‘Origin’ Script Will Compete in Best Adapted Screenplay at the Oscars

A day after the Academy’s writers branch deemed Barbie to be an Adapted script, as opposed to an original, a decision about Ava DuVernay‘s Origin has been reached. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Oscar has decided on the same kind of characterization.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Origin will be in Best Adapted Screenplay, not Best Original Screenplay, where the Writers Guild had deemed it eligible. This one could always have gone either way, but now we know where DuVernay will be competing at the Academy Awards. Update your predictions accordingly.

Source: THR