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Screenplay Showdown: Anderson and Coogler Lead Nominations

2/5/2026

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Paul Thomas Anderson, the filmmaker, is favored for the adapted screenplay, citing his five prior nominations.
Ryan Coogler, the filmmaker, sees Sinners as a strong candidate for original screenplay, with 16 nominations.
Foreign-language films have won only six times in writing categories since 1967.
Jafar Panahi's It Was Just an Accident is unlikely to win.
Traditionally, winners come from director-writers, and this year only two nominated films lack that pairing.

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Story summary

Paul Thomas Anderson, the filmmaker, is favored for the adapted screenplay, citing his five prior nominations.
Ryan Coogler, the filmmaker, sees Sinners as a strong candidate for original screenplay, with 16 nominations.
Foreign-language films have won only six times in writing categories since 1967.
Jafar Panahi's It Was Just an Accident is unlikely to win.
Traditionally, winners come from director-writers, and this year only two nominated films lack that pairing.