
The Sci-fi mystery
Inception and the Facebook drama
The Social Network won top screenplay honors Saturday night at the
Writers Guild of America awards.
Inception writer
Christopher Nolan won a Best Original Screenplay and The Social Network writer
Aaron Sorkin won in the Adapted Screenplay category, showing they liked Aaron Sorkin's work over that of
127 Hours screenplay by
Danny Boyle and
Simon Beaufoy,
I Love You Phillip Morris screenplay by
John Requa and
Glenn Ficarra,
The Town screenplay by
Peter Craig and
Ben Affleck and
Aaron Stockard, and
True Grit screenplay by
Joel Coen and
Ethan Coen.
Nolan and Inception beat out
Black Swan screenplay by
Mark Heyman and
Andres Heinz and
John McLaughlin; story by Andres Heinz
, The Fighter screenplay by
Scott Silver and
Paul Tamasy and
Eric Johnson; story by Keith Dorrington and Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson,
The Kids Are All Right screenplay by
Lisa Cholodenko and
Stuart Blumberg, and
Please Give screenplay by
Nicole Holofcener.
Oscar favorite
The King's Speech was not nominated for the award because it didn't qualify under union rules. Nolan addressed openly from the stage, witty saying that he looked forward to a time when anyone in his winning position in the future could accept the award “without qualification.”
Nolan's fairly surprising
WGA win makes the Academy's original screenplay competition unusually hard to foresee as the esteem season runs to its Oscars finale. Nolan was formerly nominated for
Memento and
Leigh has been up for the prize four other times with no award-winning.
Stanton has been nominated quite a few times, while Sorkin is a first-time nominee.
Mark Boal won the 2010 WGA Award for original script for
The Hurt Locker.
Sheldon Turner and
Jason Reitman took the honor for adapted script for
Up in the Air. Other recent WGA award original script winners were
Dustin Lance Black (
Milk),
Diablo Cody (
Juno) and
Arndt (
Little Miss Sunshine).
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