The most important aspect of a movie is its screenplay. That decides the course of the entire plotline, and thats why writers can afford to go on strike for their demands, and thats why our own Sean Keller commands so much respect in HDC and in Hollywood.
Here are the nominees for
Best Original Screenplay for a film, for the year 2007-08:
Behind The Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (Screenplay by Scott Glosserman and David J. Stieve)
Fido (Screenplay by Andrew Currie, Robert Chomiak and Dennis Heaton)
Grindhouse (Screenplay by Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Rob Zombie, Edgar Wright, Jeff Rendell and Eli Roth)
Hatchet (Screenplay by Adam Green)
Pan's Labyrinth (Screenplay by Guillermo Del Toro)
and...the
HDC Oscar goes to...