AFT Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay

This is the sixth category of the 14th Annual AFT Film Awards to be announced. The AFT Awards are my own personal choices for the best in film of each year and the best in television of each season. The AFT Film Awards include the traditional Oscar categories and a number of additional specific honors. I’m drawing only from films that were either released or playing at a film festival in the 2020 calendar year. Nominees are pictured in the order I’ve ranked them. Click here to see previous years of this category.

Runners-up:
Nomadland
The Tobacconist
The Father

The winner:
One Night in Miami (Kemp Powers) constructed a superbly engaging narrative for its four main characters to come alive and argue about their beliefs.

Other nominees:
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Ruben Santiago-Hudson)
Charm City Kings (Sherman Payne, Chris Boyd, Kirk Sullivan, and Barry Jenkins)
Downhill (Jesse Armstrong, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash)
Martin Eden (Maurizio Braucci and Pietro Marcello)

AFT Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay

This is the sixth category of the 13th Annual AFT Film Awards to be announced. The AFT Awards are my own personal choices for the best in film of each year and the best in television of each season. The AFT Film Awards include the traditional Oscar categories and a number of additional specific honors. Nominees are pictured in the order I’ve ranked them. Click here to see previous years of this category.

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order):
None

Runners-up:
Joker
I Lost My Body
Official Secrets
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
Come As You Are

The winner:
Jojo Rabbit was an eccentric, creative take on a deadly serious situation turned into endearing satire with a proper approach.

Other nominees:
Richard Jewell
Downton Abbey
The Two Popes
Little Women

AFT Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay

This is the sixth category of the 12th Annual AFT Film Awards to be announced. The AFT Awards are my own personal choices for the best in film of each year and the best in television of each season. The AFT Film Awards include the traditional Oscar categories and a number of additional specific honors. Nominees are pictured in the order I’ve ranked them. Click here to see previous years of this category.

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order):
Black Panther, Breath, Burning, Shelter

Runners-up:
If Beale Street Could Talk
Widows
The Old Man and the Gun
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Ralph Breaks the Internet

The winner:
Disobedience (Sebastián Lelio and Rebecca Lenkiewicz) told a delicate story that worked in extraordinary detail about its characters’ environment to frame a tale of forbidden love.

Other nominees:
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Desiree Akhavan and Cecilia Frugiuele)
The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin, Peter Fellows and Fabien Nury)
Leave No Trace (Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini)
Juliet, Naked (Evgenia Peretz, Jim Taylor and Tamara Jenkins)

AFT Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay

This is the sixth category of the 11th Annual AFT Film Awards to be announced. The AFT Awards are my own personal choices for the best in film of each year and the best in television of each season. The AFT Film Awards include the traditional Oscar categories and a number of additional specific honors. Nominees are pictured in the order I’ve ranked them. Click here to see previous years of this category.

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order):
Axolotl Overkill, David Brent: Life on the Road, Logan, My Life as a Zucchini, Their Finest, Wonderstruck

Runners-up:
Mudbound
Blade Runner 2049
The Zookeeper's Wife
Stronger
Molly's Game

The winner:
The Disaster Artist (Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber) dramatized its incredible story in a straightforward, coherent way that highlighted the major moments but allowed its actors to truly convey its unbelievable nature.

Other nominees:
Wonder (Stephen Chbosky, Steve Conrad and Jack Thorne)
Call Me By Your Name (James Ivory)
Marjorie Prime (Michael Almereyda)
Wilson (Daniel Clowes)

AFT Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay

This is the sixth category of the 10th Annual AFT Film Awards to be announced. The AFT Awards are my own personal choices for the best in film of each year and the best in television of each season. The AFT Film Awards include the traditional Oscar categories and a number of additional specific honors. Nominees are pictured in the order I’ve ranked them. Click here to see previous years of this category.

