The Writers Guild will be held tonight. We will be updating the winners as they come in.
The first thing you need to know about the WGA awards tonight is that Gone Girl got screwed for the Oscar. It now holds the record as the only film to get as many precursor nominations and not get an Oscar nomination. The ways the Academy has rejected Fincher’s work is something that will swim back and bite them in the ass years down the line. I don’t know much about the world but that is something I do know. They also shut out James Vanderbilt for Zodiac, believe it or not.
The second thing to know is that no film that hasn’t been nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars has won either the WGA or the Oscar in the screenplay category since 2004, around the time Academy switched their date back one month. When they did that, all of the other bodies shifted their dates back. Now, there is little time for contemplation, little time to build up momentum. That means, since then, no film has won without a Best Picture nomination.
Before that you had great and original wins like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Bowling for Columbine, etc. Thing is, with more than five nominees it is even more likely only a Best Picture nominee will win.
That means that in the Adapted screenplay category, barring some freakish occurrence, either The Imitation Game or American Sniper are the only two scripts in the adapted category that can win tonight.
It’s a toss-up there, actually. Both films have been hit with controversy. Both films are loved. The Imitation Game won the Scripter, though Sniper was not nominated for that (can you imagine?). I am not sure which controversy will hurt more but Anne Thompson is predicting Sniper and I think that’s a good prediction. Let it be said again that had Gone Girl been nominated, and not stopped in its tracks by very narrow minded industry people, it would be winning everything – without breaking a sweat. Nothing would be more thrilling than to see her glide to a win but people just want to be on the side that’s winning and if the grand jury that is the Academy turned up their noses well, you can expect everyone else (except the Critics Choice) to follow suit. Ain’t that a shame.
Original is a little more complicated. Birdman is not nominated – that means there’s a good chance The Grand Budapest Hotel will take the award tonight. The three that have the best shot to win are Boyhood, Grand Budapest and Whiplash. Since Budapest has been winning things left and right it seems like it can’t lose. I’m hoping for Boyhood but there’s this sense that it wasn’t really “written” so much as improvised. I think that’s nuts but regardless, you know writers.
The real showdown is going to be between Birdman and Grand Budapest (both Fox Searchlight) for the Oscar. For the WGA, Budapest – the winner of the Eddie and the BAFTA, could probably have this.
Predictions:
Adapted: American Sniper (alt. Imitation Game)
Original: Grand Budapest (alt. Whiplash)
Poll – you tell me!
(polls)
Charts:
*nominated for Best Pic +won Best Pic
2014 | |
Boyhood* | Boyhood* |
Foxcatcher | Foxcatcher |
The Grand Budapest Hotel* | The Grand Budapest Hotel* |
Nightcrawler | Nightcrawler |
Whiplash | Birdman* |
American Sniper | American Sniper |
Gone Girl | Whiplash |
Guardians of the Galaxy | Theory of Everything |
The Imitation Game | The Imitation Game |
Wild | Inherent Vice |
2013 | |
Her* | Her* |
American Hustle | American Hustle* |
Blue Jasmine | Blue Jasmine |
Dallas Buyers Club | Dallas Buyers Club* |
Nebraska | Nebraska* |
Captain Phillips* | Captain Phillips* |
August: Osage County | 12 Years a Slave+ |
Before Midnight | Before Midnight |
Lone Survivor | Philomena* |
The Wolf of Wall Street | The Wolf of Wall Street* |
Silver Linings Playbook | Silver Linings Playbook* |
2012 | |
Original | Original |
Zero Dark Thirty* | Zero Dark Thirty* |
Flight | Flight |
Looper | Amour* |
The Master | Django Unchained* |
Moonrise Kingdom | Moonrise Kingdom |
Adapted | |
Argo* | Argo+ |
Life of Pi* | Life of Pi* |
