AFT Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay

This is the sixth category of the 12th 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):
Black Panther, Breath, Burning, Shelter

Runners-up:
If Beale Street Could Talk
Widows
The Old Man and the Gun
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Ralph Breaks the Internet

The winner:
Disobedience (Sebastián Lelio and Rebecca Lenkiewicz) told a delicate story that worked in extraordinary detail about its characters’ environment to frame a tale of forbidden love.

Other nominees:
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Desiree Akhavan and Cecilia Frugiuele)
The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin, Peter Fellows and Fabien Nury)
Leave No Trace (Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini)
Juliet, Naked (Evgenia Peretz, Jim Taylor and Tamara Jenkins)