Oscars: Adapted Screenplay – Will Greta Gerwig’s Directing Snub Help Her in Screenplay Race?

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2024 Oscars Predictions:
Best Adapted Screenplay

Weekly Commentary (Updated Jan. 30, 2024): More to come.

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The 96th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 10.

And the Predicted Nominees Are:

1. “American Fiction” (MGM) — Cord Jefferson (based on “Erasure” by Percival Everett)
2. “Oppenheimer” (Universal Pictures) — Christopher Nolan (based on the book by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin)
3. “Barbie” (Warner Bros.) — Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach (based on ‘Barbie‘ by Mattel)
4. “Poor Things” (Searchlight Pictures) — Tony McNamara (based on the book by Alasdair Gray)
5. “The Zone of Interest” (A24) — Jonathan Glazer (based on “The Zone of Interest” by Martin Amis)

Eligible Titles (Alphabetized by Studio)**

• “A Haunting in Venice” (20th Century Studios) — Michael Green
• “Priscilla” (A24) — Sofia Coppola
• “When You Finish Saving the World” (A24) — Jesse Eisenberg
• “The Zone of Interest” (A24) — Jonathan Glazer
• “The Burial” (Amazon Studios) — Doug Wright, Maggie Betts
• “Foe” (Amazon Studios) — Iain Reid, Garth Davis
• “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Apple Original Films/Paramount Pictures) — Eric Roth, Martin Scorsese
• “Across the River and Into the Trees” (Bleecker Street) — Peter Flannery
• “Trolls Band Together” (DreamWorks Animation) — Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger, Elizabeth Tippet
• “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3” (Focus Features) — Nia Vardalos
• “BlackBerry” (IFC Films) — Matt Johnson, Matthew Miller
• “The Taste of Things” (IFC Films/Sapan Studio) — Tran Anh Hung
• “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” (Illumination) — Matthew Fogel
• “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” (Lionsgate) — Kelly Fremon Craig
• “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” (Lionsgate) — Michael Lesslie, Michael Arndt
• “John Wick Chapter 4” (Lionsgate) — Shay Hatten, Michael Finch
• “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quanumania” (Marvel Studios) — Jeff Loveness
• “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” (Marvel Studios) — James Gunn
• “The Marvels” (Marvel Studios) — Nia DaCosta, Megan McDonnell, Elissa Karasik
• “American Fiction” (MGM) — Cord Jefferson
• “The Boys in the Boat” (MGM) — Mark L. Smith
• “Creed III” (MGM) — Ryan Coogler, Keenan Coogler, Zach Baylin
• “Eileen” (Neon) — Ottessa Moshfegh, Luke Goebel
• “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” (Neon) — Ariela Barer, Jordan Sjol, Daniel Goldhaber
• “Mothers’ Instinct” (Neon) — Sarah Conradt
• “Origin” (Neon) — Ava DuVernay (based on the book by Isabel Wilkerson) **
• “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget” (Netflix) — Karey Kirkpatrick, John O’Farrell, Rachel Tunnard
• “The Killer” (Netflix) — Andrew Kevin Walker
• “Leave the World Behind” (Netflix) — Sam Esmail
• “Nimona” (Netflix) — Robert L. Baird, Lloyd Taylor
• “Nyad” (Netflix) — Julia Cox
• “Pain Hustlers” (Netflix) — Wells Tower
• “Society of the Snow” (Netflix) — J. A. Bayona, Bernat Vilaplana, Jaime Marques, Nicolás Casariego
• “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” (Paramount Pictures) — Christopher McQuarrie, Erik Jendresen
• “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” (Paramount Pictures) — Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Jeff Rowe, Dan Hernandez, Benji Samit, Brendon O’Brien
• “Next Goal Wins” (Searchlight Pictures) — Taika Waititi **
• “Nightbitch” (Searchlight Pictures) — Marielle Heller **
• “Poor Things” (Searchlight Pictures) — Tony McNamara
• “Theater Camp” (Searchlight Pictures) — Noah Galvin, Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman, Ben Platt
• “Dumb Money” (Sony Pictures) — Rebecca Angelo, Lauren Schuker Blum
• “The Equalizer 3” (Sony Pictures) — Richard Wenk
• “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” (Sony Pictures) — Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Dave Callaham
• “Freud’s Last Session” (Sony Pictures Classics) — Mark St. Germain
• “Ferrari” (Neon) — Troy Kennedy Martin
• “Oppenheimer” (Universal Pictures) — Christopher Nolan
• “Barbie” (Warner Bros.) — Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach **
• “Blue Beetle” (Warner Bros.) — Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer
• “The Color Purple” (Warner Bros.) — Marcus Gardley
• “Wonka” (Warner Bros.) — Simon Farnaby, Paul King
• “The Little Mermaid” (Walt Disney Pictures) — David Magee

2022 category winner: “Women Talking” (MGM) — Sarah Polley (based on the novel by Miriam Toews)

Oscars Predictions Categories

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