Emerald Fennell and Sacha Baron Cohen win at Writers Guild Awards

The Hollywood Reporter won 10 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards for best TV critic, best entertainment industry/arts investigative story and best portrait photo, among others, at the 13th annual awards show. Also during the virtual ceremony, which took place Friday night, Aaron Sorkin accepted the sixth annual Veritas Award on behalf of his Netflix film The Trial of the Chicago 7.

*WINNER.FEATURE FILM Lee Isaac Chung, “Minari” Emerald Fennell, “Promising Young Woman” David Fincher, “Mank” Aaron Sorkin, “The Trial of the Chicago 7” Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland”FIRST-TIME FEATURE FILM DIRECTOR Radha Blank, “The Forty-Year-Old Version” Fernando Frías de la Parra, “I’m No Longer Here” Regina King, “One Night in Miami” Darius Marder, “Sound of Metal” Florian Zeller, “The Father”DOCUMENTARY Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw, “The Truffle Hunters” Pippa Erhlich & James Reed, “My Octopus

At Sundance Film Festival, in the winter of 2020, director Emerald Fennell released her debut feature film Promising Young Woman to the public and immediately received high praise for this bold and unhinged slice of cinema.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeNiecy Nash was in bed late one Sunday evening earlier this year when she got a frantic call from her team of reps: “The Masked Singer” host Nick Cannon had tested positive for COVID-19 on the eve of production for Season 5. Would she be available to fill in?“I was like, ‘you had me at hello,'” Nash tells Variety.

The Trial of the Chicago 7, The Crown and Schitt's Creek were among the big winners at the 2021 SAG Awards, which aired Sunday as as a one-hour, pre-taped virtual ceremony on TBS and TNT. Filmmaker Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7 got a major boost on the road to the Oscars upon winning the SAG Award for best ensemble, the guild's top honor that's equivalent to a best picture prize.

The starry cast of Aaron Sorkin’s 1960s courtroom drama “The Trial of the Chicago 7” took the top prize Sunday at a virtual Screen Actors Guild Awards where actors of color, for the first time, swept the individual film awards.The 27th SAG Awards, presented by the Hollywood actors’ guild SAG-Aftra, were a muted affair — and not just because the red carpet-less ceremony was condensed to a pre-recorded, Zoom-heavy, one-hour broadcast on TBS and TNT.

While Nomadland picked up Best Picture at the Critics Choice a couple of weeks back—a pretty reliable Oscar top prize indicator—at Sunday night’s SAG, it wasn’t even nominated in that category. Instead, that prize went to Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7, possibly bolstering its chances at the Academy show on April 25th.

Instead of congregating on the stage of Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium for their best-ensemble win at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the cast of “The Trial of the Chicago 7” called in on Zoom.For a video conference, they make a starry bunch.

Clayton Davis The SAG Awards have weighed in with their winners and have set in motion on what could be the most diverse slate of major Oscar winners in the 93-year history of the Academy Awards.The celebration of the 27th annual ceremony, which is voted on by the approximate 160,000-person membership of actors, was revealed during the one-hour pre-taped show via Zoom on Sunday night.Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7” took the top prize of the evening for cast ensemble, marking its

Emerald Fennell is living large in 2021. After becoming a critical darling out of the festival circuit with “Promising Young Woman,” the film was eventually released and has picked up a ton of trophies during awards season, all culminating in multiple Oscar nominations.

Clayton Davis “Promising Young Woman” producers Margot Robbie and Josey McNamara believe that writer and director Emerald Fennell “can do it all.”“The great thing about Emerald as a filmmaker [is] from that very first moment she pitched us when she delivered the script, she knew the movie in her head instantly,” McNamara tells Variety’s Awards Circuit podcast.

Emerald Fennell is reflecting on filming “Promising Young Woman” while nearing the end of her pregnancy.

Hot off of winning the WGA Award for original screenplay on Sunday night, Promising Young Woman filmmaker Emerald Fennell is set to write the DC movie Zatanna for Bad Robot and Warner Bros. This deal has been done for a while, I understand. No word yet as to whether Fennell will direct.

NEW YORK -- Sacha Baron Cohen's “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” was partly improvised and scripted by nine writers, but it still walked away Sunday night with one of the Writers Guild Awards' top honors, best adapted screenplay.At the guild's virtual, pre-recorded 73rd annual awards, the biggest winners were a pair of awards-season dark horses. Best original screenplay went to the script for the feminist revenge thriller “Promising Young Woman,” by writer-director Emerald Fennell.

Also Read: While the Oscars Embrace Diversity, the Golden Globes Scramble for RelevanceThis year’s show was a joint presentation of the Writers Guild of America, West and the Writers Guild of America, East, which normally conduct separate but simultaneous ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York. Kal Penn hosted the ceremony, with presenters that included Sacha Baron Cohen, Rachel Brosnahan, Jimmy Fallon, Ava DuVernay, Leslie Odom Jr.

Fresh off the WGA’s historic victory over the talent agencies, WGA West president David A. Goodman opened his remarks tonight at the 73rd annual Writers Guild Awards with a good-natured poke at Ari Emanuel, the CEO of Endeavor, the parent company of WME, which was the last to sign the guild’s franchise agreement.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterThough confined to a virtual ceremony thanks to the pandemic, leadership at the Writers Guild of America still found cause for celebration at their annual awards ceremony.WGA West president David Goodman and WGA East head Beau Willimon addressed nominees and members in a pre-recorded greeting on Sunday, recapping their recent triumph in a nearly three-year battle with the talent agencies.“We are recording this 3 weeks ahead of the ceremony, so if anything has

Also Read: While the Oscars Embrace Diversity, the Golden Globes Scramble for RelevanceHere is the list of all Writers Guild nominees. Winners are indicated with *WINNER.Film CategoriesORIGINAL SCREENPLAY “Judas and the Black Messiah,” Screenplay by Will Berson & Shaka King, Story by Will Berson & Shaka King and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas; Warner Bros.

FILM“Judas and the Black Messiah” (Warner Bros) – Screenplay by Will Berson & Shaka King, Story by Will Berson & Shaka King and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas“Palm Springs” (Hulu/Neon) –  Screenplay by Andy Siara, Story by Andy Siara & Max Barbakow“Promising Young Woman” (Focus Features) – Written by Emerald Fennell“Sound of Metal” (Amazon Studios) – Screenplay by Darius Marder & Abraham Marder, Story by Darius Marder & Derek Cianfrance “The Trial of the Chicago 7” (Netflix) – Written by Aaron

As awards shows forge ahead amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 Writers Guild Awards is opting for a virtual ceremony, replacing its traditional simultaneous bicoastal events. And the guild has enlisted writer-actor (and former White House staff member) Kal Penn to host.