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order):
None

Runners-up:
Lion
Arrival
Deadpool
Hidden Figures
The Family Fang

The winner:
Julieta (Pedro Almodovar) was a layered, involving story with a fantastic central character and supporting players, thoroughly prepared on paper before being brought to life by terrific performers.

Other nominees:
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi and Te Arapa Kahi)
Elle (David Birke)
Fences (August Wilson)
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)

AFT Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay

This is the sixth category of the 9th Annual AFT Film Awards to be announced. The AFT Awards are my own personal choices for the best in film of each year and the best in television of each season. The AFT Film Awards include the traditional Oscar categories and a number of additional specific honors. Nominees are pictured in the order I’ve ranked them. Click here to see previous years of this category.

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order):
Carol, Creed, The Danish Girl, The Walk, Woman in Gold, Z for Zachariah

Runners-up:
Anomalisa
The Martian
Beasts of No Nation
Black Mass
Brooklyn

The winner:
Steve Jobs (Aaron Sorkin) tackled a life as complicated and unique as its protagonists’ with a visionary approach, boiling down all his most important relationships to three crucial events in his technological career.

Other nominees:
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Jesse Andrews)
Room (Emma Donoghue)
The Big Short (Charles Randolph and Adam McKay)
The Lady in the Van (Alan Bennett)

AFT Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay

This is the sixth category of the 8th Annual AFT Film Awards to be announced. The AFT Awards are my own personal choices for the best in film of each year and the best in television of each season. The AFT Film Awards include the traditional Oscar categories and a number of additional specific honors. Nominees are pictured in the order I’ve ranked them. Click here to see previous years of this category.

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order):
Kill the Messenger, Still Alice

Runners-up:
The Theory of Everything
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Human Capital
Mr. Peabody and Sherman

The winner:
Cold in July (Nick Damici and Jim Mickle) was an extremely dark story that started out in one place and ended up somewhere entirely different, gripping and enthralling the whole way through.

Other nominees:
Viva la Liberta (Roberto Ando and Angelo Pasquini)
Wild (Nick Hornby)
Enemy (Javier Gullon)
Joe (Gary Hawkins)

AFT Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay

This is the sixth category of the 7th Annual AFT Film Awards to be announced. The AFT Awards are my own personal choices for the best in film of each year and the best in television of each season. The AFT Film Awards include the traditional Oscar categories and a number of additional specific honors. Nominees are pictured in the order I’ve ranked them. Click here to see previous years of this category.

Honorable mention:
Blancanieves

Runners-up:
The Look of Love
The Iceman
No
Frozen
The Spectacular Now

The winner:
Warm Bodies (Jonathan Levine) was superbly clever and fully hilarious, taking a conventional zombie storyline and making something fresh out of it.

Other nominees:
What’s in a Name (Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patllière)
Blue is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche and Ghalia Lacroix)
12 Years a Slave (John Ridley)
Captain Phillips (Billy Ray)

AFT Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay

This is the sixth category of the 6th Annual AFT Film Awards to be announced. The AFT Awards are my own personal choices for the best in film of each year and the best in television of each season. The AFT Film Awards include the traditional Oscar categories and a number of additional specific honors. Nominees are pictured in the order I’ve ranked them and drawn from a pool of approximately 95 films. Click here to see previous years of this category.

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order):
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Grassroots

Runners-up:
Quartet
Silver Linings Playbook
The Dark Knight Rises
Frankenweenie
The Well-Digger's Daughter

The winner:
Headhunters (Lars Gudmestad and Ulf Ryberg) was fully captivating, switching from dark comedy to full-on action film without missing a beat and then back again.

Other nominees:
The Sessions (Ben Lewin)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin)
Argo (Chris Terrio)
Anna Karenina (Tom Stoppard)

AFT Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay

This is the sixth category of the 5th Annual AFT Film Awards to be announced. The AFT Awards are my own personal choices for the best in film of each year and the best in television of each season. The AFT Film Awards include the traditional Oscar categories and a number of additional specific honors. Nominees are pictured in the order I’ve ranked them and drawn from a pool of approximately 138 Films. Click here to see previous years of this category.