Lincoln* | Lincoln* |
The Perks of being a Wallflower | Beasts of the Southern Wild* |
Silver Linings Playbook* | Silver Linings Playbook* |
2011 | |
Win Win | The Artist* |
Bridesmaids | Bridesmaids |
50 50 | Margin Call |
Young Adult | A Separation |
Midnight in Paris* | Midnight in Paris* |
Adapted | Adapted |
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | The Ides of March |
Moneyball* | Moneyball* |
The Help* | Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy |
The Descendants* | The Descendants* |
Hugo* | Hugo* |
2010 | 2010 |
Original WGA | Oscars |
Black Swan* | The King’s Speech+ |
Please Give | Another Year |
The Fighter* | The Fighter* |
The Kids Are All Right* | The Kids Are All Right* |
Inception* | Inception* |
Adapted WGA | Oscars |
The Social Network* | The Social Network* |
127 Hours* | 127 Hours* |
True Grit* | True Grit* |
I Love You Philip Morris | Winter’s Bone* |
The Town | Toy Story 3* |
2009 | 2009 |
Original WGA | Oscars |
The Hurt Locker+ | The Hurt Locker+ |
A Serious Man* | A Serious Man* |
500 Days of Summer | Up* |
The Hangover | The Messenger |
Avatar* | Inglourious Basterds* |
Adapted WGA | Oscars |
Up in the Air* | Up in the Air* |
Crazy Heart | In the Loop |
Star Trek | District 9* |
Precious* | Precious* |
Julie & Julia | An Education* |
2008 | |
Original WGA | Oscars |
Milk* | Milk* |
Burn After Reading | Frozen River |
The Visitor | Happy-Go-Lucky |
The Wrestler | In Bruges |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona | Wall-E |
Adapted WGA | Oscars |
Slumdog Millionaire+ | Slumdog Millionaire+ |
Doubt | Doubt |
Frost/Nixon* | Frost/Nixon* |
Benjamin Button* | Benjamin Button* |
The Dark Knight | The Reader* |
2007 | |
Original WGA | Oscars |
Diablo Cody, Juno* | Diablo Cody, Juno* |
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton* | Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton* |
Tamara Jenkins, The Savages | Tamara Jenkins, The Savages |
Nancy Oliver, Lars and the Real Girl | Nancy Oliver, Lars and the Real Girl |
Judd Apatow, Knocked Up | Brad Bird, Ratatouille |
Adapted WGA | Oscars |
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood* | Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood* |
Joel, Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men+ | Joel, Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men+ |
Ronald Harwood, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Ronald Harwood, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly |
Sean Penn, Into the Wild | Sarah Polley, Away from Her |
James Vanderbilt, Zodiac | Christopher Hampton Atonement* |
2006 | |
Original WGA | Oscars |
Babel* | Babel* |
The Queen* | The Queen * |
Stranger than Fiction | Letters from Iwo Jima* |
Little Miss Sunshine* | Little Miss Sunshine * |
United 93 | Pan’s Labyrinth |
Adapted WGA | Oscars |
The Departed+ | The Departed+ |
Thank You for Smoking | Notes on a Scandal |
Little Children | Little Children |
Borat | Borat |
Devil Wears Prada | Children of Men |
2005 | |
Original WGA | Oscars |
40 Year Old Virgin | Syriana |
Crash+ | Crash+ |
Cinderella Man | Match Point |
Good Night, and Good Luck* | Good Night * |
Squid and the Whale | Squid and the Whale |
Adapted WGA | Oscars |
Brokeback Mountain* | Brokeback Mountain* |
Capote* | Capote* |
Constant Gardener | Constant Gardener |
History of Violence | History of Violence |
Syriana | Munich* |
2004 | |
Original WGA | Oscars |
The Aviator* | The Aviator* |
Eternal Sunshine | Eternal Sunshine |
Garden State | Vera Drake |
Hotel Rwanda | Hotel Rwanda |
Kinsey | The Incredibles |
Adapted WGA | Oscars |
Before Sunset | Before Sunset |
Mean Girls | Finding Neverland* |
Million Dollar Baby+ | Million Dollar Baby+ |
Sideways* | Sideways* |
Motorcycle Diaries | Motorcycle Diaries |
2003 | |
Original WGA | Oscars |
Bend it Like Beckham | The Barbarian Invasions |
Dirty Pretty Things | Dirty Pretty Things |
In America | In America |
Lost in Translation* | Lost in Translation* |
The Station Agent | Finding Nemo |
Adapted WGA | Oscars |
American Splendor | American Splendor |
