No big surprises here as the Writers Guild of America announced their winners tonight and Aaron Sorkin’s script for The Social Network and Christopher Nolan’s script for Inception took home top honors. Charles Ferguson’s script for Inside Job was also awarded for Best Documentary Screenplay.
It’s important to note that screenplays for Oscar nominated films such as The King’s Speech, Winter’s Bone, Toy Story 3 and Another Year were all ineligible for the WGA awards as the WGA restricts “nominations to films that are written for productions that are signatories to the guild’s Minimum Basic Agreement, or the agreements of several affiliated international guilds… their purpose is to honor the best films produced by WGA members, or under WGA guidelines.”
So, if you currently predict David Seidler’s screenplay for The King’s Speech is the likely Oscar winner over Nolan’s Inception script then perhaps these awards don’t mean as much to you. I, however, think Nolan’s still the front-runner. On another note, if you’re interested in reading Nolan’s Inception script you can get that here, Sorkin’s script you can click here and for Seidler’s King’s Speech script click here.
This was Sorkin’s second big win of the weekend as he and author Ben Mezrich were the winners of the 2011 USC Scripter Award. The other nominees for that award were The Ghost Writer, Winter’s Bone, True Grit and 127 Hours.
So kudos to Sorkin and The Social Network team. I’ve listed below the list of winners along with the nominees from the WGA Awards.
