AFT Awards: Best Original Screenplay

This is the fifth category of the 3rd Annual AFT Film Awards to be announced. The AFT Awards are my own personal choices for the best in film of each year and the best in television of each season. The AFT Film Awards include the traditional Oscar categories and a number of additional specific honors. Nominees are pictured in the order I’ve ranked them and drawn from a pool of approximately 92 films. Click here to see previous years of this category.

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order):
Bright Star, Duplicity, The Messenger, Trucker, Zombieland

Runners-up:
AVATAR
THE WHITE RIBBON
THE HURT LOCKER
500 DAYS OF SUMMER
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The winner:
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino) spun an incredibly enthralling and original tale, from its opening introduction of “Once upon a time in Nazi-occupied France…” to its unexpected, glorious finish.

Other nominees:
A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodovar)
District 9 (Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell)
Away We Go (Dave Eggers & Vendela Vida)