The Writers Guild of America announced its motion-picture screenplay nominees in three categories: Original, adapted and documentary. And, once again, several titles making awards noise -- including Django Unchained, Les Miserables, Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Amour -- were deemed ineligible.
Which does not mean those scripts won't compete -- or even take a trophy -- come Oscar time, since the academy's rules are less stringent.
Here are those that are in the running:
Original screenplay
Flight
Looper
The Master
Moonrise Kingdom
Zero Dark Thirty
Adapted screenplay
Argo
Life of Pi
Lincoln
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Silver Linings Playbook
Documentary screenplay
The Central Park Five
The Invisible War
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Searching for Sugar Man
We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists
West of Memphis
Winners will be announced on Feb. 17.
