I'm sure they didn't either. They knew the difference between a "story" or "treatment" and a "screenplay". They were voting for the story, not the screenplay which started out in early talkies as "dialogue".Mister Tee wrote:Magilla, I truly doubt any Oscar voter in the time frame went through the mental gyrations you are in deciding who qualifies as responsible for the story. I figure they just voted for the script they liked best.
Basically the story would be "this happened, then that happened". The screenplay fleshes it out. What the adapter does in this situation, I have no idea.