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Saturday, Academy Awards nominees “Milk” and “Slumdog Millionaire” were the top dogs at the Writers Guild of America Awards, with Dustin Lance Black having swiped the honor for original screenplay for the biopic about slain gay rights activist Harvey Milk, while the adapted screenplay prize went to Simon Beaufoy.
The latter based its screenplay for „Slumdog Millionaire” on a novel by Vikas Swarup about an Indian orphan's struggle to get on in life and find love.
Director Danny Boyle’s „Slumdog Millionaire,” which has turned out a big hit despite all forecasts, has 10 Oscar nominations, including one for best picture,while it has also earned awards at the Golden Globes and from the Producers Guild of America, Directors Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild.
As for „Milk,” starring Sean Penn as the murdered member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California Harvey Milk, it has eight Academy Award nominations, including best picture and best actor for Penn.
At the WGA Awards, Ari Folman won the documentary screenplay award for „Waltz with Bashir,” which also has an Oscar nod in the foreign-language category.
The production is an animated foray into an Israeli soldier’s struggle to call forth deep-down buried memories of his involvement in the war with Lebanon.
Where television shows were concerned, writers for NBC's „30 Rock” and AMC's „Mad Men” received the top honors in the comedy and drama categories, respectively, which was a repeat performance for the former show that won the same prize last year, as well.
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