Guild awards "Super Thursday" continues with the nominations for the 2021 Writers Guild of America awards. The WGA maintains strict eligibility rules and so several of the top contenders for screenplay prizes are excluded from consideration here on an annual basis, but this year has seen a particularly large slate of ineligible titles. Nevertheless, all Original and Adapted nominees for the 2021 WGA awards have legitimate shots at scoring equivalent nominations at the Oscars next month, and indeed for a Best Picture Oscar nomination. Winners will be announced on the 19th of March. Check out all the nominees below.
Best Original Screenplay
BEING THE RICARDOS (Aaron Sorkin)
DON'T LOOK UP (Adam McKay and David Sirota)
THE FRENCH DISPATCH (Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Hugo Guinness and Jason Schwartzman)
KING RICHARD (Zach Baylin)
LICORICE PIZZA (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Best Adapted Screenplay
CODA (Sian Heder) - based on the original motion Picture "La Famille Belier" directed by Eric Lartigau, and written by Victoria Bedos, Stanislas Carre de Malberg, Eric Lartigau and Thomas Bidegain
DUNE (Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth) - based on the novel "Dune" written by Frank Herbert
NIGHTMARE ALLEY (Guillermo del Toro and Kim Morgan) - based on the novel by William Lindsay Gresham
TICK, TICK...BOOM! (Steven Levenson) - based on the play by Jonathan Larson
WEST SIDE STORY (Tony Kushner) - based on the play; book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and play conceived, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins
Best Documentary Screenplay
BECOMING COUSTEAU (Mark Monroe and Pax Wassermann)
EXPOSING MUYBRIDGE (Marc Shaffer)
LIKE A ROLLING STONE: THE LIFE & TIMES OF BEN FONG-TORRES (Suzanne Joe Kai)