Cold Mountain | City of God |
ROTK+ | ROTK* |
Mystic River* | Mystic River * |
Seabiscuit | Seabiscuit* |
2002 | |
Original WGA | Oscars |
Far From Heaven | Far From Heaven |
Gangs of New York* | Gangs of New York* |
Antwone Fisher | Talk to Her |
My Big Fat Greek Wedding | Greek Wedding |
Bowling for Columbine | Y Tu Mama Tambien |
Chicago | Chicago+ |
The Hours | The Hours* |
About Schmidt | The Pianist* |
Adaptation | Adaptation |
About a Boy | About a Boy |
2001 | |
Original WGA | Oscars |
Gosford Park* | Gosford Park* |
The Man Who Wasn’t There | Amelie |
Monster’s Ball | Monster’s Ball |
Moulin Rouge | Memento |
The Royal Tenenbaums | The Royal Tenenbaums |
Adapted WGA | Oscars |
A Beautiful Mind | A Beautiful Mind+ |
Black Hawk Down | Shrek |
Bridget Jones’s Diary | In the Bedroom* |
Ghost World | Ghost World |
The Fellowship of the Ring | Fellowship of the Ring* |
2000 | |
Original WGA | Oscars |
Erin Brockovich | Erin Brockovich* |
Almost Famous | Almost Famous |
Best In Show | Gladiator+ |
Billy Elliot | Billy Elliot |
You Can Count On Me | You Can Count On Me |
Adapted WGA | Oscars |
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon* |
Chocolat | Chocolat* |
High Fidelity | O Brother Where Art Thou? |
Traffic | Traffic* |
Wonder Boys | Wonder Boys |
1999 | |
Original WGA | Oscars |
American Beauty | American Beauty+ |
Being John Malkovich | Being John Malkovich |
Magnolia | Magnolia |
The Sixth Sense | The Sixth Sense* |
Three Kings | Topsy-Turvy |
Adapted WGA | Oscars |
The Cider House Rules | The Cider House Rules* |
Election | Election |
The Insider | The Insider* |
October Sky | The Green Mile* |
The Talented Mr. Ripley | The Talented Mr. Ripley |
1998 | |
Original WGA | Oscars |
Bulworth | Bulworth |
The Opposite of Sex | Life Is Beautiful * |
Shakespeare In Love* | Shakespeare In Love+ |
Saving Private Ryan | Saving Private Ryan* |
The Truman Show | The Truman Show |
Adapted WGA | Oscars |
Gods and Monsters | Gods and Monsters |
A Civil Action | The Thin Red Line* |
Primary Colors | Primary Colors |
A Simple Plan | A Simple Plan |
Out Of Sight* | Out Of Sight |
WINNERS CHART
+Won Best Picture
*nominated for Best Pic
WGA | OSCAR
2013: Her* | Her* |
Captain Phillips* | 12 Years a Slave+ |
2012: Zero Dark Thirty* | Django Unchained* |
Argo+ | Argo* |
2011: Midnight in Paris* | Midnight in Paris* |
The Descendants* | The Descendants* |
2010: Inception* | The King’s Speech+ |
The Social Network* | The Social Network* |
2009: The Hurt Locker | The Hurt Locker+ |
Up in the Air* | Precious* |
2008: Slumdog Millionaire+ | Slumdog Millionaire+ |
Milk | Milk* |
2007: No Country for Old Men | No Country for Old Men+ |
Juno | Juno* |
2006: The Departed | The Departed+ |
Little Miss Sunshine | Little Miss Sunshine* |
2005:Brokeback Mountain | Brokeback Mountain* |
Crash | Crash+ |
2004: Eternal Sunshine | Eternal Sunshine |
Sideways | Sideways* |
2003: Lost in Translation | Lost in Translation* |
American Splendor | Return of the King+ |
2002: The Hours* | The Pianist* |
Bowling for Columbine | Talk to Her |
2001: A Beautiful Mind | A Beautiful Mind+ |
Gosford Park | Gosford Park* |
2000: Traffic | Traffic* |
You Can Count on Me | Almost Famous |
1999: American Beauty | American Beauty+ |
Election | The Cider House Rules* |
1998:Shakespeare in Love | Shakespeare in Love+ |
Out of Sight | Gods and Monsters |
1997: L.A. Confidential | L.A. Confidential* |
As Good as it Gets | Good Will Hunting* |
1996: Sling Blade | Sling Blade |
Fargo | Fargo* |
1995: Braveheart | The Usual Suspects |
Sense and Sensibility | Sense and Sensibility* |
1994: Forrest Gump | Forrest Gump+ |
Four Weddings/Funeral | Pulp Fiction* |
1993: Schindler’s List | Schindler’s List+ |
The Piano | The Piano* |
1992: The Crying Game | The Crying Game * |
The Player | Howards End* |
1991: The Silence of the Lambs | The Silence of the Lambs+ |
Thelma and Louise | Thelma and Louise |
1990: Dances with Wolves | Dances with Wolves+ |
Avalon | Ghost* |
1989: Driving Miss Daisy | Driving Miss Daisy+ |
Crimes and Misdemeanors | Dead Poets Society* |
