'Anora' & 'Nickel Boys' Win Best Screenplays at the 2025 WGA Awards

With a few weeks left until the Academy Awards, almost all the big prizes for the 2025 awards season have been handed out, with only a few more left - next up are the biggest screenplay awards. The Writers Guild of America has announced the winners of the 2025 WGA Awards. Last year, the big WGA winners were The Holdovers (Original), written by David Hemingson, and American Fiction (Adapted), written by Cord Jefferson adapted from the novel "Erasure" by Percival Everett. What have fellow writers determined to be the best scripts of 2024? The winners: Anora (Original), written by filmmaker Sean Baker, plus Nickel Boys (Adapted), written by RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes; based on the book "The Nickel Boys" by Colson Whitehead. Mark Monroe also won the Best Documentary award for Jim Henson: Idea Man (on D+). I'm happy about all of the winners - Anora and Nickel Boys are two of my favorite films from 2025 anyway. There were many fantastic scripts last year, it's hard to choose just one winner among all of them. Which scripts do you think deserve awards? Which films have the best dialogue? The other WGA Awards nominees from 2024 for Best Original […]

Feb 16, 2025 - 17:16
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'Anora' & 'Nickel Boys' Win Best Screenplays at the 2025 WGA Awards
WGA Awards 2025
With a few weeks left until the Academy Awards, almost all the big prizes for the 2025 awards season have been handed out, with only a few more left - next up are the biggest screenplay awards. The Writers Guild of America has announced the winners of the 2025 WGA Awards. Last year, the big WGA winners were The Holdovers (Original), written by David Hemingson, and American Fiction (Adapted), written by Cord Jefferson adapted from the novel "Erasure" by Percival Everett. What have fellow writers determined to be the best scripts of 2024? The winners: Anora (Original), written by filmmaker Sean Baker, plus Nickel Boys (Adapted), written by RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes; based on the book "The Nickel Boys" by Colson Whitehead. Mark Monroe also won the Best Documentary award for Jim Henson: Idea Man (on D+). I'm happy about all of the winners - Anora and Nickel Boys are two of my favorite films from 2025 anyway. // Continue Reading ›