OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Eric Warren Singer & David O. Russell for American Hustle

Woody Allen for Blue Jasmine

Nicole Holofcener for Enough Said

Noah Baumbach & Greta Gerwig for Frances Ha

Spike Jonze for Her

AND THE WINNER IS:

SPIKE JONZE FOR HER

This is the second win and sixth nomination for Spike Jonze having previously won for directing Where the Wild Things Are (2009). He was also nominated for acting in Three Kings (1999), producing Synecdoche, New York (2008), directing Being John Malkovich (1999) & writing Where the Wild Things Are.

Spike Jonze worked with Charlie Kaufman early in his career and after a great singular film in Where the Wild Things Are his latest film Her is a truly an original Jonze creation. Again a great original screenplay about love but this time the film makes a commentary on the modern relationship with technology. The world created in the screenplay feels large and vast which is a great joy in how the main focus of the film is normal and never has any characters disgusted by this advancement. The sympathies of the film start really with the Samantha character and by the end of the film this sympathy goes towards Theodore who is the one left behind. Jonze makes such an impression with this film showing all the talent he had displayed in his directing achievements creating one of the most interesting and special screenplays of the year.