Nominations Announced: 10th Annual Final Draft Awards

Final Draft, Inc. has announced the nominees for the 10th Annual Final Draft Awards. Check them out below!

The annual Screenwriters Choice Awards will recognize four exceptional film and television projects, as well as present the Hall of Fame Award to its first writing team, Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski (Big Eyes, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Ed Wood), as well as the winners of the annual Final Draft Big Break Contest. The nominees and winners of the Screenwriters Choice Awards are determined by thousands of votes from Final Draft users.

The nominees in each Screenwriters Choice Awards category are:

Best Original Screenplay
Birdman – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo
Boyhood – Richard Linklater
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness
Interstellar – Christopher Nolan & Jonathan Nolan
Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy

Best Adapted Screenplay
American Sniper – Jason Dean Hall
Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
Guardians of the Galaxy – James Gunn & Nicole Perlman
The Imitation Game – Graham Moore
The Theory of Everything – Anthony McCarten

Best Television Drama
Downton Abbey – Julian Fellowes
Fargo – Noah Hawley
Game of Thrones – David Benioff & D.B. Weiss
House of Cards – Beau Willimon
True Detective – Nic Pizzolatto

Best Television Comedy
The Big Bang Theory – Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady
Louie – Louis C.K.
Modern Family – Steven Levitan & Christopher Lloyd
Orange is the New Black – Jenji Kohan
Veep – Armando Iannucci

I’m especially excited to see nominations for Boyhood, Gone Girl, Game of Thrones, and Orange is the New Black. Congrats to all of those nominated!

Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony set to be held at the Paramount Theatre on the Paramount Studios lot, hosted by Thomas Lennon & Robert Ben Garant on Thursday, February 12 at 7:30 pm.