OUTSTANDING ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Screenplay by Andrew Haigh; Based on In Another Country by David Constantine, 45 Years

Screenplay by Nick Hornby; Based on Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn

Screenplay by Phyllis Nagy; Based on The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith, Carol

Screenplay by Marielle Heller; Based on The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures by Phoebe Gloeckner, The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Screenplay by Bruce Wagner; Based on Dead Stars by Bruce Wagner, Maps to the Stars

AND THE WINNER IS:

SCREENPLAY BY PHYLLIS NAGY; BASED ON THE PRICE OF SALT BY PATRICIA HIGHSMITH, CAROL

This is the first win and nomination for Phyllis Nagy for her screenplay adaptation of Carol.

Carol, Carol, Carol! It all comes back to Nagy. She was friends with Patricia Highsmith later in her life, she adapted the love 20 years ago and she fought to get this film made for that long. I have great respect for Nagy for both sticking with this adaptation and also for her adaptation of the novel. Nagy making Therese an aspiring photography rather then a set designer was a stroke of genius and expanding upon the inner life of Carol the character really is what adapting a novel is all about. The Price of Salt is a truly wonderful novel itself but Nagy really did the best job possible to adapt the novel in only the best ways. Nagy has now written her first film script to get to the screen and I hope people seek her out more cause seeing this effort clearly she’s incredibly talented.