2024 WGA Awards nominations: Who’s in, who’s out, who wasn’t eligible?
As was the case last year, only six of the current 10 Oscar nominees for screenplay achieved similar recognition from the Writers Guild of America. Three of the four films that were excluded from the WGA rosters revealed on February 21 – “Anatomy of a Fall,” “Poor Things,” and “The Zone of Interest” – had been deemed ineligible in January, while “Maestro” simply failed to garner enough support from the guild.
Although it’s competing for the adapted screenplay Oscar, “Barbie” is included in the WGA’s original lineup. This marks the third such instance in 10 years, following the cases of “Whiplash” (2015) and “Moonlight” (2017), the latter of which won the favor of both organizations. The remaining original WGA contenders are “Air” and Oscar hopefuls “The Holdovers,” “May December,” and “Past Lives.”
The films presently running first and second in Gold Derby’s adapted Oscar race – “Oppenheimer” and “American Fiction” – will also face off at the WGA Awards, with the guild category’s other slots being filled by “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” and “Nyad.”
Within the past decade, three scripts deemed ineligible by the WGA went on to win Oscars anyway: “Birdman” (2015; original), “The Father” (2021; adapted), and “Belfast” (2022; original). During that time, 68 of the WGA Awards nominees have numbered among the 100 screenplays that reaped Oscar bids.
The 2024 Writers Guild of America Awards will be presented on April 14, exactly five weeks after the Oscars.
See the full list of nominees in all three film categories below:
Original Screenplay
“Air”
Written by Alex Convery
“Barbie”
Written by Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach
“The Holdovers”
Written by David Hemingson
“May December”
Screenplay by Samy Burch; Story by Samy Burch & Alex Mechanik
“Past Lives”
Written by Celine Song
Adapted Screenplay
“American Fiction”
Screenplay by Cord Jefferson
Based on the novel “Erasure” by Percival Everett
“Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.”
Screenplay by Kelly Fremon Craig
Based on the book by Judy Blume
“Killers of the Flower Moon”
Screenplay by Eric Roth & Martin Scorsese
Based on the book by David Grann
“Nyad”
Screenplay by Julia Cox
Based on the book “Find a Way” by Diana Nyad
“Oppenheimer”
Screenplay by Christopher Nolan
Based on the book “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer” by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
Documentary Screenplay
“Bella!”
Written by Jeff L. Lieberman
“It Ain’t Over”
Written by Sean Mullin
“The Pigeon Tunnel”
Written by Errol Morris
“Stamped from the Beginning”
Written by David Teague
Based on the book by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
“What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?”
Written by John Scheinfeld
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