The Writers Guild may be on strike but that doesn't mean they can't tell us which movies they like. The WGA announced their nominations for best screenplays of 2007. The list follows, and as Tom O'Neil notes in the L.A. Times' Gold Derby blog, the order in which the film are listed may unintentionally be a tip-off as to which film is favored most. Uh-oh. And here I thought professional writers knew how to alphabetize. (Tip o' the hat to Scott Feinberg's "And the Winner Is..." blog for alerting me to this.)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
JUNO, Diablo Cody
MICHAEL CLAYTON, Tony Gilroy,
THE SAVAGES, Tamara Jenkins
KNOCKED UP, Judd Apatow
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL, Nancy Oliver
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy
THERE WILL BE BLOOD, Paul Thomas Anderson, based on the novel Oil by Upton Sinclair
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY, Ronald Harwood, based on the book by Jean-Dominique Bauby
INTO THE WILD, Sean Penn, based on the book by Jon Krakauer
ZODIAC, James Vanderbilt, based on the book by Robert Graysmith
DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY:
THE CAMDEN 28, Anthony Giacchino
NANKING, Bill Guttentag & Dan Sturman & Elisabeth Bentley, Story by Bill Guttentag & Dan Sturman
NO END IN SIGHT, Charles Ferguson
THE RAPE OF EUROPA, Berge, Nicole Newnham and Bonni Cohen
SICKO, Michael Moore
TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE, Alex Gibney
