OSCARS: Handicapping The Screenwriters

When it comes to the written word in this year?s Oscar race, it helps to have sources. While the Original Screenplay category has a few serious Best Picture contenders in Zero Dark Thirty, Django Unchained, The Impossible, Flight, The Master, and Amour, the Adapted category is where the action really is. The five top Best Picture contenders on most pundits? list of predictions ? Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell), Les Mis�rables (William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg, Herbert Kretzmer), Argo (Chris Terrio), Life of Pi (David Magee), and Lincoln (Tony Kushner) ? are all competing against each other, making it one of the hottest races for adapted screenplay in years. It is proof positive that either Hollywood is lacking in great original ideas or the most promising material in terms of Best Picture candidates has come from another medium. It is actually a bit of a reversal of a recent trend where the best picture winner came from original screenplays. In fact, the last three films to take Oscar?s most prestigious prize ? The Hurt Locker, The King?s Speech, and The Artist�? were all original, reversing a previous eight-year trend in which the best picture winners were adapted in seven of those years (Crash?s 2005 shocker ... Read More »

compare auto insurance plans physical settlement vs cash settlement alberta auto insurance quotes