Best Adapted Screenplay

Best Adapted Screenplay:

1) Lincoln – Tony Kushner
2) Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell
3) Argo – Chris Terrio
4) The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Steven Chbosky
5) Life of Pi – David Maggie; Beasts of the Southern Wild – Behn Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar (tie)
7) The Sessions – Ben Lewin
8) Anna Karenina – Tom Stoppard
9) On the Road – Jose Rivera
10) This is 40 – Judd Apatow
11) The Dark Knight Rises – Christopher & Jonathan Nolan; David S. Goyer & Christopher Nolan (story)
12) Skyfall – John Logan and and Patrick Marbler and Neil Purvis & Robert Wade
13) Ol Parker – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
14) Cloud Atlas – Andy & Lana Wachikowski and Tom Tykwer
15) The Hunger Games – Suzette Collins, Billy Ray, and Gary Ross
16) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson & Gullermo del Toro & Fran Walsh
17) Bernie – Richard Linklater & Skip Hollandsworth
18) Les Miserables – William Nicholson
19) Salmon Fishing in the Yemen – Simeon Beaufoy
20) Hitchcock – John C. McLaughlin

* I am increadibly torn between The Silver Linings Playbook and The Perks of Being a Wallflower, but because the former is certain to recieve a nomination, I endorse Perks.