2018 Writers' Guild Nominees.

Poor Paul Schrader is right. He's as doomed as Earth now. Probably only an outside shot at getting in if Green Book's backlash is *really* severe AND Vice underwhelms, or something like that. 

Happy for Burnham, though. I really hope this helps get him into the Oscar line-up, but that's also unlikely as I'm sure most are predicting it to be this group but with The Favourite in place of Eighth Grade -- which would be a pretty lame batch of nominees at that point. Though it'll be really interesting to see what wins here with The Favourite, the presumed frontrunner, not in contention. We could very well see the same narrative as last year that allowed Get Out to overtake Three Billboards. Though that's certainly a scenario I'd root against, unless the script in question is Eighth Grade, which is -- possible? Similar to Get Out, it's written by a comedian-turned-debut filmmaker, missed out on a Globe nomination in the category but could win despise of that, etc... obviously Eighth Grade won't be the serious Best Picture contender that Get Out was, but its chances are worth considering. 

Also disappointed that Crazy Rich Asians missed out in Adapted. I was really pulling for it here and have been predicting it for awhile, but now it seems like this is our five ... and it's underwhelming to see A Star is Born and Black Panther in its place instead. 

where the hell is The Favourite

It was ineligible. 

Indeed. It's not great that it was ineligible, as it might surrender momentum to something like Green Book . . . but BAFTA will probably go for it and we've had past winners overcome the eligibility issue before (The King's Speech, Django Unchained, 12 Years a Slave, Birdman). Plus it depends on how well Green Book can weather any backlash that comes its way.

Was Death of Stalin eligible?

These are peer awards so Paul's peers are hating on him for some reason. Who knows. 

I don't know how you can criticize Eighth Grade for a lack of subtlety while championing First Reformed, which abandons nuance and subtext almost entirely in favor of being so pointedly on-the-nose. But you do you, boo. 

I actually think Eighth Grade is the best of the nominees in the category (yes, even over Roma). It does everything that Boyhood and other coming-of-age films tried and failed to do: it actually manages to feel honest, real, as if it were written by a contemporary of the period rather than some old fogie stumbling over buzzwords of the younger generation in an effort to be "hip." Bo Burnham's screenplay feels remarkably immersive without feeling voyeuristic; it's as though we were invited into Kayla's world rather than intruding. I'm still utterly stymied that a 27-year-old could write a script so confidently, particularly from the perspective of a 14-year-old girl.

Sorry it was ineligible too. I found a better article now that I didn't see it before. The first one I was going to link to was from Variety, but it opened up some kind of video, and made my computer run slow. So I clicked back and found another one. 

I think we have our 5 Adapted Screenplay nominees here 

For Original, I think you can replace A Quiet Place with The Favourite, and possibly Vice for Bohemian Rhapsody. 

I don't know distinguished colleagues, in a year of really ludicrous screenplays - crazily contrived "horror" films like A Quiet Place (the scariest thing in it is the script!), artificially constructed hokum like Hereditary, preposterously straining so hard to make a 40 year story "contemporary" and FOUR credited writers to do it (Blackkklansman) or a fifth time adaptation (FIFTH - ASIB)......that now, in this thread I've got to read how First Reformed a screenplay that was basically all nuance AND subtext - the subplot about his son is better written than the entire screenplays of these other films for Godsakes (pun intended) - is criticized as somehow for having neither

It's not my world, pass the Drano.......