More Oscar Scripts: 'Winter's Bone' and 'I Love You Phillip Morris'
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Today we have two more additions to our list of competing Oscar scripts as the scripts for recent newsmaker Winter's Bone and this week's limited release I Love You Phillip Morris arrive courtesy of Roadside Attractions.
In selecting which part of Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini's script for Winter's Bone to lead this post off with was not necessarily easy, though the above scene or the dialogue leading up to it was certainly where I went to first. Either would've probably worked just fine.
Just like last time, all of the links below open in a new window and link directly to .PDF files, so you may want to right click and select "Save As" rather than opening them in your browser.
- Winter's Bone
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- I Love You Phillip Morris
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- The Kids are All Right
- It's Kind of a Funny Story
- Somewhere
- The American
- Greenberg
- Alice in Wonderland
- Toy Story 3
- For Colored Girls
- Rabbit Hole
- Despicable Me
- Let Me In
- City Island
- Jack Goes Boating
- Stone
- Animal Kingdom
- Barney's Version
- Get Low
- Inside Job
- Made in Dagenham
- Mother and Child
- Please Give
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I doubt Phillip Morris makes any kind of splash at the Oscars. Its kind of misleading you call it a "Oscar Script" in the title. Actually, most of these don't seem to have any chance at all. You should call the title "Movie scripts", because "Oscar Scripts" is absurd.
Winter's Bone, Somewhere, Rabbit Hole, Toy Story 3 and The Kids Are All Right are the only ones here that have a chance. All the others are pretty much dead in the water (although Get Low could pull an upset nomination, but I don't see it though).
When you get the scripts for 127 Hours, The Social Network, Inception, Tangled, Black Swan and True Grit, then you can start calling these updates "Oscar Scripts" again.
I wonder if the Academy considers ability to be turned into a movie when considering a script? For example, the script to Monty Python & The Holy Grail is actually much funnier than that very funny movie. But some script directions, like having actors glance knowingly at each other, often can be pulled off much better in one's imagination than on screen.
I read the spec script for a movie called Family Bond recently (The 'Bond' part has the double meaning of spy and connection). While the script was very good, it was easy to imagine how the whole project could go off the rails in the hands of inapt (or inept) direction, or the pressures of a low budget. Has any script won an Oscar for a movie that failed at execution?