#WGA Awards

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Upcoming 2025 award season schedule:

Golden Globes (Jan. 5)

SAG noms (Jan. 8)

Critics Choice Awards (Jan. 12)

Oscar noms (Jan. 17)

Grammys (Feb. 2)

DGA & PGA Awards (Feb. 8)

WGA Awards (Feb. 15)

BAFTAs (Feb. 16)

Spirit Awards (Feb. 22)

SAG Awards (Feb. 23)

Oscar Ceremony (March 2)

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Paul commented on Nandermo on the red carpet for the WGA awards:

What’s going to happen with the tension between mortal Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) and his vampire master, Nandor (Kayvan Novak)? Do they belong together?

“They’re already shipped,” Simms explained, a bit exasperated. “Guillermo and Nandor is the greatest love story in modern television,” he stressed. “It’s just different than the way some people want it to be.”

And he hinted at Guillermo’s season 5 journey as well:

Their relationship might be complicated by Guillermo’s choices in the next season. “As with every cliffhanger we’ve done, we’ve paid it off,” he said, referring to question of whether Guillermo will use someone else to fulfill his lifelong wish of turning into a creature of the night. “You don’t come back and have Guillermo go, Oh, I changed my mind. Or, Oh it was all a dream. A lot of the next season is exploring Guillermo making a very big decision.” Makes sense. What’s a good love story without the trials and temptations?

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The Last Of Us wins Best New Series at the WGA Awards 🎉🎉

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75th Writers Guild of America (WGA) awards: 'Everything Everywhere All At Once,' 'Women Talking,' 'Severance' take top wins

75th Writers Guild of America (WGA) awards: 'Everything Everywhere All At Once,' 'Women Talking,' 'Severance' take top wins

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With the updated info (in the replies) that there can be two submissions, and looking at it from a ‘human’ viewpoint, I’d nominate season 2’s eps 2 & 3.

Not quite a question- Today the WGA opened submissions for the prestigious Humanitas Prize, to be presented at the WGA Awards Ceremony on April 14, 2024.

The Mission Statement of Humanitas is:

Humanitas honors and explores film and television writers whose work explores the human condition in a nuanced, meaningful way.

Please submit GO S2 for consideration. GO in all its forms asks the hard questions of what it means to be a human being. It explores, in a meaningful and engaging way, human beings making their choices in how to move through this world and their lives.

GO S2 DESERVES consideration. As you know, Writer’s can self submit. Deadline for submission is April 1, 2024.

LIVE DANGEROUSLY- Please submit GO S2 for the 2023 Humanitas Prize.

It looks to me from the rules as if I can't submit the whole season, I have to submit one episode. If (or Amazon) did submit an episode, which one should it be?

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Lista indicados WGA - Prêmios do Sindicato dos Roteiristas 2024

WGA Awards: "One Piece", 'Air', 'Barbie', 'Oppenheimer', 'May December' entre os indicados para roteiro de cinema. Confira a lista! #barbie #onepiece #wgaawards #oppenheimer #wga

Os Writers Guild Awards (Prêmios do Sindicato dos Roteiristas) são prêmios anuais concedidos pelo Writers Guild of America (WGA), um sindicato que representa os roteiristas de cinema, televisão, rádio e novas mídias nos Estados Unidos. Os prêmios reconhecem realizações notáveis em roteiros de diversas categorias, incluindo cinema, televisão e novas mídias. Os prêmios incluem categorias como…

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Stuff I’m Looking Forward to in March

We’re about to enter the final month of the first quarter of 2023. Crazy! In addition to Holi (March 8), Daylight Savings Time (March 12), St. Patrick’s Day (March 17), Ramadan (from March 22 to April 21) and Women’s History Month (March 1-31) here is what’s on my radar:

Movies:

Scream VI

I wasn’t that impressed with last year’s Scream (let’s call it Scream 5 as I hate this recent trend of sequels that have the same name as the original), but I’m cautiously optimistic that this new one will be better, in which the characters leave Woodsboro for NYC. My prediction is this will not be as good as Scream 1 and 2, but will be better than Friday the 13th Part VIII Jason Takes Manhattan. Opens 3/10. 

Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman

Documentarian Morgan Neville (his doc Won’t You Be My Neighbor? was my #1 Doc of 2018) goes to Dublin following David Letterman joining U2′s Bono and The Edge on a concert performance in their home city. Sounds like the best episode of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman that never aired on Netflix: An icon interviewing icons in their city directed by an icon! Doc premieres on 3/17 on Disney+.

A Good Person

Zach Braff proved he was much more than an actor trying to direct with his excellent Garden State in 2004. Since then his directing has been hit or miss, but I’m hopeful about this new drama starring Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman opening 3/24.

