Writers Guild Nominations Include ‘Don’t Look Up,’ ‘Licorice Pizza,’ ‘King Richard’

The screenplays for “Don’t Look Up,” “Licorice Pizza,” “Nightmare Alley” and “King Richard” have been nominated for the 2022 Writers Guild Awards by the WGA, West and WGA, East, the 2 guilds introduced on Thursday.

Different nominees are “CODA,” “Dune,” “West Facet Story” and “tick, tick…BOOM!,” which be a part of “Nightmare Alley” within the adapted-screenplay class, and “Being the Ricardos” and “The French Dispatch,” which be a part of “Don’t Look Up,” “Licorice Pizza” and “King Richard” as original-screenplay nominees.

Eligible screenplays that had been lacking from the slate of nominees embrace Joel Coen’s Shakespeare adaptation, “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” and Mike Mills’ authentic story, “C’mon C’mon.”

As a result of the WGA created its award to be a prize for its members and those that write beneath its jurisdiction, a Writers Guild nomination is a much less correct predictor of Oscar success than noms from the opposite three main Hollywood guilds, the Display screen Actors Guild, Producers Guild and Administrators Guild.

WGA guidelines limit eligibility to screenplays that had been written beneath the guild’s Minimal Fundamental Settlement or beneath a collective bargaining settlement from one in every of 11 affiliate guilds around the globe. As regular, that rule disqualified various high screenplays this 12 months, together with “The Energy of the Canine,” “Cyrano,” “Passing,” “The Misplaced Daughter,” “Drive My Automotive” and “Spider-Man: No Approach Residence” within the adapted-screenplay class and “Belfast,” “A Hero,” “The Hand of God,” “Parallel Moms” and “Prayers for the Stolen” in authentic screenplay.

“Belfast,” “The Energy of the Canine” and “The Misplaced Daughter” specifically are sturdy favorites for Oscar nominations.

Within the documentary class, solely three screenplays had been nominated: “Being Cousteau,” “Exposing Muybridge” and “Like a Rolling Stone: The Life and Instances of Ben Fong-Torres.”

Winners can be introduced on the WGA Awards on March 20, one week earlier than the Oscars.

The nominations:

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Being the Ricardos, Written by Aaron Sorkin; Amazon Studios

Don’t Look Up, Screenplay by Adam McKay, Story by Adam McKay & David Sirota; Netflix

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Night Solar, Screenplay by Wes Anderson, Story by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola & Hugo Guinness & Jason Schwartzman; Searchlight Footage

King Richard, Written by Zach Baylin; Warner Bros. Footage

Licorice Pizza, Written by Paul Thomas Anderson; United Artists

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

CODA, Screenplay by Siân Heder, Based mostly on the Unique Movement Image La Famille Belier Directed by Eric Lartigau, Written by Victoria Bedos, Stanislas Carree de Malberg, Eric Lartigau and Thomas Bidegain; Apple

Dune, Screenplay by Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth, Based mostly on the novel Dune Written by Frank Herbert; Warner Bros. Footage

Nightmare Alley, Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Kim Morgan, Based mostly on the Novel by William Lindsay Gresham; Searchlight Footage

tick…tick…BOOM!, Screenplay by Steven Levenson, Based mostly on the play by Jonathan Larson; Netflix

West Facet Story, Screenplay by Tony Kushner, Based mostly on the Stage Play, Guide by Arthur Laurents, Music by Leonard Bernstein, Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Play Conceived, Directed and Choreographed by Jerome Robbins; 20^th Century Studios

DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY

Being Cousteau, Written by Mark Monroe & Pax Wasserman; Nationwide Geographic 

Exposing Muybridge, Written by Marc Shaffer; Inside Out Media

Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Instances of Ben Fong-Torres, Written by Suzanne Joe Kai; StudioLA.TV