1988: Dangerous Liaisons | Dangerous Liaisons* |
Bull Durham | Rain Man+ |
1987: Roxanne | The Last Emperor+ |
Moonstruck | Moonstruck* |
1986: A Room with a View | A Room with a View* |
Hannah and Her Sisters | Hannah and her Sisters* |
1985: Witness | Witness* |
Prizzi’s Honor | Out of Africa+ |
1984: The Killing Fields | Amadeus+ |
Broadway Danny Rose | Places in the Heart* |
1983: Tender Mercies | Tender Mercies* |
Reuben, Reuben | Terms of Endearment+ |
1982: Missing | Missing* |
Tootsie | Gandhi+ |
1981: Reds | Chariots of Fire+ |
On Golden Pond | On Golden Pond * |
Rich and Famous | |
Arthur | |
1980:Ordinary People | Ordinary People+ |
Airplane, Private Benjamin | |
Melvin and Howard | Melvin and Howard |
1979: Kramer vs. Kramer | Kramer Vs. Kramer+ |
Breaking Away | Breaking Away* |
The China Syndrome, Being There | |
1978: Midnight Express | Midnight Express* |
Coming Home | Coming Home* |
Heaven Can Wait | |
Movie, Movie | |
1977: Annie Hall | Annie Hall+ |
Julia | Julia* |
The Turning Point, Oh, God | |
1976: All the President’s Men | All The President’s Men* |
Network | Network* |
Pink Panther Strikes Again | |
1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest+ |
Dog Day Afternoon | Dog Day Afternoon* |
The Sunshine Boys | |
Shampoo | |
1974: Godfather Part II | Godfather Part II+ |
Chinatown | Chinatown* |
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | |
Blazing Saddles | |
1973: A Touch of Class | The Exorcist* |
Save the Tiger, Paper Moon | The Sting+ |
Serpico | |
1972: The Godfather | The Godfather+ |
The Candidate | The Candidate |
What’s Up, Doc? Cabaret | |
1971: The French Connection | The French Connection+ |
The Hospital | The Hospital |
Kotch; Sunday, Bloody, Sunday | |
1970: Patton | Patton+ |
M*A*S*H | M*A*S*H* |
I Never Sang for My Father, The Out-of Towners | |
1969: Midnight Cowboy | Midnight Cowboy+ |
Butch Cassidy | Butch Cassidy/Sundance Kid * |
Goodbye, Columbus; Bob, Ted, Carol and Alice | |
1968:Lion in Winter | The Lion in Winter* |
The Producers | The Producers |
Funny Girl, Odd Couple | |
1967: The Graduate | In the Heat of the Night+ |
Bonnie and Clyde | Guess Who’s Coming… * |
Thoroughly Modern Millie | |
1966: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe? | A Man for All Seasons+ |
The Russians are Coming | A Man and a Woman |
1965: A Thousand Clowns | Dr. Zhivago* |
The Sound of Music, The Pawnbroker | Darling* |
1964: Becket | Becket |
Dr. Strangelove, Mary Poppins | Father Goose |
1963: Hud | Tom Jones+ |
Lillies of the Field | How the West Was Won |
1962: The Kill a Mockingbird | To Kill a Mockingbird * |
That Touch of Mink, Music Man | Divorce Italian Style |
1961: the Hustler | Judgment at Nuremberg |
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, West Side Story | Splendor in the Grass |
1960: The Apartment | The Apartment+ |
Elmer Gantry | Elmer Gantry |
The Bells are Ringing | |
1959: The Diary of Anne Frank | Room at the Top * |
Some Like it Hot, Five Pennies | Pillow Talk |
1958: Gigi | Gigi+ |
The Defiant Ones | The Defiant Ones |
Me and the Colonel | |
1957: 12 Angry Men | Bridge on the River Kwai+ |
Love in the Afternoon | Designing Women |
Les Girls | |
1956: Around world/80 Days | Around world/80 Days+ |
The King and I | The red Balloon |
Friendly Persuasion | |
1955: Marty | Marty+ |
Mr. Roberts | Interrupted Melody |
Love Me/Leave Me | |
1954: On the Waterfront | On the Waterfront+ |
Sabrina, Seven Brides/Seven Bros. | The Country Girl |
1953: From Here to Eternity | From Here to Eternity+ |
Lili, Roman Holiday | Titanic |
1952: High Noon, The Quiet Man | Lavender Hill Mob |
Singing in the Rain | Bad and Beautiful |
1951: An American in Paris | An American in Paris+ |
A Place in the Sun | A Place in the Sun* |
Father’s Little Dividend | |
1950: All About Eve | All About Eve+ |
Sunset Boulevard | Sunset Boulevard * |
Broken Arrow, Annie Get Your Gun | |
1949: All the King’s Men | All the King’s Men+ |
A Letter to Three Wives, on the Town | Battleground* |
1958: The Snake Pit | Treasure of the Sierra Madre* |
Sitting Pretty, Easter Parade |