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order):
The Adjustment Bureau, Captain America: The First Avenger, Everything Must Go, Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Runners-up:
Drive
Carnage
The Adventures of Tintin
The Help
The Descendants

The winner:
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Eric Roth) was an affecting, energizing saga of a young boy’s search for answers.

Other nominees:
Moneyball (Stan Chervin, Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian)
The Skin I Live In (Pedro & Agustin Almodovar)
Turn Me On, Goddamit (Jannicke Systad Jacobsen)
Submarine (Richard Ayoade)

AFT Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay

This is the sixth category of the 4th Annual AFT Film Awards to be announced. The AFT Awards are my own personal choices for the best in film of each year and the best in television of each season. The AFT Film Awards include the traditional Oscar categories and a number of additional specific honors. Nominees are pictured in the order I’ve ranked them and drawn from a pool of approximately 177 films. Click here to see previous years of this category.

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order):
The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Greatest, Rabbit Hole, Red Riding: 1974, Red Riding: 1980, Red Riding: 1983, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Wild Grass, Youth in Revolt

Runners-up:
WINTER’S BONE
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
127 HOURS
THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES
TANGLED

The winner:
The Social Network (Aaron Sorkin) was fast-paced, witty, furiously engaging, and easily contained the best dialogue of the year

Other nominees:
Fair Game (Jez & John-Henry Butterworth)
The Ghost Writer (Robert Harris & Roman Polanski)
The City of Your Final Destination (Ruth Prawer Jhabvala)
Toy Story 3 (Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich)

AFT Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay

This is the sixth category of the 3rd Annual AFT Film Awards to be announced. The AFT Awards are my own personal choices for the best in film of each year and the best in television of each season. The AFT Film Awards include the traditional Oscar categories and a number of additional specific honors. Nominees are pictured in the order I’ve ranked them and drawn from a pool of approximately 92 films. Click here to see previous years of this category.

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order):
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Julie & Julia, Star Trek, Taking Woodstock, Whip It

Runners-up:
INVICTUS
FANTASTIC MR. FOX
9
THE LAST STATION
JULIA

The winner:
In the Loop (Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche) was quick, witty, funny, and altogether preposterous as the most entertaining current political commentary of the year.

Other nominees:
Up in the Air (Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner)
That Evening Sun (Scott Teems)
An Education (Nick Hornby)
A Single Man (Tom Ford)

AFT Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay

This is the sixth category of the 2nd Annual AFT Film Awards to be announced. The AFT Awards are my own personal choices for the best in film of each year and the best in television of each season. The AFT Film Awards include the traditional Oscar categories and a number of additional specific honors. Nominees are pictured in the order I’ve ranked them.

Runners-up:
THE READER
ELEGY
TOWELHEAD
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
IRON MAN

The winner:
Tell No One (Guillaime Canet & Philippe Lefebvre) pulsated like no other thriller with a constantly changing reason for suspense and a plot that just kept getting more intriguing.

Other nominees:
Slumdog Millionaire (Simon Beaufoy)
Choke (Clark Gregg)
Doubt (John Patrick Shanley)
Frost/Nixon (Peter Morgan)

AFT Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay

This is the twenty-fourth category of the 1st Annual AFT Film Awards to be announced. The AFT Awards are my own personal choices for the best in film of each year and the best in television of each season. The AFT Film Awards include the traditional Oscar categories and a number of additional specific honors. Nominees are listed in alphabetical order by film title. Winners will be announced in late February.

Runners-up:
STARTER FOR 10
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
A MIGHTY HEART
PARIS, JE T’AIME
HAIRSPRAY

The nominees:
THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES (Andrew Dominik)
ATONEMENT (Christopher Hampton)
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY (Ronald Harwood)
GONE BABY GONE (Ben Affleck & Aaron Stockard)
INTO THE WILD (Sean Penn)