Best Original Screenplay: Mid-December

[DirkDiggler]

Yeah I think it could, Dirk be damned.

Django and ZDT are locked. Looper is actually winning script awards (NBR and Las Vegas), and the writing branch often thinks like critics groups. Moonrise Kingdom is the typical screenplay nominee (a greatly received comedy whose main strength is a funny script) and isn’t missing anywhere.

Actually, all the problems of The Master, all criticism it has received, comes from the script. The actors are raved, Anderson’s visuals are raved, but even the raves agree the script is meandering and sometimes frustrating. And The Master has missed in every set of nominees in which original-adapted are not split, something that hasn’t happened to Looper or MK.

I think it’s in fifth place, but semi-safe because of the lack of stronger contenders. But I wouldn’t be surprised to see Amour ultimately beating it because it actually is a more praised screenplay, and I have actually voted for Amour.

Every Oscar attention-movie PTA has directed... has been nominated for a Screenplay Oscar. The branch obviously loves him.

I'd be completely shocked if he missed here. Especially in a year like you said..... has a lack of strong contenders.
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Lol. Looper missing... would officially make JGL a curse for the screenplay category.

(500) Days of Summer ~BFCA, WGA, won ISA and won Las Vegas~,

50/50 ~NBR win, WGA, BFCA, won ISA~

Since (500) Days of Summer won the screenplay award @ Las Vegas this should be a premonition for you that Looper won't be nominated at the Oscars.

JGL being in it, and me thinking that it would be the one film that would most likely hit everything besides Globe & miss... made me predict it to win NBR. And of course it did.

So yeah.... I think Looper isn't going to get nominated.

CUUUUUURRRRRSSSSEEEE!

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Also, to many people are discounting Flight yo.

Its recent BFCA nomination got it a bit of attention, and one of it remains one of the praised elements of the film. Plus the writer has a sob story behind the script (personal, his addiction, working on it for years, etc).

Oh, and it's pretty LOCKED for WGA. Especially with so many ineligible.

[RobYo]

^^ Interesting .

[Rage Colored Glasses]

The more I think about the more I think Amour is out. It's screenplay has gotten barely anything from the critics, even the ones that wholeheartedly embraced the film as a whole like LAFCA.

[HoneyDarling]

The more I think about the more I think Amour is out. It's screenplay has gotten barely anything from the critics, even the ones that wholeheartedly embraced the film as a whole like LAFCA.

Yes!

[walkabout]

I never understood those predicting Amour for a Screenplay nod. The film and its script are nothing the industry, especially the American film industry, would go for.
A Separation had an extremely strong dramatic structure while Amour is a loosely structured arthouse film.

Regarding Looper and the curse of JGL... Do not forget he was also in Inception!

[DirkDiggler]

I never understood those predicting Amour for a Screenplay nod. The film and its script are nothing the industry, especially the American film industry, would go for.
A Separation had an extremely strong dramatic structure while Amour is a loosely structured arthouse film.

Regarding Looper and the curse of JGL... Do not forget he was also in Inception!

Luckily he wasn't lead/Cobb in Inception.

When JGL is the lead.... The film isn't going to get nominated.

That better?

The CURSE lives on!

[Jonathan]

Bruce Willis is first-billed in Looper.

BOOM, problem solved.

[DirkDiggler]

Bruce Willis is first-billed in Looper.

BOOM, problem solved.

Well duh... Because he's Bruce Willis.

Willis' role is Supporting. JGL is obviously lead.

BOOM, problem not solved.

[with_one_voice]

BOOM, none of this matters because using JGL as rationale for not predicting Looper is stupid as f...

[guany]

BOOM, Jonathan is obviously joking.

DOUBLE BOOM, I brought up the Joseph Gordon-Levitt Original Screenplay Curse™ like a week ago!

[Jali]

01. Zero dark thirty
02. Django unchained
03. Moonrise Kingdom
04. Looper
05. The intouchables

06. The cabin in the woods
07. The master
08. Amour

[The Marquee]

Quentin Tarantino Django Unchained
Rian Johnson Looper
Paul Thomas Anderson The Master
Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola Moonrise Kingdom
Mark Boal Zero Dark Thirty

I can see Amour missing here. The AMPAS loves surprises. They have shown us that over and over in the past. I know that critically acclaimed foreign films usually make it in this category, but how "critaclly acclaimed" is Amour? If it gets in I see it taking Django Unchained out.

