'Eighth Grade' and 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?' take top honors at the 2019 Writers Guild Awards
by Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times
Feb 18, 2019
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES - At its annual awards show - one of the final bellwethers of what has been an unusually unpredictable awards season - the Writers Guild of America threw a couple of final curve balls, honoring a pair of indies that have generally gotten less attention in the Oscar horse race than their bigger, flashier competitors: the coming-of-age film "Eighth Grade" and the dramedy "Can You Ever Forgive Me?"
"Eighth Grade" - which was entirely overlooked by academy voters but is up for four prizes at the upcoming Spirit Awards, including best feature
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