Best Original Screenplay Oscar Winner 2009

Categories: Entertainment | Movies | Oscars 2009
    • Awards date: February 22, 2009
    • Nominations date: January 22, 2009
    • Winner in 2009: Milk by Dustin Lance Black
    • Winner in 2008: Juno by Diablo Cody
    • First Winner in 1940: The Great McGinty
    • Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon and Pete Docter nominated for Wall-E
    • Mike Leigh nominated for Happy-Go-Lucky
    • Courtney Hunt nominated for Frozen River
    • Martin McDonagh nominated for In Bruges
    • Dustin Lance Black won for Milk
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  • Five sets of writers competed for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar on February 22, 2009 at the Academy Awards. Dustin Lance Black won for penning the Harvey Milk biopic, Milk. Courtney Hunt's Frozen River follows two women from dramatically different backgrounds as they smuggle people across the United States/Canada border. Martin McDonagh's In Bruges stars Colin Farrell who plays a small time con laying low in the European city. Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky follows an elementary teacher with an ordinary but an extraordinary view of the world. Dustin Lance Black's Harvey Milk biopic, Milk, stars Sean Penn as the gay rights activist. The Pixar film, Wall-E by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon and Pete Docter has virtually no dialogue for the first third of the film that follows the last robot on Earth.

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