WGA Takes Some Goodness Away

All of the year’s great scripts have been deemed ineligible. A few remain. But alas. It’s hard not to feel some butt-hurt over this. Usually the WGA is the best predictor of the writing awards at the Oscars, but now that many of the best writing we’ve seen won’t even compete at the WGAs, how in the heck are we supposed to use them? So I guess this will just be one of those years where the WGA is not really relevant. Then again, wasn’t Up in the Air supposed to win in Adapted anyway? Original seems like The Hurt Locker’s to lose with Basterds and Up out especially.

Kris Tapley reports that District 9, In The Loop, Fantastic Mr. Fox and UP have been excluded from the WGA as well.