WGA NOMS GO FOR GENRE

The guild’s nominees for feature screenplay include daring features skipped over by the Academy

The Writers Guild of America announced its film nominees Jan. 25, and the narrative feature categories include six Oscar-nominated screenplays.

Everything Everywhere All at Once (written by writer-director duo Daniels), The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner) and

Tár (Todd Field) earned nods for original screenplay, while Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson), Top Gun: Maverick (Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie) and

Women Talking (Sarah Polley) were recognized for adapted screenplay. In the past decade, the WGA winner for original screenplay won the

corresponding Oscar five times, while the adapted screenplay winner picked up the Academy’s equivalent prize six times. (One outlier: the 2017 WGA award winner for best original screenplay, Moonlight, earned the Oscar for best adapted screenplay.)

Unlike the Academy, the

WGA was more embracing of genre offerings. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever scribes Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole earned their second shared WGA nom for the Marvel sequel in the adapted screenplay category; Jordan Peele’s sci-fi adventure Nope and Seth Reiss and Will Tracy’s suspenseful satire The Menu earned noms for original screenplay. She Said is not a horror film — although it may cause nightmares since it features a certain film mogul — but Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s nominated adaptation of Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s investigation into Harvey Weinstein’s history of sexual harassment and assault plays like a journalistic thriller.

Daniel Kaluuya in Nope, for which writer-director Jordan Peele earned his second WGA Award nomination for best original screenplay.