Writers’ & Producers’ Guilds Deliver Their ’05 Noms
As usual we rely on Movie City News to bring us the "best of 2005" picks from the critics, and now come the year-end nominations from the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Producers Guild of America (PGA).
Writer’s Guild Nominations
Original Screenplay
Cinderella Man — Cliff Hollingsworth & Akiva Goldsman
Crash — Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco
The 40-Year-Old Virgin — Judd Apatow & Steve Carell
Good Night, And Good Luck — George Clooney & Grant Heslov
The Squid and the Whale — Noah Baumbach
Adapted Screenplay
Brokeback Mountain — Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana, based on the short story by Annie Proulx
Capote — Dan Futterman, based on the book by Gerald Clarke
The Constant Gardener — Jeffrey Caine, based on the novel by John le Carré
A History of Violence — Josh Olson, based on the graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke
Syriana — Stephen Gaghan, based on the book "See No Evil" by Robert Baer
Documentary Screenplay
Cowboy Del Amor — Michèle Ohayon
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room — Alex Gibney, based on the book "The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron" by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
The Fall of Fumimori — Ellen Perry, Zack Anderson & Kim Roberts
March of the Penguins — Narration written by Jordan Roberts, based upon the story by Luc Jacquet and screenplay by Luc Jacquet & Michel Fessler
Street Fight — Marshall Curry
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Producer’s Guild Nominations
Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award — Theatrical Motion Pictures
Brokeback Mountain — Diana Ossana & James Schamus
Capote — Caroline Baron, William Vince & Michael Ohoven
Crash — Paul Haggis & Cathy Schulman
Good Night, and Good Luck — Grant Heslov
Walk the Line — James Keach & Cathy Konrad
Producer of the Year Award — Animated Film
Chicken Little — Randy Fullmer
Robots — Jerry Davis, John C. Donkin & William Joyce
Corpse Bride — Tim Burton & Allison Abbate
Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit — (Credits are pending arbitration)
