On Saturday, February 9, as the Writers Guild of America gathered together to talk about the ending of their three-months strike, the WGA Awards' winners was announced and 'Juno' got Original kudo.
- February 11, 2008
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On Saturday, February 9, the Writers Guild of America announced the winners of their 2008 Annual WGA Awards. At the event, "Juno" screenwriter Diablo Cody was chosen to be the receiver of Original Screenplay prize, while the Coen brothers won the adapted screenplay kudo for "No Country for Old Men".
On the original category, Cody's teenage drama overshadowed Tony Gilroy's "Michael Clayton", Tamara Jenkins' "The Savages", Judd Apatow's "Knocked Up" and Nancy Oliver's "Lars and the Real Girl". Further, for the adapted contest, Coen's moral declining tale besting over "There Will Be Blood", "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly", "Into the Wild" and "Zodiac".
The documentary screenplay prize went to Alex Gibney for his work in "Taxi to the Dark Side" stepping aside strong contenders Charles Ferguson for "No End in Sight" and Michael Moore for "Sicko". The winners of the television and other categories can be read at WGA.org.
The announcement of the WGA Awards winners came on the same day the Hollywood's writers on-strike gathered together at the Shrine Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles to hear details about the contract to end their three-months strike. Earlier, it has been said that the WGA West had decided not to do the black tie ceremony to honor the strike, whereas the WGA East still held a small gala at the Broadway Millenium Hotel in New York.
