Oscar Nominated Screenplays

Wendy Cohen sent along this post:

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

“American Hustle” — David O. Russell and Eric Warren Singer
“Blue Jasmine” — Woody Allen
Dallas Buyers Club” — Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack
“Her” — Spike Jonze (excerpt)
“Nebraska” — Bob Nelson

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
“12 Years a Slave” — John Ridley
“Before Midnight” — Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke & Richard Linklater
“Captain Phillips” — Billy Ray
“Philomena” — Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
“The Wolf of Wall Street” — Terence Winter

Ridley, Ray, Winter, Nelson, Coogan and Pope, and Borten and Wallack are all first-time nominees. The categories’ snubs include Joel & Ethan Coen (“Inside Llewyn Davis”) (excerpt), Tracy Letts (“August: Osage County”), Nicole Holofcener (“Enough Said”), Kelly Marcel (“Saving Mr. Banks”), Ryan Coogler (“Fruitvale Station”), and Alfonso & Jonas Cuarón (“Gravity”).

Recent winners for Best Original Screenplay include Quentin Tarantino (“Django Unchained”), Woody Allen (“Midnight in Paris”) and David Seidler (“The King’s Speech”). Best Adapted Screenplay recipients include Chris Terrio (“Argo”), Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (“The Descendants”) and Aaron Sorkin (“The Social Network”).

And of course, you can view the full list of 86 free, legal movie script PDF downloads here.

credit to the Huffington Post for their original article, here.

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