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• (Last year, both Glass Onion and Top Gun: Maverick were nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay because they were sequels “based on” existing characters.).
• But Gerwig and Baumbach clearly disagreed, since they reportedly campaigned for the film for Best Original Screenplay..
• Best Original Screenplay will now see more vigorous fights between films like The Holdovers, May December, and Cannes winner Anatomy Of A Fall; Barbie, meanwhile, will be running against Martin Scoresese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon—and, perhaps inevitably, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer..
• When we think of the Oscars’ Best Adapted Screenplay award, our minds typically drift to the world of books..