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Writers Guild of America 2011 Awards: nominees and winners list

Here's the list of the nominees for the WGA Awards of 2011. It's a good way to predict the Oscars at some point, in the way that the winners can easily be the future Oscar winners in the screenplay categories, if we are talking about movies, while in the documentary category, the WGA Award winner can see its chances of a Oscar win improving really well!
So, here's the list of nominees:

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
- Black Swan, Screenplay by Mark Heyman and Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin; Story by Andres Heinz; Fox Searchlight
- The Fighter, Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson; Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson; Paramount Pictures
- Inception, Written by Christopher Nolan; Warner Bros.
- The Kids Are All Right, Written by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg; Focus Features
- Please Give, Written by Nicole Holofcener; Sony Pictures Classics

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
- 127 Hours, Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy; Based on the book Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston; Fox Searchlight
- I Love You Phillip Morris, Written by John Requa & Glenn Ficarra; Based on the book by Steven McVicker; Roadside Attractions
- The Social Network, Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin; Based on the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich; Sony Pictures
- The Town, Screenplay by Peter Craig and Ben Affleck & Aaron Stockard; Based on the novel Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan; Warner Bros.
- True Grit, Screenplay by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen; Based on the novel by Charles Portis; Paramount Pictures

DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY
- Enemies of the People, Written, Directed, Filmed and Produced by Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath; International Film Circuit
- Freedom Riders, Written, Produced and Directed by Stanley Nelson; Based in part on the book Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Raymond Arsenault; American Experience
- Gasland, Written and Directed by Josh Fox; HBO Documentary Films and International WOW Company
- Inside Job, Produced, Written and Directed by Charles Ferguson; Co-written by Chad Beck, Adam Bolt; Sony Pictures Classics
- The Two Escobars, Written by Michael Zimbalist, Jeff Zimbalist; ESPN Films

And the winners are:

Inception in the Best Original Screenplay category

The Social Network in the Best Adapted Screenplay category

Inside Job in the Best Documentary Screenplay category

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