Alternative Oscars 2019: The Nominees & Winners For Every Category
13. Best Adapted Screenplay
WINNER: BlacKkKlansman*
With all the will in the world, Spike Lee is going to scoop his first competitive Oscar win on his fifth nomination for his marvellous work co-writing BlacKkKlansman.
Can You Ever Forgive Me? and If Beale Street Could Talk are also mighty contenders in the category, yet The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a wildly inconsistent anthology film and A Star Is Born didn't exactly reinvent the wheel with its reinterpretation of a well-worn tale.
Our replacement slots will go to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse for crafting such a creative and smart superhero movie, and First Man for subversively focusing on as much Neil Armstrong the man as the Moon landing itself.
RUNNERS-UP:
2. Can You Ever Forgive Me?*
3. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
4. If Beale Street Could Talk*
5. First Man