
‘Anora’ & ‘Nickel Boys’ Win Best Screenplays at the 2025 WGA Awards

With a few weeks left until the Academy Awards, almost all the big prizes for the 2025 awards season have been handed out, with only a few more left – next up are the biggest screenplay awards. The Writers Guild of America has announced the winners of the 2025 WGA Awards. Last year, the big WGA winners were The Holdovers (Original), written by David Hemingson, and American Fiction (Adapted), written by Cord Jefferson adapted from the novel “Erasure” by Percival Everett. What have fellow writers determined to be the best scripts of 2024? The winners: Anora (Original), written by filmmaker Sean Baker, plus Nickel Boys (Adapted), written by RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes; based on the book “The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead. Mark Monroe also won the Best Documentary award for Jim Henson: Idea Man (on D+). I’m happy about all of the winners – Anora and Nickel Boys are two of my favorite films from 2025 anyway. // Continue Reading ›
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