Film Bitch Awards: Screenplays, Score, and Sound
Friday, January 31, 2020 at 8:24PM We started a week ago with a few appetizers but now the 20th (gulp) annual Film Bitch Awards are finally in full swing. Here are the new categories that are up
BEST ORIGINAL & ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Wouldn't it be neat if Marriage Story or Parasite could snag a surprise win from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood at the Oscars in Original Screnplay. All three are also nominated for the Film Bitch Award but we don't think Tarantino needs a third Oscar and for the first time since Kill Bill his visuals feel even more noteworthy than his writing anyway. Not that it's not a grand script. But the raw wound comedy and drama of Baumbach's reflection and Parasite's ingenious construction are right there for the honoring so we hope the Academy thinks it through. We're happier about the other impending Oscar win for Adapted because Greta Gerwig takes Little Women apart and puts it back together again in such a personal and fresh 'life-of-an-artist' way.
BOTH SCORE & SOUND CATEGORIES
Music and sound preferences are so hard to articulate so forgive the very short notes.
As a reminder, if you haven't voted on the "should wins" for those categories at the actual Oscars, do that on the charts please.
Reader Comments (6)
The fact that Marriage Story is not the frontrunner for Best Original Screenplay is such an embarrassment.
Good score selections. Nice to see someone mention Parasite...The Irishman score (movie will come to be known as I Heard You Paint Houses) is terrific, wish it got more attention.
Also nice to see Woman At War mentioned.
Yay Booksmart! I’m surprised it hasn’t gotten more attention. It’s the freshest comedy to come out in years.
Shocking how consensus-minded the poll is with respect to the Supporting Acting categories.
A Marriage Story win would not age well. The films strength is it's acting, it's weakness is the writing. The dialogue ain't particularly special and the whole end part + the Adam driver singing section is cringe.
Love the shoutout to the Parasite score. The editing and production design are the acclaimed (and nominated) craft achievements, but I think that score is it's stealth wepaon. The tuberculosis sequence alone (track "Belt of Faith") is attention worthy.