Stories Related to Writers Guild Awards: 'midnight In Paris,' 'the Descendants' Win Top Honors

The Huffington Post News Editors, Huffington Post
Sun, 02/19/2012 - 8:10pm

Meryl Streep isn't the only Hollywood star sitting on nearly three decades of Academy Awards losses. Woody Allen has been nominated nine times in the Best Original Screenplay category since his last Oscar win ("Hannah and Her Sisters" at the 1987 ceremony) and eleven times overall. If you take stock in the Writers Guild Awards, however, Allen may break his streak of futility at next Sunday's 84th annual Academy Awards.Allen won Best Original Screenplay at the WGA Awards on Sunday night for "Midnight in Paris," besting the scripts for "50/50," "Bridesmaids," "Win Win" and "Young Adult." Of course, only Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo's work on "Bridesmaids" is up for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards alongside "Midnight in Paris," meaning Allen's victory could be hollow.

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