My Peterio Awards (Part Forty-One: Best Original Screenplay)

INT. FROZEN RIVER- NIGHT

Ray speeds up. Faint tire tracks appear in the distance.

LILA (CONT'D)

Slow down, I don’t want to run over it. 

Suspense and drama of two character’s quest for survival never backs down in this integral plot of people out of luck with decisions to make in Courtney Hunt's Frozen River.

Other Notable Nominees: Cassandra's Dream, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The Visitor & Wall-E

My Peterio Awards (Part Forty: Best Adapted Screenplay)

INT. STUDIO

Jamal contemplates on what his host told him earlier. He is determined.

HOST

What do you think? Decision time.

Adapting what is a basically a game show novel is hard enough, but adding elements as rich as ones presented and losing any spark is just pure screenwriting genius from Slumdog Millionaire scribe Simon Beaufoy.

Other Notable Nominees: Doubt, Frost/Nixon, The Reader & Revolutionary Road

My Peterio Awards (Part Twenty-Two: Worst Screenplay)

First, kudos to bringing Karen Allen back. But the praise stops there in a hurry for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Why the tacky, unrelated opening? Why the absurd blind visionary tag-a-long? Why add on the uncharacteristic visual effects burdened actions? And above all things, why the monkeys?

Other Notable Nominees:‘Hancock’, ‘Made of Honor’, ‘Penelope’ & ‘Wanted’