This year’s Writers Guild Awards were an efficient pre-taped affair (with the two coasts united in one show) perfunctorily hosted by new member Kal Penn.
A smattering of Oscar contenders such as Riz Ahmed, Sacha Baron Cohen, Leslie Odom Jr., and Andra Day joined other celebrities from Daveed Diggs to Jimmy Fallon to present this year’s film and television winners.
(You can read the full list of winners here.)Every year, because the WGA always leaves out non-wga signatories in its award nominations — among them Oscar-contending screenplays — it’s not always as Oscar-predictive as the other Guilds.
Last year’s WGA award winners, Taika Waititi and Bong Joon Ho did go on to repeat at the Oscars.
Bong won in a category for which Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” wasn’t eligible.
(He never joined the WGA.)This year, there were three ineligible movies
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