February 10th, 2008
The Writers Guild Association (WGA) may have been busy voting on the end of the strike this weekend, nevertheless they found time to announce the winners of the guild’s annual screenwriting awards.
There were no surprises as Diablo Cody won Best Original Screenplay for Juno and Joel and Ethan Coen topped the Adapted Screenplay category with No Country for Old Men. Taxi to the Dark Side writer Alex Gibney succeeded in the documentary category.
Cody and the Coens thus remain favourites to win the respective screenwriting Oscars when the Academy Awards ceremony takes place February 24.
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I prefer Obama to McCain. Now, McCain’s better than average for a Republican. And though his ads are intellectually offensive, he’s just bowing to his campaign masters and would calm down and be more sane once in office and not campaigning. But I have a few concerns with McCain on foreign policy. He’s not a full-fledged Neocon. That’s good. He opposed Reagan on Lebanon. Good. He was critical of Bush’s initial strategy in Iraq. That’s good. But there’s a problem. He thinks the Vietnam war was winnable and that the US shouldn’t have withdrawn. He’s also eager to spread democracy with force. This just isn’t a good set of beliefs for inheriting Iraq.