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Best Original Screenplay
Last Update: December 6 , 2006
 
 
RANK
NOMINEE
 SCORE CHANGE

1 Little Miss Sunshine 93 =

2 The Queen
 88 +1
3 Babel
 82 -1
4 Volver
 76 =

5 Stranger Than Fiction
 46 +1
6 United 93
 43 -1
7 World Trade Center
 42 +1
8 The Good Shepherd
 39 -1
9 The Pursuit of Happyness
 37 +3
 
10 Half Nelson
 35 +12
11 For Your Consideration
 31 =

12 Breaking and Entering
 29 -2
13 Catch a Fire
 28 =
14 Bobby
 26 -5
15 Apocalypto
 26 +9
16 Venus
 26 -2
 
17 Miss Potter
 26 +2
18 Blood Diamond
 25 +12
19 Friends with Money
 25 -1
20 Inside Man
 25 +7
21 The Proposition
 24 +7
 
22 Akeelah and the Bee
 24 +3
23 Hollywoodland
 24 -6
24 The Lives of Others
 24 NEW!
25 Shortbus
 22 NEW!
26 Cars
 22 +3
 
27 Factory Girl
 22 -6
28 Prairie Home Companion
 22 +27
29 Quinceanera
 22 +14
30 Pan's Labyrinth
 22 +3
31 The Holiday
 22 =
 
32 The Nativity Story
 21 =
33 The Science of Sleep
 21 -18

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