecker Street)

CURRENTLY WITHOUT DISTRIBUTION

• Benedetta
• Flag Day
• Passing
• The Story of My Wife

2021 BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY TOP 10 PREDICTIONS (February)

• C’mon C’mon (A24)
• Da 5 Bloods (Netflix)
• The French Dispatch (Searchlight)*
• Last Night in Soho (Focus Features)
• Mank (Netflix)
• Minari (A24)
• On the Rocks (A24/Apple+)
• Stillwater (Focus Features)
• The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Paramount)**
• Untitled David O. Russell Project aka Amsterdam (20th Century)

2021 BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY CONTENDERS

• Ammonite (Neon)
• Annette (Amazon)
• Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar (Lionsgate)
• C’mon C’mon (A24)
• Da 5 Bloods (Netflix)
• Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (20th Century)
• The French Dispatch (Searchlight)
• Herself (Amazon)
• I’m Your Woman (Amazon)
• Kajillionaire (A24)
• Land (Focus Features)
• Last Night in Soho (Focus Features)
• Mank (Netflix)
• Minari (A24)
• Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Focus Features)
• On the Rocks (A24/Apple+)
• Respect (MGM)
• The Roads Not Taken (Bleecker Street)
• Soul (Disney/Pixar)
• Stillwater (Focus Features)
• Tenet (Warner Bros)
• Those Who Wish Me Dead (Warner Bros)
• The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Paramount)
• The King of Staten Island (Paramount)
• Untitled David O. Russell Project aka Amsterdam (20th Century)
• Untitled Fred Hampton Film aka Jesus was my Homeboy (Warner Bros)
• Untitled Lila Neugebauer aka Red, White, Water (A24)
• Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson Film (Focus Features)

CURRENTLY WITHOUT DISTRIBUTION

• Breaking News in Yuba County
• Druk
• Harry Haft
• Supernova
• The United States v Billie Holliday

*The French Dispatch is currently in Original Screenplay but there is a possibility it is deemed adapted based on this section of a piece in The New Yorker (‘in a segment based on “The Events in May: A Paris Notebook,” Mavis Gallant’s two-part article from 1968.’)

**There is adaptation source for Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 so it sits in Original until otherwise noted