ARRIVAL and MOONLIGHT Win WGA Awards

ARRIVAL and MOONLIGHT Win WGA Awards 1
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The Writers Guild of America handed out their awards this past weekend, with Arrival and Moonlight taking home Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay, respectively. The Documentary Screenplay award went to Command and Control.

Check out all of the WGA film nominees below.

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Winner: Moonlight, written by Barry Jenkins, story by Tarell McCraney
Hell or High Water, written by Taylor Sheridan
La La Land, written by Damien Chazelle
Loving, written by Jeff Nichols
Manchester by the Sea, written by Kenneth Lonergan

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Winner: Arrival, screenplay by Eric Heisserer, based on the story “Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang
Deadpool, written by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick, based on the X-Men comic books
Fences, screenplay by August Wilson, based on his play
Hidden Figures, screenplay by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi, based on the book by Margot Lee Shetterly
Nocturnal Animals, screenplay by Tom Ford, based on the novel Tony and Susan by Austin Wright

DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY

Winner: Command and Control, telescript by Robert Kenner and Eric Schlosser, story by Brian Pearle and Kim Roberts, based on the book Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
Author: The JT LeRoy Story, written by Jeff Feuerzeig
Zero Days, written by Alex Gibney
 

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