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guardian.co.uk - 2/1/2009

Mark Harris on this year's Oscar nominees

— guardian.co.uk — Immediately after the nominees for the 81st annual Academy Awards were announced, the usual guessing games began - not only the one about who will win, but the even more fruitless enterprise of sifting the list for What It All Means. Trying to ... (more) Mark Harris on this year's Oscar nominees

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weblogs.variety.com - 2/8/2009

WGA Awards Go to Slumdog, Milk

— weblogs.variety.com — Milk scripter Dustin Lance Black, 34, tearfully accepted the Writers Guild Award for best original screenplay for Milk Saturday night by calling up the ghost of slain San Francisco politician Harvey Milk, the man who inspired Black when he moved to ... (more) WGA Awards Go to Slumdog, Milk

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awardsdaily.com - 2/12/2009

The State of the Race: Happy Endings

— awardsdaily.com — Resolution, justification, redemption and an impulse to play it safe define this year’s Best Picture nominees. All five of them are safe choices, which could mean progress in certain areas - a Bollywood-esque movie, a film where two men openly ... (more) The State of the Race: Happy Endings

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Hollywood Elsewhere — ... Simon Beaufoy 's Slumdog Millionaire script, based on the novel "Q and A" by Vikas Swarup , tonight won the Writers Guild of America award for best adapted screenplay. It beat out screenplays for Frost-Nixon, The Dark Knight, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Doubt . ...

WGA Awards Go to Slumdog, Milk
Thompson On Hollywood — ... Here are all the WGA winners, including non-attendee Simon Beaufoy, who won for Slumdog Millionaire's adapted screenplay, and Ari Folman, for the animated documentary Waltz with Bashir, which is on track to win the best foreign film Oscar. ...

'Slumdog' Wins WGA Award, Locks in 'Oscar' as Its Final Answer
Cinematical — ... of America award for best adapted screenplay, it is all but guaranteed to win the Oscar for Best Picture. For you see, Slumdog also won the Producers Guild of America and Directors Guild of America prizes, making the WGA win the completion of a trifecta. Seven other films have achieved the same feat, and all but one took the Best Picture Oscar, too -- and the one that didn't, Brokeback Mountain, was considered a huge upset when it lost. The other WGA award, for original screenplay, went to Dustin Lance ...