Cannes Winners ‘Sentimental Value’, ‘Secret Agent’ & ‘It Was Just An Accident’ Among Screenplays Ineligible For WGA Awards

‘Awards Chatter’ Pod: Wagner Moura on Brazil’s ‘The Secret Agent,’ Importance of Memory, ‘Narcos’ 10 Years Later and Trump’s Invasion of Venezuela

The star of Brazil's entry for the best international feature Oscar race, himself a best actor contender for a performance that's already brought him the Cannes Film Festival's equivalent prize, chats with Scott Feinberg.

Cannes Winners ‘Sentimental Value’, ‘Secret Agent’ & ‘It Was Just An Accident’ Among Screenplays Ineligible For WGA Awards

EXCLUSIVE: A large number of much-awarded films in contention for Oscar nominations this year won’t see their writers also going to the WGA Awards. As usual the guild, which has strict eligibility rules, has a number of widely acclaimed screenplays and prestigious film festival winners MIA on the ballot sent to members Tuesday. Among high-profile original screenplays not on the ballot this year are Cannes Film Festival winners and multi-Golden…

Why Oscar-worthy ‘Sentimental Value,’ ‘It Was Just an Accident,’ ‘The Secret Agent,’ ‘No Other Choice,’ ‘Blue Moon’ scripts will be MIA at the 2026 WGA Awards

A number of top screenplay contenders will miss out on WGA Awards recognition this year, as several Academy Award-bound films are ruled ineligible under guild guidelines.

‘Sentimental Value,’ ‘Blue Moon,’ ‘Sorry, Baby’ Among Ineligible Screenplays for WGA Awards

Some very high profile screenplays from award-winning films won't be able to check off a WGA Award this season as the Writers Guild of America's strict eligibility rules will be leaving many off the list. Cannes winners It Was Just an Accident from Jafar Panahi (who this weekend turned himself in for sentencing in Iran…