How did this not win a screenplay Oscar?

This is a brilliant story that has real characters from real life thrust into a fictional and strange tale that satirizes the entire process of turning a simple non-story narrative into a marketable movie replete with all the requisite sensational elements studios deem necessary, and that the lowest-common-denominator public masses seemingly demand because that's what they've been trained to want...

The Pianist is a good movie, but adapting that book is nowhere near the feat that Adaptation. turned out to be, but the Oscars are whatever anyway.