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They’re in – the nominations for the Screenwriter’s Choice Awards 2013 for the best screenwriting of 2012, from our friends with the best industry software; Final Draft.

Best Original Screenplay

Amour
Django Unchained
End of Watch
Flight
Looper
The Master
Middle of Nowhere
Moonrise Kingdom
Wreck–It Ralph
Zero Dark Thirty

Our favourite writing was for Flight, but we still don’t like the ending.

Best Adapted screenplay

Anna Karenina
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Sessions
Silver Linings Playbook

Surprisingly, this is an easy winner – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Best Television comedy

30 Rock
Community
Girls
House of Lies
Louie
Modern Family
Parks and Recreation
The Big Bang Theory
The Office
Veep

Veep was a revelation

Best Television drama

Boardwalk Empire
Breaking Bad
Dexter
Downton Abbey
Game of Thrones
The Good Wife
Homeland
Justified
Mad Men
The Newsroom

Downton Abbey wins here; even if only for Maggie Smith’s lines as the Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham.

Congratulations to all of the nominated writers – without you there would be no films or television.