The Best Original Screenplay category is one of the toughest categories this year as it includes the three big front-runners to win the Best Picture award.
This week a number of Latino films will be released as well as Oscar nominees and Golden Globe nominees. The week will also be filled with family films and festival films.
"Nightcrawler" pushes realism over the edge to exaggeration. But this is clearly Gilroy's intention. Only through extreme circumstances can he make his thesis on the corruption of storytelling in the media sing to the fullest. It is a tremendous comment, especially in the modern world where anything can technically be news if spun the right way, and surely one that will haunt viewers.