Best

Fact-Based

Screenplay

Drama • Nonfiction





















Isabel Peña & Rodrigo Sorogoyen

Fictionalized account of real events that occurred in Spain to a Dutch couple, Martin Verfondern and Margo Pool, who came into conflict with resentful neighbors

Matt Ruskin

Chronicles the efforts of Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole, reporters with the Boston Record American, who covered the Boston Strangler murders in the 1960s

Gilles Marchand & Dominik Moll

Based in part on the nonfiction book 18.3 – Une année à la PJ by Pauline Guéna • Loosely inspired by a real unsolved murder case detailed in the book

Sofia Coppola

Based on the memoir Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley with Sandra Harmon • Chronicles the courtship and marriage between Priscilla Beaulieu and Elvis Presley

Alice Diop, Amrita David & Marie NDiaye

Inspired by the real-life trial of Fabienne Kabou, accused of drowning her infant, which Diop attended firsthand