`RYAN,' `PRIMARY' WRITERS AMONG WGA AWARD NOMINEES.Byline: City News Service The writers who penned the screenplays for ``Saving Private Ryan,'' ``Shakespeare in Love'' and ``Primary Colors'' were among the nominees announced Wednesday for Writers Guild of America's 51st annual awards. For best screenplay written directly for the screen, Robert Rodat Robert Rodat (born New Hampshire, 1953) is an American screenwriter. After noticing his son's birthday (June 6) shared the same date as the Battle of Normandy, he was inspired to write his Oscar-nominated script for Saving Private Ryan (1998). (``Saving Private Ryan'') and Marc Norman Marc Norman (born Los Angeles, California, 1941) is an American screenwriter. He won, with Tom Stoppard the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, in the 71st Academy Awards of 1998, for his script of "Shakespeare in Love". and Tom Stoppard Noun 1. Tom Stoppard - British dramatist (born in Czechoslovakia in 1937) Sir Tom Stoppard, Stoppard, Thomas Straussler (``Shakespeare in Love'') will compete with Warren Beatty Henry Warren Beaty (born March 30, 1937) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning American actor, producer, screenwriter and director, known as Warren Beatty. Biography Early life and Education and Jeremy Pikser for ``Bulworth,'' Don Roos for ``The Opposite of Sex'' and Andrew Niccol for ``The Truman Show.'' For best screenplay based on material previously produced or published, Elaine May (``Primary Colors'') will compete with Steven Zaillian (``A Civil Action''), Bill Condon (``Gods and Monsters''), Scott Frank (``Out of Sight'') and Scott B. Smith (``A Simple Plan''). Members of the Writers Guild of America The Writers Guild of America is a term often referring to the joint efforts of the Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, west. Jointly, the two guilds act as the collective bargaining representative, or labor union, for writers in the motion picture and West and WGA WGA Windows Genuine Advantage (Microsoft) WGA Writers Guild of America (union for screenwriters) WGA Wise Giving Alliance (Better Business Bureau) WGA wheat germ agglutinin East selected the nominees from among 213 films - 122 written directly for the screen and 91 based on material previously produced or published. Winners will be announced Feb. 20 at the annual WGA awards ceremonies on both coasts. The West Coast ceremony will be held at the Beverly Hilton hotel, and the other gala will be in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . The full list of nominees follows: Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen: ``Bulworth,'' screenplay by Warren Beatty and Jeremy Pikser, story by Warren Beatty, 20th Century Fox; ``The Opposite of Sex,'' written by Don Roos, Sony Pictures Classics; ``Saving Private Ryan,'' written by Robert Rodat, DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures; ``Shakespeare in Love,'' written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, Miramax Films and Universal Pictures; ``The Truman Show,'' written by Andrew Niccol, Paramount Pictures Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published: ``A Civil Action,'' screenplay by Steven Zaillian, based on the book by Jonathan Harr, Touchstone Pictures; ``Gods and Monsters,'' screenplay by Bill Condon, based on the novel ``Father Frankenstein'' by Christopher Bram, Lions Gate Films; ``Out of Sight,'' screenplay by Scott Frank, based on the novel by Elmore Leonard, Universal Pictures; ``Primary Colors,'' screenplay by Elaine May, based on the novel by Anonymous, Universal Pictures; ``A Simple Plan,'' screenplay by Scott B. Smith, based on the novel by Scott B. Smith, Paramount Pictures. |
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