“For Your Consideration: The 50 Most Despicable Oscar Snubs of the 2000s”

H/T to Mystery Man for this link: “For Your Consideration: The 50 Most Despicable Oscar Snubs of the 2000s” from Peter Knegt at IndieWire.com. The ones for screenwriting are:

50: Tina Fey for best adapted screenplay (Mean Girls, 2004)

39: Woody Allen for best original screenplay (Vicky Cristina Barcelona, 2008)

28: David O. Russell for best original screenplay (I Heart Huckabees, 2004)

24: Alexander Payne for best adapted screenplay (About Schmidt, 2002)

11: Charlie Kaufman for best original screenplay (Synecdoche, New York, 2008)

Not sure about this list. While Kaufman is brilliant, I didn’t connect with Synecdoche. I love Tina Fey (a fellow UVA alum to boot) and Mean Girls did get nominated for a WGA award — maybe instead of Woody Allen’s Match Point nomination? And I hope this isn’t some sort of IndieWire auteur director love thing, but Alexander Payne co-wrote About Schmidt with his long-time writing partner Jim Thomas — so how about a shout-out to Mr. Thomas?

What screenplays do you think have been shafted by the Academy Awards?

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