{"id":11243,"date":"2011-01-04T21:52:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T02:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=11243"},"modified":"2018-12-05T21:08:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T02:08:28","slug":"writers-guild-announces-awards-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/04\/writers-guild-announces-awards-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers Guild Announces Awards Nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/WritersGuildAward.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11244\" title=\"\u00fe\u00ea\u00e0\u00fe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/WritersGuildAward-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>If there&#8217;s one thing that is a certainty when the new year rolls around is that awards season starts to heat up. While we&#8217;ve just under two weeks until the Academy Award nominations are announced, some of Hollywood&#8217;s biggest filmmaker guilds are starting to announce the nominees for their own awards, awards which often serve as indicators for how the Academy Awards will be handed out in February.<\/p>\n<p>The Writer&#8217;s Guild of America announced their awards nominees today. Interestingly, though, some titles that have a good chance of receiving an Oscar nod were deemed ineligible for a Guild award nomination based on the Guild&#8217;s rules, so don&#8217;t be surprised that you don&#8217;t see <strong>Toy Story 3<\/strong>, <strong>King\u2019s Speech<\/strong>, <strong>How To Train Your Dragon<\/strong>, <strong>Winter\u2019s Bone<\/strong> and <strong>Never Let Me Go<\/strong> listed below.<\/p>\n<p>The Writers Guild of America award nominees are &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Black Swan &#8211; Screenplay by Mark Heyman and Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin; Story by Andres Heinz; Fox Searchlight<\/li>\n<li>The Fighter &#8211; Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy &amp; Eric Johnson; Story by Keith Dorrington &amp; Paul Tamasy &amp; Eric Johnson; Paramount Pictures<\/li>\n<li>Inception &#8211; Written by Christopher Nolan; Warner Bros.<\/li>\n<li>The Kids Are All Right &#8211; Written by Lisa Cholodenko &amp; Stuart Blumberg; Focus Features<\/li>\n<li>Please Give &#8211; Written by Nicole Holofcener; Sony Pictures Classics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ADAPTED SCREENPLAY<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>127 Hours &#8211; Screenplay by Danny Boyle &amp; Simon Beaufoy; Based on the book Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston; Fox Searchlight<\/li>\n<li>I Love You Phillip Morris &#8211; Written by John Requa &amp; Glenn Ficarra; Based on the book by Steven McVicker; Roadside Attractions<\/li>\n<li>The Social Network &#8211; Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin; Based on the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich; Sony Pictures<\/li>\n<li>The Town &#8211; Screenplay by Peter Craig and Ben Affleck &amp; Aaron Stockard; Based on the novel Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan; Warner Bros.<\/li>\n<li>True Grit &#8211; Screenplay by Joel Coen &amp; Ethan Coen; Based on the novel by Charles Portis; Paramount Pictures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enemies of the People &#8211; Written, Directed, Filmed and Produced by Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath; International Film Circuit<\/li>\n<li>Freedom Riders &#8211; Written, Produced and Directed by Stanley Nelson; International Film Circuit<\/li>\n<li>Gasland &#8211; Written and Directed by Josh Fox; HBO Documentary Films and International WOW Company<\/li>\n<li>Inside Job &#8211; Produced, Written and Directed by Charles Ferguson; Co-written by Chad Beck, Adam Bolt; Sony Pictures Classics<\/li>\n<li>The Two Escobars &#8211; Written by Michael Zimbalist, Jeff Zimbalist; ESPN Films<\/li>\n<li>Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin\u2019 About Him)? &#8211; Written and Directed by John Scheinfeld; Lorber Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Writers Guild Awards will be handed out on February 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">If there&#8217;s one thing that is a certainty when the new year rolls around is that awards season starts to heat up. While we&#8217;ve just under two weeks until the Academy Award nominations are announced, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/04\/writers-guild-announces-awards-nominations\/\" title=\"Writers Guild Announces Awards Nominations\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[3358],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-writers-guild-awards"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11243"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=11243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}