“CODA” and “Don’t look up” win the Writers Guild Awards

The films “CODA” and “Don’t Look Up” rose this afternoon with the Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay, respectively, at the Writers Guild of America Awards (WGA).

“CODA”, whose script was written by Siân Heder based on the animated film “La Famille Bélier”, surpassed “Dune”, “Nightmare Alley”, “West Side Story” or “tick, tick… Boom! “, also nominated in the category of best adapted screenplay.

For its part, “Don’t Look Up”, written by Adam McKay, won the prize in the best original screenplay section over “The French Dispatch of the Liberty”, “King Richard”, “Licorice Pizza” and “Being the Ricardos”.

In a new virtual edition of the WGA, due to the uncertainty that the pandemic still causes, these two films linked to video-on-demand platforms triumphed.

And it is that “CODA” was bought by Apple -and is available on Apple TV- last year for an amount of 25 million dollars, after being awarded at the prestigious Sundance independent film festival that same year.

As to “Don’t Look Up”, was produced by Netflix and, after its premiere in December 2021, it entered the ‘top’ of the most viewed in the history of the platform.

The Oscars are held next weekend with their sights set on “The Power of the Dog” or “Dune”, the most nominated, but critics do not rule out the possibility that “CODA”, which also won the latest edition of the Screen Actors Guild Award, may surprise.

A film that has a cast of mostly deaf actors and that is nominated for the statuette in the sections of best adapted screenplay, best supporting actor and best film.

In the latter, “Don’t Look Up” also appears as a finalist, but its success is highly unlikely.

Finally, regarding the television categories of the WGA, the main winner was “Hacks” (HBO), which won the award for best comedy and best new series; while in the dramatic series section, the triumph went to “Succession”. (AND)