AFT Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay

This is the sixth category of the 8th 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 mentions (in alphabetical order):
Kill the Messenger, Still Alice

Runners-up:
The Theory of Everything
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Human Capital
Mr. Peabody and Sherman

The winner:
Cold in July (Nick Damici and Jim Mickle) was an extremely dark story that started out in one place and ended up somewhere entirely different, gripping and enthralling the whole way through.

Other nominees:
Viva la Liberta (Roberto Ando and Angelo Pasquini)
Wild (Nick Hornby)
Enemy (Javier Gullon)
Joe (Gary Hawkins)