Joel and Ethan Coen’s A Serious Man Nominated for Writers Guild of America Award
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Joel and Ethan Coen have received a nomination for a Writers Guild of America Award for original screenplay for A Serious Man, according to published reports.
The film, which concerns a Midwestern Jewish university professor who is having a crisis of faith, stars Tony Award nominee Michael Stuhlbarg and Broadway veteran Richard Kind. The screenplay has already won the National Society of Film Critics Award.
The Coens’ many other films include No Country for Old Men, Fargo, Barton Fink, Burn After Reading, and The Big Lebowski. Ethan is also the author of two evenings of short plays, Almost an Evening and Offices, both of which were produced by the Atlantic Theater Company.
Also nominated for original screenplay are (500) Days of Summer, Avatar, The Hangover, and The Hurt Locker. The nominated adapted screenplays are Crazy Heart, Julie & Julia, Precious: Based on the novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Star Trek, and Up in the Air.
