Writers Guild of America

We now have the Golden Globes and the Critics’ Choice winners with PGA, DGA, SAG and BAFTA to come. Here is where the Best Picture, Director and acting races look in terms of nominations and wins. A Star Is Born still leads in terms of nominations (with a perfect track record) but ROMA and Alfonso Cuarón are pulling out ahead …

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has revealed its nominations for Adapted and Original Screenplay for films of 2018. Included in Adapted were BlacKkKlansman, Black Panther, Can You Ever Forgive Me? If Beale Street Could Talkand A Star Is Born. Because of strict guild rules, screenplays like The Sisters Brothers and Leave No Trace were ineligible. On the Original side we have Eighth Grade, …

Well…yes and no. The predictions of who would win the Writers Guild award for Original Screenplay were generally pretty varied among seasoned Oscarologists. Get Out, the winner, was seen as the favorite but there were also trumpets blared for Lady Bird‘s last stand to stake a claim of a guild win (it did not) and then the creeping feeling that …

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) have chosen Call Me By Your Name (Sony Pictures Classics) and Get Out (Universal) as the best screenplays of 2017. They each also earned the most screenplay wins during critics’ season in their respective categories – Adapted and Original. They enter the Oscars as favorites but Original Screenplay is a much tougher category this year and …

The Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) have announced nominations for outstanding achievement in screenwriting during 2017. Among them, The Big Sick, Get Out and I, Tonya (above) in Original Screenplay. The Liz Hannah & Josh Singer script for The Post was snubbed. In Adapted, expected nominees like Call Me By Your Name, …

It’s the new year and we now enter what is essentially Phase II of awards season. The majority of critics’ groups have announced winners (or at least nominees) with some still to reveal this month. But January is where the heavy hitters land with the televised awards: The Golden Globes, Critics’ Choice and the Screen Actors Guild. It’s also when …

2017/2018 Film Awards Calendar OCTOBER 2017 Gotham Award Nominations – October 19, 2017 NOVEMBER 2017 Producers Guild of America Documentary Nominations (PGA) – November 20, 2017 Film Independent Spirit Award Nominations – November 21, 2017 Gotham Awards – November 27, 2017 National Board of Review (NBR) – November 28, 2017 New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) – November 30, 2017 …

2016-2017 Film Awards Calendar OCTOBER 2016 Critics Choice Documentary Award Nominations – Monday, October 10, 2016 Gotham Awards Nominations – Thursday, October 20, 2016 NOVEMBER 2016 Critics Choice Documentary Awards – Thursday, November 3, 2016 AMPAS Governors Awards – Saturday, November 12, 2016 Independent Spirit Awards Nominations – Tuesday, November 22, 2016 Producers Guild of America Documentary Nominations – Tuesday, November 22, 2016 Gotham Awards – …