I posted a snippet from the Writers’ Roundtable back in January; today I’ve got the full Hollywood Reporters roundtable featuring writers of some of the year’s most acclaimed screenplays: Allison Schroeder who adapted the nonfiction book Hidden Figures—one of this year’s nominees in the Writing/Adapted Screenplay category, Tom Ford who tranformed Austin Wright’s Tony & Susan into Nocturnal Animals which he also directed and Noah Oppenheim whose script for Jackie began with extensive research about Jackie Kennedy before, during and after the president’s assasination. Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea) and Taylor Sheridan (Hell or Highwater) whose original screenplays are both Oscar nominees and the great Pedro Almadovar (Julieta) round out the panel.
Nominated in Adapted Screenplay Category
Hidden Figures Screenplay by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi Arrival Screenplay by Eric Heisserer Fences Screenplay by August Wilson
Lion Screenplay by Luke Davies Moonlight Screenplay by Barry Jenkins; Story by Tarell Alvin McCraney
Nominated in the Original Script Category
Hell or High Water Written by Taylor Sheridan Manchester by the Sea Written by Kenneth Lonergan La La Land Written by Damien Chazelle
The Lobster Written by Yorgos Lanthimos
20th Century Women Written by Mike Mills
What, as the greatest English playwright might say,
