“Conclave” won best picture at the BAFTAs in London last month as well as best British film. Straughan’s pre-Oscars awards haul was particularly significant, having won best adapted screenplay at the BAFTAs, Critics Choice Awards and Golden Globes.

On the heels of BAFTA, Golden Globe and Critics Choice award wins, Peter Straughan has now won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for Conclave. This is Straughan’s second Oscar nomination and first win.

Conclave,” based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Robert Harris, nabbed the award for best adapted screenplay. The novel follows the complicated, sometimes underhanded twists and turns of a papal conclave created to elect a new pope after the previous one dies.

Sean Baker has won the original screenplay Oscar for “Anora,” a comedy-drama about a sex worker who marries the son of a Russian oligarch.

"Conclave" walked away with only one Oscar win; still, the film's themes about embracing doubt amid uncertainty and using one's platform to speak against injustices will have staying power long after awards night.

There are some movies that are more pious, but, I think, less faithful to the drama of Catholicism,' said Vatican expert Massimo Faggioli.

Focus Features' Conclave officially became an Oscar-winner Sunday with the honor of Best Adapted Screenplay for writer Peter Straughan, who turned the bestselling Robert Harris novel of the same name into an acclaimed shooting script.

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