AwardsWatch - Adapted Screenplay

2022 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (February)

Erik Anderson February 18, 2022

While Adapted Screenplay feels pretty tied up (is it?) for The Power of the Dog, the overwhelming critics’ favorite and likely to win the USC... Read More

FINAL 2022 Oscar Nomination Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Erik Anderson February 4, 2022

The screenplay categories seem a little more sewn up than usual with one odd exception; since 2003 every year has seen a screenplay nominee being... Read More

2022 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (December)

Erik Anderson December 16, 2021

Of the critics groups who have screenplay winners, the overwhelming favorite in adapted is The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion’s adaptation of the 1967... Read More

2022 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (November)

Erik Anderson November 22, 2021

As I wrote in my October predictions for screenplays, Netflix could dominate the Adapted Screenplay race in a substantial way this year with Jane Campion’s The... Read More

2022 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (October)

Erik Anderson October 27, 2021

Netflix could dominate the Adapted Screenplay race in a substantial way this year with Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost... Read More

2022 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (September)

Erik Anderson September 20, 2021

It’s taken a minute for me to jump into the screenplay categories for official Oscar predictions and it was mainly because the field in both... Read More

FINAL 2021 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Erik Anderson April 16, 2021

Adapted Screenplay this year is fascinating and contentious Best Picture frontrunner Nomadland and The Father each winning one award when the two films were in... Read More

FINAL 2021 Oscar Nomination Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Erik Anderson March 10, 2021

Nomadland, One Night in Miami, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and The Father feel like an immovable top 4, even as three of them are adapted... Read More

2021 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (February)

Erik Anderson February 17, 2021

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) pulled a few surprises this week, giving The White Tiger a significant boost. While some films were ineligible at... Read More