screenplay

“The Cook of the Halcyon,” by Andrea CamilleriBefore he died in 2019 at age 93, novelist and film director Andrea Camilleri wrote in an author’s note that he had adapted the 27th Inspector Salvo Montalbano mystery from an unproduced screenplay.

Otherwise, this category looks about how we expect the Oscars screenplay race to shape up.

Longtime Wilson collaborator Ruben Santiago-Hudson wrote the screenplay, and the film was produced by Tony award-winner Denzel Washington, who played the lead in Wilson’s Fences on stage and on screen.

Citizen Kane was nominated for nine Oscars, including Best Picture, but it only won for its screenplay, which seems to underline Kael’s point a little if you take it as read that the best films in each individual category always win.