Oscars 2019 Winners: 5 Things The Academy Got Wrong (& 5 They Got Right)

By James Hunt / February 25, 2019

3. BlacKkKlansman Takes Best Adapted Screenplay

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With one of the Screenplay awards not going to script, there was a chance the same could happen in the Adapted category too. There weren't any choices here that would've been as egregious as Green Book, with the next favourite Can You Ever Forgive Me?, which would've been a perfectly palatable winner.

Still, BlacKkKlansman was the most deserving. The way Spike Lee and his team of co-writers (David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel and Kevin Willmott) make Ron Stallworth's crazy story work on the page and then screen, with so much of Lee's trademark humour, ability to shock, relevancy, and power imbued in there, is a masterclass in adaptation, and finally won Spike Lee an Oscar.