WGA screenplay noms include comedies
The WGA Awards announced nominations for adapted and original screenplays Thursday featuring most early Oscar best-picture favorites but also more comedies than other guilds' recent feature-film noms.
Nominations in the original screenplay category went to "Babel", written by Guillermo Arriaga, Paramount Vantage; "Little Miss Sunshine", written by Michael Arndt, Fox Searchlight Pictures; "The Queen", written by Peter Morgan, Miramax Films; "Stranger Than Fiction", written by Zach Helm, Sony Pictures Entertainment; and "United 93", written by Paul Greengrass, Universal Pictures.
Adapted screenplay noms included:
"Borat", screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham and Dan Mazer, story by Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham & Anthony Hines and Todd Phillips, based on a character created by Sacha Baron Cohen, 20th Century Fox;
"The Departed", screenplay by William Monahan, based on the motion picture "Infernal Affairs", written by Alan Mak and Felix Chong, Warner Bros. Pictures;
"The Devil Wears Prada", screenplay by Aline Brosh McKenna, based on the novel by Lauren Weisberger, 20th Century Fox;
"Little Children", screenplay by Todd Field and Tom Perrotta, based on the novel by Tom Perrotta, New Line Cinema; and
"Thank You for Smoking", screenplay by Jason Reitman, based on the novel by Christopher Buckley, Fox Searchlight Pictures.
Nominations in the original screenplay category went to "Babel", written by Guillermo Arriaga, Paramount Vantage; "Little Miss Sunshine", written by Michael Arndt, Fox Searchlight Pictures; "The Queen", written by Peter Morgan, Miramax Films; "Stranger Than Fiction", written by Zach Helm, Sony Pictures Entertainment; and "United 93", written by Paul Greengrass, Universal Pictures.
Adapted screenplay noms included:
"Borat", screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham and Dan Mazer, story by Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham & Anthony Hines and Todd Phillips, based on a character created by Sacha Baron Cohen, 20th Century Fox;
"The Departed", screenplay by William Monahan, based on the motion picture "Infernal Affairs", written by Alan Mak and Felix Chong, Warner Bros. Pictures;
"The Devil Wears Prada", screenplay by Aline Brosh McKenna, based on the novel by Lauren Weisberger, 20th Century Fox;
"Little Children", screenplay by Todd Field and Tom Perrotta, based on the novel by Tom Perrotta, New Line Cinema; and
"Thank You for Smoking", screenplay by Jason Reitman, based on the novel by Christopher Buckley, Fox Searchlight Pictures.
- 1/11/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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