[HoneyDarling]

Quentin Tarantino Django Unchained
Rian Johnson Looper
Paul Thomas Anderson The Master
Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola Moonrise Kingdom
Mark Boal Zero Dark Thirty

I can see Amour missing here. The AMPAS loves surprises. They have shown us that over and over in the past. I know that critically acclaimed foreign films usually make it in this category, but how how "critaclly acclaimed" is Amour? If it gets in I see it taking Django Unchained out.

Yes, yes, and yes.

[guany]

I know that critically acclaimed foreign films usually make it in this category, but how "critaclly acclaimed" is Amour?

Huh?

[Submerge]

I can see Amour missing here. The AMPAS loves surprises. They have shown us that over and over in the past. I know that critically acclaimed foreign films usually make it in this category, but how "critaclly acclaimed" is Amour? If it gets in I see it taking Django Unchained out.

Amour has a 92 on Metacritic, making it the second most acclaimed film of the year. Now, whether the screenplay is something the Academy would go for is an important consideration, but the film is certainly "critically acclaimed."

[Anthony_X]

Right now, I feel like Rian Johnson will happen. I mean, he has won NBR, Washington DC, Las Vegas, Austin and Florida, and is nominated for BFCA, Chicago, Houston, Utah and the Online Film Critics Society. It is very likely that he will get a WGA nomination. The only "thing" making people doubt is the genre, which is a fair point.

1. Zero Dark Thirty
2. Moonrise Kingdom
3. Django Unchained
4. The Master
5. Looper

It would be such a great lineup

[Kargo]

Amour has unanimous acclaim and is an incredible film but the better question that should be asked here is whether it's a writers movie.

It's a film that heavily relies on the two performances and the direction unlike for example A Separation which was a writing tour de force with an incredibly complex relationships,both social,personal and religious.Amour is a simple story directed masterfully by Haneke and acted brilliantly by Riva and Trintignant.

It's strikes me as something that could surprise with a directors nomination rather than with a writing one.

[moviewatcher]

Amour has unanimous acclaim and is an incredible film but the better question that should be asked here is whether it's a writers movie.

It's a film that heavily relies on the two performances and the direction unlike for example A Separation which was a writing tour de force with an incredibly complex relationships,both social,personal and religious.Amour is a simple story directed masterfully by Haneke and acted brilliantly by Riva and Trintignant.

It's strikes me as something that could surprise with a directors nomination rather than with a writing one.

But does the fact that there is almost no editing in the movie and it's mostly stationary shots make the whole film rely more on the performances and the script?

Just an interesting question. I loved Amour. i loved that Haneke did what he did, because it really made us feel like observers. Unwilling, impotent observers to this tragedy.

[Kargo]

But does the fact that there is almost no editing in the movie and it's mostly stationary shots make the whole film rely more on the performances and the script?

Just an interesting question. I loved Amour. i loved that Haneke did what he did, because it really made us feel like observers. Unwilling, impotent observers to this tragedy.

I don't see it as a tragedy.Life is not infinite and neither are we.I'd say,the care,the dedication,the love shown by Georges are an example of us overcoming our biological nature and becoming something more than just casual travelers throughout this universe.We have the ability to really love,not just as a biological need for sex/reproduction that we share with the rest of the animal kingdom but to really care for another being,through kindness,compassion,honesty and when the moment comes through suffering too.

I find Kar Wai Wong's films a lot more tragic than Amour.Those characters are so lonely,so desperate for something like the couple in Amour have,we can't help feel their emotional isolation.

Amour is a difficult film but for me it's an example of what love really is,not something like Titanic when people declare love after knowing each other for 5 minutes.To spend your entire life with another person through the good and the bad and to dedicate yourself to her when she's not really that person anymore...when you can easily send her in a home,without even her knowing or anyone blaming you for it,to stay true to your love one beyond any sense of duty...that's love!

[Zuranthium]

1. Zero Dark Thirty
2. Moonrise Kingdom
3. The Master
4. Django Unchained
5. The Intouchables
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6. Flight
7. Looper
8. Amour