2014 Platinum Brad Screenplay Awards

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ScripTipps presents the first annual Platinum Brad Screenplay Awards.

WHY? In TV, the writer is king, but in features, the writer is kicked off the set.

The Oscars has two screenplay categories -- Original and Adapted. The Golden Globes only has one (and zero for TV writers). The Spirit Awards doesn't split originals from adaptations either, but they do have a Best First Screenplay category.

The Writers Guild of America recognizes the same Original and Extra Crispy screenplay varieties as the Oscars, plus one award for feature documentary writing. Then they go and hand out seven awards for TV writing, where the majority of their members are employed.

TV writing awards are broken up by genre and format. The Emmys presents writing awards in six categories. But aren't there many different flavors of feature writing too? Is writing a laugh-out-loud apocalyptic stoner comedy a less worthy achievement than adding sluglines to a 150-year-old memoir about slavery? (No offense to John Ridley. He hasn't been snubbed here.)

Here, then, are the nominees in all fifteen categories of the first annual ScripTipps Platinum Brad Screenplay Awards:

Best Screenplay Based on or Inspired by a True Story

• Captain Phillips - Billy Ray
• Fruitvale Station - Ryan Coogler
• Philomena - Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope
• Saving Mr. Banks - Kelly Marcel, Sue Smith
• 12 Years A Slave - John Ridley

Best Screenplay Based on a Novel

• The Book Thief - Michael Petroni
• The Great Gatsby - Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Simon Beaufoy, Michael deBruyn (Michael Arndt)
• The Spectacular Now - Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber
• Warm Bodies - Jonathan Levine

Best Screenplay Based on a Comic Book, Graphic Novel, or Fairy Tale

• Blue Is The Warmest Color - Abdellatif Kechiche
• Frozen - Jennifer Lee
• Iron Man 3 - Shane Black, Drew Pearce
• Man Of Steel - David S. Goyer
• Oldboy - Mark Protosevich

Best Screenplay Based on a Play

• August: Osage County - Tracy Letts
• Much Ado About Nothing- Joss Whedon
• Romeo & Juliet - Julian Fellowes
• The Sapphires - Tony Briggs, Keith Thompson
• Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas - Tyler Perry

Best Original Screenplay

• Don Jon - Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• The East - Zal Batmanglij, Brit Marling
• Her - Spike Jonze
• Spring Breakers - Harmony Korine
• This Is The End - Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen

Best Screenplay Written or Co-Written by the Film's Lead Actor

• Before Midnight - Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater
• Don Jon - Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• The East - Brit Marling, Zal Batmanglij
• Instructions Not Included - Eugenio Derbez, Leticia López Margalli, Guillermo Ríos
• Philomena - Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope

Best Comedy Screenplay

• Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues - Will Ferrell, Adam McKay
• The Heat - Katie Dippold
• Instructions Not Included -  - Eugenio Derbez, Leticia López Margalli, Guillermo Ríos
• This Is The End - Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen
• We're The Millers - Sean Anders, Steve Faber, Bob Fisher, John Morris

Best Drama Screenplay

• All Is Lost - J.C. Chandor
• Labor Day - Jason Reitman
• Prisoners - Aaron Guzikowski
• Short Term 12 - Destin Cretton
• Spring Breakers - Harmony Korine

Best Horror Screenplay

• Escape From Tomorrow - Randy Moore
• Insidious: Chapter 2 - Leigh Whannell
• Mama - Neil Cross, Andrés Muschietti, Bárbara Muschietti
• The Purge - James DeMonaco
• You're Next - Simon Barrett

Best Sci-Fi Screenplay

• Elysium - Neill Blomkamp
• Gravity - Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón
• Her - Spike Jonze
• Pacific Rim - Travis Beacham, Guillermo del Toro
• Star Trek Into Darkness - Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof, Roberto Orci

Best Fantasy Screenplay

• Epic - Tom J. Astle, Matt Ember, James V. Hart, William Joyce, Daniel Shere
• Frozen - Jennifer Lee
• The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug - Philippa Boyens, Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh
• Oz The Great And Powerful - Mitchell Kapner, David Lindsay-Abaire
• The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty - Steve Conrad

Best Superhero Screenplay

• Iron Man 3 - Shane Black, Drew Pearce
• Kick-Ass 2 - Jeff Wadlow
• Man Of Steel - David S. Goyer
• Thor: The Dark World - Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Christopher Yost, story by Don Payne and Robert Rodat
• The Wolverine - Mark Bomback, Scott Frank

Best Franchise Screenplay (Sequel, Prequel, Spin-off, Remake, or Reboot)

• Before Midnight - Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater
• Despicable Me 2 - Ken Daurio, Cinco Paul
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Simon Beaufoy, Michael deBruyn
• Monsters University - Robert L. Baird, Daniel Gerson, Dan Scanion
• Oz The Great And Powerful - Mitchell Kapner, David Lindsay-Abaire

Best Screenplay for an Animated Feature

• The Croods - Kirk DeMicco, Chris Sanders
• Despicable Me 2 - Ken Daurio, Cinco Paul
• Ernest & Celestine - Daniel Pennac
• Frozen - Jennifer Lee
• Monsters University - Robert L. Baird, Daniel Gerson, Dan Scanion

Breakthrough Screenwriter

• Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station)
• Destin Cretton (I Am Not a Hipster, Short Term 12)
• Richard D'Ovidio (The Call)
• Aaron Guzikowski (Prisoners)
• Bob Nelson (Nebraska)
• Andrew Stern (Disconnect)

Now it's your turn to vote for your favorite screenplay. Click here to access the Screenplay Awards official ballot.