Oscar Predictions – Best Adapted Screenplay

Here are the NBP staff predictions for Best Adapted Screenplay. For an overview of all awards predictions, visit our Oscar Predictions page.

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NBP Staff Picks

Matt Neglia
1BUGONIA (Will Tracy)
2ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3FRANKENSTEIN (Guillermo Del Toro)
4HAMNET (Maggie O’Farrell & Chloe Zhao)
5WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (Rian Johnson)
6WICKED: FOR GOOD (Dana Fox & Winnie Holzman)
7NO OTHER CHOICE (Lee Ja-hye, Lee Kyoung-mi, Park Chan-wook & Don McKellar)
8TRAIN DREAMS (Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar)
9SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE (Scott Cooper)
10HIGHEST 2 LOWEST (William Alan Fox)

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Dan Bayer
1ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2HAMNET (Maggie O’Farrell & Chloe Zhao)
3WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (Rian Johnson)
4FRANKENSTEIN (Guillermo Del Toro)
5BUGONIA (Will Tracy)
6SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE (Scott Cooper)
7WICKED: FOR GOOD (Dana Fox & Winnie Holzman)
8TRAIN DREAMS (Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar)
9HIGHEST 2 LOWEST (William Alan Fox)
10DIE, MY LOVE (Alice Birch, Lynne Ramsay & Enda Walsh)

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Alyssa Christian
1BUGONIA (Will Tracy)
2WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (Rian Johnson)
3FRANKENSTEIN (Guillermo Del Toro)
4HAMNET (Maggie O’Farrell & Chloe Zhao)
5ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (Paul Thomas Anderson)
6WICKED: FOR GOOD (Dana Fox & Winnie Holzman)
7SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE (Scott Cooper)
8HIGHEST 2 LOWEST (William Alan Fox)
9NO OTHER CHOICE (Lee Ja-hye, Lee Kyoung-mi, Park Chan-wook & Don McKellar)
10DIE, MY LOVE (Alice Birch, Lynne Ramsay & Enda Walsh)

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Sara Clements
1ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2BUGONIA (Will Tracy)
3FRANKENSTEIN (Guillermo Del Toro)
4HAMNET (Maggie O’Farrell & Chloe Zhao)
5WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (Rian Johnson)
6WICKED: FOR GOOD (Dana Fox & Winnie Holzman)
7NO OTHER CHOICE (Lee Ja-hye, Lee Kyoung-mi, Park Chan-wook & Don McKellar)
8TRAIN DREAMS (Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar)
9SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE (Scott Cooper)
10HIGHEST 2 LOWEST (William Alan Fox)

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Nadia Dalimonte
1FRANKENSTEIN (Guillermo Del Toro)
2ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3BUGONIA (Will Tracy)
4SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE (Scott Cooper)
5WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (Rian Johnson)
6WICKED: FOR GOOD (Dana Fox & Winnie Holzman)
7HAMNET (Maggie O’Farrell & Chloe Zhao)
8HIGHEST 2 LOWEST (William Alan Fox)
9NO OTHER CHOICE (Lee Ja-hye, Lee Kyoung-mi, Park Chan-wook & Don McKellar)
10DIE, MY LOVE (Alice Birch, Lynne Ramsay & Enda Walsh)

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Cody Dericks
1ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2HAMNET (Maggie O’Farrell & Chloe Zhao)
3DIE, MY LOVE (Alice Birch, Lynne Ramsay & Enda Walsh)
4BUGONIA (Will Tracy)
5WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (Rian Johnson)
6SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE (Scott Cooper)
7HIGHEST 2 LOWEST (William Alan Fox)
8TRAIN DREAMS (Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar)
9WICKED: FOR GOOD (Dana Fox & Winnie Holzman)
10NO OTHER CHOICE (Lee Ja-hye, Lee Kyoung-mi, Park Chan-wook & Don McKellar)

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Daniel Howat
1ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (Rian Johnson)
3BUGONIA (Will Tracy)
4DIE, MY LOVE (Alice Birch, Lynne Ramsay & Enda Walsh)
5SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE (Scott Cooper)
6THE SMASHING MACHINE (Benny Safdie)
7WICKED: FOR GOOD (Dana Fox & Winnie Holzman)
8HIGHEST 2 LOWEST (William Alan Fox)
9TRAIN DREAMS (Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar)
10HAMNET (Maggie O’Farrell & Chloe Zhao)

