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The 2020 Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay have been announced!
Reading a script is a great way to improve your writing style, dialogue, scenes, and more. With that in mind, here are ten Oscar-nominated screenplays you can Download and read now.
There are five categories for Best Original Screenplay and five for Best Adapted Screenplay. Happy reading!
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Best Original Screenplay #1: 1917 Authors: Sam Mendez and Christy Wilson-Cairns.
Incredibly, this is Sam Mendes’ first official screenwriting credit. He was inspired by stories told to him as a child by his grandfather who fought in World War I.
Mendes said: “This is the story of a messenger who has a message to deliver. That’s all I can say. This story or this episode has stuck with me since I was a kid and obviously I It’s been amplified a lot, but that’s the core of it.
Best Original Screenplay #2: Draw the knife Author: Rian Johnson.
We all have our own ways of getting inspiration for writing, and in this script Johnson immersed himself in classic detective films such as Death on the Nile, Gosford Park and murder death.
In fact, he came up with the idea for this story as early as 2005, after he finished it. brick What is interesting is the title and working title (morning bell) is a track on the album amnesia By Radiohead.
Best Original Screenplay #3: marriage story Author: Noah Baumbach.
This script is a great example of creating something positive out of personal pain. We don’t know if Baumbach thought writing the script was cathartic, but it’s based on his own 2013 divorce from actress Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Additionally, Scarlett Johansson and Laura Dern both went through divorce, and Adam Driver grew up in a broken home. All of this may have something to do with the wonderful performance Baumbach captured on screen.
Best Original Screenplay #4: once upon a time in hollywood Quentin Tarantino.
Ideas for a movie can come from anywhere, and Tarantino came up with the idea back in 2009, when he was working with an actor who had been using the same stuntman for 20 years. Even so, he originally conceived the story as a novel and spent five years writing it before realizing it would be better suited to a film.
Unlike Tarantino, this time he started from the climax and worked backwards, having already established the protagonists Cliff Booth and Rick Dalton.
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Best Original Screenplay #5: Parasite Works by Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won.
Bong Joon-ho co-wrote the script with Han Jin-won, and it was clearly inspired by the work of Alfred Hitchcock.
The story of an unemployed couple integrating themselves into the lives of their wealthy neighbors contained two of his most famous themes – stairs and voyeurism – and it went on to become the first Korean film to win the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Best Adapted Screenplay #1: irish Author: Steve Zaillian.
in an article Los Angeles TimesZaillian writes about how he transformed the epic source material—Charles Brandt’s hefty biography of Frank Sheeran, I heard you painted houses— turned into a script.
In short, Zaillian follows William Goldman’s timeless advice to get into stories and scenes as late as possible: “Figure out what things really mean, and get as close to the bone as possible.”
Best Adapted Screenplay #2: jojo rabbit Taika Waititi.
Waititi wrote this script back in 2011, and the middle script is boys and what we do in the shadows. He talked about the writing process behind jojo rabbit At a Hollywood Reporter roundtable:
“Usually I start in a different place, and often at the end. And then maybe a little bit at the beginning. And then figure it out. This time, I just did it in a linear fashion from the beginning, and I didn’t know how it happened. . We hope this helps.
Best Adapted Screenplay #3: clown Authors: Todd Phillips and Scott Silver.
After many difficulties and finally getting approval from Warner Bros., Phillips and Silver began writing the script in 2017, which took about a year to complete.
When writing, the pair drew inspiration from classic dark character studies from the 1970s and 1980s, such as Taxi Driver, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Raging Bull certainly, The king of comedy.
Best Adapted Screenplay #4: little women Greta Gerwig.
For budding screenwriters, the importance of research cannot be overstated. Whether you’re writing an original screenplay or an adapted screenplay, it’s important to truly immerse yourself in the world of your story.
For the script, Gerwig not only read books about Louisa May Alcott, her personal letters and later novels, but also studied paintings and poetry from the era. As well as revisiting films with similar themes, e.g. Heaven’s Gate, Red Army and Jiji.
Best Adapted Screenplay #5: two popes By Anthony McCarten.
McCarten was inspired to write the play, which became two popes Pope Benedict resigns – the first time this has happened to the Church in 700 years. Expect this script to be an Oscar success like his other films: The Theory of Everything, Darkest Hour and bohemian rhapsody.
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Which scripts do you think deserve the Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay awards at this year’s Oscars? Are there any screenplays that you think should have been on the shortlist for the Academy Award for Best Screenplay but didn’t? Let us know in the comments below!
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