Nominations for this category:
- “Brokeback Mountain” Screenplay by Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana
- “Capote” Screenplay by Dan Futterma
- “The Constant Gardener” Screenplay by Jeffrey Caine
- “A History of Violence” Screenplay by Josh Olson
- “Munich” Screenplay by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth
The first half of The Constant Gardener is really intriguing, letting us wonder what is going on. However the last part of it and the resolution are not equally good. The story of Brokeback Mountain is very good, but I think what makes the film great is the acting and the directing. Munich did not convince me. So my favorite is A History of Violence, an adaptation of a graphic novel (which I also liked). The screenplay is very different from the GN, it just takes the basic plot of the GN and goes in a completely different direction, with totally different themes. It’s hard to guess what comes next in the plot, and even how it ends. It’s just a nice tight plot.