Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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The Writers Guild Foundation, in partnership with the Writers Guild of America West, Final Draft/Coverfly, Variety, and sponsored by Late Night with Seth Meyers, Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, present BEYOND WORDS 2024, our annual event highlighting this year’s Writers Guild Awards screenplay nominees.

Listen in on two back-to-back panels featuring nominees for Adapted and Original Screenplay. Learn about their process for crafting the nominated scripts as well as their journeys navigating the industry as screenwriters.

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY PANEL
Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik - May December

Alex Convery - Air

Greta Gerwig - Barbie

David Hemingson - The Holdovers

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY PANEL
Julia Cox - Nyad

Kelly Fremon Craig - Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.

Cord Jefferson - American Fiction

Eric Roth - Killers of the Flower Moon

Both panels moderated by Variety Senior Awards Editor Clayton Davis.
Photography by Joel Marasigan

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