On this episode of ACADEMY ANONYMOUS:

• ANORA & A REAL PAIN locks for Original Screenplay
• Two unconventional writing pieces in THE SUBSTANCE & THE BRUTALIST cement their chances for Screenplay with solid Best Picture bids, but are they really writers’ cup of tea?
• Four first-time nominees and the shrinking window for a veteran writer on the Original Screenplay shortlist. Can CIVIL WAR or SATURDAY NIGHT recover?
• Justin Kuritzkes to ride breakthrough year into first Oscar nomination for writer-fave CHALLENGERS
• A (too little too late?) boost for writer Mike Leigh’s HARD TRUTHS with vocal support from Barry Jenkins & Greta Gerwig
• ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT hopes for a solo nod in writing after being the rare critics darling not submitted for International Film
• Can the experimental NICKEL BOYS lock up a screenplay nod on the strength and popularity of its Pulitzer Prize-winning source material
• DUNE PART 2 struggling to repeat after Dune Part One’s nomination
• Can the Almodovar name push his English-language debut THE ROOM NEXT DOOR past musical fare
• SING SING vast writing team hopes to secure at least one nomination with writers
• Veteran CONCLAVE writer the favorite to finally win
• Former writing nominees, Mangold and Jay Cocks collaboration an easy call for Adapted Screenplay
• WICKED and EMILIA PEREZ trying to scale a mountain of history against them and land among the Adapted Screenplay nominees. Can ONE or BOTH beat the odds?