Oscars 2022: Best Adapted Screenplay Predictions

As usual, contenders in the Adapted Screenplay category are a varied bunch, with movies of all shapes and sizes adapted from plays, novels, memoirs, or a prior film. And there’s a lot of them in a crowded field this year.Theater to filmAmong the theater adaptations, auteurs have the advantage with Academy voters. Two are collaborations between husbands and wives. At the behest of his wife Frances McDormand, solo director Joel Coen put his own spin on Shakespeare’s Scottish play, “The Tragedy of Macbeth” and cast three-time Oscar-winner McDormand as Lady Macbeth. The film scored kudos as the opener at the New York Film Festival. Also on the fall festival circuit, Joe Wright’s period romance “Cyrano” was adapted by Erica Schmidt from her musical theater adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s classic play, which also starred her husband, Peter Dinklage, opposite Wright’s wife Haley Bennett as Roxanne....