I was totally shocked by this win. Hardly anybody was ballsy enough to predict they'd go 11/11, most people figured they'd get 10 and that they'd probably lose this to Mystic River. I was just happy that ROTK was definitely gonna win Picture and Director, but when it got Screenplay I couldn't believe it. It was totally surreal watching this speech at the time, knowing they were gonna sweep.
@@deadking8224 I thought it deserved the Oscar, I just didn't expect it to win. I thought it would win Picture, Director, and the techs for being such a big achievement of spectacle but even though it is a very intelligent and emotional adaptation that balances such a big ensemble, it didn't seem like the kind of movie where they'd award the screenplay over a more talky drama like Mystic River. Same reason LOTR didn't get any acting nominations even though Sean Astin would have been particularly deserving.
I remember filling out my printout ballot that year and I actually picked Seabiscuit to win in this category. I had LOTR winning 9 out of the 11 it was nominated. I didn't expect them to win Editing and Adapted Screenplay. When it won Adapted Screenplay with only the acting awards, directing and Best Picture left, I knew it was going to sweep. Had it been nominated for cinematography which surprisingly it wasn't, it most likely would have won that too. That would have given it the most Oscar wins of all-time and biggest sweep. But 11 out of 11 is still okay. 😄
Fran Walsh became one of the rare women to win more than one Academy Award the same night! (she also produced the movie and wrote the song "Into the West")
She's still the only woman ever to win 3 Oscars for one movie. There's also Kathryn Bigelow, Edith Head, Catherine Martin, Frances McDormand, and Chloe Zhao who each won 2 in one ceremony. Catherine Martin is also the only woman to win 2 Oscars in two different years.
City of God is a excellent, haunting film, and though I haven't read the book, the task of adapting such a dense, dark novel which follows multiple storylines and spans nearly 3 decades is no small feat, and I'm sure the adaptation from the original work was brilliant. But you cannot deny that the LOTR franchise was one of the most difficult book to screen adaptations to accomplish in the history of cinema, and that's not even an exaggeration. To take the third part of what is essentially a 1000+ page book, written in different (real and fictional) languages, using material from other books written by the author to expand the history of the fictional fantasy world, and an extensive appendix, many of the elements of which were incorporated into the screenplay, not to mention the fact that the major storylines (Aragorn and company, Frodo and Sam) were literally written in the original work as two separate books within the book, and the two parts had to be aligned and interspersed, and had to build the emotional climax of the film in a cohesive way; then on top of that, the fact the some of the most important dialogue in the book takes up full paragraphs, written in traditional language that had to be condensed into dialogue that could carry the spirit of the text without taking too much time to deliver, plus the fact that a good deal of that dialogue is actually written in verse in the book (as in characters reciting full works of original poetry by the author) some of which was beautifully incorporated into the film's dialogue as well. Not to mention, the substantial alterations made to the source material in order to condense the extremely dense and lengthy narrative for brevity and clarity and to keep the momentum of the story going and build a satisfying film arc, especially when many of the book's final chapters, though incredible to read, would have made for an extremely anticlimactic ending for a film. And that's not even all of it. Even after all these years, as a huge fan of the books who read them before I saw the films, I still find the sheer amount of work these three put into adapting these screenplays to be absolutely staggering. Any other year, I'm sure City of God would have had it in the bag, but it cannot be denied that the adaptation of ROTK (let alone the entire trilogy) was a herculean task that was handled with aplomb, and resulted in a beautiful, epic, emotionally stirring film. Without the level of skill demonstrated by this talented trio, it could easily have been a disaster. So while they are both fantastic adaptations, the sheer breadth of this project, in addition to the spectacular execution, really deserved the recognition it received for best adapted screenplay.
The Best Original Screenplay winner giving the Best Adapted Screenplay award! I think that kind of a thing has happened only this once. And I know her award was after this so she still didn't win during this time, but I'd say it still counts.
