{"id":18071,"date":"2012-01-06T08:07:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T13:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=18071"},"modified":"2018-12-05T21:06:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T02:06:53","slug":"allen-and-zaillian-headline-writers-guild-award-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/06\/allen-and-zaillian-headline-writers-guild-award-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"Allen and Zaillian Headline Writers Guild Award Nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Woody Allen’s Midnight In Paris<\/strong> has earned the writer\/director his 20th nomination for a Writers Guild Award. The Guild announced the nominees for their 2011 awards late yesterday. In addition to Allen’s milestone, scripter Steve Zaillian picked up two nominations, both in the Adapted Screenplay category, for Moneyball<\/strong> and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Allen was first nominated for an award back in 1966 for the comedy What’s New Pussycat?<\/strong>. Other films he has been nominated for include Bananas<\/strong>, Sleeper<\/strong>,\u00a0 Manhattan<\/strong>, Interiors<\/strong>, The Purple Rose Of Cairo<\/strong>, Bullets Over Broadway<\/strong> and Vicky Christina Barcelona<\/strong>. He has already won the award four times for Annie Hall<\/strong>, Broadway Danny Rose<\/strong>, Hannah And Her Sisters<\/strong> and Crimes And Misdemeanors<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Zaillian is no stranger to Writers Guild Award nominations, having earned four previous nods and winning a statue for Schindler’s List<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The complete list of film nominees is below, but if you are wondering why some well-written films are conspicuous in their absence, keep in mind that only films that are produced under the Guilds signatory Minimum Basic Agreement are eligible to be nominated. This explains why smaller indie fare such as The Artist<\/strong>, Shame<\/strong>, Margin Call<\/strong> and Martha Marcy May Marlene<\/strong> are not among the nominated even though there has been much critical raving over their screenplays. Last year’s big Oscar winner The King’s Speech<\/strong> didn’t qualify for a Writers Guild Award nomination, although that film remains the only Academy Award winner that didn’t at least receive a Writers Gugild nomination.<\/p>\n

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY<\/p>\n