2013 Writers Guild Award Nominations Announced

Posted on January 7, 2013

The nominations for the 2013 Writers Guild Awards have been announced. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday, February 17th. Here are the nominees in the screenwriting categories:

Original Screenplay

• Flight, written by John Gatins (Paramount Pictures)
• Looper, written by Rian Johnson (TriStar Pictures)
• The Master, written by Paul Thomas Anderson (The Weinstein Company)
• Moonrise Kingdom, written by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola (Focus Features)
• Zero Dark Thirty, written by Mark Boal (Columbia Pictures)

• Argo, screenplay by Chris Terrio; based on a selection from The Master of Disguise by Antonio J. Mendez and the Wired Magazine article "The Great Escape" by Joshuah Bearman (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Life of Pi, screenplay by David Magee; based on the novel by Yann Martel (20th Century Fox)
• Lincoln, screenplay by Tony Kushner; based in part on the book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (DreamWorks Pictures)
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower, screenplay by Stephen Chbosky; based on his book (Summit Entertainment)
• Silver Linings Playbook, screenplay by David O. Russell; based on the novel by Matthew Quick (The Weinstein Company)

• The Central Park Five, written by Sarah Burns and David McMahon and Ken Burns (Sundance Selects)
• The Invisible War, written by Kirby Dick (Cinedigm Entertainment Group)
• Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, written by Alex Gibney (HBO Documentary Films)
• Searching for Sugar Man, written by Malik Bendjelloul (Sony Pictures Classics)
• We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists, written by Brian Knappenberger (Cinetic Media)
• West of Memphis, written by Amy Berg & Billy McMillin (Sony Pictures Classics)