AFT Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay

This is the sixth category of the 7th 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. Click here to see previous years of this category.

Honorable mention:
Blancanieves

Runners-up:
The Look of Love
The Iceman
No
Frozen
The Spectacular Now

The winner:
Warm Bodies (Jonathan Levine) was superbly clever and fully hilarious, taking a conventional zombie storyline and making something fresh out of it.

Other nominees:
What’s in a Name (Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patllière)
Blue is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche and Ghalia Lacroix)
12 Years a Slave (John Ridley)
Captain Phillips (Billy Ray)