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TIME looks at the players and principals in the week leading up to the Academy Awards
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BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Corliss' Pick:
Little Miss Sunshine, Michael Arndt
Other nominees:
-Babel, Guillermo Arriaga
-Letters from Iwo Jima, Iris Yamashita and Paul Haggis
-Pan's Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro
-The Queen, Peter Morgan
Only two of the five are wholly in English: The Queen, which snagged most of the year-end prizes from critics' groups, and Sunshine, which recently won the Writers Guild award, making it the favorite. But this is one of the few categories where foreign-language films have a shot. In 1946 the statuette went to an outrageously obscure Swiss film, Marie-Louise, supposedly because of Machiavellian studio politics. Divorce, Italian Style and Pedro Almodovar's Talk to Her also took Oscars in this category, as did Albert Lamorisse's The Red Balloon, which was (1) French, (2) a short film and (3) had no dialogue. But when the Academy can find a homegrown film to honor, it will do so. Consider that in 1960, two of the all-time great films[EM]Francois Truffaut's The 400 Blows and Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries—were nominated for Original Screenplay, and lost to the smirky Doris Day-Rock Hudson comedy Pillow Talk. It follows that, this year, distinguished movies in Spanish, Japanese and a whole babble of languages will take a back seat to the indie road comedy Little Miss Sunshine.
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