2008 WGA Awards

The nominees for the Writers Guild of America's yearly awards for film have been announced. They are...

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
JUNO
Diablo Cody
MICHAEL CLAYTON
Tony Gilroy
THE SAVAGES
Tamara Jenkins
KNOCKED UP
Judd Apatow
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL
Nancy Oliver

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy
THERE WILL BE BLOOD
Paul Thomas Anderson
based on the novel "Oil" by Upton Sinclair
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
Ronald Harwood
based on the book by Jean-Dominique Bauby
INTO THE WILD
Sean Penn
based on the book by Jon Krakauer
ZODIAC
James Vanderbilt
based on the book by Robert Graysmith






The 2008 Writers Guild Awards will be announced Saturday, February 9, 2008.

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Will how people are helping the strike effort affect the awards? With all the politics that surround the Oscars and the Baftas it's hard to imagine that the Writers' Guild Awards will be any different.

SAG will be the big one this year. Writers need their support, so they won't picket it. Unlike the Oscars.

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Suspect's Reviews

I dug Knocked Up a lot and like everybody else I'm a pretty huge Apatow fan - But how much of that script was, you know, scripted? Does the Writer's Guild look at something like that? Apatow himself admits most of the comedy comes from improvisation on the part of his actors. How can he get nominated for this award if his script is so vastly different from the final product?

I think because he has sole screen credit.

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Yeah, but it really shouldn't get a nod here at all. I mean, how much of that movie was actually written?