What are your predictions for the WGA best screenplay nominations?
I received an email from GITS reader Mahmoud today. After noting that early on last year, he had predicted “that Slumdog Millionaire would sweep the whole awards and it happened.” Armed with that success, Mahmoud sent me his predictions for this year’s best screenplays:
Best Original Screenplay
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
So 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:
Original Screenplay
Burn 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?