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Apr 19, 2021 · PREDICT the 2021 Oscar winners through April 25. This year marks the very first time that all five Best Original Screenplay-nominated films are also in the running for Best Picture.
Mar 15, 2021 · By Tania Pardisi. Mar 15th, 2021. The Oscars 2021 Writing (Original Screenplay) nominations have been announced! Five films are now competing to take home the most prestigious award in film, the Oscar, with the winner revealed when the Oscars air LIVE SUNDAY APRIL 25 8e|5p on ABC.
Apr 8, 2021 · Culture Desk. Oscars Spotlight: The 2021 Nominees for Best Screenplays. The ten movies that are nominated in this year’s two writing categories contain plenty of ingenuity. By Michael Schulman....
The screenwriter of Chinatown, Robert Towne, received this award. Woody Allen earned three Original Screenplay Oscars, for Annie Hall (along with Marshall Brickman ), Hannah and Her Sisters, and Midnight in Paris. He has received sixteen nominations total, the most of any writer.
- Crash
- Green Book
- Juno
- Lost in Translation
- Milk
- Midnight in Paris
- Almost Famous
- The King's Speech
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Promising Young Woman
The lives of several highly disparate people living in Los Angeles collide under the guise of tense race relations that simmer within the city in Paul Haggis’ Best Picture winning drama. Crash isn’t a good film. Often cited as one of the worst films to ever win Best Picture, the racial drama has aged terribly, particularly in light of the far more ...
Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali), a renowned pianist who is African-American, embarks on a road trip through the deep south of the United States, in order to fulfil a concert tour, alongside Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen), a tough-talking Italian-American bouncer from a rough neighborhood in the Bronx, who was hired to be a driver for Dr. Shirley. A vi...
Diablo Cody won Best Original Screenplay for her debut script about a pregnant teenager named Juno. Elliot Page stars as the titular Juno, a young woman with alternative tastes who becomes pregnant after sleeping with her friend Paulie (Michael Cera) and decides to give the unborn baby to a wealthy couple (Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman), who ap...
Sofia Coppola won the award for her film about an unlikely bond between a faded movie star (Bill Murray) and a neglected young newlywed (Scarlett Johansson) who cross paths in a lavish Tokyo hotel. Coppola’s second feature showed her fully come into her own as a writer/director, exhibiting strong filmmaking instincts that brought the loneliness of ...
The life of gay rights activist, and the first openly gay elected official in California, Harvey Milk (Sean Penn) is paid tribute in this biopic from Good Will Hunting director, Gus Van Sant. Penn won the Oscar for Best Actor, while screenwriter Dustin Lance Black won the film’s other Academy Award. A fairly straightforward biopic about an importan...
Woody Allen won his final Oscar for this fantasy film about a nostalgic writer (Owen Wilson) who is on vacation in Paris with his fiancée’s family and finds himself mysteriously transported to the roaring 1920’s where he meets literary greats like F. Scott Fitzgerald (Tom Hiddleston), Gertrude Stein (Kathy Bates) and Ernest Hemmingway (Corey Stoll)...
Cameron Crowe wrote and directed this film that drew on his own experiences as a young person. A high schooler (Patrick Fugit) in the 1970s is given the opportunity to follow an up-and-coming rock band as they go on tour. A unique coming-of-age film that has an excellent classic rock soundtrack and strong supporting performances from the ensemble c...
After ascending to the throne in 1936, King George VI (Colin Firth) must overcome a crippling speech impediment through the unusual methods of a renowned speech therapist (Geoffrey Rush) so that he may communicate with the British citizens as the shadow of war looms over Europe. The King’s Speech is a competently made and surprisingly heart-warming...
An unconventional family takes a cross-country road trip so that the young daughter (Abigail Breslin) can compete in the finals of a child beauty pageant. Michael Arndt, who would go on to write Toy Story 3 and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for his quirky script that would become the benchmark for American...
Promising Young Woman follows a traumatized young woman (Carey Mulligan) who seeks some form of vengeance for a tragedy from her past. Actress Emerald Fennell made her feature debut as a writer/director with this provocative drama that deals with the modern-day threats and injustices that women face every day in our culture. A very fresh and daring...
Apr 3, 2021 · A list of every winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and download the scripts for our Top 20 ranked picks.
Apr 26, 2021 · Emerald Fennell wins an original screenwriting Academy Award, the first time a woman has won in the category in 13 years. April 25, 2021
