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Awkwafina and fam in The Farewell (A24) The screenplay categories are a bit convoluted with some contenders muddied as to whether or not they are truly original or truly adapted. We’ve seen category switches happen before, either by choice or by designation. The Best Picture Oscar winner Moonlight initially ran as an Original Screenplay – where it won the WGA …

From left: BlacKkKlansman and The Favourite – are they the favourites to win? Spike Lee is finally going to win a competitive Oscar to go along with his Honorary one from 2016. Although the screenplay for BlacKkKlansman has four credited writers (only four other times in Oscar history have that many shared a win) this is going to be Lee’s. …

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) will weigh in tonight on adapted and original screenplays in feature film, documentary and television and it could be an interesting result. In feature film, the WGA matches the Oscar nominees in Adapted Screenplay 4/5. They both went for BlacKkKlansman, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, If Beale Street Could Talk and A Star Is …

BlacKkKlansman (Focus Features)The Favourite (Fox Searchlight) Both of the screenplay categories broke from Best Picture last year when Call Me By Your Name and Get Out, the overwhelming critical favorites, bested The Shape of Water to win their respective Adapted and Original categories. Even since the expansion of the Best Picture category in 2009, the connection between BP and its …

Black Panther (Disney) Adapted Screenplay sees some movement in the top 10 but If Beale Street Could Talk stays put at #1 for the second month in a row as the list’s biggest Best Picture player.  Moving up is Can You Ever Forgive Me? to the #2 spot. It’s hard to imagine the writers branch not going deep on a …

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If Beale Street Could Talk (Annapurna) I’m still holding on to Spike Lee pulling off a competitive Oscar win with BlacKkKlansman but Barry Jenkins is a real threat to win this category again with If Beale Street Could Talk, which was the first runner-up for the People’s Choice Award at Toronto last weekend.  Beautiful Boy, A Star Is Born and …

Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Fox Searchlight) Not much change this month, just a few placement moves in the top 5. Can You Ever Forgive Me? (does anyone else hear the Pet Shop Boys’ “Can You Forgive Her?” when they see that title?) moves up to #2 on the strength of its Toronto and Telluride festival appearances. It should be Fox …

A slow month for Adapted Screenplay as my top 8 stays put in the same spots with BlacKkKlansman still on top. I don’t think it’s a stagnant month just a very competitive category this year. Changes did come in the form of two debuts in the top 10, both on the heels of recents announcements. Sony’s The Front Runner just …

Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman moves up the #1 spot this month after its Cannes-winning debut. It leapfrogs over the Barry Jenkins adaptation of James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk and last month’s champ, Widows from Steve McQueen. Can You Ever Forgive Me? and First Man hold their spots in the top 5 but below that is movement up for Beautiful …