"The Artist," "Shame" not eligible for WGA Awards

"The Artist," "Shame" not eligible for WGA Awards

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "The Artist," "Like Crazy," "Margin Call," "Shame" and "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" are among a films deliberate contenders for a dual Oscar screenwriting awards -- yet they won't be in a using for a Writers Guild Awards, descending plant to a tighter subordinate manners that annually order out a series of Oscar hopefuls.

Unlike many Hollywood guilds, that concede nominations to go to those who aren't members and those whose films are not done underneath guild guidelines, a Writers Guild of America restricts a awards to a members, or to scripts created for productions that are signatories to a guild's Minimum Basic Agreement.

Although unfamiliar cinema done underneath a manners of 5 dependent general guilds can also qualify, WGA mandate frequently invalidate a series of low-budget productions and films done outward a United States.

Very few films expelled by a Weinstein Co., for instance, ever validate for a WGA Awards; final year's Oscar leader "The King's Speech" did not, and this year a company's releases "The Artist," "The Iron Lady" and "My Week With Marilyn" are all ineligible.

Other films that have unsuccessful to validate embody Fox Searchlight's "Martha Marcy May Marlene" and "Shame" (though a company's "The Tree of Life" and "The Descendants" are in a running), and Sony Pictures Classics's "Carnage," "The Skin we Live In" and "Take Shelter."

Also out of a picture: "Albert Nobbs," "Beginners," "Drive," "The Iron Lady" and "Rango."

Even films that would validate contingency contention entrance forms to a guild to turn eligible.

According to In Contention's Kris Tapley, who initial performed copies of a WGA ballots, usually 33 films competent for a WGA's blending screenplay category, and 55 for strange screenplay.

Typically, about one-third as many screenplays validate for a WGA Awards as a Oscars.

Going by a Gurus of Gold draft during Movie City News, 4 of a Top 10 Oscar contenders in a Original Screenplay category, and 6 of a tip 12, are ineligible. The Adapted Screenplay difficulty takes reduction of a hit, with dual of a tip 10 ineligible.

Two years ago, usually 4 of a 10 WGA nominees perceived Oscar essay nominations; final year, 6 out of a 10 guild nominees won Oscar nods.

But a usually Oscar leader not to during slightest accept a WGA assignment during that time was David Seidler for "The King's Speech."

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