The French Dispatch

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‘The French Dispatch’

The Writers Guild of America has unveiled its feature nominations with The French Dispatch, King Richard, CODA and West Side Story all in contention for top awards.

The Guild announced its nominees in the original screenplay, adapted screenplay and documentary screenplay categories. Winners will be honored at a joint 2022 Writers Guild Awards virtual ceremony by the East and West Coast chapters on March 20.

Original Screenplay

Being The Ricardos
Written by Aaron Sorkin

Don’t Look Up
Screenplay by Adam McKay, Story by Adam McKay & David Sirota

The French Dispatch Of The Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Screenplay by Wes Anderson, Story by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola & Hugo Guinness & Jason Schwartzman

King Richard
Written by Zach Baylin

Licorice Pizza
Written by Paul Thomas Anderson.

Adapted Screenplay

CODA
Screenplay by Siân Heder, Based on the Original Motion Picture La Famille Belier Directed by Eric Lartigau, Written by Victoria Bedos, Stanislas Carree de Malberg, Eric Lartigau and Thomas Bidegain

Dune
Screenplay by Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth, Based on the novel Dune Written by Frank Herbert

Nightmare Alley
Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Kim Morgan, Based on the Novel by William Lindsay Gresham

Tick…Tick…Boom!
Screenplay by Steven Levenson, Based on the play by Jonathan Larson

West Side Story
Screenplay by Tony Kushner, Based on the Stage Play, Book by Arthur Laurents, Music by Leonard Bernstein, Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Play Conceived, Directed and Choreographed by Jerome Robbins.

Documentary Screenplay

Being Cousteau
Written by Mark Monroe & Pax Wasserman

Exposing Muybridge
Written by Marc Shaffer

Like ARolling Stone: The Life & Times Of Ben Fong-Torres
Written by Suzanne Joe Kai.