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