Alternative Oscars 2019: The Nominees & Winners For Every Category

13. Best Adapted Screenplay

BlacKkKlansman Ending
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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

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