Gary Dretzka
Leonard Klady
Emanuel Levy
David Poland
Douglas Pratt
Ray Pride

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BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Writer(s) - Film	Comment
Charlie Kaufman - Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind	Probably his best script to date
John Logan - The Aviator	The assumption
Bill Condon - Kinsey	Masterful adaptation of a big story
James L. Brooks - Spanglish	He always has the best lines... of dialogue
James L. White - Ray	The movie leads... could fall to the Spanish
The Waiting List
Alejandro Amenabar, Mateo Gil - The Sea Inside
Almodovar - Bad Education
Mike Leigh - Vera Drake
And The Waaaiiitttting List
Zach Braff - Garden State
Shainee Gabel - A Love Song For Bobby Long
Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess - Napoleon Dynamite
Christopher Lyle - Alexander
David O. Russell, Jeff Baena - I Heart Huckabee's
Paul Weitz - In Good Company

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Writer(s) - Film	Comment
Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor - Sideways	Finally, our first writing lock!
Patrick Marber - Closer	Making Julia say things on screen she usually keeps to her assistant
Jose Rivera - The Motorcycle Diaries	A long journey turned into a great journey
Tina Fey - Mean Girls	Don't know... just feels good
Robert Gordon - Lemony Snicket	Three books into one movie... needs to be intense enough to keep adult interest... but looks pretty cool/tough/funny from clips
The Adaptations With Less Familiar Sources
Larry Gross - We Don't Live Here Anymore
Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant - A Very Long Engagement
David Magee - Finding Neverland
Tod Williams - The Door In The Floor
The Sequels, The Remakes & The Bible
Andrew Adamson, Joe Stillman, J. David Stern, David N. Weiss - Shrek 2
Benedict Fitzgerald, Mel Gibson - The Passion Of The Christ
Daniel Pyne - The Manchurian Candidate
Brooks, Curtis, Davies, Fielding, Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Joel Schumacher - The Phantom Of The Opera

20 Weeks To Oscar Charts
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Earlier Charts
October 28, 2004
October 21, 2004
October 14, 2004
September 22, 2004
August 4, 2004

November 4 , 2004

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