While the 2025 winners of the BAFTA Awards threw everything into flux, the surprise Best Actress win for “Anora” star Mikey Madison supports the idea that the Palme d’Or winner will still be dominant ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

The Oscars are almost upon us and speculation is mounting as to who will take home gold. The writing categories seem especially wide open, with a diverse slate of scripts competing. They range from ...

Hamnet is directed by Chloé Zhao who adapted the the script with Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague author Maggie O’Farrell.

At this stage in the season, when it is entirely too early to make any meaningful predictions about what the Oscar nominees (much less the winners) will be, I like to look back at the Academy’s recent ...

The Godfather, Citizen Kane, and Chinatown are all among the absolute greatest Oscar-winning screenplays of all time.

Sorry, Baby is Eva Victor's impressive feature writing and directing debut about reclaiming one's power after a traumatic event.

What exactly is an adapted screenplay? Is it based on a book? An experience? What about an eponymous doll with a penchant for pink? These are the big questions the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and ...

And though this is not the first nomination for the “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” scribe, Straughan being the frontrunner does come as a bit of a surprise considering the category’s recent history. He ...