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Re: USC Scripter Nominees

Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 3:34 am
by Reza
Sabin wrote:The USC Scripter nominations have never lined up with the eventual nominees. Well, okay, to be fair in 2012 they nominated six screenplays and the Academy chose five of them. I think Fences is vulnerable because it really seems like they just filmed the play.
....but the late August Wilson is credited for the screenplay so they might want to nominate him.

Re: USC Scripter Nominees

Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 1:24 am
by Sabin
The USC Scripter nominations have never lined up with the eventual nominees. Well, okay, to be fair in 2012 they nominated six screenplays and the Academy chose five of them. I think Fences is vulnerable because it really seems like they just filmed the play.

Re: USC Scripter Nominees

Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 10:06 pm
by OscarGuy
There you have your five Oscar nominees. I find it very hard to believe this won't be the list. USC is the single best predictor of Adapted Screenplay out there.

USC Scripter Nominees

Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 3:07 pm
by Mister Tee
Eric Heisserer/Arrival, adapted from the novella “Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang

August Wilson/Fences, play and screenplay

Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi/Hidden Figures, based on the nonfiction book by Margot Lee Shetterly

Luke Davies/Lion, adapted from the nonfiction book “A Long Way Home” by Saroo Brierley

Barry Jenkins/Moonlight, adapted from “In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue,” by Tarell Alvin McCraney