a shortlist of screenplay finalists Oliver Stone and Kieran Fitzgerald for Snowden Tom Ford for Nocturnal Animals Damien Chazelle for La La Land Jeff Nichols for Loving
Finally I read that someone (a film critic) wrote: " Adams is great as usual in Nocturnal Animals, but it's really Gyllenhaal's show. . Gyllenhaal can do raw, raging grief, and he can do sweet, disarming vulnerability; in Nocturnal Animals, he gets to do both. "