'Whiplash' May Lose Oscar Nomination for Best Original Screenplay Due to a Technicality http://www.musictimes.com/articles/23769/20150108/whiplash-may-lose-osca...
'Whiplash' May Lose Oscar Nomination for Best Original Screenplay Due to a Technicality http://www.musictimes.com/articles/23769/20150108/whiplash-may-lose-osca...
I still don't get why a feature screenplay based on a short screenplay by the same writer-director is considered an adaptation.
Jikes...what a nightmare!
Doesn't really matter to me. Whiplash was a competitive sports movie that had absolutely nothing at all to do with Jazz. It will more than likely net J.K. Simmons an Oscar, but I thought Shia LaBeouf's performance in Fury was stronger.
Bummer. A competitive sports movie?
Yes.
How?
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But may win Best Adaptation!
Seriously? A music coach whipping his music team into shape for various competitions with other schools, yelling and using various slurs to push everybody to be better, extreme pressure to perform and be the best, cutthroat business if you mess up etc.
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Yeah, seriously? You can liken it to a competitive sports movie but you can't make the statement, "Whiplash was a competitive sports movie" because it's not about sports. I see where you're coming from but it's not a sports movie.
William is it too late for it to be reconsidered for adaptation?
How many wonderful scripts got rejected so they could make THIS TURKEY????
Yes anything that doesn't include a ball is automatically not a sports movie.
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Amazingly however they did nominate it for Best Adapted. Shout out to William Martell for calling out that one.