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Best Original Screenplay
Last Update: November 22, 2006
 
 
RANK
NOMINEE
 SCORE CHANGE

1 Little Miss Sunshine 98 +1
2 Babel
 93 -1

3 The Queen
 83 =
4 Volver
 82 =

5 United 93
 62 +1
6 Stranger Than Fiction
 59 +1
7 The Good Shepherd 58 -2
8 World Trade Center 55 +1

9 Bobby
 46 -1
10 Breaking and Entering
 46 +1
11 For Your Consideration
 44 +1
12 The Pursuit of Happyness 37 +2
13 Catch a Fire
 35 -3
 
14 Venus
 35 +1
15 The Science of Sleep
 30 +2

16 The Fountain
 29 +14
17 Hollywoodland
 29 +6
18 Friends with Money
 26 +9
19 Miss Potter
 25 -3
20 Goya's Ghosts
 25 +30
 
21 Factory Girl
 25 +5
22 Half Nelson
 24 -9
23 Monster House
 24 +7
24 Apocalypto
 24 -6
25 Akeelah and the Bee
 24 -5
 
26 The Notorious Bettie Page
 23 +4
27 Inside Man
 22 -6
28 The Proposition
 21 -6
29 Cars
 21 -4
30 Blood Diamond
 20 -11
 
31 The Holiday
 19 -4
32 The Nativity Story
 18 -3
33 Pan's Labyrinth
 18 -10

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