For Your Consideration

For Your Consideration:
Best Adapted Screenplay

SACHA BARON COHEN, Borat

Bringing the guerrilla comedy of Da Ali G Show to the big screen, Baron Cohen and his cadre of writers turn the real-life folks his faux-Kazakh reporter encounters into unwitting co-writers, spinning a viciously satirical tale from fiction and reality. This high-wire-act approach to storytelling is radical. Does it deserve a nod? Why not?

(Hey, sometimes long shots come in: Sacha Baron Cohen and Co. have received an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Borat.)