FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
With the BAFTA, Critics Choice and USC Scripter in hand (and likely the WGA but those aren’t happening until a full month after the Oscars),... Read More
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FINAL 2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
With the writers branch of the Academy declaring the screenplays for both Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Ava DuVernay’s Origin must compete in Adapted (and not... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (October)
The top three in both Adapted (Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon, Poor Things) and Original (Barbie, The Holdovers, Past Lives) remain in place and... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (September)
After weeks of debate and discussion among awards fans and pundits, Warner Bros officially announced it will run the Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach-penned Barbie... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (August)
Barbenheimer strikes again, as Barbie and Oppenheimer each rise to the top spot of the respective screenplay categories, original and adapted. I know there is... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (July)
Not a lot of movement in the screenplay categories this month; Apple’s Killers of the Flower Moon and Universal’s Oppenheimer should be able to maintain... Read More
2024 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (June)
Amazon/MGM has officially dated Rachel Morrison’s Flint Strong, written by Academy Award winner Barry Jenkins and starring Ryan Destiny and Academy Award nominee Brian Tyree... Read More
FINAL 2023 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
The screenplay categories at the Oscars often exist in two worlds; you’re either aligned with the Best Picture winner or be a screenplay that’s either... Read More
FINAL 2023 Oscar Nomination Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Is this one of the weakest years in a while for the screenplay categories? When really breaking down the main contenders, looking at the precursors... Read More
2023 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (December)
With the Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice nominations revealed we have our first taste of screenplay precursors for both adapted and original (as well as... Read More
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