Academy Award Nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay: '90s edition

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Goodfellas - Nicholas Pileggi & Martin Scorsese	5
JFK - Oliver Stone & Zachary Sklar	3
Election - Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor	3
L.A. Confidential - Curtis Hanson & Brian Helgeland	2
Hamlet - Kenneth Branagh	1
The Thin Red Line - Terrence Malick	1
Europa Europa - Agnieszka Holland	1
The Silence of the Lambs - Ted Tally	1
Quiz Show - Paul Attanasio	1
Sling Blade - Billy Bob Thornton	1
Il Postino - Anna Pavignano, Michael Radford, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli & Massimo Troisi	1
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Anthony Minghella	1
The Crucible - Arthur Miller	0
The English Patient - Anthony Minghella	0
Trainspotting - John Hodge	0
Donnie Brasco - Paul Attanasio	0
Wag the Dog - Hilary Henkin & David Mamet	0
The Sweet Hereafter - Atom Egoyan	0
The Insider - Michael Mann & Eric Roth	0
The Green Mile - Frank Darabont	0
The Cider House Rules - John Irving	0
A Simple Plan - Scott Smith	0
Primary Colors - Elaine May	0
Out of Sight - Scott Frank	0
Gods and Monsters -Bill Condon	0
The Wings of the Dove - Hossein Amini	0
Leaving Las Vegas - Mike Figgis	0
Babe - George Miller & Chris Noonan	0
Apollo 13 - William Broyles, Jr. & Al Reinert	0
A River Runs Through It - Richard Friedenberg	0
The Player - Michael Tolkin	0
Enchanted April - Peter Barnes	0
Howards End - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	0
The Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy & Becky Johnston	0
Fried Green Tomatoes - Fannie Flagg & Carol Sobieski	0
Dances with Wolves - Michael Blake	0
Reversal of Fortune - Nicholas Kazan	0
The Grifters - Donald E. Westlake	0
Scent of a Woman - Bo Goldman	0
Schindler's List - Steven Zaillian	0
Sense and Sensibility - Emma Thompson	0
The Shawshank Redemption - Frank Darabont	0
Nobody's Fool - Robert Benton	0
The Madness of King George - Alan Bennett	0
Forrest Gump - Eric Roth	0
Shadowlands - William Nicholson	0
The Remains of the Day - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	0
In the Name of the Father - Terry George & Jim Sheridan	0
The Age of Innocence - Jay Cocks & Martin Scorsese	0
Awakenings - Steven Zaillian	0

― Coke Opus (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 18:43 (twelve years ago)

TTRL my favorite movie here, but obv the screenplay is no more than a framework for that movie. it might be "Out of Sight"!

― ryan, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 18:47 (twelve years ago)

I honestly think it might be Election. And I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it won.

― Coke Opus (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 18:49 (twelve years ago)

three weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Monday, 25 March 2013 00:01 (twelve years ago)

Didnt see this. Ryan otm. Tempted to go for the better gangster movie (donnie brasco) but jfk.

― mister borges (darraghmac), Monday, 25 March 2013 00:17 (twelve years ago)

Goodfellas, probably followed by The Player, Out of Sight, Europa Europa, Nobody's Fool, Schindler's List, In the Name of the Father, Donnie Brasco

― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 March 2013 02:37 (twelve years ago)

voted for Quiz Show, but could have been:

Election
Reversal of Fortune
The Player
Out of Sight
Nobody's Fool
Donnie Brasco

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 March 2013 02:43 (twelve years ago)

JFK coasts just past Election and (though A. Miller didn't change that much iirc) The Crucible.

― alternately mean and handsy (Eric H.), Monday, 25 March 2013 02:46 (twelve years ago)

^^ Somebody's gotta get rid of this fucka

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 March 2013 03:00 (twelve years ago)

Thank yah, honey!

― alternately mean and handsy (Eric H.), Monday, 25 March 2013 03:03 (twelve years ago)

JFK, nuttery adapted from fantasy

― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 March 2013 03:08 (twelve years ago)

Back ... and to the left.
Back ... and to the left.
Back ... and to the left.
Back ... and to the left.
Back ... and to the left.

― alternately mean and handsy (Eric H.), Monday, 25 March 2013 03:10 (twelve years ago)

Election.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 25 March 2013 14:27 (twelve years ago)

Which I think is one of the most well-written movies I've ever seen, not an ounce of fat.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 25 March 2013 14:28 (twelve years ago)

But fat adds flavor. So, again, JFK.

― alternately mean and handsy (Eric H.), Monday, 25 March 2013 14:36 (twelve years ago)

Sonafabitch, there he goes again – he's got his hands on the chicken switch.

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 March 2013 14:36 (twelve years ago)

We're told by your government that my brain has disappeared. That's not all that's disappeared. With it, the concept of justice.

― alternately mean and handsy (Eric H.), Monday, 25 March 2013 14:40 (twelve years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 00:01 (twelve years ago)

you people like goodfellas too much.

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 00:27 (twelve years ago)

vee haf to cohntroll the eentelligence from Saigon

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 00:31 (twelve years ago)

As much as I love Goodfellas, is it a great script? I don't know. Definitely funny, but I attribute that to the actors--you know, the way they tell a story. Then there's the music, and bravura direction like the Copa shot. That's why I don't vote in the screenplay polls. I probably take for granted the very foundation of the film.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 00:53 (twelve years ago)

yeah i dont feel like you can vote on these without reading the scripts

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 01:01 (twelve years ago)

I think the mistake I make is a kind of internal assumption that a certain kind of film I like--visually ordinary, invisible direction, all about the performances and the story (I'm sure I could think of a better example, but something like Broadcast News)--is a writer's film, while arcade funhouses like Goodfellas are directors' films. But when Scorsese's at his worst (for me, Cape Fear and Gangs of New York), he probably started with a lousy script--which in turn makes all the razzle-dazzle that much worse. Which is one of Kael's central points in "Circles and Squares": instantly identifiable directorial style without a good script as the foundation is not necessarily a virtue, and often is the complete opposite.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 01:35 (twelve years ago)

the script of Goodfellas is dynamically structured and employs one of the best narrations ever.

― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 04:20 (twelve years ago)

Haha, who voted for Hamlet? It doesn't really seem like a radical adaption, scriptwise...

― Frederik B, Tuesday, 26 March 2013 10:22 (twelve years ago)

doing the whole play is kinda radical

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 26 March 2013 16:52 (twelve years ago)

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