Just when you thought this season couldn’t get any weirder, the Writers Guild of America Awards threw in yet another curveball on Sunday by naming “Eighth Grade” Best Original Screenplay and “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” Best Adapted Screenplay. Not only is this the first time since the WGA established these two categories 34 years ago that the top film prizes went to two non-Best Picture Oscar nominees, but now it could be the first time in 16 years that neither WGA champ repeats at the Oscars.
“Eighth Grade,” written by Bo Burnham, wasn’t even nominated at the Oscars, so there’s no chance of a repeat there. “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”, by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty, is nominated, but it’s currently in third place in our odds, behind “BlacKkKlansman” and “If Beale Street Could Talk,” and ahead of “A Star Is Born” and “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
“Eighth Grade,” written by Bo Burnham, wasn’t even nominated at the Oscars, so there’s no chance of a repeat there. “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”, by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty, is nominated, but it’s currently in third place in our odds, behind “BlacKkKlansman” and “If Beale Street Could Talk,” and ahead of “A Star Is Born” and “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
- 2/20/2019
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
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