The Writers Guild Awards, one of the final stops on this year’s awards cycle, are being announced on Sunday. The WGA West-WGA East joint virtual ceremony, hosted by Ashley Nicole Black, started at 4 p.m. PT.
The nominations honor 2021’ss outstanding achievement for writing in film, television and new media.
On the film side, original screenplay nominees are “Being the Ricardos,” “Don’t Look Up,” “The French Dispatch,” “King Richard” and “Licorice Pizza.” The adapted screenplay nominees are “CODA,” “Dune,” “Nightmare Alley,” “Tick, Tick … Boom!” and “West Side Story.” (Several Oscar nominees for adapted and original screenplay — “Belfast,” “Drive My Car,” “The Lost Daughter,” “The Power of the Dog” and “The Worst Person in the World” — were ineligible for the WGA Awards.)
Among the TV nominations,…
