| Jane Campion and Thomas Savage
(The Power of the Dog ) |
Kim Morgan and Guillermo del Toro
(Nightmare Alley) |
Maggie Gyllenhaal
(The Lost Daughter) |
Sian Heder
(CODA) |
Stephen Karam
(The Humans) |
Twenty Contenders On the Radar:
- Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve (Dune)
- Joel Coen (The Tragedy of Macbeth)
- Steven Levenson (tick, tick… Boom!)
- Roberto Bentivegna and Becky Johnston (House of Gucci)
- Rebecca Hall (Passing)
- Tony Kushner (West Side Story)
- William Monahan (The Tender Bar)
- Erica Schmidt (Cyrano)
- Nicole Holofcener, Ben Affleck, and Matt Damon (The Last Duel)
- The Green Knight (David Lowery)
- Peter Craig, Hillary Seitz, and Courtenay Miles (The Unforgivable)
- John Burnham Schwartz and Virgil Williams (A Journal for Jordan)
- Alice Birch (Mothering Sunday)
- Lana Wachowkski, David Mitchell, and Aleksander Hemon (The Matrix: Resurrections)
- Tracey Scott Wilson (Respect)
- Quiara Alegria Hudes (In the Heights)
- Abe Sylvia (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
- Nic Pizzolatto (The Guilty)
- Simon Stephenson and Will Sharpe (The Electrical Life of Louis Wain)
- Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Cary Joji Fukunaga, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge (No Time to Die)