Best Adapted Screenplay

The nominees are:

- “Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” (20th Century Fox) Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Peter Baynham & Dan Mazer; Story by Sacha Baron Cohen & Peter Baynham & Anthony Hines & Todd Phillips
- “Children of Men” (Universal) Screenplay by Alfonso Cuarón & Timothy J. Sexton and David Arata and Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby
- “The Departed” (Warner Bros.) Screenplay by William Monahan
- “Little Children” (New Line) Screenplay by Todd Field & Tom Perrotta
- “Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight) Screenplay by Patrick Marber

And the winner is ... Alfonso Cuarón & Timothy J. Sexton and David Arata and Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby for "Children of Men"!

I know, I know ... I loved the Borat movie, but most of its scenes were unscripted, so it seems odd to give it the award for best adapted screenplay. I found "Notes on a Scandal" to be bizarrely misogynistic and homophobic -- not to mention full of utterly unsympathetic and irredeemable characters. (I haven't yet seen "Little Children"; given what I know of Field & Perrotta, both of whom I love, I might otherwise have given it the nod.)

P.S. This is great ... how many movie websites have links to commentary by Slavoj Žižek?