The Writer's Guild made some odd choices with their recent year end nominations. Comedy features got an unexpected leg up over more somber, dramatic material. Nominating bright shining newcomer, Zach Helm, for his trippy and creative Stranger than Fiction script is an inspired decision. The same can also be said for the Thank You For Smoking adaptation, which was a wonderfully acidic and brilliant farce. However, a few of these feel a little bit too fluffy to be serious contenders. Do the folks who brought The Devil Wears Prada to the big screen really deserve an award for their writing skills? It seemed like a pretty conventional and uninspired screenplay to me. And how do they justify nominating Borat when the bulk of the film was improvised comedy? Why not elect to honor an eloquent adaptation like Patrick Marber's Notes on a Scandal instead?
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Babel
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen
Stranger Than Fiction
United 93
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Borat
The Departed
The Devil Wears Prada
Little Children
Thank You For Smoking
Friday, January 12, 2007
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