Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

yeah well there's a

yeah the the there's a wide field and i thought one of the interesting uh conversations to have with best original screenplay or best adapted screenplay is just how closely did the actual film follow maybe the original screenplay versus the shooting, like what they actually use for shooting.

You know, there are all sorts of varieties, different phases of screenplays.

And so I know that there are screenplays that won Best Original Screenplay or Best Adapted Screenplay where they had to modify it to no end, right? Like Godfather, I think it has lots of changes.

They worked it from the original content from Mario Puzo.

but there's a lot of adjustment that had to happen even as they're filming versus other ones where they just kind of take that screenplay and they're like, and the director either wrote it themselves, which I probably have quite a few of, or they're handed it and they say, this is what I want to make.

During the movie, near the later end of it, it's both Jem and Scout experience true fear as they themselves are attacked on Halloween night, October 31st.

1936 but uh find salvation in an unexpected source and that happens at an hour and 51 minutes into this two hour and nine minute movie and when it came to the academy awards for that particular season it actually ended up getting wins for best actor for gregory peck best art direction and best adapted screenplay and also getting nominations for best picture Best Director, Best Cinematography, Black and White, Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Mary Bedham, and Best Musical Score.

And as it is the 1st of November, we are going to be watching E.T.

The Extraterrestrial from 1982, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Henry Thomas.

And that happens at 1 hour and 18 minutes into this 2 hour and 26 minute movie.

And when it came to the Academy Awards for that particular season, it actually ended up winning for Best Supporting Actor for Joe Pesci.

And actually got it nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Lorraine Brago, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

and as it is the 4th of november we are going to be watching v for vendetta from 2005. directed by james mcteague and starring hugo weaving so this was definitely movie i saw on opening weekend a bunch of friends and all that sort of thing it boasts no knowledge of the actual story behind it as well as the actual comic book as well with the reasons for a bunch of us going i will admit that i really didn't know much about either came to obviously understand the situation and the adaptation from the comic book afterwards but yes definitely and but it has been actually quite a while like a lot of the movies on this list since the last time i've actually seen it and like i'd already mentioned not only does this movie star hugo weaving but it also stars Natalie Portman, Stephen Ray, John Hurt, Stephen Fry, Tim Piggott-Smith, Rupert Graves, and Roger Allum.

By the way, Ring Lardner Jr., who is Ring Lardner's son, was an Academy Award-winning screenwriter.

He was blacklisted during the Red Scare, but then he came back and wound up winning an Academy Award for writing the screenplay to M.A.S.H., although it is funny that Ring Lardner did later say he didn't really write the screenplay to M.A.S.H. because they improvised so much of what you saw on the screen as opposed to what he actually wrote, but still won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

So, continuing with the movie, Jason...

We get into Charles Comiskey's unwillingness to spend money on the players.

And it shows in every scene.

everything

we mentioned ring lardner before the sports writer who is portrayed by sales himself in this movie and we mentioned his son ring lardner jr who won an academy award for best adapted screenplay for mash he came to bush stadium to visit the set lardner's article in american film reported that sales script depicted much of the story accurately based on what he knew from his father the audience lardner wrote though quote won't have the satisfaction of knowing exactly why everything worked out the way that it did lardner also witnessed how the production crew had to make quote a few hundred extras look like a world series crowd of thousands because they were hampered by the production's inability to entice a substantial number of indianapolis residents because this was shot in indianapolis to come to the stadium to act as film extras.

Lardner stated the producers offered free entertainment, bingo with cash prizes, and as much as $20 a day stipend, which is all the budget permitted, but unfortunately not enough people bit.

Both set and filmed during World War II, the January 23, 1943 film, starring the late actors Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Berman, Peter Lorre, and Paula Henry, is so beloved to this day it doesn't need a recap.

Did you know no one involved with the film's production really expected it to stand out in Hollywood among the countless films released yearly, despite the big elite stars and writers in it? It actually made a worldwide total of $10.5 million, which was quite a lot in those days, and went on to win the Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay Oscars.

According to IMDB.com, many of the actors who fled the Nazis were actual European Jews who had fled Nazi occupation.

And to prepare herself for working with Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Berman actually watched 1941's The Maltese Falcon multiple times.

Her novel, Hamnet, won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020, the Fiction Prize at the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards.

O'Farrell co-adapted the book for the screen with Chloe Zhao in 2025 and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for her work on the film.

Wow, that's amazing.

She's got a

When the Oscar nominations came out and I saw that Noah, the choice wasn't nominated for Best Picture.

I was disappointed when I realised that it wasn't nominated for Best International Feature or Best Adapted Screenplay.

I was absolutely shocked.

I mean, maybe I shouldn't be because the Oscars aren't the BLM end or they made some terrible choices of late.

And what has he chosen for us this month? Well, it became the first horror film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture as well as receiving nine other nominations.

The writer, William Peter Blatty, won Best Adapted Screenplay while the sound engineers took Best Sound.

It's had several sequels and was the highest-grossing R-rated horror film unadjusted for inflation until 2017's It.

On a £12 million budget, it made back £441 million.

That film is often considered their best film.

The best Merchant Ivory film is the one that won the most Academy Awards, I think, including Emma Thompson for Best Actress and Ruth Praver-Javala for Best Adapted Screenplay.

And it is, I think, generally considered one of the great film adaptations of a classic novel.

It's a very good film.