And finally, the WGA Awards were announced last night, and they’re pretty much the most meaningless of the three sets of awards that were given out. Mostly because so many films are deemed ineligible that it really doesn’t help guess the Oscar race at all. Last year, Django Unchaiend won Original Screenplay and wasn’t even nominated for the WGA. This year, 12 Years a Slave was ineligible. So how can you consider it meaningful?
That said, here are the winners: Her won for Original Screenplay, marking it a solid favorite for the Oscar (though I’m still not convinced American Hustle won’t somehow take it on the night), and Captain Phillips won for Adapted Screenplay, given 12 Years a Slave‘s ineligibility. The rest of it I don’t care about, so, those are your winners.
And all that told us was that Her will be getting a lot of support, and hopefully that support will be enough to overcome the people who will blindly be voting for American Hustle across the board. But at least we have it narrowed down to two, right?
