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PictureX Director
xx...Actor/Supporting Actor XActress/Supporting Actress
xScreenplay/Adapted Screenplay

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Writer(s) - Film
GG
Comment
Michael Clayton
Tony Gilroy
  His reward if MC wins Best Picture and PTA wins for directing.
Juno
Diablo Cody
*
Front-ran long enough to become a small problem

The Savages
Tamara Jenkins

  The writers will make sure she gets what she deserves
Lars & The Real Girl
Nancy Oliver
  Truly original, truly special.

Before The Devil Knows You're Dead
Kelly Masterson

  Just solid, solid, solid.
 
In The Valley Of Elah
  Not only a good script, but Haggis has been an iron man on the picket lines
American Gangster    

Knocked Up

   
I'm Not There
   

Margot At The Wedding

   

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Writer(s) - Film
GG
Comment
No Country For Old Men
Joel & Ethan Coen
*
Friendo
Into The Wild
Sean Penn
Oozes the passion
The Diving Bell & The Butterfly
Ronald Harwood
*
Previous winner, complex adaptation

There Will Be Blood
Paul Thomas Anderson

  He drinks Christopher Hampton's milkshake... he drinks it all up.
 
Atonement
Christopher Hampton

*
On the edge, but closer than most
Aaron Sorkin
Charlie Wilson's War
*
The comeback kid nomination for a flawed, but smart entertainment?
 
The Kite Runner
 
Rescue Dawn    
A Mighty Heart    
3:10 To Yuma    

January 10, 2007
- by David Poland

 

 

 

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