# OSCAR POLL - Best Adapted Screenplay **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 1, 2013, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-poll-best-adapted-screenplay/649067 "2013-02-01T20:45:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-poll-best-adapted-screenplay/649067/1 "2013-02-01T20:45:48Z")
If you were an Academy member, for whom would you vote? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-poll-best-adapted-screenplay/649067/2 "2013-02-08T18:47:41Z")
Still pretty evenly spread. Here’s one category where the most impressive achievement to these eyes (_Lincoln_) isn’t in the movie I prefer the most (I actually like most of the other films better). ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2013, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-poll-best-adapted-screenplay/649067/3 "2013-02-08T18:49:27Z")
I voted for Life of Pi. It wasn’t my favorite screenplay (Argo and Silver Linings Playbook would be my two favorite scripts) but Life of Pi gets points for difficulty, adapting a book that many had said was impossible to adapt. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-poll-best-adapted-screenplay/649067/4 "2013-02-19T18:35:41Z")
Bump ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Jocko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncle_jocko/32/2932_2.png) [@Uncle\_Jocko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Jocko)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2013, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-poll-best-adapted-screenplay/649067/5 "2013-02-19T18:40:37Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > I voted for Life of Pi. > > It wasn’t my favorite screenplay (Argo and Silver Linings Playbook would be my two favorite scripts) but Life of Pi gets points for difficulty, adapting a book that many had said was impossible to adapt. I concur. If you take a book that most people say is unfilmable, then turn it into a successful film, you’ve gotta get some credit for that! And I haven’t even seen _Life of Pi_! I really enjoyed _Silver Linings Playbook_, _Argo_ and _Lincoln_. I thought all three of those scripts were very well done. If I had to choose a favorite from those three, I think I go with _Lincoln_. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2013, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-poll-best-adapted-screenplay/649067/6 "2013-02-19T22:42:20Z")
I nearly voted for Pi (for degree of difficulty, as stated above). It still gets my vote for Best Director for that reason. But I think _Lincoln_ did an amazing job of taking an incredibly dry subject - the political machinations of passing a constitutional amendment - and making it totally comprehensible and engrossing. So my vote goes to Kushner. ---
**Author:** ![Rollo\_Tomasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@Rollo\_Tomasi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rollo_Tomasi)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-poll-best-adapted-screenplay/649067/7 "2013-02-20T03:01:47Z")
I voted for **Silver Linings Playbook**. The framing device in **Life of Pi** really rubs me the wrong way, and the unnecessary opening and closing scenes of Lincoln take it down just a notch below **Silver Linings Playbook** , which I think juggles tone and character very nicely throughout. I wish **The Perks of Being a Wallflower** had made it in here, though.