The WGA Awards sowed a little chaos into statuette season, awarding Best Adapted Screenplay to CODA. This prompted some segments of Film Twitter to decry the film as a Green Book-esque pretender to Oscar gold. Although the tweets defending CODA far outweighed the rancor. Meanwhile Best Original Screenplay went to Don’t Look Up, but we all know how that debate goes.
Meanwhile on the TV side of things, Conan got a WGA award for its final season. Succession won for Best Drama, and Hacks won for Best Comedy. Lisa Hanawalt won Best Animation for her Tuca & Bertie episode “Planteau.” Earlier in the day, many animation professionals (including Hanawalt) traveled to Burbank to rally for a fair contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers. So a big day for artist unions…
