2020 Oscar Nomination Predictions: ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (June)
Original Screenplay sees some green this month as I move A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood over to Adapted, bumping up The Farewell, Harriet and Queen & Slim, the latter of which enters the top 5.
It’s up in the air whether or not the changes made from the first version of the screenplay for what is now Ford v Ferrari will be deemed original or not but until something definitive comes in I’m keeping it out of this category.
The Cannes-winning Pain and Glory, from Pedro Almodóvar, inches up into the Next Up section but everything else remains the same.
Here are my ranked 2020 Oscar Nomination predictions in Original Screenplay for June 11, 2019.
Green – moves up Red – moves down Blue – new/re-entry
1. Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (Sony/Columbia)
2. Untitled Noah Baumbach (Netflix)
3. The Farewell (A24)
4. Harriet (Focus Features)
5. Queen & Slim (Universal)
NEXT UP (alphabetical)
1917 (Universal)
Booksmart (Annapurna)
Pain and Glory (Sony Classics)
The Pope (Netflix)
The Report (Amazon)
OTHER CONTENDERS (alphabetical)
Ad Astra (20th Century Fox)
Against All Enemies (Amazon)
Clemency (Neon)
The French Dispatch (TBD)
Knives Out (Lionsgate)
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (A24)
Late Night (Amazon)
Luce (Neon)
Parasite (Neon)
The Souvenir (A24)
Uncut Gems (TBD)
Untitled Roger Ailes aka Fair and Balanced (Lionsgate)
Us (Universal)
Waves (A24)
Wendy (Fox Searchlight)
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