WGA Announces Screenwriting Award Nominees
What, they actually like something?
When the WGA isn't out sabotaging award shows that have pretty much nothing to do with their childish contract negotiations they found time to watch some movies and it appears they even enjoyed some of them in this time of bitterness and hatred. Today the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) announced nominations for outstanding achievement in writing for the screen during the 2007 season to be honored at the 2008 Writers Guild Awards held on February 9, 2008, in Los Angeles and New York.
Wouldn't it be great if all the big media head honchos picketed the awards on February 9th? I would pay to see that, it would be priceless.
As for the nominees that were announced, they went like this:
JUNO, Written by Diablo Cody, Fox Searchlight
MICHAEL CLAYTON, Written by Tony Gilroy, Warner Bros. Pictures
THE SAVAGES, Written by Tamara Jenkins, Fox Searchlight
KNOCKED UP, Written by Judd Apatow, Universal Pictures
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL, Written by Nancy Oliver, MGM
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, Screenplay by Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, Based on the Novel by Cormac McCarthy, Miramax
THERE WILL BE BLOOD, Screenplay by Paul Thomas Anderson, Based on the Novel Oil by Upton Sinclair, Paramount Vantage
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY, Screenplay by Ronald Harwood, Based on the Book by Jean-Dominique Bauby, Miramax
INTO THE WILD, Screenplay by Sean Penn, Based on the Book by Jon Krakauer, Paramount Vantage
ZODIAC, Screenplay by James Vanderbilt, Based on the Book by Robert Graysmith, Paramount Pictures
THE CAMDEN 28, Written by Anthony Giacchino, First Run Features
NANKING, Screenplay by Bill Guttentag & Dan Sturman & Elisabeth Bentley, Story by Bill Guttentag & Dan Sturman, THINKFilm
NO END IN SIGHT, Written by Charles Ferguson, Magnolia Pictures
THE RAPE OF EUROPA Written by Richard Berge, Nicole Newnham and Bonni Cohen, Menemsha Films
SICKO, Written by Michael Moore, Lionsgate/The Weinstein Company
TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE, Written by Alex Gibney, THINKFilm
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They sabotaged the other awards shows to build up theirs! The whole strike is just a ratings stunt!
My alliances lie with PT.
Dang. You really have it in for the writers. While I think the whole thing is starting to get a tad silly I definitely still have to hand it to them for sticking together. More, it's not like the majority of their demands are all that extreme. After how the studios screwed them over the last go-around I don't blame them for drawing a line in the sand this time out.
I don't have it in for them as much as I think they went into negotiations with their minds set to do one thing and got it all twisted up into something far more elaborate. After years of getting shafted I think they wanted to plug all the holes at once and that just isn't the way to approach negotiations.
However, the AMPTP is just as much to blame considering they walked out of negotiations like pouting children. Right now Hollywood is not exactly looking their finest.
Ain't that the truth! This whole thing is really starting to annoy the crap out of me. While I definitely lean towards the writers in all this (pretty heavily, actually), I do have to agree it is all starting to get tiring, and I wish they'd just sit down and get back to it already. But what are you going to do, right?
Selfishly, for me the only real bummer here is that we just had a 2007 that was – quite frankly – one of the best we've ever had in the world of film. It was simply stunning, easily the best I've seen in my time as a professional critic. I do not have even remotely the same hopes for 2008, and this ongoing writer's strike is the thing probably most to blame. Talk about frustrating.
On a side note – is it me or do I have the sneaking suspicion that one of the best films of 2007 Atonement – a picture that appeared quite high on both of our respective top ten lists – is about to get royally shafted as far as awards considerations are concerned? Even if it was losing traction in other categories, I figured adapted screenplay was a shoe-in nomination for this one. Now that it didn't get a WGA nod (on top of that DGA snubbing) I'm starting to think it's a dead duck. What the heck happened? Someone, somewhere, explain this to me. This is a film for the ages. It deserves some end-of-year award love.