skimpole Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 I'm going to use this thread to list my choices by For Best Adapted/Original Screenplay. However looking at it, I realize that while the adapted screenplay has always existed, the best original screenplay only began in 1940. There was an Academy Award for best story which goes back to 1927/1928, and which lasted until 1956. Adapted screenplay 1927/1928: Three nominees 1928/1929 Eleven nominees 1929/1930-1930/1931 Five nominees 1931/1932-1935 Three nominees 1936-Present Five nominees Original Screenplay 1940-Present Five noninees Best Story 1927/1928 Two nominees 1929/1929-1929/1930 No award 1930/1931 Five nominees 1931/1932 four nominees 19321933-1934 Three nominees 1935 Four nominees 1936-1956 Five nominees Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted March 11, 2018 Author Share Posted March 11, 2018 Before I begin, you'd think that the best picture of the year would also be a strong contender for the best director, best lead performance, and best relevant screenplay. That isn't always the case: Wings, Sunrise, The Broadway Melody, nominated for nothing. All Quiet on the Western Front loses to The Big House, when it appears the award is being given to the best overall screenplay, though there is still a best story award. Cavalcade, Grand Hotel not nominated. Mutiny on the Bounty loses to The Informer. The Great Ziegfeld loses best story to The Story of Louis Pasteur, which also wins best screenplay. You Can't Take it With You loses to Pygmalion. Rebecca loses to The Philadelphia Story How Green was my Valley loses to Here Comes Mr. Jordan. More unsuccessful best picture nominees later. Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted March 13, 2018 Author Share Posted March 13, 2018 Gentleman's Agreement loses adapted screenplay to Miracle on 34th Street Hamlet is not nominated at all. All the King's Men loses adapted screenplay to A Letter for Three Wives. Ben-Hur loses adapted screenplay to Room at the Top. West Side Story loses adapted screenplay to Judgement at Nuremberg. Lawrence of Arabia loses adapted screenplay to To Kill A Mockingbird My Fair Lady loses adapted screenplay to Becket The Sound of Music is not nominated at all. Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted March 16, 2018 Author Share Posted March 16, 2018 Oliver! loses adapted screenplay to The Lion in the Winter Rocky loses original screenplay to Network. The Deer Hunter loses original screenplay to Coming Home. Platoon loses original screenplay to Hannah and Her Sisters. Unforgiven loses original screenplay to The Crying Game. Braveheart loses original screenplay to The Usual Suspects The English Patient loses adapted screenplay to Sling Blade. Titantic is not nominated at all. Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted March 27, 2018 Author Share Posted March 27, 2018 Gladiator loses original screenplay to Almost Famous. Chicago loses adapted screenplay to The Pianist. Million Dollar Baby loses adapted screenplay to Sideways. The Artist loses original screenplay to Midnight in Paris The Shape of Water loses original screenplay to Get Out. Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted March 29, 2018 Author Share Posted March 29, 2018 OK, I'm going to start with 1940, since it's the first year with original screenplays: I might go back in time, although the difficulty of finding which film is nominated in which year before 1934 is such a hassle. Adapted Screenplay Charles Lederer, His Girl Friday, based on the play The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur Donald Ogden Stewart, The Philadelphia Story, based on the play of the same name by Philip Barry Ted Sears, Otto Englander, Webb Smith, William Cottrell, Joseph Sabo, Erdman Penner and Aurelius Battaglia, Pinocchio, based on The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi Nunnally Johnson, The Grapes of Wrath, based on the novel of the same name by John Steinbeck Samson Raphaelson, The Shop Around the Corner, based on the play Perfumiere by Miklos Laszlo Original Screenplay Joe Grant, Dick Hummer, Fantasia Charles Chaplin, The Great Dictator Emeric Pressburger, Contraband W.C Fields, (as "Mahatma Kane Jeeves"), The Bank Dick Howard Koch, Seton I. Miller, The Sea Hawk Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted March 31, 2018 Author Share Posted March 31, 2018 I should point out that while two of the seven sequences in Fantasia are clearly inspired by the music about, five are not. I should add that I have not seen Angels Over Broadway, Foreign Correspondent (best original screenplay nominees), Arise my Love, Comrade X (best original story). Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted April 3, 2018 Author Share Posted April 3, 2018 Now it's time for 1941 Best Adapted Screenplay John Huston, The Maltese Falcon, based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett Nat Perrin, Warren Wilson, Alex Gotlieb, Helzapoppin', based on the play of the same name by H.C. Potter Otto Englander, Joe Grant, Dick Huemer, Dumbo, based on a toy storyline by Helen Aberson, Harold Pearl Preston Sturges, The Lady Eve, based on the story "Two Bad Hats" by Monckton Hoffe George Bernard Shaw, Marjorie Deans, Anatole de Grunwald, Major Barbara, based on the play of the same name by Shaw. Best Original Screenplay Herman K. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles, Citizen Kane Aeneas McKenzie, Wally Klein, Lenora J. Coffee, They Died with Their Boots On Preston Sturges, Sullivan's Travels John T. Neville, Prescott Chaplin, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break Walter Reisch, R.C. Sherriff, That Hamilton Woman I have not seen The Devil and Miss Jones, Tall, Dark and Handsome, Tom, Dick and Harry (original screenplay), Night Train to Munich (original story) Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted April 4, 2018 Author Share Posted April 4, 2018 Now it's time for 1942! The distinction between adapted and original screenplay is still a little wonky since for three of the Academy's nominations for best adapted screenplay that year, 49th Parallel/The Invaders, The Talk of the Town and The Pride of the Yankees, seem to have no independent existence outside a studio lot. Best Adapted Screenplay Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons, based on the novel of the same name by Booth Tarkington Vincent Lawrence, Horace McCoy, Gentleman Jim based on the memoir The Roar of the Crowd by James J. Corbett Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, The Man Who Came to Dinner, based on the play of the same name by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman James A. Fields, Jerome Chodorov, My Sister Eileen, based on their play of the same name Laurence Stallings, The Jungle Book, based on the story collection of the same name by Rudyard Kipling Best Original Screenplay Preston Sturges, The Palm Beach Story Robert Buchner, Edmund Joseph, Yankee Doodle Dandy Melchiir Lengyel, Edwin Justus Mayer, To Be or Not To Be Tadao Ikeda, Yasujiro Ozu, Takao Anai, There was a Father Peter Viertel, Joan Harrrison, Dorothy Parker, Saboteur I have not seen One of our Aircraft is Missing, Wake Island, The War Against Mrs. Hadley (original screenplay) or Holiday Inn (original story) Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted April 10, 2018 Author Share Posted April 10, 2018 Now it's 1943! This may change if I ever find enough movies from this year that I truly like. Best Adapted Screenplay Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard E. Koch, Casablanca, based on the play Everybody Comes to Rick's by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison Carl Theodor Dreyer, Poul Knudsen, Mogen Skot-Hansen, Day of Wrath, based on the play Anne Pedersdotter by Hans Wier-Jenssen Samson Raphaelson, Heaven Can Wait, based on the play Birthday by Leslie Bush-Feteke Curt Siodmak, Adrel Way, I Walked with a Zombie, based on the article of the same name by Inez Wallace Paul Osborn, Hans Rameau, Walter Reisch, Madame Curie based on the novel of the same name by Eva Curie Best Original Screenplay Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, Alma Reville, Shadow of a Doubt Maya Deren, Meshes of the Afternoon Pierre Laroche, Jacques Prevert, Lumiere D'Ete Noel Coward, In Which we Serve I have not seen Princess O'Rourke, So Proudly We Hail (original), Holy Matrimony (adapted), Action in the North Atlantic (story). I think I've seen The North Star, but I can't be sure. Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted April 12, 2018 Author Share Posted April 12, 2018 Now it's time for 1944: Best Adapted Screenplay Raymond Chandler, Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity, based on the novel Double Indemnity in Three of a Kind by James M. Cain Jay Drafter, Samuel Hoffenstein, Elizabeth Reinhardt, Laura, based on the novel of the same name by Vera Cropsey Irving Brecher, Fred L. Finkelhoffe, Meet me in St. Louis, based on the novel of the same name by Sally Benson Jules Furthman, William Faulkner, To Have and Have Not, based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway Clive Brook, Terrence Young, On Approval, based on the play of the same name by Frederick Lonsdale Best Original Screenplay Sergei Eisenstein, Ivan the Terrible (Part One) Preston Sturges, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, A Canterbury Tale Albert Valentin, Charles Spaak, Le Ciel est a Vous John Steinbeck, Lifeboat I have not seen Two Girls and a Sailor, Wing and a Prayer (original screenplay), A Guy Named Joe, None Shall Escape, The Sullivans (original story) Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted April 24, 2018 Author Share Posted April 24, 2018 Now it's time for 1945. Here is Best Original Screenplay: Jacques Prevert, Children of Paradise Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, I Know Where i'm Going! Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini, Rome: Open City Irving Brecher, Yolanda and the Thief Alvah Bessie, Objective Burma! Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted April 25, 2018 Author Share Posted April 25, 2018 And here's the award for Best Adapted Screenplay: Martin Goldsmith, Detour, based on his novel Detour: An Extraordinary Tale Robert Bresson, Jean Cocteau, Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, based on the novel Jacques the Fatalist, by Denis Diderot Ronald MacDougal;, Catherine Turney, Mildred Pierce, based on the novel by the same name by James M. Cain Robert Nathan, Joseph Schrank, The Clock, based on the story by Paul and Paula Gallico Dudley Nichols, Scarlett Street, based on the novel La Chienne by Georges de La Fouchardiere I have not seen Marie-Louise, Dillinger, Music For Millions, Salty O'Rourke, What Next, Corporal Hargrove (original screenplay), Pride of the Marines (adapted screenplay), The House on 92nd Street, The Affairs of Susan, A Medal For Benny (original story) Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted May 4, 2018 Author Share Posted May 4, 2018 Now it's time for 1946. Here's Best Adapted Screenplay Jean Renoir, A Day in the Country, based on the short story of the same name by Guy de Maupassant Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Jo Swerling, It's a Wonderful Life based on the short story "The Greatest Gift" by Philip Van Doren Stern William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep based on the novel of the same name by Raymond Chandler Robert E. Sherwood, The Best Years of Our Lives based on the novella Glory for Me by MacKinlay Kantor Jean Cocteau, Beauty and the Beast based on the fairy tale by Gabrrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted May 5, 2018 Author Share Posted May 5, 2018 And here's Best Original Screenplay: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, A Matter of Life and Death Ben Hecht, Notorious Leo de Laforgue, Helmut Kautner, Walter Ulbrich, Under the Bridges Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Giulia Viola, Cesare Zavattini, Shoeshine Jo Eisinger, Marion Parsonnet, Gilda I have not seen The Seventh Veil, Road to Utopia (original), Vacation from Marriage, The Dark Mirror, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (story) Children of Paradise won the year before while Rome: Open City was nominated the previous year. Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted May 8, 2018 Author Share Posted May 8, 2018 Now it's time for 1947. Here is Best Adapted Screenplay: David Lean, Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allen, Great Expectations, based on the novel of the same name by Charles Dickens George Seaton, Miracle on 34th Street, based on a story by Valentine Davies Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Black Narcissus, based on the novel of the same name by Rumer Godden Daniel Mainwaring, Out of the Past, based on his novel Build my Gallows High Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jean Ferry, Quai des Orfevres, based on the novel Legitime Defense by Stanislas-Andre Freeman Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted May 9, 2018 Author Share Posted May 9, 2018 And here is Best Original Screenplay Charles Chaplin, Monsieur Verdoux R.C. Sherriff, Odd Man Out Cai Chusheng, Zheng Junli, The Spring River Flows East Tadao Ikeda, Yasujiro Ozu, Record of a Tenement Gentleman Richard Brooks, Brute Force I have not seen The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, A Double Life (original) A Cage of Nightingales, It Happened On Fifth Avenue (story) This is the first year (going back to 1940) where neither winner is my best picture of the year. Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted May 29, 2018 Author Share Posted May 29, 2018 And here's 1948, which is the one year since 1940 not to have a best original screenplay award. So here's my Best Original Screenplay: Preston Sturges, Unfaithfully Yours Roberto Rossellini, Max Kolpe, Sergio Amidei, Germany, Year Zero Leo McCarey, John D. Klorer, Ken Englund, Good Sam Yasujiro Ozu, Ryosuke Saito, A Hen in the Wind Robert J. Flaherty, Frances H. Flaherty, Louisiana Story Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted May 30, 2018 Author Share Posted May 30, 2018 And here's Best Adapted Screenplay: Arthur Laurents, Rope, based on the play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton Cesare Zavattini, The Bicycle Thieves, based on the novel of the same name by Luigi Bartolini Borden Chase, Charles Schnee, Red River, based on the short story "The Chisholm Trail" by Borden Chase Orson Welles, The Lady From Shanghai, based on the novel If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Keith Winter, The Red Shoes, inspired by the fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted May 31, 2018 Author Share Posted May 31, 2018 Now it's 1949. Here is Best Original Screenplay: Henri Marquet, Rene Wheeler, Jacques Tati, Jour De Fete Akira