The Writers Guild of America has announced its nominees for the 2009 Writers Guild Awards. The ceremony will be held on Saturday, February 7th, 2009 at 6 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California.<\/p>\n
And the nominees are…<\/p>\n
FILM<\/strong><\/p>\n ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY ADAPTED SCREENPLAY<\/p>\n The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/strong> – Screenplay by Eric Roth; Screen Story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord; Based on the Short Story by F. Scott Fitzgerald TELEVISION<\/strong><\/p>\n DRAMATIC SERIES<\/p>\n “Dexter”<\/em> – Scott Buck, Daniel Cerone, Charles H. Eglee, Adam E. Fierro, Lauren Gussis, Clyde Phillips, Scott Reynolds, Melissa Rosenberg, Tim Schlattmann COMEDY SERIES<\/p>\n “30 Rock”<\/em> – Jack Burditt, Kay Cannon, Robert Carlock, Tina Fey, Donald Glover, Andrew Guest, Matt Hubbard, Jon Pollack, John Riggi, Tami Sagher, Ron Weiner NEW SERIES<\/p>\n “Breaking Bad”<\/em> – Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Patty Lin, George Mastras, J Roberts MINI-SERIES – ORIGINAL<\/p>\n “An American Crime”<\/em> – Tommy O’Haver & Irene Turner MINI-SERIES – ADAPTATION <\/p>\n “Generation Kill”<\/em> – Teleplay by David Simon & Ed Burns, Story by David Simon & Ed Burns, Based on the book by Evan Wright The Writers Guild of America has announced its nominees for the 2009 Writers Guild Awards. The ceremony will be held on Saturday, February 7th, 2009 at 6 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California. And the nominees are… FILM ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Burn After Reading – Joel Coen & Ethan Coen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[5866,773,5396,6958,2846,7919,8601],"class_list":["post-10422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-release","tag-burn-after-reading","tag-dexter","tag-fringe","tag-milk","tag-nominees","tag-the-wrestler","tag-the-writers-guild-of-america"],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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\nBurn After Reading<\/strong> – Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
\nMilk<\/strong> – Dustin Lance Black
\nVicky Cristina Barcelona<\/strong> – Woody Allen
\nThe Visitor<\/strong> – Tom McCarthy
\nThe Wrestler<\/strong> – Robert Siegel<\/p>\n
\nThe Dark Knight<\/strong> – Screenplay by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan; Story by Christopher Nolan & David S. Goyer; Based on Characters Appearing in Comic Books Published by DC Comics; Batman Created by Bob Kane
\nDoubt<\/strong> – Screenplay by John Patrick Shanley, Based on his Stage Play
\nFrost\/Nixon<\/strong> – Screenplay by Peter Morgan, Based on his Stage Play
\nSlumdog Millionaire<\/strong> – Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy, Based on the Novel Q and A by Vikas Swarup<\/p>\n
\n“Friday Night Lights”<\/em> – Bridget Carpenter, Kerry Ehrin, Brent Fletcher, Jason Gavin, Carter Harris, Elizabeth Heldens, David Hudgins, Jason Katims, Patrick Massett, Aaron Rahsaan Thomas, John Zinman
\n“Lost”<\/em> – Carlton Cuse, Drew Goddard, Adam Horowitz, Christina M. Kim, Edward Kitsis, Damon L. Lindelof, Greggory Nations, Kyle Pennington, Elizabeth Sarnoff, Brian K. Vaughan
\n“Mad Men” <\/em>– Lisa Albert, Jane Anderson, Rick Cleveland, Kater Gordon, David Isaacs, Andre Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, Marti Noxon, Robin Veith, Matthew Weiner
\n“The Wire”<\/em> – Ed Burns, Chris Collins, David Mills, David Simon, William F. Zorzi, Richard Price, Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos<\/p>\n
\n“Entourage”<\/em> – Doug Ellin, Jeremy Miller, Ally Musika, Steve Pink, Rob Weiss
\n“The Office”<\/em> – Steve Carell, Jennifer Celotta, Greg Daniels, Lee Eisenberg, Anthony Farrell, Brent Forrester, Dan Goor, Charlie Grandy, Mindy Kaling, Ryan Koh, Lester Lewis, Paul Lieberstein, Warren Lieberstein, B.J. Novak, Michael Schur, Aaron Shure, Justin Spitzer, Gene Stupnitsky, Halsted Sullivan
\n“The Simpsons”<\/em> – J. Stewart Burns, Daniel Chun, Joel H. Cohen, Kevin Curran, John Frink, Tom Gammill, Valentina Garza, Stephanie Gillis, Dan Greaney, Reid Harrison, Ron Hauge, Al Jean, Brian Kelly, Billy Kimball, Rob LaZebnik, Tim Long, Ian Maxtone-Graham, David Mirkin, Bill Odenkirk, Carolyn Omine, Don Payne, Michael Price, Max Pross, Mike Reiss, Mike Scully, Matt Selman, Matt Warburton, Jeff Westbrook, Marc Wilmore, William Wright
\n“Weeds”<\/em> – Roberto Benabib, Mark A. Burley, Ron Fitzgerald, David Holstein, Rolin Jones, Brendan Kelly, Jenji Kohan, Victoria Morrow, Matthew Salsberg<\/p>\n
\n“Fringe”<\/em> – JJ Abrams, Jason Cahill, Julia Cho, David H. Goodman, Felicia Henderson, Brad Caleb Kane, Alex Kurtzman, Darin Morgan, J.R. Orci, Roberto Orci, Jeff Pinkner, Zack Whedon
\n“In Treatment”<\/em> – Rodrigo Garcia, Bryan Goluboff, Davey Holmes, William Meritt Johnson, Amy Lippman, Sarah Treem
\n“Life on Mars”<\/em> – Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec, Scott Rosenberg, Becky Hartman Edwards, David Wilcox, Adele Lim, Bryan Oh, Tracy McMillan, Sonny Postiglione, Phil M. Rosenberg, Meredith Averill
\n“True Blood”<\/em> – Alan Ball, Brian Buckner, Raelle Tucker, Alexander Woo, Nancy Oliver, Chris Offutt<\/p>\n
\n“Pilot” (“Fringe”) <\/em>– JJ Abrams & Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci
\n“Recount”<\/em> – Danny Strong<\/p>\n
\n“John Adams”<\/em> – Teleplay by Kirk Ellis, Based on the book by David McCullough
\n“The Memory Keeper\u2019s Daughter”<\/em> – Teleplay by John Pielmeier, Based on the book by Kim Edwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"