The WGA on Tuesday unveiled the film nominations for its 2021 WGA Awards, honoring the outstanding achievement for original and adapted screenplays and documentaries during 2020. Winners will be announced on March 21 in a virtual ceremony. See the full list below.
The scripts of the original screenplay will see the scribes behind Judas and the Black Messiah, Palm Springs, Promising Young Woman, Sound of Metal and The Chicago 7 Trial fight for the hardware.
The custom screenplay race will include Borat subsequent Moviefilm, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, News of the World, One Night in Miami and The white tiger.
On the documentary side, All In: The Fight for Democracy, The Dissident, Herb Alpert Is …, Red Penguins and Completely under control will battle it out for the WGA trophy.
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The suitability period is 1 January 2020 – 28 February 2021.
The WGA is the only guild that requires a film to be produced under its minimum basic agreement to be eligible, and there seem to be more of those than ever before in this Covid year. Among the awards season favorites on the outside, it looks scripted Nomadland, Minari, Mank, The Father, pieces of a woman, Ammonite, Emma, The Personal History of David Copperfield, Let Them All Talk and animated films including Soul.
The original screenplay is also missing from the dispute Hyself, Supernova, The Climb, The Assistant, I Carry You with Me, Farewell Amor and Ordinary love. Among the photos that are not eligible for custom script are Hope Gap, Penguin Bloom, Martin Eden, Radioactive and Blithe Gees.
Check out the list of WGA number for TV, new media, news, radio / audio and promotion here.
Here is the complete list of nominations for the 73rd Annual Writers Guild Awards:
ORIGINAL SCREEN PLAY
Judas and the Black Messiah
Screenplay by Sal Berson & Shaka King,
Story by Sal Berson & Shaka King and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas
Warner Bros.
Palm springs
Screenplay by Andy Siara
Story by Andy Siara & Max Barbakow
Hulu
Promising young woman
Written by Emerald Fennell
Focus features
Sound of Metal
Screenplay by Darius Marder & Abraham Marder
Story by Darius Marder & Derek Cianfrance
Amazon Studios
The Chicago 7 Trial
Written by Aaron Sorkin
Netflix
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Borat subsequent Moviefilm
Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Dan Swimer & Peter Baynham & Erica Rivinoja & Dan Mazer & Jena Friedman & Lee Kern
Story by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Dan Swimer & Nina Pedrad
Based on characters created by Sacha Baron Cohen
Amazon Studios
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Screenplay by Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Based on the play written by August Wilson
Netflix
News from the world
Screenplay by Paul Greengrass and Luke Davies
Based on the novel by Paulette Jiles
Universal pictures
A night in Miami
Screenplay by Kemp powers
Based on the stage play A night in Miami by Kemp Powers
Amazon Studios
The white tiger
Screenplay by Ramin Bahrani
Based on the book The white tiger by Aravind Adiga
Netflix
DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY
All in: the fight for democracy
Written by Jack Youngelson
Amazon Studios
The dissident
Written by Mark Monroe and Bryan Fogel
Briarcliff Entertainment
Herb Alpert is …
Written by John Scheinfeld
Abramorama
Red penguins
Written by Gabe Polsky
Universal pictures
Completely under control
Written by Alex Gibney
Neon
Pete Hammond contributed to this report.