Best Original ScreenplaySo I asked Mahmoud if I could post these selections as a way of inviting everyone to post their predictions for the WGA best screenplay nominations. As a reminder, here are last year's WGA nominees:
1.The Hurt Locker
2.Inglourious Basterds
3.Up
4.The White Ribbon ( Check this script Mr Scott It's a real smack)
5.500 Days of Summer or District 9 ( I hope they recognize the scifi genre this time)
Best Adapted Screenplay
1.Up in the Air
2.Precious
3.An Education (marvelous script)
4.A Single man
5.Fantastic Mr Fox
Original ScreenplayBurn After Reading, Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Written by Woody Allen
The Visitor, Written by Tom McCarthy
The Wrestler, Written by Robert Siegel
Winner: Milk, Written by Dustin Lance Black
Adapted Screenplay
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Screenplay by Eric Roth, screen story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord, based on the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Dark Knight, Screenplay by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan, story by Christopher Nolan & David S. Goyer, based on characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics
Doubt, Screenplay by John Patrick Shanley, based on his stage play
Frost/Nixon, Screenplay by Peter Morgan, based on his stage play
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire, Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy, based on the novel Q and A by Vikas Swarup
By the way, you can go here and read my account of last year's WGA "Beyond Words" event that featured Judd Apatow as the host for six of the year's 'best' screenwriters: Simon Beaufoy, Jonathan Nolan, Dustin Lance Black, Tom McCarthy, and Eric Roth.
So what are your predictions for this year's WGA nominations for best original and best adapted screenplays?
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Don't forget the Coens' A SERIOUS MAN... it's already won the NBR and Boston awards for original screenplay. I'd say there's no way it's not honored as (at least) a nominee.
INGLORIOUS has an uphill battle simply for its content. It's really just a fun ride and without that central message (aside from "all Nazis are assholes and deserve to die") it really only has a puncher's chance against some of the stronger stories... Hurt Locker and Up, for example. Even 500 Days shows us a fresh take on romance stories that still comments on life and relationships in a meaningful way. So I'd say it's between 500 and Hurt Locker. Depends on whether the voters lean toward heavy or light-hearted. I'm going with 500 Days of Summer.
UP IN THE AIR is the clear favorite for Adapted SP and I don't see any possibility of it not winning.
Yeah. A Serious Man is great.
But the Academy tend to favor fun movies you know. That why I agree with you. Up in the Air will definitely win.
Inglourious Basterds will win and I think the writers will dismiss the Coens since there are better scripts around like White Ribbon.
That's why I believe the writers will nominate White Ribbon and leave A Serious Man in the nude.
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