Best Screenplay Awards -- The Winner Is...
It's award season for Hollywood again — and this year's screenwriting awards will determine which types of scripts are likely to get extra attention during the coming year.
Check out the Spirit Awards winners from Film Independent - especially the writers — at:
Check out the WGA awards for best writing in 2009 at:
And check out the Oscar nominees at:
I loved Slumdog Millionaire as a film — the editing, pacing, music and direction made it work.
I got to see most of the nominated films, and read scripts of some of them during the past year. Frost/Nixon was a great play to film adaptation, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was a very creative and effective short story to film adaptation. Both were influenced by casting and direction, especially Benjamin Button due to the extensive special effects required.
I didn't find Doubt as engaging onscreen as Frost/Nixon however as a play to film adaptation, and that may have been due to the subject matter as well as the script. I didn't find it as engaging, maybe because I wasn't raised Catholic. But I grew up during the time Nixon was in office, so I remember how things were then and that was a stronger story for me. The issues were similar in both films — revealing the truth.
For other script nominees, I liked In Bruges and Happy-Go-Lucky's character-driven stories, and their dialogue made them both work.
Would love to hear your favorites, especially if you had a chance to read the scripts as well as see the films.
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