{"id":42242,"date":"2018-01-06T00:12:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T19:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42242"},"modified":"2018-01-06T00:12:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T19:12:02","slug":"pakistani-origin-nanjianis-the-big-sick-nominated-for-writers-guild-awards-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42242","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani origin Nanjiani\u2019s\u00a0\u2018The Big Sick\u2019\u00a0nominated for Writers Guild Awards 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Los Angeles, Jan. 5 (TNS):<\/strong> Hugh Jackman\u2019s\u00a0<em>Logan<\/em>, Emily V. Gordon and Pakistani origin Kumail Nanjiani\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Big Sick<\/em>\u00a0and James Franco\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Disaster Artist<\/em>\u00a0are among the films nominated for the The Writers Guild of America Awards 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The nominations were announced on Thursday, reports\u00a0<em>Ace Showbiz.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Logan<\/em>, the final\u00a0<em>X-Men<\/em>\u00a0movie for Jackman, has been nominated for its screenplay, co-penned by Scott Frank and Mangold. The movie did not make it to the same category in the Golden Globe or Screen Actors Guild nominations.<\/p>\n<p>Other contenders in the adapted screenplay category of The Writers Guild of America Awards include James Ivory\u2019s screenplay for\u00a0<em>Call Me by Your Name<\/em>, Scott Neustadter and Michael H Weber\u2019s screenplay for Franco-starrer\u00a0<em>The Disaster Artist<\/em>, the Aaron Sorkin-penned\u00a0<em>Molly\u2019s Game<\/em>\u00a0and the Virgil Williams-Dee Rees collaboration\u00a0<em>Mudbound<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In the best original screenplay category, Jordan Peele\u2019s\u00a0<em>Get Out<\/em>\u00a0and Greta Gerwig\u2019s<em>\u00a0Lady Bird<\/em>\u00a0are up against Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Shape of Water<\/em>, Emily V Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Big Sick<\/em>\u00a0and the Steven Rogers-penned biopic\u00a0<em>I, Tonya<\/em>, which stars Margot Robbie as the disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding.<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 Writers Guild of America Awards will take place on February 11 across two separate ceremonies in New York City and Beverly Hills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, Jan. 5 (TNS): Hugh Jackman\u2019s\u00a0Logan, Emily V. Gordon and Pakistani origin Kumail Nanjiani\u2019s\u00a0The Big Sick\u00a0and James Franco\u2019s\u00a0The Disaster Artist\u00a0are among the films nominated for the The Writers Guild of America Awards 2018. The nominations were announced on Thursday, reports\u00a0Ace Showbiz. Logan, the final\u00a0X-Men\u00a0movie for Jackman, has been nominated for its screenplay, co-penned by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1770],"tags":[1771],"class_list":["post-42242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showbiz","tag-showbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42244,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42242\/revisions\/42244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}