Promising Young Woman and Borat Subsequent Moviefilm topped the 2021 Writers Guild Awards, winning best original and adapted screenplay, respectively.
Accepting the award for adapted screenplay, Borat's Sacha Baron Cohen quipped of the film's many nominees, "I can't help but think that we won it because 60 percent of the Writers Guild worked on this movie." He added, "A film like this is extremely hard to write, partly because it stars real people whose behavior is completely unpredictable.
Well, apart, of course, for Rudy Giuliani, who did everything we hoped for." Promising Young Woman writer-director Emerald Fennell said in her speech, "I wish I could be in the room and see everyone in person.
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