The actor, producer and director guilds have already proclaimed their favorite titles of the past year — tonight the writers will have their say.
For the 70th annual Writers Guild Awards, Patton Oswalt returned for the third time as host.
“Good evening, fellow Disney employees,” his monologue began, citing the studio’s $52.4 billion acquisition of 20th Century Fox this past December.“Jane” was named Best Documentary.
During much of award season, the film and its director, Brett Morgan, was considered an Oscar favorite, but they were overlooked by The Academy on nomination day.
“When we started this movie three years ago, it was important to make a movie about a strong, powerful woman, a real life Wonder Woman, for we felt there was an absence of female role models, and it was important for our daughters to have someone to look up to,” said Morgan.
“In light of recent events in our industry,
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