‘Anora’ & ‘Nickel Boys’ Win Greatest Screenplays on the 2025 WGA Awards
by Alex Billington
February 16, 2025
Supply: WGA.org
With a couple of weeks left till the Academy Awards, virtually all the large prizes for the 2025 awards season have been handed out, with only some extra left – subsequent up are the largest screenplay awards. The Writers Guild of America has introduced the winners of the 2025 WGA Awards. Final 12 months, the large WGA winners had been The Holdovers (Authentic), written by David Hemingson, and American Fiction (Tailored), written by Wire Jefferson tailored from the novel “Erasure” by Percival Everett. What have fellow writers decided to be the most effective scripts of 2024? The winners: Anora (Authentic), written by filmmaker Sean Baker, plus Nickel Boys (Tailored), written by RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes; primarily based on the guide “The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead. Mark Monroe additionally received the Greatest Documentary award for Jim Henson: Thought Man (on D+). I am joyful about all the winners – Anora and Nickel Boys are two of my favourite movies from 2025 anyway.
There have been many implausible scripts final 12 months, it is exhausting to decide on only one winner amongst all of them. Which scripts do you assume deserve awards? Which movies have the most effective dialogue? The opposite WGA Awards nominees from 2024 for Greatest Authentic Screenplay had been: Challengers, written by Justin Kuritzkes; Civil Warfare, written by Alex Garland; My Outdated Ass, written by Megan Park; A Actual Ache, written by Jesse Eisenberg. Any would’ve been a deserving winner. The opposite WGA Awards nominees from 2024 for Greatest Tailored had been: A Full Unknown, written by James Mangold and Jay Cocks, primarily based on the guide “Dylan Goes Electrical!” by Elijah Wald; Dune: Half Two written by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, primarily based on the novel “Dune” by Frank Herbert; Hit Man written by Richard Linklater and Glen Powell; primarily based on the Texas Month-to-month article by Skip Hollandsworth; Depraved written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox; primarily based on the musical stage play with music & lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and guide by Winnie Holzman; primarily based on the novel by Gregory Maguire.
On the documentary facet, Jim Henson: Thought Man is sweet however not one in every of my faves. The opposite WGA Awards nominees from 2024 for Greatest Documentary had been: Kiss the Future with a screenplay by Invoice S. Carter, story by Invoice S. Carter & Nenad Cicin-Sain; Martha with a screenplay by R. J. Cutler; Warfare Recreation with a screenplay by Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss. And in tv, the WGA awarded Shogun for Greatest New & Greatest Drama Sequence (Shannon Goss, Maegan Houang, Rachel Kondo, Matt Lambert, Justin Marks, Caillin Puente, Nigel Williams, Emily Yoshida); Hacks for Greatest Comedy Sequence (Genevieve Aniello, Lucia Aniello, Man Branum, Jessica Chaffin, Paul W. Downs, Jess Dweck, Ariel Karlin, Andrew Legislation, Carol Leifer, Carolyn Lipka, Joe Mande, Aisha Muharrar, Pat Regan, Samantha Riley, Jen Statsky); and The Penguin for Greatest Restricted Sequence (Vladimir Cvetko, Breannah Gibson, Erika L. Johnson, Lauren LeFranc, Corina Maritescu, Megan Martin, John McCutcheon, Shaye Ogbonna, Nick Towne, Noelle Valdivia, Kira Snyder). For the total listing of winners in all classes, head to WGA.org. Onwards to the Oscars subsequent! Congrats to all the 2025 winners and noms.
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