Film Awards

2017 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay WinnerArrivalEric HeissererA linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world.Amazon2017 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay NomineesDeadpoolRhett ReeseAmazonFencesAugust WilsonAmazonHidden FiguresAllison SchroederAmazonNocturnal AnimalsTom FordAmazon

2016 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay WinnerThe Big ShortCharles RandolphIn 2006-2007 a group of investors bet against the US mortgage market. In their research they discover how flawed and corrupt the market is.Amazon2016 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay NomineesCarolPhyllis NagyAmazonSteve JobsAaron SorkinAmazonThe MartianDrew GoddardAmazonTrumboJohn McNamaraAmazon

2015 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay WinnerThe Imitation GameGraham MooreDuring World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.Amazon2015 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay NomineesAmerican SniperJason HallAmazonGone GirlGillian FlynnAmazonGuardians of the GalaxyJames GunnAmazonWildNick HornbyAmazon

2014 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay WinnerCaptain PhillipsBilly RayThe true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.Amazon2014 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay NomineesAugust: Osage CountyTracy LettsAmazonBefore MidnightRichard LinklaterAmazonLone SurvivorPeter BergAmazonThe Wolf of Wall StreetTerence WinterAmazon

2013 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay WinnerArgoChris TerrioActing under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.Amazon2013 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay NomineesLife of PiDavid MageeAmazonLincolnTony KushnerAmazonSilver Linings PlaybookDavid O. RussellAmazonThe Perks of Being a WallflowerStephen ChboskyAmazon

2012 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay WinnerThe DescendantsAlexander PayneA land baron tries to reconnect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident.Amazon2012 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay NomineesHugoJohn LoganAmazonMoneyballSteven ZaillianAmazonThe Girl with the Dragon TattooSteven ZaillianAmazonThe HelpTate TaylorAmazon

2011 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay WinnerThe Social NetworkAaron SorkinAs Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea, and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.Amazon2011 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay Nominees127 HoursSimon BeaufoyAmazonI Love You Phillip MorrisGlenn FicarraAmazonThe TownBen AffleckAmazonTrue GritEthan CoenAmazon

2009 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay WinnerSlumdog MillionaireSimon BeaufoyA Mumbai teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"Amazon2009 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay NomineesDoubtJohn Patrick ShanleyAmazonFrost/NixonPeter MorganAmazonThe Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonEric RothAmazonThe Dark KnightJonathan NolanAmazon

2008 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay WinnerNo Country for Old MenEthan CoenViolence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.Amazon2008 Writers Guild of America Awards - Best Adapted Screenplay NomineesInto the WildSean PennAmazonThe Diving Bell and the ButterflyRonald HarwoodAmazonThere Will Be BloodPaul Thomas AndersonAmazonZodiacJames VanderbiltAmazon