Best Adapted Screenplay commentary (Updated Feb. 26, 2025): Unlike original screenplay — where writers start from a blank page — adapted screenplay nominees must transform existing works into ...

“The Bikeriders” is taking a trip from original to adapted screenplay Oscar consideration. Focus Features’ drama, directed and written by Jeff Nichols, will compete for the Academy Award in the best ...

"Glass Onion" stands tall in a year full of sequel contenders for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar. For this year’s Best Adapted Screenplay race, the elephant in the room is just how many sequels, if ...

But Conclave still isn't unbeatable. It was snubbed for Best Director, which might signal its vulnerability, at least with that branch of the Academy. Also, for the last six years, Best Adapted ...

(CNN) — What exactly is an adapted screenplay? Is it based on a book? An experience? What about an eponymous doll with a penchant for pink? These are the big questions the Academy of Motion Picture ...

The executive committee of the Academy's writers branch made the same decision for Ava DuVernay's script that it made for Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig's 'Barbie' script. By Scott Feinberg Executive ...

Despite campaigning for a Best Original Screenplay Oscar nomination, Barbie has been deemed to be an adapted screenplay by the Writers Branch executive committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts ...

There’s a way to classify screenplays for Oscar consideration that would reward creativity and make much more sense. Unlike the current system. Critic’s Notebook There’s a way to classify screenplays ...

Will Emilia Perez be officially switched to Adapted soon? It’s based on Audiard’s opera libretto of the same name, which was loosely adapted from Boris Razon’s 2018 novel Écoute. Oscar predicting is ...