Awards Daily has the USC Scripter nominations up. And they are...
Atonement
Into The Wild
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Zodiac
The Scripter Awards recognize the year's best effort in screen writing adaptation. Last year, only two of the five Scripter nominees matched up with the Oscar top five, those being winner Children of Men, and Notes On A Scandal.
I will take this opportunity to give my breakdown of the Adapted Screenplay chart and give the break down the way I see it.
Historically, the winner of the Scripter has been Best Picture nominated 12 out of 19 times. The winners that missed were Children of Men, A Civil Action, The Hurricane, Wonder Boys, A River Runs Through It, Fried Green Tomatoes, and 84 Charing Crossing Road.
The Scripters started nominating instead of just plain awarding in '97, and since then 33 out of their 50 nominees have gone on to receive adapted screenplay nominations. Generally, they average a 3 or 4 nomination match with what AMPAS declares the best of the year. Only once have they matched up perfectly, in 2005, when they nominated Syriana as Adapted, but AMPAS nominated it in Original.
Atonement and No Country For Old Men get in without fail, and Into The Wild gets this nod as either an industry love match to a Best Picture nomination, or an apology à la Hotel Rwanda for not making the Best Pic short list. There Will be Blood is gaining serious momentum and seems very likely. The Diving Bell and The Butterfly is falling fast and could get overtaken by the likes of Charlie Wilson's War, Sweeney Todd, Zodiac, or Gone Baby Gone. In the end, Scripter matches 3 or 4 to the Oscar list.
It's nice to see recognition for the brilliantly nuanced Zodiac finally come around at least a little bit, but I think it will pretty much stop here.
It's a great race.
THE PLAYERS
1. No Country For Old Men
2. Atonement
3. Into The Wild
4. There Will Be Blood
5. The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
THE CHASERS
1. Charlie Wilson's War
2. Gone Baby Gone
3. Sweeney Todd
4. Zodiac
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It is nice to see Zodiac get some love, but that is all it's getting. The other four nominees are expected.
Expected is not entirely accurate, There Will Be Blood is kind of a surprise here, and so is Into The Wild. Not huge surprises, but enough to snub The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, Sweeney Todd, and Charlie Wilson's War: all screenplay fighters. It's an exciting category.
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