Oscar Season 2024-2025; Final Predictions; An Open Spot for Original Screenplay; Can Musicals Finally Break the Adapted Screenplay Dryspell

On this episode of ACADEMY ANONYMOUS:ANORA & A REAL PAIN locks for Original ScreenplayTwo unconventional writing pieces in THE SUBSTANCE & THE BRUTALIST cement their chances for Screenplay with solid Best Picture bids, but are they really writers’ cup of tea?Four first-time nominees and the shrinking window for a veteran writer on the Original Screenplay shortlist. Can CIVIL WAR or SATURDAY NIGHT recover?Justin Kuritzkes to ride breakthrough year into first Oscar nomination for writer-fave CHALLENGERSA (too little too late?) boost for writer Mike Leigh’s HARD TRUTHS with vocal support from Barry Jenkins & Greta GerwigALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT hopes for a solo nod in writing after being the rare critics darling not submitted for International FilmCan the experimental NICKEL BOYS lock up a screenplay nod on the strength and popularity of its Pulitzer Prize-winning source materialDUNE PART 2 struggling to repeat after Dune Part One’s nominationCan the Almodovar name push his English-language debut THE ROOM NEXT DOOR past musical fareSING SING  vast writing team hopes to secure at least one nomination with writers Veteran CONCLAVE writer the favorite to finally winFormer writing nominees, Mangold and Jay Cocks collaboration an easy call for Adapted ScreenplayWICKED and EMILIA PEREZ trying to scale a mountain of history against them and land among the Adapted Screenplay nominees. Can ONE or BOTH beat the odds?Support the show