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The 96th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 10 and air live on ABC at 7:00 p.m. ET\/ 4:00 p.m. PT. We update predictions through awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2024 Oscar picks.<\/p>\n
The Best Original Screenplay race weirdly goes all the way back to the Gotham Awards, which get plenty of credit as the ceremony that most often kicks off awards season, but is not the most accurate in predicting what players will be winning Academy Awards come Oscar night. But the reason to mention its 2023 iteration specifically is that it was the first place where \u201cAnatomy of a Fall\u201d won the Best Screenplay category, but \u201cPast Lives\u201d won Best Film.<\/p>\n
Throughout the season, \u201cPast Lives\u201d has managed to win some huge awards, most recently receiving Best Feature, Best Director, and Best First Feature at the 2024 Independent Spirit Awards, which occurred during final Oscar voting this year.<\/p>\n
But none of those are Best Screenplay awards. The script for \u201cAnatomy of a Fall\u201d was honored by the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs. When it\u2019s lost, it\u2019s gone to a film like \u201cBarbie\u201d or \u201cAmerican Fiction,\u201d which are in the Best Adapted Screenplay category at the Oscars this year. Plus, the Palme d\u2019Or winner has five Oscar nominations, while \u201cPast Lives\u201d only has two.<\/p>\n
Given how stacked a list there was of Best Director contenders this year, Best Original Screenplay is almost certainly going to one of the filmmakers nominated, as is pretty standard when there\u2019s a more established filmmaker finally getting their due in the former category (this will likely be the year Christopher Nolan wins his first Oscar.) Again, \u201cAnatomy of a Fall\u201d screenwriters Justine Triet and Arthur Harari are most likely to win because they have the best track record with screenplay awards specifically. Celine Song is the longshot, as there is still plenty of passion around \u201cPast Lives\u201d as the best debut film of the season (sadly an award the Oscars do not give out.) \u201cMaestro\u201d helmer Bradley Cooper also fits this type, but runs into the issue of his personal campaign being more focused on his directing and performance as Leonard Bernstein; meanwhile, his co-writer Josh Singer is weighed down by having an Oscar already.<\/p>\n
The scripts for \u201cThe Holdovers\u201d and \u201cMay December\u201d from film newcomers David Hemingson and Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik, respectively, are beloved, and have each accepted more screenplay awards than \u201cMaestro,\u201d but this is one category voters consistently use to spread the wealth, in terms of making sure more directors behind Best Picture nominees walk away with an Academy Award year-to-year.<\/p>\n
Nominees are listed in order of likelihood they will win at IndieWire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2024 Oscars: Best Original Screenplay Predictions: The 96th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 10 and air live on ABC at 7:00 p.m. ET\/ 4:00 p.m. PT. We update predictions through awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2024 Oscar picks. The State of the Race The Best Original Screenplay race
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