Guilherme Gonçalves I’m same way. When I speak even after masks are out of the picture. I’ll still be wearing it because I don’t want to show my face. Wilson from Home Improvement. Only do it in Public settings I’ll do.
Oh my God, the competition this year in this category! Any other year, at least 3 of the 5 nominees would have won. So this is why City of God did not win screenplay. Hard luck!
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 09. Best Adapted Screenplay Fran Walsh (writer) Philippa Boyens (writer) Peter Jackson (writer) Based on the Book by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
2:06 Francis Ford Coppola: I Have The Pressure Of Announcing (Opening Envelop) The Oscar Goes To Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson For Lord Of The Rings
These people had courage to do something that generations of film makers wanted to do, but didn't have courage. Talks about making Lord of the Ring and The Hobbit into movies existed almost since the day that books came out.
One man who made the biggest movie of it's time and that is hated by book fans gave oscar to another man who made a HUGE movie and is hated by book's fans. This has some irony)
@@natanlopes4000 then take a look on reviews of critics, half of them say "book was deeper" (which is not true 'cause i read it. A lot of people (mostly form poland) say same things (Josepch Conrad was polish)
I'm no body language expert, but I must ask did anyone else notice how far away Sofia stood from Francis? Especially when she was standing right next to him, as he opened the envelope for Beat Adapted Screenplay? It's something to think about.
I don’t think it means anything. My best guess is she doesn’t seem like she likes public speaking, and if she stood too close, her father may have given her the envelope to read because he was doing the most amount of talking.
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"Sofia, I always wanted you to be part of a family business" - best reference on Oscars ever xD
0:12 "The only 64 year old man and 32 year old woman in hollywood who are not dating each other" Big LOL there!
Came to the comments just for this😭😭😭😭😭 it wasn’t a joke either
I like how the theme of Gondor plays when they won the art. What a masterpiece from Howard Shore!!!
Yes me too! The Realm of Gondor
I was totally shocked by this win. Hardly anybody was ballsy enough to predict they'd go 11/11, most people figured they'd get 10 and that they'd probably lose this to Mystic River. I was just happy that ROTK was definitely gonna win Picture and Director, but when it got Screenplay I couldn't believe it. It was totally surreal watching this speech at the time, knowing they were gonna sweep.
You feel that it didn't deserve the Oscar for Writing?
@@deadking8224 I thought it deserved the Oscar, I just didn't expect it to win. I thought it would win Picture, Director, and the techs for being such a big achievement of spectacle but even though it is a very intelligent and emotional adaptation that balances such a big ensemble, it didn't seem like the kind of movie where they'd award the screenplay over a more talky drama like Mystic River. Same reason LOTR didn't get any acting nominations even though Sean Astin would have been particularly deserving.
I remember filling out my printout ballot that year and I actually picked Seabiscuit to win in this category. I had LOTR winning 9 out of the 11 it was nominated. I didn't expect them to win Editing and Adapted Screenplay. When it won Adapted Screenplay with only the acting awards, directing and Best Picture left, I knew it was going to sweep. Had it been nominated for cinematography which surprisingly it wasn't, it most likely would have won that too. That would have given it the most Oscar wins of all-time and biggest sweep. But 11 out of 11 is still okay. 😄
How badass was that? Two screens showing such amazing films of father and daughter respectively as they themselves walk right onto the stage
Fran Walsh became one of the rare women to win more than one Academy Award the same night! (she also produced the movie and wrote the song "Into the West")
She's still the only woman ever to win 3 Oscars for one movie. There's also Kathryn Bigelow, Edith Head, Catherine Martin, Frances McDormand, and Chloe Zhao who each won 2 in one ceremony. Catherine Martin is also the only woman to win 2 Oscars in two different years.
Why am I tearing up for Peter Jackson right now? That was his first Oscar and hit even harder than best director I think
Bill Murray's face!! lol
yes! He's like "what's going on? Am I supposed to laugh? "
Why does he look so surprised 😂😂
Imagine how all the competitors of LOTR must have felt ... a clean sweep to close up to Titanic and Ben Hur.
