OSCAR: Overview Of Best Screenplay Race

It?s amazing that any good script ever gets made anymore. If there is one common thread running through most of the contenders for screenplay honors this year, it is what a long, looooong journey it is from page to screen. And�another fairly obvious truth: the road to Best Picture starts on the page.�In fact, since 1933, only�3 movies�have managed to win the Best Picture Oscar without at least having their screenplay nominated and, in the majority of cases, actually winning.�One of those movies was Hamlet in 1948 but its credited writer, William Shakespeare, wasn?t around for the rewrites. The other two were The Sound Of Music (1965) and Titanic (1997). The writers strike in 2007 proved not much gets done without�scribes and the effects of that strike, particularly in terms of quality screenplays, is still being felt. Nevertheless 2010 is a rich feast as far as the writers are concerned� but none of it was easy.�Among the screenplay contenders,�Black Swan, Blue Valentine, Get Low,�and Inception were each percolating in the minds of their writers for more than a decade.�In the case of The King?s Speech,�it was more than�3 decades. The Kids Are All Right and Hereafter were thrown into drawers, unfinished, only to be rescued years later.�And to demonstrate just how important� the right words and concept are, it was 11 years between Toy Story 2 �and 3. Of course the wait for just the right concept and ... Read More »

Source: http://www.deadline.com/2010/12/oscar-overview-of-best-screenplay-race/

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