‘Hurt Locker,’ ‘Up in the Air’ garner WGA honors

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LOS ANGELES
— The screenplays for “The Hurt Locker” and “Up in the Air” won top
honors Saturday evening at the Writers Guild of America awards.

“The Hurt Locker’s” Mark Boal received the WGA award for original screenplay for his gripping drama about a bomb disposal unit in Iraq.
Boal, who is also nominated for an Oscar, thanked the American soldiers
in the war-devastated region who let him “get up close and personal” to
the “chaos and hellishness” when he was embedded there as a journalist.

“Up in the Air’s” Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner won the WGA award for adapted screenplay for their dramedy about a
corporate downsizer. Reitman and Turner have won numerous critics’
awards, as well as the Golden Globe for their screenplay, which was
based on the book by Walter Kirn. The duo are also nominated for an Academy Award.

“I can’t tell you how extraordinarily proud I am to
be standing in front of you,” said Reitman, who also directed the film.
“I am always a writer.”

Several writers who are nominated for this year’s
Oscar in either the original or adapted screenplay category — including
“Inglourious Basterds'” Quentin Tarantino, “An Education’s” Nick Hornsby — weren’t eligible for a WGA award because their movies either hadn’t
been written under the guild’s Minimum Basic Agreement or under a
collective-bargaining agreement of one of the international guilds.

The winners were announced at ceremonies at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles and the Hudson Theater in New York City.

Other winners in film and TV categories included:

Documentary screenplay: “The Cove,” Mark Monroe

Dramatic series: “Mad Men,” Lisa Albert, Andrew Colville, Kater Gordon, Cathryn Humphris, Andre Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, Brett Johnson, Erin Levy, Marti Noxon, Frank Pierson, Robin Veith, Dahvi Waller, Matthew Weiner,

Comedy series: “30 Rock,” Jack Burditt, Kay Cannon, Robert Carlock, Tom Ceraulo, Vali Chandrasekaran, Tina Fey, Donald Glover, Steve Hely, Matt Hubbard, Dylan Morgan, Paula Pell, Jon Pollack, John Riggi, Tami Sagher, Josh Siegal, Ron Weiner, Tracey Wigfield

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