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Megan Lachinski
1ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2FRANKENSTEIN (Guillermo Del Toro)
3HAMNET (Maggie O’Farrell & Chloe Zhao)
4WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (Rian Johnson)
5DIE, MY LOVE (Alice Birch, Lynne Ramsay & Enda Walsh)
6BUGONIA (Will Tracy)
7SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE (Scott Cooper)
8HEDDA (Nia DaCosta)
9THE SMASHING MACHINE (Benny Safdie)
10THE HISTORY OF SOUND (Ben Shattuck)

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Giovanni Lago
1ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (Rian Johnson)
3FRANKENSTEIN (Guillermo Del Toro)
4HAMNET (Maggie O’Farrell & Chloe Zhao)
5SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE (Scott Cooper)
6BUGONIA (Will Tracy)
7THE SMASHING MACHINE (Benny Safdie)
8DIE, MY LOVE (Alice Birch, Lynne Ramsay & Enda Walsh)
9HEDDA (Nia DaCosta)
10LATE FAME (Sammy Burch)

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Will Mavity
1BUGONIA (Will Tracy)
2FRANKENSTEIN (Guillermo Del Toro)
3SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE (Scott Cooper)
4ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (Paul Thomas Anderson)
5HAMNET (Maggie O’Farrell & Chloe Zhao)
6WICKED: FOR GOOD (Dana Fox & Winnie Holzman)
7THE BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER (Rowan Joffe)
8TRAIN DREAMS (Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar)
9NO OTHER CHOICE (Lee Ja-hye, Lee Kyoung-mi, Park Chan-wook & Don McKellar)
10LATE FAME (Sammy Burch)

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Tom O'Brien
1ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2BUGONIA (Will Tracy)
3HAMNET (Maggie O’Farrell & Chloe Zhao)
4SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE (Scott Cooper)
5WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (Rian Johnson)
6WICKED: FOR GOOD (Dana Fox & Winnie Holzman)
7FRANKENSTEIN (Guillermo Del Toro)
8TRAIN DREAMS (Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar)
9NO OTHER CHOICE (Lee Ja-hye, Lee Kyoung-mi, Park Chan-wook & Don McKellar)
10HIGHEST 2 LOWEST (William Alan Fox)

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Josh Parham
1ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2BUGONIA (Will Tracy)
3SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE (Scott Cooper)
4WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (Rian Johnson)
5FRANKENSTEIN (Guillermo Del Toro)
6HAMNET (Maggie O’Farrell & Chloe Zhao)
7WICKED: FOR GOOD (Dana Fox & Winnie Holzman)
8NO OTHER CHOICE (Lee Ja-hye, Lee Kyoung-mi, Park Chan-wook & Don McKellar)
9TRAIN DREAMS (Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar)
10DIE, MY LOVE (Alice Birch, Lynne Ramsay & Enda Walsh)

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Joselyn Safadi
1WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (Rian Johnson)
2ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3HAMNET (Maggie O’Farrell & Chloe Zhao)
4SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE (Scott Cooper)
5DIE, MY LOVE (Alice Birch, Lynne Ramsay & Enda Walsh)
6HEDDA (Nia DaCosta)
7BUGONIA (Will Tracy)
8THE SMASHING MACHINE (Benny Safdie)
9THE LIFE OF CHUCK (Mike Flanagan)
10THE HISTORY OF SOUND (Ben Shattuck)

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Ema Sasic
1ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2BUGONIA (Will Tracy)
3FRANKENSTEIN (Guillermo Del Toro)
4SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE (Scott Cooper)
5WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (Rian Johnson)
6HAMNET (Maggie O’Farrell & Chloe Zhao)
7WICKED: FOR GOOD (Dana Fox & Winnie Holzman)
8THE LIFE OF CHUCK (Mike Flanagan)
9NO OTHER CHOICE (Lee Ja-hye, Lee Kyoung-mi, Park Chan-wook & Don McKellar)
10HIGHEST 2 LOWEST (William Alan Fox)

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