Article snippet: “Moonlight” and “Arrival” walked away with the top screenplay honors on Sunday night at the Writers Guild Awards, the last of the major industry prizes to be doled out before the Oscars this coming Sunday. “Moonlight” won for best screenplay, and “Arrival” for best adapted screenplay; it was based on the Ted Chiang novella “Story of Your Life.” The awards do not necessarily predict Oscar winners. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences deemed “Moonlight” an adapted screenplay, and it is considered the heavy favorite to win that statuette. Its director, Barry Jenkins, wrote the script from a story by Tarell Alvin McCraney. Though beaten by “Moonlight” for the original screenplay prize, “Manchester by the Sea” is projected to win that category on Sunday. Also, two films whose screenplays are up for Oscars — “Lion” and “The Lobster” — did not meet the Writers Guild guidelines and were not eligible for awards. Held simultaneously in New York and Los Angeles, the writers’ awards were interspersed with political jabs at President Trump, which have become par for the course this awards season. Howard Rodman, president of the Writers Guild of America West, told the crowd, “We at times permitted or even enabled this circus of horrors.” And Aaron Sorkin, who won an achievement award, tore into some of the president’s spurious claims — that climate change was a Chinese hoax, that millions voted illegally — and told audience members that Hollywood had the power to fi... Link to the full article to read more