City of God is a excellent, haunting film, and though I haven't read the book, the task of adapting such a dense, dark novel which follows multiple storylines and spans nearly 3 decades is no small feat, and I'm sure the adaptation from the original work was brilliant. But you cannot deny that the LOTR franchise was one of the most difficult book to screen adaptations to accomplish in the history of cinema, and that's not even an exaggeration. To take the third part of what is essentially a 1000+ page book, written in different (real and fictional) languages, using material from other books written by the author to expand the history of the fictional fantasy world, and an extensive appendix, many of the elements of which were incorporated into the screenplay, not to mention the fact that the major storylines (Aragorn and company, Frodo and Sam) were literally written in the original work as two separate books within the book, and the two parts had to be aligned and interspersed, and had to build the emotional climax of the film in a cohesive way; then on top of that, the fact the some of the most important dialogue in the book takes up full paragraphs, written in traditional language that had to be condensed into dialogue that could carry the spirit of the text without taking too much time to deliver, plus the fact that a good deal of that dialogue is actually written in verse in the book (as in characters reciting full works of original poetry by the author) some of which was beautifully incorporated into the film's dialogue as well. Not to mention, the substantial alterations made to the source material in order to condense the extremely dense and lengthy narrative for brevity and clarity and to keep the momentum of the story going and build a satisfying film arc, especially when many of the book's final chapters, though incredible to read, would have made for an extremely anticlimactic ending for a film. And that's not even all of it. Even after all these years, as a huge fan of the books who read them before I saw the films, I still find the sheer amount of work these three put into adapting these screenplays to be absolutely staggering. Any other year, I'm sure City of God would have had it in the bag, but it cannot be denied that the adaptation of ROTK (let alone the entire trilogy) was a herculean task that was handled with aplomb, and resulted in a beautiful, epic, emotionally stirring film. Without the level of skill demonstrated by this talented trio, it could easily have been a disaster. So while they are both fantastic adaptations, the sheer breadth of this project, in addition to the spectacular execution, really deserved the recognition it received for best adapted screenplay.
Great comment, very well put.
Fran Walsh seems like the sweetest person
I thought it to be ironic for the Godfather director to be giving Peter Jackson the Best Adapted Screenplay, sets a milestone in Oscar history.
why
@@Mugen2201 it just is, like it was unexpected Providence or something
The directors of my two favorite movie trilogies of all time reunited. This is unforgettable for me.
@@jonathanvaldes7753 Francis Ford Coppola and Peter Jackson
@@brysonfreeman7226 yes
The Best Original Screenplay winner giving the Best Adapted Screenplay award! I think that kind of a thing has happened only this once. And I know her award was after this so she still didn't win during this time, but I'd say it still counts.
I feel like Sean Aston should have won an award
Peter was apparently furious he wasn't nominated. And with good reason!
This was a great adapted screenplay!!!
She is like April Parks & REC.
I'm pretty sure when you heard LOTR won Script, you just knew it was a sweep
You mean sweep of all Oscar's that year? LotR deserved to sweep all Oscars all three years.
She presented a award to the film who was the biggest competition that night
City of God 😍😍😍 One of the best Brazilian films
a family with great talents
I'm brazilian and I hope to Bráulio Mantovani winner an oscar one day.
Best adapted screenplay ever made in movie history!
Days that oscars are fun...
She sounds like she doesn't want to be there.
I think is just anxiety, she seems nervous about her speech. Definitely not the extrovert type and not comfortable with big audiences.
@@gnosh27 I don't blame her
Guilherme Gonçalves I’m same way. When I speak even after masks are out of the picture. I’ll still be wearing it because I don’t want to show my face.
Wilson from Home Improvement.
Only do it in Public settings I’ll do.
