Best
Fact-Based
Screenplay
Drama • Nonfiction
Alexander Nanau & Antoaneta Opriș
Documentary chronicling the 2016 Romanian public health scandal following the Colectiv nightclub fire
Moira Buffini
Based on the historical novel by John Preston • Fictionalized account of archaeologist Basil Brown's 1939 excavation of the Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo
Will Berson & Shaka King
Screen Story by Berson & King and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas
Chronicles the events of William O'Neal's tenure as an FBI informant in the 1960s while a member of the Black Panther Party under the chairmanship of Fred Hampton
Jack Fincher
Fictionalized account of screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz's involvement with publishing magnate William Randolph Heart and the subsequent development of the film script for Citizen Kane
Kemp Powers
Based on his fictional historical play • Inspired by the real-life meeting of Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, Cassius Clay and Jim Brown on February 25, 1964 at the Hampton House in Miami, Florida