Richard Linklater for Boyhood
Wes Anderson for The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ira Sachs & Mauricio Zacharias for Love is Strange
J.C. Chandor for A Most Violent Year
Dan Gilroy for Nightcrawler
AND THE WINNER IS:
This is the second win and sixth nomination for Richard Linklater having previously won for animating Waking Life (2001). He was also nominated for director School of Rock (2003), writing Before Sunset (2004) & Before Midnight (2013) and animating A Scanner Darkly (2006).
While the coming of age story is in no way the most original story of the year screenplay is not always about how original the story is but with Boyhood my main reason in choosing it as my winner is because of how great this story if written by Richard Linklater. Linklater just has a way of writing dialogue and situations where it just feels as if you are watching your life on screen like myself who basically saw myself growing up on screen as Mason. The way he writes characters also works to his universe where they live on screen and the fact his characters work so well mixed with his dialogue is what makes his screenplay my favourite of the year.
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