Writers Guild of America Award Nominations

The second set of nominations today came from the Writers Guild of America and they must have the quickest Award Ceremony ever as they've only got three categories.

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Black Swan, Screenplay by Mark Heyman and Andres Heinz and John
McLaughlin; Story by Andres Heinz
The Fighter, Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson;
Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson
Inception, Written by Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right, Written by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
Please Give, Written by Nicole Holofcener

Thoughts from the Media Room: This one isn't even close for me, sure I loved Black Swan, but how the hell did Nolan come up with the concept of Inception, let alone write a movie around that concept. Brilliant.


ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
127 Hours, Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy; Based on the book Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston
I Love You Phillip Morris, Written by John Requa & Glenn Ficarra; Based on the book by Steven McVicker
The Social Network, Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin; Based on the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich
The Town, Screenplay by Peter Craig and Ben Affleck & Aaron Stockard; Based on the novel Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan
True Grit, Screenplay by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen; Based on the novel by Charles Portis

Thoughts from the Media Room: I read Accidental Billionaires and I loved it, a real page turner. The Social Network really got me thinking, I've gone on and on about how it rattles around this mind of mine many times before. I'm going with that. I really want to pick up
Between a Rock and a Hard Place because I think that book would just be haunting. I need to do that before the Oscars come along.

DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY
Enemies of the People, Written, Directed, Filmed and Produced by Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath
Freedom Riders, Written, Produced and Directed by Stanley Nelson
GasLand, Written and Directed by Josh Fox;
Inside Job, Produced, Written and Directed by Charles Ferguson
The Two Escobars, Written by Michael Zimbalist, Jeff Zimbalist
Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him)?, Written and Directed by John Scheinfeld

Thoughts from the Media Room: Wow, I just looked at these over at IMDB.com and wow. These all look like great movies that I really want to see, which then gets me thinking about how under promoted the Documentary is. I really can't pick just one, I like Enemies, GasLand
and The Two Escobars. If I was tied to a chair and was being tortured to pick one, I'll go with The Two Escobars as that's always a great topic to watch.