So many well-written scripts, so few slots in the nominations for the 74th annual Writers Guild Awards.
Five films were nominated in each of the categories of best original screenplay and in best adapted screenplay – and only three for documentary screenplay.
But where, might you ask, are some of this awards season’s most vaunted films in these exclusive lists? We are talking specifically about “Belfast,” for original screenplay and the adaptations of “The Power of the Dog,” “The Lost Daughter” and “Passing.”
None of them qualified for consideration under the Guild’s guidelines or those of its international partners, although it would not be surprising if most of the above- mentioned films are nominated in the screenplay categories for the Academy Awards.
This is certainly not to take anything away from the WGA nominees, which include many of our favorite films of the year.
The winners will be announced on Sunday, March 20 – one week before the Oscars.
Here is the list of nominees in all three WGA Awards film categories:
Original Screenplay
“Being the Ricardos”
Written by Aaron Sorkin
“Don’t Look Up”
Screenplay by Adam McKay
Story by Adam McKay & David Sirota
“The French Dispatch”
Screenplay by Wes Anderson
Story by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola & Hugo Guinness & Jason Schwartzman
“King Richard”
Written by Zach Baylin
“Licorice Pizza”
Written by Paul Thomas Anderson
Adapted Screenplay
“CODA”
Screenplay by Sian Heder
Based on the film “La Famille Belier”
“Dune”
Screenplay by Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth
Based on the novel of the same name by Frank Herbert
“Nightmare Alley”
Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Kim Morgan
Based on the novel of the same name by William Lindsay Gresham
“tick…tick…BOOM!”
Screenplay by Steven Levenson
Based on the stage play of the same name by Jonathan Larson
“West Side Story”
Screenplay by Tony Kushner
Based on the stage musical of the same name
Documentary Screenplay
“Being Cousteau “
Written by Mark Monroe & Pax Wasserman
“Exposing Muybridge”
Written by Marc Shaffer
“Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres”
Written by Suzanne Joe Kai
