Biggest Oscar Screenplay Snubs This Past Decade

[Awardsfan1990 Joined: Mar 28th, 2015 Topics: 100 Posts: 5084 View Predictions]

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In your opinion, what are some of the most egregious snubs for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay at the Oscars this past decade. Here are my top 5 snubs for each:

Original:
1. Mud
2. Eighth Grade
3. Captain Fantastic
4. The Farewell
5. Zootopia

Adapted:
1. The Lost City Of Z
2. Gone Girl
3. The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
4. Me And Earl And The Dying Girl
5. Steve Jobs

What are some of yours?

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[Jeffrey Kare Joined: Jan 23rd, 2013 Topics: 118 Posts: 4878 View Predictions]

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Best Original Screenplay:
50/50
Coco
Begin Again
Rush
Sicario

Best Adapted Screenplay:
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Gone Girl
Loving
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Steve Jobs

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[wolfali Joined: Sep 4th, 2018 Topics: 215 Posts: 32924 View Predictions]

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Original Screenplay:
Begin Again
Booksmart
I, Tonya
Toni Erdmann
Wild Rose

Adapted Screenplay:
A Man Called Ove
Gone Girl
Me, Earl and the Dying Girl
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Steve Jobs

FYC:

"The Good Fight", "The Other Two" and "Station Eleven" in all categories, Sarah Lancashire ("Julia"), William Jackson Harper ("Love Life") and Luke Kirby ("The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel")

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[William Gillquist Joined: Jan 1st, 2020 Topics: 14 Posts: 857 View Predictions]

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Definitely Eighth Grade and Booksmart. Those should have been easy locks.

FYC Oscars: Licorice Pizza (Best Picture, Best Director, Original Screenplay), The Mitchells vs The Machines (Best Picture, Animated Feature, Original Screenplay), Wes Anderson (Best Director), Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of MacBeth), Andrew Garfield and Robin de Jesus (Tick, Tick...BOOM!), Jayne Houdyshell (The Humans), Stephen Karam (Adapted Screenplay), Attica and Summer of Soul (Best Documentary)

FYC Razzies: Dear Evan Hansen (in all eligible categories)

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[FairWeatherAffair Joined: May 11th, 2018 Topics: 4 Posts: 489 View Predictions]

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Looking at all of world cinema the past decade? Literal hundreds. If I limit it to what was in the predictions center? Let’s see:

Elle
Frankie
Gone Girl
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Lost City of Z
Love & Friendship
The Master
Mistress America
Mr. Turner
Peterloo
Phantom Thread
Toni Erdmann

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[Ruby Sparks Joined: Sep 26th, 2017 Topics: 0 Posts: 70 View Predictions]

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Great question! I’ve thought about it…

Best Original Screenplay:
1. The Florida Project (2017)
2. Zootopia (2016)
3. A Quiet Place (2018)
4. 50/50 (2011)
5. I, Tonya (2017)
6. Phantom Thread (2017)

Best Adapted Screenplay:
1. Wonder (2017)
2. Deadpool (2016)
3. Gone Girl (2014)
4. Hustlers (2019)
5. Cloud Atlas (2012)
6. The Perks of Being A Wallflower (2012)

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[Butz Joined: Oct 15th, 2020 Topics: 0 Posts: 1284 View Predictions]

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Original Screenplay:

1. Blue Valentine
2. A Quiet Place
3. Seven Psychopaths
4. A Ghost Story
5. The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Adapted Screenplay:

1. Widows
2. Burning
3. Gone Girl
4. The Handmaiden
5. Snowpiercer

Letterboxd: Ray_In_Bruges

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