@@SilentDanDisney lmao you're nothing
Naman Shah dude, wtf? Stop trying to be edgy
Oh my God, the competition this year in this category! Any other year, at least 3 of the 5 nominees would have won. So this is why City of God did not win screenplay. Hard luck!
yeah the competition was between the lord of rings, city of god and mystic river
yeah the competitio was between the lord of rings, city of god and mystic river
The godfather succesion but of directors,what a legacy ❤
Can we please have Billy Crystal back hosting the Oscars?
You'd probably have assumed the Copollas would have seen a teleprompter before this moment, but apparently you'd have been wrong.
Against the power of lotr there is no victory
Sofia gives the Oscar to the same person she's about to lose Best Director to...
The Lord of the Rings:
The Return of the King
09. Best Adapted Screenplay
Fran Walsh (writer)
Philippa Boyens (writer)
Peter Jackson (writer)
Based on the Book by
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
2:06 Francis Ford Coppola: I Have The Pressure Of Announcing (Opening Envelop) The Oscar Goes To Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson For Lord Of The Rings
These people had courage to do something that generations of film makers wanted to do, but didn't have courage. Talks about making Lord of the Ring and The Hobbit into movies existed almost since the day that books came out.
Wait Sofia Coppola was supposed to be playing a boy in The Godfather?
Yes she played a baby boy in the first one
BILL MURRAY!!
American Graffiti’s Francis Ford Coppola.
Elijah is such a cutie❤❤
What’s Andy Dufresne doing here? Wasn’t he in Zihuatanejo?
He was in Mystic River
He went crawling through the bottom of Mystic River and came up Oscar winning when he washed up on shore.
6 minutes later....
Mr. American Graffiti.
Oh my god Sofia, please stop talking
Now I understand why she's better behind the camera than in front of it xD
One man who made the biggest movie of it's time and that is hated by book fans gave oscar to another man who made a HUGE movie and is hated by book's fans. This has some irony)
Book's fans hated LOTR and godfather movies??
@@natanlopes4000 lotr books - lotr movies
Heart of Darkness - Apocalypse Now
@@crtv1337 book's fans hated LOTR and apocalipse now?? I'm still surprise, apocalipse now is a masterpiece
@@natanlopes4000 then take a look on reviews of critics, half of them say "book was deeper" (which is not true 'cause i read it. A lot of people (mostly form poland) say same things (Josepch Conrad was polish)
City of God🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
It's funny how other winners have their face in thumbnail but not in this case:-$
2:13
I love the LOTR trilogy...but I would say that City of God probably deserved this one.
No, it didn't.
@@tiaaaron3278 Yes, it definitely did.
@@Jaydee011lol what a joke
I'm no body language expert, but I must ask did anyone else notice how far away Sofia stood from Francis? Especially when she was standing right next to him, as he opened the envelope for Beat Adapted Screenplay? It's something to think about.
Give Sofia a break will you? She let Peter Jackson kiss her.
I don’t think it means anything. My best guess is she doesn’t seem like she likes public speaking, and if she stood too close, her father may have given her the envelope to read because he was doing the most amount of talking.
Sophia, it's "Cida GEE GEE Deus."
City of God should has won this oscar nomination!!! 😭
chaumora hell No
Yep nop sorry! Return of the King deserved it all the way! Best movie of all time in the history of cinematography!
city of god did deserve it
@@vide0gameCaster Rent more films, go to the cinema and you will find tons of films better than ROTK.
@@ahmedeminyuksel658 yeah whatever
Bill Murray🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
City of God should have won
Diego Pisfil no. Just no
Fran was robbed of a speech!
She definitely wouldn't have wanted to give one. Incredibly shy lady
Yeah she never appeared on the LOTR bonus features either. She did give a speech for Original Song.
Listening to Sofia Coppola’s voice.
No wander her movies are so boring
Why does Francis Ford Coppola sound Hispanic? Lol
She was on her period. Give her a break.
Philippa didn't thank her husband.
Unfortunately this movie glorifies "Xena" and codelessness.