Spinning Gold  

Timothy Scott Bogart, the son of Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart, wrote and directed this biopic about his dad. Even if this doesn’t live up to the premise, I’m sure the depiction of Kiss, Donna Summer and the Village People on this label is going to be interesting. Limited release on March 31.

Music:

The Smile Europe Live Recordings 2022

Last year’s debut album A Light for Attracting Attention from The Smile (the side project of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood) was my #1 Album of 2022. Now the band is releasing a limited edition live EP. Vinyl release on 3/10.

Lana Del Rey Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd

The 9th album from LDR is almost here. I out and out loved her albums Ultraviolence and Norman Fucking Rockwell! Here’s hoping this new album lives up to those masterpieces. Digital drops 3/10 and physical drops 3/24.

U2 Songs of Surrender

We haven’t had a new studio album from U2 since 2017. This new album is the band re-recording and re-interpreting 40 of their songs. While it’s not new music, I am exciting to hear how this group of 40+ years is going to re-do some of their songs. Album drops 3/17.

TV:

The Mandalorian (Disney+)

I was a big fan of the first two seasons of this Star Wars TV series that takes place 5 years after Episode 6 ( I named it my #3 TV Show of 2020). Season 3 premieres on 3/1.

Ted Lasso (Apple TV+) 

The sports comedy with Jason Sudeikis as an American coach to a U.K. soccer team lived up to the hype! Season 3 premieres on 3/15.

Lucky Hank (AMC)

Last month when I covered Hasty Pudding Theatrical of Harvard University’s Man of the Year ceremony for Bob Odenkirk at the press conference, he mentioned that he enjoys mixing it up, i.e. doing a comedy after a drama. If anyone can do that it’s Mr. Odenkirk. Last year was the series finale of Better Call Saul (which I named my #1 TV Show of 2022). Now Odenkirk is returning to AMC, the home of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, for this lighter series (or perhaps I should say lighter than Better Call Saul) about an English professor at an underfunded college who has a midlife crisis of sorts. Series premieres on 3/19.

Film Festivals:

Boston Underground Film Festival 

Boston’s film festival celebrating genre film is back. I’ve had the pleasure of covering this film festival since 2016! Fest returns to the Brattle Theatre (Cambridge, MA) from 3/22 to 3/26.

Awards Season:

Awards season is slowly winding down this month with WGA Awards on 3/5 and Academy Awards on 3/12.

In a Category all their own:

Shamrock Shakes!!!

I look forward to going to McDonalds every March for these minty shakes!

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Newly nominated for a WGA Award, here's a story on gay history from Vice.

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The Tony’s did a really good job of making the show work without writers and showing their support of the WGA

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Oscars 2024 & political issues

I get cheesy about the Oscars.

At its best, this is a celebration of humanity, of people sharing their artistic vision with the world, of creating from the heart of what they care about, of reflecting social and ethical crises through the medium of movies, be they documentary, historical fiction, or fantasy.

--In the monologue, Jimmy Kimmel offered support and solidarity to the members of IATSE, the union representing many crew members, which is currently in contract negotiations that are expected to be difficult. IATSE was a key ally to the writers and actors during their 2023 strikes.

--The In Memoriam segment began with a clip from last year's winning documentary "Nalavny" - "the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for the good people to do nothing."

--Osage Nation member & songwriter Scott George says about their performance "We're hoping you see us as a people that have survived and that are able to hold on to what we have."

--Cillian Murphy dedicated his Oppenheimer Oscar to "the peacemakers everywhere."

--Nimona director Troy Quane wore a Protect Trans Kids pin.

--Oscar speeches don't often open with the words, "I wish I'd never made this film." Mstyslav Chrernov accepted Ukraine's first ever Oscar and closed his speech with the words "Slava Ukraini - Glory to Ukraine."

--Zone of Interest filmmaker Jonathan Glazer's speech reflected themes from his movie: "All our choices were made to reflect and confront us in the present, Not to say 'look what they did then'; rather, 'look what we do now.' Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst.

Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and a Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people, whether the victims of October the seventh in Israel, or the ongoing attack on Gaza. How do we resist?"

--attendees from Mark Ruffalo to Billie Eillish to Ava DuVernay wore a red&black pin to show their support for a ceasefire in Gaza

--protestors calling for an immediate ceasefire closed a major intersection and blocked traffic near the Dolby Theatre, delaying the award show — and forcing an acknowledgment of the issues the protest centered on.

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So proud 😌

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The Last Of Us has been nominated as a Best New Series for the Writers Guild Awards !!!

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Frontrunner Friday Oscar predictions: All quiet on the awards front

Frontrunner Friday Oscar predictions: All quiet on the awards front