AFT Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay

This is the sixth category of the 5th 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 138 Films. Click here to see previous years of this category.

Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order):
The Adjustment Bureau, Captain America: The First Avenger, Everything Must Go, Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Runners-up:
Drive
Carnage
The Adventures of Tintin
The Help
The Descendants

The winner:
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Eric Roth) was an affecting, energizing saga of a young boy’s search for answers.

Other nominees:
Moneyball (Stan Chervin, Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian)
The Skin I Live In (Pedro & Agustin Almodovar)
Turn Me On, Goddamit (Jannicke Systad Jacobsen)
Submarine (Richard Ayoade)