Taika Waititi and Bong Joon-ho pose together with their awards while backstage at the 2020 Writers Guild of America Awards on Saturday (February 1) at Edison Ballroom in New York City.
Taika won the Best Adapted Screenplay award for Jojo Rabbit while Bong won the Best Original Screenplay award for Parasite. They’re now the favorites to the win the Oscars as well!
Also in the Best Adapted Screenplay category were Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster for A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Steven Zaillian for The Irishman, Todd Phillips and Scott Silver for Joker, and Greta Gerwig for Little Women.
Also in the Best Original Screenplay category were Sam Mendes and Krysty Wilson-Cairns for 1917, Emily Halpern & Sarah Haskins and Susanna Fogel and Katie Silberman for Booksmart, Rian Johnson for Knives Out, and Noah Baumbach for Marriage Story.
Greta, Noah, Rian, and Katie were all at the east coast ceremony while Micah, Noah, and Steven attended the west coast ceremony. Kevin Bacon presented both awards in NY.
