‘Anora’ & ‘Nickel Boys’ Win Greatest Screenplays on the 2025 WGA Awards
by Alex Billington
February 16, 2025
Supply: WGA.org
With just a few weeks left till the Academy Awards, nearly all the large prizes for the 2025 awards season have been handed out, with only some extra left – subsequent up are the most important screenplay awards. The Writers Guild of America has introduced the winners of the 2025 WGA Awards. Final 12 months, the large WGA winners had been The Holdovers (Unique), written by David Hemingson, and American Fiction (Tailored), written by Twine Jefferson tailored from the novel “Erasure” by Percival Everett. What have fellow writers decided to be the most effective scripts of 2024? The winners: Anora (Unique), written by filmmaker Sean Baker, plus Nickel Boys (Tailored), written by RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes; based mostly on the e-book “The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead. Mark Monroe additionally received the Greatest Documentary award for Jim Henson: Thought Man (on D+). I am joyful about the entire winners – Anora and Nickel Boys are two of my favourite movies from 2025 anyway.
There have been many incredible scripts final 12 months, it is onerous to decide on only one winner amongst all of them. Which scripts do you suppose deserve awards? Which movies have the most effective dialogue? The opposite WGA Awards nominees from 2024 for Greatest Unique Screenplay had been: Challengers, written by Justin Kuritzkes; Civil Battle, written by Alex Garland; My Outdated Ass, written by Megan Park; A Actual Ache, written by Jesse Eisenberg. Any would’ve been a deserving winner. The opposite WGA Awards nominees from 2024 for Greatest Tailored had been: A Full Unknown, written by James Mangold and Jay Cocks, based mostly on the e-book “Dylan Goes Electrical!” by Elijah Wald; Dune: Half Two written by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, based mostly on the novel “Dune” by Frank Herbert; Hit Man written by Richard Linklater and Glen Powell; based mostly on the Texas Month-to-month article by Skip Hollandsworth; Depraved written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox; based mostly on the musical stage play with music & lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and e-book by Winnie Holzman; based mostly on the novel by Gregory Maguire.
On the documentary facet, Jim Henson: Thought Man is sweet however not certainly one of my faves. The opposite WGA Awards nominees from 2024 for Greatest Documentary had been: Kiss the Future with a screenplay by Invoice S. Carter, story by Invoice S. Carter & Nenad Cicin-Sain; Martha with a screenplay by R. J. Cutler; Battle Recreation with a screenplay by Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss. And in tv, the WGA awarded Shogun for Greatest New & Greatest Drama Sequence (Shannon Goss, Maegan Houang, Rachel Kondo, Matt Lambert, Justin Marks, Caillin Puente, Nigel Williams, Emily Yoshida); Hacks for Greatest Comedy Sequence (Genevieve Aniello, Lucia Aniello, Man Branum, Jessica Chaffin, Paul W. Downs, Jess Dweck, Ariel Karlin, Andrew Regulation, Carol Leifer, Carolyn Lipka, Joe Mande, Aisha Muharrar, Pat Regan, Samantha Riley, Jen Statsky); and The Penguin for Greatest Restricted Sequence (Vladimir Cvetko, Breannah Gibson, Erika L. Johnson, Lauren LeFranc, Corina Maritescu, Megan Martin, John McCutcheon, Shaye Ogbonna, Nick Towne, Noelle Valdivia, Kira Snyder). For the total checklist of winners in all classes, head to WGA.org. Onwards to the Oscars subsequent! Congrats to the entire 2025 winners and noms.
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