A sudden Oscar front-runner and a dark-horse contender took high honors on the Writers Guild Awards on Sunday night time, because the heartwarmer “CODA” and the satirical “Don’t Look Up” prevailed within the tailored and authentic screenplay classes, respectively.
“That is actual, professional pleasure,” the writer-director of “Don’t Look Up,” Adam McKay, mentioned in a pretaped speech. Although a number of awards reveals have returned to in-person gatherings, the WGA ceremony was digital, and nominees have been requested to ship of their acceptance speeches forward of time. Solely the winner’s was performed throughout the ceremony.
A number of main movies have been ineligible for the WGAs this 12 months as a result of they weren’t written beneath a bargaining settlement with the WGA or its sister guilds. So “Belfast” and “The Worst Individual within the World” (within the original-screenplay class) and “The Energy of the Canine” and “The Misplaced Daughter” (within the tailored class) weren’t within the working. And since that considerably whittled down the pool of massive contenders, most pundits anticipated the writer-director Sian Heder’s “CODA,” primarily based on the 2014 French movie “La Famille Bélier,” would prevail with the Writers Guild, although “Don’t Look Up” nonetheless confronted stiff competitors from Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Licorice Pizza.”
Can the WGA victors additionally win their Oscar races now that “Belfast” has misplaced its awards mojo and the surging “CODA” beat “The Energy of the Canine” at this weekend’s influential Producers Guild Awards? In a current screenplay contest on the BAFTAs, “CODA” pulled out one other shock win over “The Energy of the Canine,” its largest best-picture rival. For the reason that path to the highest Oscar nearly all the time winds via the screenplay classes, an adapted-screenplay win for “CODA” on Oscar night time might foreshadow the movie’s final destiny.
And although “Don’t Look Up” has a more durable path to the best-picture Oscar, with no notable awards-season wins till now, the WGA victory a minimum of means that the original-screenplay race will stay one to look at.
Listed here are a few of the different WGA winners:
Documentary: “Exposing Muybridge”
Drama sequence: “Succession”
Comedy sequence: “Hacks”
New sequence: “Hacks”
Authentic long-form sequence: “Mare of Easttown”
Tailored long-form sequence: “Maid”
