{"id":48797,"date":"2021-03-21T22:47:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T02:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=48797"},"modified":"2021-03-22T19:35:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T23:35:11","slug":"promising-young-woman-borat-2-take-wga-top-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2021\/03\/21\/promising-young-woman-borat-2-take-wga-top-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN, BORAT 2 Take WGA Top Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/promising-young-woman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48803\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/promising-young-woman.jpg\" alt=\"Promising Young Woman\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/promising-young-woman.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/promising-young-woman-339x170.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Promising Young Woman<\/strong> and <strong>Borat Subsequent MovieFilm<\/strong> were the two big winners in the main film categories at this evenings Writers Guild of America awards. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Promising Young Woman<\/strong>, written by the film&#8217;s director Emerald Fenning, took home the trophy for Best Original Screenplay. <strong>Borat Subsequent Moviefilm<\/strong> nabbed top honors in the Best Adapted Screenplay category.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Monroe and Bryan Fogel were awarded the WGA&#8217;s prize for Best Documentary Screenplay for their film <strong>The Dissident<\/strong>, beating out <strong>All In: The Fight for Democracy<\/strong>, <strong>Herb Alpert Is<\/strong>, <strong>Red Penguins<\/strong> and <strong>Totally Under Control<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The WGAs are often a bellwether for how the corresponding Best original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay could play out at the Academy Awards next month. (The Academy does not have a category for Documentary Screenplay.) Four out of the five nominees in the Best Original Screenplay category were also nominated in the Oscar race. <\/p>\n<p>Fennell&#8217;s win comes against some strong competition against the likes of Aaron Sorkin (<strong>The Trial Of The Chicago 7<\/strong>), who was generally seen as a frontrunner. <strong>Promising Young Woman<\/strong>, which has a total of fgive nominations including a second one for Fennell as Best Director, is now better positioned going into the homestretch of the Oscar race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The Writers Guild have handed out their annual honors which impact the ongoing Oscar race.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2021\/03\/21\/promising-young-woman-borat-2-take-wga-top-honors\/\" title=\"PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN, BORAT 2 Take WGA Top Honors\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48803,"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":[11051,10896,11002,11001,11050],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-2021-writers-guild-awards","9":"tag-borat-subsequent-moviefilm","10":"tag-emerald-fennell","11":"tag-promising-young-woman","12":"tag-the-dissident"},"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\/48797","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=48797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48797"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=48797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}