WGA Awards Film Nominations: ‘West Side Story’, ‘Dune’, ‘Licorice Pizza’, ‘French Dispatch’ & More
deadline.comThe Writers Guild of America has penciled in the film nominees for its 74th annual WGA Awards, which will be virtual again this year.The Original Screenplay category will see the scribes behind Being the Ricardos, Don’t Look Up, The French Dispatch, King Richard and Licorice Pizza vying for the hardware.The Adapted Screenplay race will be among CODA, Dune, Nightmare Alley, tick, tick…BOOM!
and West Side Story.On the documentary side, Being Cousteau, Exposing Muybridge and Like a Rolling Stone will battle it out for the WGA trophy.See the full list of nominated writers and screenplays below.Winners will be feted at the joint 2022 WGA Awards on Sunday, March 20 — the last majors awards show before the 94th Oscars.
This year’s eligibility period is March 1-December 31, 2021.Read the WGA’s TV nominations here.The WGAs honor outstanding achievement for original and adapted screenplays and documentary films, but some awards-contending scripts are ineligible because of WGA rules.
It’s the only guild that requires a movie to have been produced under its Minimum Basic Agreement in order to be eligible. Those rules (read them here) kept a couple of 2022 awards-season regulars out of the mix today.
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