If you want to win Best Picture, you usually need a screenplay win to do it. Over the last 20 years, 14 Best Picture winners also won Original or Adapted Screenplay.
And over the past four years, only one film, “Nomadland,” was able to pull off the win without a Screenplay triumph. That’s why this year’s Adapted Screenplay may be a kingmaker on Oscar night.
READ MORE: “Poor Things” Review: Yorgos Lanthimos’ deliciously funny and fantastic epic is one of the year’s very best [Venice] The three expected nominees, Christopher Nolan for “Oppenheimer”; Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese’s collaboration on “Killers of the Flower Moon,” and Tony McNamara‘s script for “Poor Things,” are also representing potential Best Picture winners.
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