Hurt Locker screenwriter Mark Boal won the Writers Guild Award Saturday night for original screenplay while Up in the Air’s Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner won for adapted screenplay and The Cove’s Mark Monroe won documentary screenplay.
The WGA’s nominees didn’t really reflect the best writing of 2009 this year because they were more strict about [...]
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Your Writers Guild of America nominations:
Original Screenplay
(500) Days of Summer – Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
Avatar – James Cameron
The Hangover – Jon Lucas & Scott Moore
The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal
A Serious Man – Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Adapted Screenplay
Crazy Heart – Scott Cooper; Based on the novel by Thomas Cobb
Julie & Julia – Nora [...]
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They’ve got nothing on the Muriels, but the Writers Guild of America handed out the hardware last night for writing in film in television. This blog isn’t called Living in Television so we’ll stick to the movie awards, but you can see all the winners at Variety.
Original Screenplay
Burn After Reading, Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Milk, [...]
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Say what you want about critics’ honors, when it comes to Oscar prediction my money is on the guilds. Plus there’s the simple satisfaction of knowing that the guilds are professionals judging the work of their peers rather than some half-assed blogger like me spouting off this or that opinion.
Agree or disagree with the nominations, one has [...]
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