« Call Me by Your Name, » « The Post » and « The Big Sick » are also among the films that made the grade with Writers Guild Awards voters
« Get Out, » « Lady Bird, » « The Disaster Artist »
Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird,” Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” and Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber’s “The Disaster Artist” are among the screenplays nominated for the Writers Guild Awards, the WGA, West and WGA, East announced on Thursday.
In the original screenplay category, “Lady Bird” and “Get Out” will compete with “The Big Sick,” “I, Tonya” and “The Shape of Water.” In the adapted category, “The Disaster Artist” will face off against “Call Me by Your Name,” “Logan,” “Molly’s Game” and “Mudbound.”
Documentary nominees are “Betting on Zero,” “Jane,” “No Stone Unturned” and “Oklahoma City.”
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Winners will be announced on Sunday, February 11 at simultaneous ceremonies at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles and the Edison Ballroom in New York City.
Unlike most guild awards, the Writers Guild Awards are only open to films that were made under the guild’s Minimum Basic Agreement or under the agreement of an affiliated international guild. That rule disqualified a few films that could contend for screenwriting Oscars, most notably Martin McDonagh’s “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” and Anthony McCarten’s “Darkest Hour.”
Other scripts ineligible for Writers Guild Awards are “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” and “Coco” among original screenplays, and “Victoria & Abdul” and “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool” among adapted screenplays.
Among the films that were eligible for WGA Awards, the most conspicuous absences from the list of nominees were Liz Heller and Josh Singer’s “The Post” and Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread.” The nomination for “Logan” has to count as the biggest surprise, though it comes in a relatively thin year for adapted screenplays.
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The nominees:
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
“The Big Sick,” Written by Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani; Amazon Studios
“Get Out,” Written by Jordan Peele; Universal Pictures
“I, Tonya,” Written by Steven Rogers; Neon
“Lady Bird,” Written by Greta Gerwig; A24
“The Shape of Water,” Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor; Story by Guillermo del Toro; Fox Searchlight
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
“Call Me by Your Name,” Screenplay by James Ivory; Based on the Novel by André Aciman; Sony Pictures Classics
“The Disaster Artist,” Screenplay by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber; Based on the Book The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell; A24
“Logan,” Screenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green; Story by James Mangold; Based on Characters from the X-Men Comic Books and Theatrical Motion Pictures; Twentieth Century Fox Film
“Molly’s Game,” Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin; Based on the Book by Molly Bloom; STX Entertainment
“Mudbound,” Screenplay by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees; Based on the Novel by Hillary Jordan; Netflix
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DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY
“Betting on Zero,” Written by Theodore Braun; Gunpowder & Sky
“Jane,” Written by Brett Morgen; National Geographic
“No Stone Unturned,” Written by Alex Gibney; Abramorama
“Oklahoma City,” Written by Barak Goodman; American Experience Films
Golden Globes 2018: See the Nominees (Photos)
« Big Little Lies » and « The Shape of Water » dominated the nominations for the 2018 Golden Globe Awards.
Best Motion Picture – Drama
« Call Me by Your Name »
« Dunkirk »
« The Post »
« The Shape of Water »
« Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri » Sony
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Timothée Chalamet, « Call Me by Your Name »
Daniel Day-Lewis, « Phantom Thread »
Tom Hanks, « The Post »
Gary Oldman, « Darkest Hour »
Denzel Washington, « Roman J. Israel, Esq. » TheWrap
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Sally Hawkins, « The Shape of Water »
Jessica Chastain, « Molly’s Game »
Frances McDormand, « Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri »
Meryl Streep, « The Post »
Michelle Williams, « All the Money in the World » Fox
Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
« I, Tonya »
« The Disaster Artist »
« Get Out »
« The Greatest Showman »
« Lady Bird » Neon
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Daniel Kaluuya, « Get Out »
Hugh Jackman, « The Greatest Showman »
James Franco, « The Disaster Artist »
Ansel Elgort, « Baby Driver »
Steve Carell, « Battle of the Sexes » Universal
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Judi Dench, « Victoria & Abdul »
Helen Mirren, « The Leisure Seeker »
Margot Robbie, « I, Tonya »
Saoirse Ronan, « Lady Bird »
Emma Stone, « Battle of the Sexes » A24
Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
Willem Dafoe, « The Florida Project »
Armie Hammer, « Call Me by Your Name »
Richard Jenkins, « The Shape of Water »
Christopher Plummer, « All the Money in the World »
Sam Rockwell, « Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri » A24
Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Mary J. Blige, « Mudbound »
Hong Chau, « Downsizing »
Allison Janney, « I, Tonya »
Laurie Metcalf, « Lady Bird »
Octavia Spencer, « The Shape of Water » Getty Images
Best Director
Guillermo del Toro, « The Shape of Water »
Martin McDonagh, « Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri »
Christopher Nolan, « Dunkirk »
Ridley Scott, « All the Money in the World »
Steven Spielberg, « The Post » Getty Images
Best Screenplay
Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor, « The Shape of Water »
Greta Gerwig, « Lady Bird »
Liz Hannah, Josh Singer, « The Post »
Martin McDonagh, « Three Billboard Outside Ebbing, Missouri »
Aaron Sorkin, « Molly’s Game » Fox Searchlight
Best Original Score
Hans Zimmer, « Dunkirk »
John Williams, « The Post »
Alexandre Desplat, « The Shape of Water »
Johnny Greenwood, « Phantom Thread »
Carter Burwell, « Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri » Warner Bros.
Best Original Song
« Home, » « Ferdinand »
« Mighty River, » « Mudbound »
« Remember Me, » « Coco »
« The Star, » « The Star »
« This Is Me, » « The Greatest Showman » Disney/Pixar
Best Foreign Language Film « First They Killed My Father » (Cambodia)
« In the Fade » (Germany/France)
« Loveless » (Russia) « The Square » (Sweden/Germany/France)
« A Fantastic Woman » (Chile) Netflix
Best Animated Feature Film
« Coco »
« The Boss Baby »
« The Breadwinner »
« Ferdinand »
« Loving Vincent » Disney/Pixar
Best Drama Series
« The Crown »
« Game of Thrones »
« The Handmaid’s Tale »
« Stranger Things »
« This Is Us » Hulu
Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama
Jason Bateman, « Ozark »
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