A few minutes ago Writers Guild of America East and West announced their nominations for outstanding achievement in writing for the screen during 2012. Winners will be honored at awards ceremony on Sunday February 17, during simultaneous ceremonies in New York and Los Angeles.We have to recall that many scripts were disqualified as writers are not WGA members, among those scripts we have Django Unchained, Amour, The Impossible, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Les Miserables, Middle of Nowhere and many more. Please don't forget this issue when trying to guess the possible Oscar nominations.
The following are the nominees.
Original Screenplay
John Gatins for Flight
Rian Johnson for Looper
Paul Thomas Anderson for The Master
Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola for Moonrise Kingdom
Mark Boal for Zero Dark Thirty
Adapted Screenplay
Chris Terrio for Argo
David Magee for Life of Pi
Tony Kushner for Lincoln
Stephen Chbosky for The Perks of Being a Wallflower
David O. Russell for Silver Linings Playbook
Documentary Screenplay
Sarah Burns, Ken Burns and David McMahon for The Central Park Five
Kirby Dick for The Invisible War
Alex Gibney for Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Malik Bendejelloul for Searching for Sugar Man
Brian Knappenberger for We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists
Amy Berg and Billy McMillin for West of Memphis
To learn nominations for TV and Radio go here.
Perhaps the category that could look very different in the Oscar nominations is the Original Screenplay as Adapted Screenplay has four films that have had much buzz. Original Screenplay buzz goes to Zero Dark Thirty and Moonrise Kingdom then add Django Unchained and there are still chances that The Master and Amour can get a nod in this category.
By the way there are many predicting that Amour will escape Oscar "foreign-language niche [sic]" to jump into mainstream categories, Original Screenplay is one of them along director, actor/actress and best film.
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