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Peter Craig and Matt Reeves ("The Batman")
Dean Fleischer-Camp, Elisabeth Holm, and Nick Paley ("Marcel the Shell with Shoes On")
August Gore and George Miller ("Three Thousand Years of Longing")
Kogonada ("After Yang")
Ehren Kruger, Christopher McQuarrie, and Eric Warren Singer ("Top Gun: Maverick") Contenders:
Noah Baumbach ("White Noise")
Alice Birch and Sebastián Lelio ("The Wonder")
Joe Robert Cole and Ryan Coogler ("Black Panther: Wakanda Forever")
Guillermo del Toro, Gris Grimly, Patrick Hale, and Matthew Robbins ("Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio")
Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller ("The Son")
Samuel D. Hunter ("The Whale")
Kazuo Ishiguro ("Living")
Rian Johnson ("Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery")
Rebecca Lenkiewicz ("She Said")
Sarah Polley ("Women Talking") Longshots:
Christine Angot and Claire Denis ("Both Sides of the Blade")
James Cameron and Josh Friedman ("Avatar: The Way of Water")
Scott Cooper ("The Pale Blue Eye")
Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, and Pete Jones ("The Greatest Beer Run Ever")
Andrew Dominik ("Blonde")
Lena Dunham ("Catherine, Called Birdy")
David Kajganich ("Bones & All")
David Magee ("A Man Called Otto")
David Magee ("Lady Chatterley's Lover")
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Early Best Adapted Screenplay Contenders Range from ‘ Living’ to ‘ Top Gun Maverick’
Films of all kinds of scale are in the running for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar this year
Marcus Jones Sep 23, 2022 12:23 pm Share This Article Reddit LinkedIn WhatsApp Email Print Talk “White Noise” WILSON WEBB / NETFLIX 2022 This article contains IndieWire's preliminary Best Adapted Screenplay predictions for the 2023 Oscars. We regularly update our predictions throughout awards season, and republish previous versions (like this one) for readers to track changes in how the Oscar race has changed. For the latest update on the frontrunners for the 95th Academy Awards, see our 2023 Oscars predictions hub. Nominations voting is from January 12-17, 2023, with official Oscar nominations announced January 24, 2023. Final voting is March 2-7, 2023. And finally, the 95th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 12 and air live on ABC at 8:00 p.m. ET/ 5:00 p.m. PT. We update predictions through awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2023 Oscar picks.The State of the Race
While the greatest Best Adapted Screenplay contenders are ahead of us, there have been films of all kinds of scale that have kicked off the conversation about what film will win. In January, Sundance premiered "Living," the small but grand remake of "Ikiru" that stars Bill Nighy, and was written by accomplished novelist Kazuo Ishiguro. While that won't be available to the public until November, "Top Gun: Maverick," the summer's biggest blockbuster, is also generating Oscar buzz for screenwriters Peter Craig, Ehren Kruger, Justin Marks, Christopher McQuarrie, and Eric Warren Singer.Related
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Dean Fleischer-Camp, Elisabeth Holm, and Nick Paley ("Marcel the Shell with Shoes On")
August Gore and George Miller ("Three Thousand Years of Longing")
Kogonada ("After Yang")
Ehren Kruger, Christopher McQuarrie, and Eric Warren Singer ("Top Gun: Maverick") Contenders:
Noah Baumbach ("White Noise")
Alice Birch and Sebastián Lelio ("The Wonder")
Joe Robert Cole and Ryan Coogler ("Black Panther: Wakanda Forever")
Guillermo del Toro, Gris Grimly, Patrick Hale, and Matthew Robbins ("Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio")
Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller ("The Son")
Samuel D. Hunter ("The Whale")
Kazuo Ishiguro ("Living")
Rian Johnson ("Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery")
Rebecca Lenkiewicz ("She Said")
Sarah Polley ("Women Talking") Longshots:
Christine Angot and Claire Denis ("Both Sides of the Blade")
James Cameron and Josh Friedman ("Avatar: The Way of Water")
Scott Cooper ("The Pale Blue Eye")
Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, and Pete Jones ("The Greatest Beer Run Ever")
Andrew Dominik ("Blonde")
Lena Dunham ("Catherine, Called Birdy")
David Kajganich ("Bones & All")
David Magee ("A Man Called Otto")
David Magee ("Lady Chatterley's Lover")
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