Alright my trustworthy and pleasant readers, it’s time for one other considered one of these. Persevering with a practice I’ve been eager on for years, I’m rating the brand new crop of Academy Award winners. For practically all the Oscar classes, you’ll see me record the highest 25 recipients of that prize. Generally, our latest winner will seem. Different instances, they’ll be relegated to the Honorable Point out class. Who is aware of, perhaps one or two received’t even make the reduce? It’s a listing sequence that I’ll do every single yr, within the weeks after the ceremony concludes. So, whereas it is a enjoyable approach to consider the Oscars within the aftermath of the newest telecast, it’s additionally a starting for one other column right here on the positioning. After all, undoubtedly present us your individual lists as properly, within the feedback part under. We’re undoubtedly eager to know what you suppose!
This week, it’s one other fairly large one within the highlight…the Best Adapted Screenplay class. Usually the spot for status fare to shine, it’s additionally a spot the place main Best Image hopefuls (and winners) see their writers rewarded. The different screenplay class could seem “cooler” on the entire, however in case you have a look at a number of the scribes who’ve emerged victorious in Adapted Screenplay, they’re no slouches. That is additionally the spot the place Spike Lee lastly acquired his Academy Award, successful for BlacKkKlansman. For my cash, Aaron Sorkin and The Social Community is tops right here. The place does a latest winner like Sian Heder and CODA, rank? What a couple of new placement for two years in the past’s winner in Sarah Polley and Girls Speaking? There’s additionally Wire Jefferson final yr for American Fiction. Does his spot change? After all, what of our latest winner in Peter Straughan for Conclave? Nicely, you’re in luck, as you may learn on under to seek out out the reply…
Right here now are what I contemplate to be the 25 finest winners of the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar, to this point:
25. CODA (Sian Heder)
24. Sideways (Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor)
23. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo)
22. BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel & Kevin Willmott)
21. Moonlight (Tarell Alvin McCraney and Barry Jenkins)
20. No Nation for Outdated Males (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)
19. The Godfather Half II (Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo)
18. Visitors (Stephen Gaghan)
17. The Exorcist (William Peter Blatty)
16. Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton)
15. Conclave (Peter Straughan)
14. MASH (Ring Lardner Jr.)
13. Forrest Gump (Eric Roth)
12. Marty (Paddy Chayefsky)
11. The Departed (William Monahan)
10. Judgment at Nuremberg (Abby Mann)
9. Midnight Cowboy (Waldo Salt)
8. Argo (Chris Terrio)
7. To Kill a Mockingbird (Horton Foote)
6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Bo Goldman and Lawrence Hauben)
5. The Silence of the Lambs (Ted Tally)
4. Schindler’s Checklist (Steven Zaillian)
3. All of the President’s Males (William Goldman)
2. Casablanca (Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein and Howard Koch)
1. The Social Community (Aaron Sorkin)
Honorable Mentions: 12 Years a Slave (John Ridley), American Fiction (Wire Jefferson), The Large Quick (Adam McKay and Charles Randolph), Brokeback Mountain (Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana), Bizarre Folks (Alvin Sargent), and Girls Speaking (Sarah Polley)
Keep tuned for one other class early subsequent week!