Kurosawa, Ryuzu Kikushima, Stray Dog Ruth Gordon, Garson Kanin, Adam's Rib Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani, Gianni Puccini, Bitter Rice John C. Higgins, Border Incident Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted June 1, 2018 Author Share Posted June 1, 2018 And here's Best Adapted Screenplay Kogo Noda, Yasujiro Ozu, Late Spring, based on the novel Father and Daughter by Kazuo Hirotsu Ruth and Augustus Goetz, The Heiress, based on their play of the same name Adolph Green, Betty Comden, On the Town, based on their musical of the same name, co-written with Leonard Bernstein William Templeton, Lesley Storm and Graham Green, The Fallen Idol, based on the short story "The Basement Room" by Graham Greene Mel Dinelli, Robert E. Kent, Henry Garson, Robert Soderberg, The Reckless Moment, based on the short story "The Blank Wall" by Elizabeth Sanxay Holding I have not seen Champion (Adapted), Jolson Sings Again, Passport to Pimlico, The Quiet One (original), The Stratton Story, Come to the Stable, It Happens Every Spring, The Sands of Iwo Jima (story). The Bicycle Thieves was nominated the previous year Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted June 6, 2018 Author Share Posted June 6, 2018 Now it's 1950. Here are my choices for Best Adapted Screenplay Joseph L. Mankiewicz, All About Eve, based on the short story "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr Roberto Rossellini, Federico Fellini, The Flowers of St. Francis, based on the anonymous novels Little Flowers of Saint Francis and The Life of Brother Juniper Jacques Natanson, Max Ophuls, La Ronde based on the play of the same by Arthur Schnitzler Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Rashomon, based on the short story "In a Grove," by Ryonosuke Akutagawa Andrew Solt, Edmund H. North, In a Lonely Place, based on the novel of the same name by Dorothy B. Hughes Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted June 8, 2018 Author Share Posted June 8, 2018 And here's Best Original Screenplay Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr., Sunset Blvd. Graham Greene, The Third Man jean Cocteau, Orpheus Luis Alcoriza, Luis Bunuel, Los Olvidados Sergio Amidei, Gian Paolo Callegari, Art Cohn, Renzo Cesana, Stromboli I have not seen The Men (original), Panic in the Streets, Mystery Street, When Willy Comes Marching Home (Story), while Bitter Rice and Adam's Rib were nominated the previous year Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted June 22, 2018 Author Share Posted June 22, 2018 Now it's 1951 First, here's Best Adapted Screenplay Milt Banta, Del Connell, William Cottrell, Joe Grant, Winston Hibler, Dick Huemer, Dick Kelsey, Tom Oreb, Bill Peet, Erdman Penner, Joe Rinaldim, Ted Sears, John Walbridge, Alice in Wonderland, based on the novel of the same name by Lewis Carroll Jean Renoir, The River, based on the novel of the same name by Rumer Godde Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica, Suse Cecchi D'Amico, Mario Chiari, Adolfo Franci, Miracle in Milan, based on the novel Toto Il Buono by Cesare Zavattini Robert Bresson, Diary of a Country Priest, based on the novel of the same name by Georges Bernanos Raymond Chandler, Whitfield Cook, Czenzi Ormonde, Strangers on a Train, based on the novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith And here's Best Original Screenplay Koga Noda, Yasujiro Ozu, Early Summer Alan Jay Lerner, An American in Paris Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels, Walter Newman, Ace in the Hole "Hugo Butler" (a.k.a. Dalton Trumbo), The Prowler George Worthing Yeats, Art Cohn, The Tall Target I have not seen David and Bathsheba, Go For Broke, The Well (original), Detective Story (adapted), Seven Days to Noon, Bullfighter and the Lady, The Frogmen, Here Comes the Groom, Teresa (story) Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted June 27, 2018 Author Share Posted June 27, 2018 And now it's 1952: Here is Best Original Screenplay: Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Singin' in the Rain Cesare Zavattini, Umberto D Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni, Ikiru Charles Chaplin, Limelight Garson Kanin, Ruth Gordon, The Marrying Kind Somewhat unusually, this was an easier for original screenplay. And here is Best Adapted Screenplay: Orson Welles, Othello, based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost, Forbidden Games, based on the novel The Secret Game by Francois Boyer Yoshikata Yoda, The Life of Oharu, based on the novel The Life of an Amorous Woman by Saikaku Ihara Carl Foreman, High Noon, based on the short story "The Tin Star," by John W. Cunningham Frank S. Nugent, The Quiet Man, based on the short story "Green Rushes," by Maurice Walsh. I have not seen Five Fingers, (adapted), The Atomic City, Breaking the Sound Barrier (original), The Pride of Saint Louis, The Sniper (story). Link to post Share on other sites
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