How the Adapted-Screenplay Oscar Race Got So Fascinating

Adapting a prominent book for the screen can be a shortcut to Oscar buzz, but is never a guarantee of success; for every Call Me by Your Name there are so, so many Angela’s Ashes. But this fall brings an unusually competitive set of adaptations, many of them written by their directors and driven by the kind of star power very few screenwriters ever get to claim. So how do you even compare the feat of Denis Villeneuve adapting the mammoth Dune to Maggie Gyllenhaal intricately recreating Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter, or Rebecca Hall picking up the nearly 100-year-old… Read Full Article