2023 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (November)

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Animation could have a banner year with Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio and Marcel the Shell with Shoes On making their way into the top 10 for Adapted Screenplay. My top 5 remains pretty solid with Glass Onion, set to premiere in theaters for a one-week exclusive beginning the day before Thanksgiving, notching up one.

Over in Original Screenplay, The Banshees of Inisherin also moves up one to the #2 spot in a very competitive field of some of the most celebrated screenplays of the year. The box office success The Menu, one of the year’s many ‘eat the rich’ stories, gains steam as well, and Aftersun grabs a new spot in the top 10.

We won’t hear from the Writers Guild until their nominations at the end of January but over the next two months between critics groups and more we’ll start to see things take shape.

Here are my 2023 Oscar predictions in Adapted Screenplay and Original Screenplay for November.

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Green – moves up ↑ Red – moves down ↓ Blue – new entry 

1. Women Talking (UAR/Orion)
2. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Netflix)
3. She Said (Universal Pictures)
4. The Whale (A24)
5. White Noise (Netflix)


6. Living (Sony Pictures Classics)
7. The Son (Sony Pictures Classics)
8. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Netflix)
9. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (A24)
10. Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Pictures)

Other contenders (alphabetical)

A Man Called Otto (Sony Pictures)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Netflix)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Marvel Studios)
Bones and All (MGM/UAR)
Devotion (Sony Pictures)
The Good Nurse (Netflix)
Spoiler Alert (Focus Features)
The Wonder (Netflix)


ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Green – moves up ↑ Red – moves down ↓ Blue – new entry 

1. The Fabelmans (Universal Pictures)
2. The Banshees of Inisherin (Searchlight Pictures)
3. Everything Everywhere All At Once (A24)
4. Triangle of Sadness (NEON)
5. TÁR (Focus Features)


6. Bardo, Or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (Netflix)
7. The Menu (Searchlight Pictures)
8. Babylon (Paramount Pictures)
9. Aftersun (A24)
10. Decision to Leave (MUBI)

Other contenders (alphabetical)

Armageddon Time (Focus Features)
Broker (NEON)
Close (A24)
Elvis (Warner Bros)
Emancipation (Apple Original Films)
Empire of Light (Searchlight Pictures)
The Inspection (A24)
Nope (Universal Pictures)
Till (UAR/Orion Pictures)
The Woman King (Sony/TriStar Pictures)

Erik Anderson

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), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) 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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