Jordan Peele’s smash-hit horror film and the gay coming-of-age movie Call Me By Your Name take top prizes at Oscars bellwether
Get Out and Call Me By Your Name took the top prizes at the Writers Guild of America awards, in one of the final major awards-season bellwethers before next month’s Oscars.
Get Out, the smash-hit satirical horror written and directed by Jordan Peele, triumphed in the best original screenplay category, beating I, Tonya, Lady Bird, The Big Sick and current Oscar best picture favourite The Shape of Water. However, another best picture frontrunner, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, was ineligible at the WGAs because it did not meet the organisation’s signatory rules.
Call Me By Your Name took home the best adapted screenplay prize. The film, a gay coming-of-age drama adapted by veteran screenwriter James Ivory from André Aciman’s novel, won the award ahead of Logan, The Disaster Artist, Molly’s Game and Mudbound. Brett Morgen’s account of the work of wildlife expert Jane Goodall, titled Jane, won best documentary screenplay.
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