[JenB]

I have neither read nor seen "A Beautiful Mind" but I think LotR deserved Best Adapted Screenplay. The screenwriters took Tolkien's work and translated it to the screen without losing anything in translation. It was beautiful.

[carton253]

Well, you may be right, but if you've never seen A Beautiful Mind, how can you judge one way or another?

[2Jedismom]

I haven't read it either...as a matter of fact I didn't even know there was a book out about it!

I would think that taking a book with the depth of FOTR, written by a man whom many consider to be one of the greatest authors of the 20th century and turning it into a movie that didn't just stink would be an almost miraculous achievement. The fact that PJ was able to do this makes me feel like FOTR most certainly should have received Best Adapted Screenplay.