{"id":2266765,"date":"2026-02-04T18:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2266765"},"modified":"2026-02-04T18:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:59:11","slug":"oscars-screenplay-race-break-down-from-paul-thomas-andersons-dominance-to-foreign-language-longshots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/oscars-screenplay-race-break-down-from-paul-thomas-andersons-dominance-to-foreign-language-longshots\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars Screenplay Race Break Down: From Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s Dominance to Foreign-Language Longshots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Most of the Oscar prognostication action happens around the best picture, acting and directing races, leaving the poor writing nominees metaphorically stuck alone in a room, staring at a blank screen. Not wanting to compound their feelings of loneliness, neglect and \u2014 let\u2019s face it, they\u2019re writers \u2014 bitterness, Variety is flashing the spotlight in their direction with this list of five things to look for in the original and adapted screenplay categories.<\/p>\n<p>1. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000759\/\">Paul Thomas Anderson<\/a> for the win<\/p>\n<p>This might fall into a \u201cJeopardy!\u201d category titled \u201cStating the Obvious.\u201d Anybody with a passing knowledge of how the Oscars work understands that the winner is often really getting the award because \u201cit\u2019s their time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm12525362\/\">Anderson<\/a> has five previous screenplay nominations \u2014 three for original and two for adapted \u2014and 14 nods overall, with no wins to date. He\u2019s up for three Oscars this year. Do the math. If he doesn&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the Oscar prognostication action happens around the best picture, acting and directing races, leaving the poor writing nominees metaphorically stuck alone in a room, staring at a blank screen. Not wanting to compound their feelings of loneliness, neglect and \u2014 let\u2019s face it, they\u2019re writers \u2014 bitterness, Variety is flashing the spotlight in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2266766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2266765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Oscars-Screenplay-Race-Break-Down-From-Paul-Thomas-Andersons-Dominance.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2266767,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266765\/revisions\/2266767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2266766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}