'Logan' Breaks Ground with Adapted Screenplay Oscar Nomination

James Mangold's film is the first superhero movie to to be recognized in the category. After decades of comic book stories, Wolverine has reached a height no other superhero has before. Logan has become the first superhero movie to land an adapted screenplay nomination at the Oscars, with Scott Frank, director James Mangold and Michael Green sharing the honor. (In 2004, The Incredibles scored an original screenplay nomination for Brad Bird.) The R-rated movie served as a swan song for Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, the character he'd played through nine films over 17 years, as well as for Patrick Stewart's Prof. X. It ended up being the most successful of the Wolverine solo films, with $616.7 million worldwide at the box office and plenty of critical acclaim...