Thursday, January 10, 2008

WGA: Not Striking From Honoring Their Own

You've probably already seen them but here ya go. The Writers Guild of America nominations:


Original Screenplay
Juno , Knocked Up , Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Clayton , The Savages

Three films that have had a degree of awards season traction but were still snubbed: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, American Gangster and Ratatouille (this last one so deserved to be here) --we'll see if any of them can rally and knock one of these out with Oscar's different set of writers branch voters.



Adapted Screenplay
The Diving Bell and Butterfly , Into the Wild , No Country For...
There Will Be Blood , Zodiac

I'm thrilled to see Zodiac show up and I hope that we see a repeat with Oscar since the film has been unfairly ignored (save for the OFCS Nominations) during awards season. This list is not that far off from the Oscar Predictions I posted yesterday. This list is, though, another stumbling block for Atonement. Seems the Best Picture shorlisting dream was all in little Briony's overactive imagination ...and ours.
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