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Yes, the movie won also for the screenplay, and it wasn't the "original screenplay" award that it won. Considering a screenplay is not only dialogue but also contains much more information, which can't be reduced to the few lines spoken by actors, I suppose enough credit was given to the original authors as well-informed people perfectly know that award meant the material was already available in other forms and from other sources.
I think the movies have different approach, focuses and style, also when it comes to scenes that may look like simple translations from a version to the other. They also use violence and dialogues in a different way, even when lines are more or less the same. I disagree with the opinion the remake is "flashy". In fact, it isn't very flashy IMO. Especially for being an Hollywood movie. I actually find the original to be "flashier" than the remake, but "flashy" in this case doesn't have anything to do with subtleness. To not mention the fact many Hong Kong movies are equivalent to Hollywood productions and are made exactly to be perceived as flashy, in their own way and according to the Asian taste. This said, it doesn't mean one movie has to be considered worse and the other better. I think when you have remakes from Asian to Western, the gap is so huge you should not make real comparisons.
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