Tuesday, January 20, 2009

'OSCAR' COUNTDOWN: BEST SCREENPLAY



For Best Original Screenplay the nominees are...

Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky
Dustin Lance Black, Milk
Woody Allen, Vicky Christina Barcelona
Andrew Stanton, WALL-E
Robert Siegel, The Wrestler


For Best Adapted Screenplay the nominees are...

Eric Roth, for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Screen Story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord, based on the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald

John Patrick Shanley, for Doubt, based on his stage play

Peter Morgan, for Frost/Nixon, based on his stage play

David Hare, for The Reader, based on the novel by Bernard Schlink (pictured, above)

Simon Beaufoy, for Slumdog Millionaire, based on the novel Q and A by Vikas Swarup

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