2005 WGA Award Nominations
The biggest surprise in the 2005 Writers Guild Award nominations was the inclusion of Tina Fey’s Mean Girls (above, with Lindsay Lohan), which has thus far been ignored by other award-giving groups. Among the other nominated screenplays were those for multiple award-winners The Aviator, Sideways, and Million Dollar Baby.
According to the WGA’s press release, "films eligible for a Writers Guild Award were produced signatory to the Writers Guild minimum basic agreement, and released in the year 2004 under the jurisdiction of Writers Guild of America, East and West and affiliate guilds in Australia, Canada, French Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, and New Zealand. There were 193 films eligible for nomination in the categories of Original Screenplay (109) and Adapted Screenplay (84)."
The above paragraph helps to explain why non-English-language films are usually ignored by the Writers Guild. Though filmed in Spanish, this year’s multinational nominee The Motorcycle Diaries (adapted by José Rivera), was eligible for the WGA award because it was produced according to guild regulations.
On the other hand, certain American films made by companies not affiliated with the Guild are ineligible for the WGA awards. Case in point is this year’s Finding Neverland (above, with Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet), deemed ineligible because it was made outside of the Guild’s current labor regulations. (The most notorious such example is probably the exclusion of Pulp Fiction from the Guild’s 1994 awards list.)
Although ineligible for the WGA awards, highly regarded non-English-language films such as The Sea Inside (screenplay by Alejandro Amenábar and Mateo Gil), Bad Education (above, Pedro Almodóvar), and A Very Long Engagement (Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant) remain possible contenders for the Academy Awards, since the Academy has a different set of eligibility rules.
In 2003, for instance, the foreign-language films The Barbarian Invasions and City of God were ignored by the Guild, but went on to receive Academy Award nominations. And so did non-WGA foreign films Y tu mamá también and Talk to Her in 2002. Hable con ella’s screenwriter-director Pedro Almodóvar even went on to win the best original screenplay Oscar.
Also absent from the 2002 WGA list was the English-language but (mostly) European-made The Pianist, winner of the Academy Award for best adapted screenplay. And in 2001, non-WGA Amelie was listed as one of the Academy Award nominees for best original screenplay.
Curiously, animated films are not allowed to compete for the WGA awards. The Academy has no such rule. Shrek (2001) and Finding Nemo (2003) are two animated features that received Academy Award nominations in the writing categories. The same will probably happen this year with The Incredibles.
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il ezst trou bou le filme de Mean girls
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When will Lindsay Lohan get a best actress Oscar nomination??
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