THE HURT LOCKER, UP IN THE AIR: WGA Awards
Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker (top); Anna Kendrick, George Clooney in Up in the Air (bottom)
The Writers Guild of America came up with some pretty shocking choices at their 2010 awards held this evening: Mark Boal’s The Hurt Locker (directed by Kathryn Bigelow) for best original screenplay, Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner’s Up in the Air (directed by Reitman) for best adapted screenplay, and Mark Monroe’s The Cove (directed by Louie Psihoyos) for best documentary screenplay. Okay, so maybe those weren’t exactly shocking choices — unless you see them as shocking in their utter predictability.
According to one tweet by Thompson on Hollywood’s Anne Thompson, Mark Boal, a journalist who spent time with the US military’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal [...]
by Steve Montgomery | February 20, 2010
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Tags: Film Awards, Jason Reitman, Mark Boal, Mark Monroe, Modern Family, Quentin Tarantino, Sheldon Turner, Taking Chance, The Cove, The Hurt Locker, Up in the Air, WGA Awards
James Cameron, Scott Cooper, Mark Boal at WGA Panel
George Clooney in Up in the Air
The Writers Guild of America’s "Beyond Words" panel will be held at the Writers Guild Theater at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 8, two days before the announcement of the 2010 WGA Awards. Confirmed panelists include: Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker), James Cameron (Avatar), Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart), Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire), Alex Kurtzman (Star Trek, co-written by Roberto Orci), Jon Lucas & Scott Moore (The Hangover), Scott Neustadter ((500) Days of Summer, co-written by Michael H. Weber), and Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (Up in the Air).
WGAW Secretary-Treasurer David N. Weiss and Variety Group Editor Timothy M. Gray are set to [...]
by Anna Robinson | February 11, 2010
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Tags: Avatar, James Cameron, Jason Reitman, Judd Apatow, Mark Boal, The Hangover, The Hurt Locker, Up in the Air, WGA Awards
WGA Awards 2010: Videogame Nominations
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The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) have announced nominations for outstanding achievement in videogame writing during the past year. The winner of this year’s WGA’s Videogame Writing Award, which recognizes writers as a major creative force in today’s burgeoning gaming industry, will be announced at the upcoming 2010 Writers Guild Awards to be held on Saturday, February 20, 2010, at simultaneous ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York.
VIDEOGAME WRITING
Assassin’s Creed II, Story by Corey May, Script Writers Corey May, Joshua Rubin, Jeffrey Yohalem; Ubisoft Entertainment
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Written by Jesse Stern, Additional Writing Steve Fukuda, [...]
by Anna Robinson | January 14, 2010
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AVATAR, STAR TREK, JULIE & JULIA, THE HANGOVER: WGA 2010 Nominations
Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms in The Hangover (Frank Masi / Warner Bros.) (top); Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia (Columbia Pictures) (bottom)
The Writers Guild of America has announced the nominees for the 2010 WGA Awards. Both Avatar (James Cameron) and The Hangover (Jon Lucas and Scott Moore) have been nominated in the best original screenplay category. Wow. They’ll be competing with the scribes of (500) Days of Summer (Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber), The Hurt Locker (Mark Boal), and A Serious Man (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen).
It gets better: Nora Ephron is up for a best adapted screenplay WGA Award for Julie & Julia, and so are Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman for [...]
by Andre Soares | January 11, 2010
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Writers Guild Awards 2010 – Television
2010 Writers Guild of America (WGA) Awards
2009 WGA Award motion picture nominations: Jan. 11, 2010
2009 WGA Award winners: Feb. 20, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
TELEVISION
DRAMA SERIES
Breaking Bad, Written by Sam Catlin, Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, George Mastras, J. Roberts, John Shiban, Moira Walley-Beckett; AMC
Dexter, Written by Scott Buck, Charles H. Eglee, Lauren Gussis, Clyde Phillips, Melissa Rosenberg, Wendy West; Showtime
Friday Night Lights, Written by Bridget Carpenter, Kerry Ehrin, Ron Fitzgerald, Brent Fletcher, Etan Frankel, Jason Gavin, Elizabeth Heldens, David Hudgins, Rolin Jones, Jason Katims, Patrick Massett, Derek Santos Olson, John Zinman; NBC
Lost, Written by Carlton Cuse, Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis, Melinda Hsu Taylor, Damon Lindelof, Greggory Nations, Kyle Pennington, Elizabeth Sarnoff, Brian K. Vaughan, Paul Zbyszewski; ABC
Mad Men, [...]
by Anna Robinson | December 14, 2009
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Tags: Breaking Bad, Film Awards, Friday Night Lights, Georgia O’Keefe, Glee, Grey Gardens, Lost, Mad Men, Modern Family, The Simpsons, WGA Awards