Writers Guild Nominations

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Boyhood- Richard Linklater
Foxcatcher- E. Max Frye, Dan Futterman
The Grand Budapest Hotel- Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness
Nightcrawler- Dan Gilroy
Whiplash- Damien Chazelle

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
American Sniper- Jason Hall
Gone Girl- Gillian Flynn
Guardians of the Galaxy- James Gunn, Nicole Perlman
The Imitation Game- Graham Moore
Wild- Nick Hornby

BEST DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY
Finding Vivian Maier- John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
The Internet's Own Boy- Brian Knappenberger
Last Days in Vietnam- Mark Bailey, Kevin McAlester
Red Army- Gabe Polsky

Writers Guild Award Winners

Her solidifies itself (YAY!) as the real deal for Original Screenplay (warding off that Oscar nomination giant that is American Hustle) while Captain Phillips surprises in the Adapted race, a call that surely be seen as consolation prize as 12 Years a Slave was deemed ineligible for the WGA award.

MOTION PICTURE

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Her- Spike Jonze
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Captain Phillips- Billy Ray
DOCUMENTARY: Stories We Tell- Sarah Polley

TELEVISION

DRAMA SERIES: Breaking Bad
COMEDY SERIES: Veep
VARIETY SERIES: The Colbert Report 
NEW TV SERIES: House of Cards
EPISODIC DRAMA: "Confessions"- Breaking Bad- Gennifer Hutchison
EPISODIC COMEDY: "Hogcock"- 30 Rock- Jack Burditt & Robert Carlock 
ANIMATION: "A Test Before Dying"-  The Simpsons- Joel H. Cohen

SCREEN LAURAL AWARD: Paul Mazursky
PAUL SELVIN AWARD: Alex Gibney, We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wiki-Leaks

Writers Guild Association Nominees

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
American Hustle- Eric Warren Singer & David O. Russell
Blue Jasmine- Woody Allen
Dallas Buyers Club- Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack
Her- Spike Jonze
Nebraska- Bob Nelson

Holy cow!  Dallas Buyers Club rackets yet another guild mention and thus so far is tied with American Hustle as the only film to receive top nods from the PGA, WGA and SAG.  In this shocking development, Inside Llewyn Davis, the latest sublime work from the Brothers Coen was snubbed yet again.  Gravity also failed to make the grade.

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
August: Osage County- Tracy Letts
Before Midnight- Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke
Captain Phillips- Billy Ray
Lone Survivor- Peter Berg
The Wolf of Wall Street- Terence Winter

Whereas in the Adapted Screenplay category, a butt load of top contenders were deemed ineligible (12 Years a Slave, Philomena, Rush, Blue is the Warmest Color, Mandela) so it was spare parts.  Lone Survivor, Peter Berg's wartime flick got the consolation prize.

DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY
Dirty Wars- Jeremy Scahill & David Riker
Herblock-- The Black & the White- Sara Lukinson & Michael Stevens
No Place on Earth- Janet Tobias & Paul Laikin
Stories We Tell- Sarah Polley
We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wiki-Leaks- Alex Gibney

WGA Winners

The Writers Guild Association of America has spoken:

Argo scribe Chris Terrio confirms the inevitable with his WGA victory.

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Zero Dark Thirty- Marc Boal

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Argo- Chris Terrio

BEST DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY
Searching for Sugar Man- Malik Bendjelloul

WGA Nominations

Within the yearly ritual of many key films ineligible for the Writers Guild prizes, it's often important to keep these with a grain of salt.  Still a nice showing and a leg up for a few key films.

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Flight- John Gatins
Looper- Rian Johnson
The Master- Paul Thomas Anderson
Moonrise Kingdom- Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola
Zero Dark Thirty- Marc Boal

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Argo- Chris Terrio
Life of Pi- David Magee
Lincoln- Tony Kushner
The Perks of Being a Wallflower- Stephen Chbosky
Silver Linings Playbook- David O. Russell

BEST DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY
The Central Park Five- Sarah Burns, David McMahon, Ed Burns
The Invisible War- Kirby Dick
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God- Alex Gibney
Searching for Sugar Man- Malik Bendejelloul
We Are Legion- Brian Knappenberger
West of Memphis- Amy Berg & Billy McMilian