The Screenplay updates

Well I finally updated the screenplay predictions. The one in need of the biggest over haul was Best Original Screenplay as I had not even included “Juno”. There seem to be a lot of comedies this year, and I actually hate to leave any off, but feel that there needs to be a drama in there some where.

Best Adapted Screenplay was pretty much the same, although there was a huge shift in the lower ranks. Screenplays is one of the most exciting categories for me, as it rewards creativity more so than any other category.

If you look at movies that have been nominated here over the years, you will begin to see what I mean:

“The Crying Game”, “Passion Fish”, “Babe”, “Trainspotting”, “Sling Blade”, “The Sweet Hereafter”, “Election”, “Gods and Monsters”, “Wonder Boys”, “Ghost World”, “Adaptation”, “American Speldor”, “Metropolitan”, “Boyz in the Hood”, “Heavenly Creatures”, “Toy Story”, “Red”, “The Usual Suspects”, “Secrets and Lies”, “Boogie Nights”, “The Truman Show”, “Being John Malkovich”, “Magnolia”, “You Can Count on Me”, “Amelie”, “Gosford Park”, “Memento”, “The Royal Tenenbaums”, “Talk to Her”, “Far From Heaven”, “Y Tu Mama Tambien”, “Lost in Translation”, “City of God”, “Before Sunset”, Sideways”, “Dirty Pretty Things”, “The Barbarian Invasions”, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”, “Brokeback Mountian”, “A History of Violence”, “The Incredibles”, “Vera Drake”, “The Squid and the Whale”, “Children of Men”, “Borat” and “Pan’s Labyrinth”.

What a great category.