Categories: Articles - Moviemaking Articles - Screenwriting

The Hurt Locker Tops 2010 Writers Guild Awards

Published by
Jennifer M. Wood

Score another point for The Hurt Locker as the race toward Oscar Sunday continues. The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) announced the winners of the 2010 Writers Guild Awards for movies, TV, radio, news, promotional and video game writing at simultaneous ceremonies at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles and the Hudson Theatre at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York City this weekend.

Mark Boal took home the award for best original screenplay for Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, while writer-director Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner shared the adapted accolade for their big-screen rendering of Walter Kirn’s Up in the Air. The Documentary Screenplay Award went to Mark Monroe for the socially-conscious The Cove.

For a full list of winners, visit http://www.wga.org/content/default.aspx?id=3976

Jennifer M. Wood

Recent Posts

  • Movie News

10 Mob Movie Slang Terms Explained

These 10 mob movie slang terms will be familiar only to true fans of gangster…

3 hours ago
  • Gallery

13 Actors Who Quit When They Were on Top

These actors quit while they were on top, following the old showbiz rule: Leave 'em…

1 day ago
  • Gallery

13 Jaw-Dropping SNL Moments Across Nearly 50 Years of Saturday Night Live

As Shane Gillis prepares to his Saturday Night Live — which once fired him before…

1 day ago
  • Gallery

12 Old Scary Movies That Are Still Terrifying Today

Some old scary movies don't feel scary anymore. Here are 12 exceptions.

2 days ago
  • Movie News

Why The Fall Guy Doesn’t Rely on Guns: ‘Indiana Jones Didn’t’

Watching the Ryan Gosling action film The Fall Guy, one thing stands out: The lack…

2 days ago
  • Gallery

7 Horror Remakes No One Really Needed

These seven horror remakes tried to improve on movies that were quite good to begin…

2 days ago