{"id":84148,"date":"2017-01-04T22:48:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T03:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=84148"},"modified":"2017-01-04T22:48:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T03:48:38","slug":"moonlight-la-la-land-deadpool-land-wga-award-nods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/04\/moonlight-la-la-land-deadpool-land-wga-award-nods\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Moonlight,’ ‘La La Land,’ ‘Deadpool’ land WGA Award nods"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NEW YORK\u2014Oscar favourites \u201cMoonlight,\u201d \u201cLa La Land\u201d and \u201cManchester by the Sea\u201d landed Writers Guild Award nominations on Wednesday, but so did the R-rated \u201cX-Men\u201d spinoff \u201cDeadpool.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Writers Guild of America announced its nominees for the best screenplays of the year with selections that largely stuck to awards season regulars. The best original screenplay nominees were: Kenneth Lonergan’s script for \u201cManchester by the Sea,\u201d Barry Jenkins’ \u201cMoonlight,\u201d Damien Chazelle’s \u201cLa La Land,\u201d Taylor Sheridan’s \u201cHell or High Water\u201d and Jeff Nichols’ \u201cLoving.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the WGA Awards can be strong predictors of the Academy Award screenplay nominees, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has already deemed
\n\u201cLoving\u201d (inspired by Nancy Buirski’s documentary) and \u201cMoonlight\u201d (based on Tarell Alvini McCraney’s play) adapted scripts.<\/p>\n

The nominees for best adapted screenplay were: \u201cArrival,\u201d penned by Eric Heisserer; \u201cFences,\u201d by the late playwright August Wilson; \u201cHidden Figures,\u201d by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi; \u201cNocturnal Animals,\u201d by Tom Ford; and \u201cDeadpool,\u201d by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. The snarky superhero film, easily the most unexpected choice of the bunch, earlier scored two nods for this Sunday’s Golden Globes.<\/p>\n

Nominees for best documentary screenplay went to \u201cAuthor: The JT LeRoy Story,\u201d written by Jeff Feuerzeig; \u201cCommand and Control,\u201d with a telescript by Robert Kenner and Eric Schlosser, from a story Brian Pearle and Kim Roberts; and Alex Gibney’s \u201cZero Days.\u201d<\/p>\n

The WGA will name the winners to its 69th annual awards on Feb. 19 in simultaneous ceremonies in New York and Los Angeles. Television nominations were announced earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK\u2014Oscar favourites \u201cMoonlight,\u201d \u201cLa La Land\u201d and \u201cManchester by the Sea\u201d landed Writers Guild Award nominations on Wednesday, but …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":84149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[12819,13087,13088,9800,13089,4067],"class_list":["post-84148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-deadpool","tag-la-la-land","tag-manchester-by-the-sea","tag-moonlight","tag-writers-guild-award","tag-x-men","mauthors-jake-coyle","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}