Writers Guild of America awards throw spotlight on two surprise winners – including the black-comedy Oscars contender
The awards season race took a late final twist as two previously little-fancied films took best screenplay awards from the Writers Guild of America. Teen movie Eighth Grade, written and directed by Bo Burnham, won best original screenplay, while black comedy Can You Ever Forgive Me? won best adapted screenplay.
Eighth Grade, which is Burnham’s feature-directing debut, is not even nominated for a best screenplay Oscar, while Can You Ever Forgive Me?, telling the story of literary forger Lee Israel, is well behind Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman and Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk in the race for the adapted screenplay Oscar. The results appear to underline the lack of consensus for this year’s Academy awards, with all major craft guilds opting to honour different films for the first time ever.
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