Well, yet another guild has weighed in with their nominees for 2006 as the Writer’s Guild of America gives us their noms for Original and Adapted Screenplays. The nominees were announced this morning after 13,000 members voted. The only surprises in my book is the nod for Stranger than Fiction and Little Children considering Stranger is not that great and I heard Little Children deviated entirely from the source material.
A quick peek at Variety tells us that WGA winners have matched the Oscar winner in the original category seven times in the past 12 years. So get a head start on what may be Oscars picks with the noms below.
Babel
Guillermo Arriaga
Little Miss Sunshine
Michael Arndt
The Queen
Peter Morgan
Stranger Than Fiction
Zach Helm
United 93
Paul Greengrass
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,
Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Peter Baynham & Dan Mazer, Story by Sacha Baron Cohen & Peter Baynham & Anthony Hines & Todd Phillips, Based on a Character Created by Sacha Baron Cohen
The Departed
William Monahan, Based on the Motion Picture Internal Affairs, Written by Alan Mak and Felix Chong
The Devil Wears Prada
Aline Brosh McKenna, Based on the Novel by Lauren Weisberger
Little Children
Todd Field & Tom Perrotta, Based on the Novel by Tom Perrotta
Thank You for Smoking
Jason Reitman, Based on the Novel by Christopher Buckley
Winners will be announced February 11.
