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    WGA Noms 'Burn' Charlie Kaufman and Jenny Lumet

    As shocked as we were by The Spirit being shut out of the Razzies, we're a little more surprised to see two of Hollywood's most high-profile writers snubbed in today's WGA nominations.

    Those would be Charlie Kaufman, who made his writer/director debut on the criminally underrated Synecdoche, New York, and Jenny Lumet, whose Rachel Getting Married press tour made her this year's most-publicized young screenwriter outside of Dustin Lance Black. Black was nommed for Milk, and Woody Allen and Robert Siegel got some fairly unimpeachable nods for their respective efforts, but the Coen brothers for Burn After Reading? Really? And don't make us talk to you about The Visitor again, lest we be forced to bash a djembe into our skulls.

    The full nominations:

    ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
    Burn After Reading, Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
    Milk, Written by Dustin Lance Black
    Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Written by Woody Allen
    The Visitor, Written by Tom McCarthy
    The Wrestler, Written by Robert Siegel

    ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Screenplay by Eric Roth; Screen Story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
    The Dark Knight, Screenplay by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan; Story by Christopher Nolan & David S. Goyer
    Doubt, Screenplay by John Patrick Shanley
    Frost/Nixon, Screenplay by Peter Morgan
    Slumdog Millionaire, Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy


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