Thursday, January 10, 2008

Writers Guild nominates years best

As the film award season hits high gear here's my attempt to keep track of what's happening. This is an attempt to compensate for the absence of award shows on TV due to the producers and network excutives stonewalling the writers.
Here are the writers' nominees for year's best. Winners will be announced Feb. 9 in L.A. and New York.
But according to Variety the "WGA has called off the Feb. 9 awards show in Los Angeles — unless it has ended its strike by then." "the guild said it would announce its awards as planned but added, 'There will be no Writers Guild of America West show until the strike is over.'”



Original Screenplay:
Juno, Diablo Cody
Michael Clayton, Tony Gilroy
The Savages, Tamara Jenkins
Knocked Up, Judd Apatow
Lars and the Real Girl, Nancy Oliver

Adapted Screenplay:
No Country for Old Men, Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy.
There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson, based on the novel Oil by Upton Sinclair
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Ronald Harwood, based on the memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby.
Into the Wild, Sean Penn, based on the book by Jon Krakauer.
Zodiac, James Vanderbilt, based on the book by Robert Graysmith.

Michael Moore's Sicko is among the nomines for Best Documentary Screenplay.

Also nominated were
Anthony Giacchino for The Camden 28,
Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman and Elisabeth Bentley for Nanking,
Charles Ferguson for No End in Sight,
Richard Berge, Nicole Newnham and Bonni Cohen for The Rape of Europa, and
Alex Gibney for Taxi to the Dark Side.

1 comment:

Andrew Gael said...

It seems as thought "There Will Be Blood" is the conflation of some of the most talented people in their fields. Upton Sinclair (writing), PT Anderson (directing), and Daniel Day-Lewis (acting)...I guess I should see this moving picture!